Avid Amoeba @ avidamoeba @lemmy.ca

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That's pretty horrific. The working population is important to maintaining Ukraine's ability to fight. It probably factors in Russia's intent to finish the war instead of agreeing to a ceasefire.

Wouldn't this be bad for American and other companies hoping to extract minerals and agri products for cheap?

Aren't most US elections FPTP? If so, during the election he'll split the right vote which boosts Democratic/other candidate's chances. If they get a few senators elected with Democrats getting fewer than a majority, then for sure the plan would work as you described it.

Twas probably a close second.

Sent you something in addition to the recurring to help with that repaying. ☺️

That's not good because they should be a major speed bump on the road to fascism.

The US has been the biggest long term enemy to the working populations of the world since the end of the WWII, including its own. Throw a pin on the map, and you're likely to hit a place that's been affected by a war started or fought by the US, or a place where the US has had a hand in destroying worker power in order to for American business to extract resources and labour for cheap, or a sanctioned place where working people are made to suffer in order to overthrow their government, or a combination thereof.

If this information is true and the Chinese officials weren't bullshitting, then leaking this doesn't sound like a good move on the European official end.

Doesn't their economy have a way bigger production capacity than Russia's? Why would they want to replicate Russia's? China seems much more successful at manufacturing at scale.

Isn't some of this an indictment of the federal worker unions? Shouldn't the federal gov't been ground to a halt by cross-agency strikes by now? What's the unions' strategy here?

I see Live Nation is expanding in Europe. Get ready for ticket prices to skyrocket.

Use low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.

That would make the situation even worse by reducing the pool the rich have to buy to get the majority to contribute to their wealth even more. The problems we face with democracy aren't driven by poor education. Poor education is a component but it's a consequence of the main driver which is accumulation of wealth in few hands. Those use that wealth to keep it and accumulate more by buying elected officials, buying campaigns, running their own people, buying the media, defunding the education system that educates the majority, etc. Reducing the voting power of the majority would make this cheaper to do for the owner class, which would lead to increased exploitation and decrease in the living standards of the majority. Eventually leading to social unrest of some sort. Instead you want to introduce more democratic power for the majority, especially where the generated wealth is separated from them - in the workplace. If you get democracy in the work place, the workers would likely vote to keep more of the value they produce, leaving less to accumulate as wealth in the owner class. Leaving less money to buy elected representatives with the owners and more money with workers to buy political representation of their own.

No issues with Debian / Ubuntu on many laptops since early 2010s, mostly with Intel graphics. I had a Vostro 1400 with Nvidia and it also resumed fine, but that was 2009-11 so the experience with the Nvidia driver from that time is likely irrelevant.

There's nothing that could possibly go wrong with this strategy. 😂

Ooh, so Iran is also involved in this one.

It's great but that fan is an overkill. 😂

There could be a component of the training. E.g. use a calculator to compute math instead of AI.

Wait, aren't the arrest quotas higher than 1000 per day? This concentration camp can hold 3 days worth of abductees.

According to my observations, the Fediverse grows whenever people look for alternative. People do that whenever their comfort is disturbed by material changes. E.g. Reddit gated app APIs, people's apps started shutting down, protest ensued, it failed, people looked for an alternative, many joined Lemmy as the obvious one. That created one of the largest spikes in active usage. There were others following that. There are network effects keeping people where they are unless there's a significant force pushing them to overcome that. And so I think the Fediverse would grow the same way it's grown so far. By being here for people whenever they can't say or read something the way they were previously able to, as corporations enshittify to profit maximize. You even see them doing that themselves, with Bluesky for example, where they built an alternative that pretends to be federated in order to capture refugees. But Bluesky is inevitably going to get fucked too and since it's federated in pretense only, there isn't another instance to take over. I think the process is similar to Linux adoption. It was always there, chugging along for people looking for alternatives. It hasn't stopped growing. It hasn't exploded but we're not complaining about where we are, are we.