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It’s as if some people will believe any grammatically & semantically intelligible text put in front of their faces.

I followed Adam until Feb. 2022, though it seems he doesn’t post about that anymore.

wouldn’t it be cheaper to just get falun gong & uyghur organs from china and drag them along the ground tho

Western liberals want Western propaganda only.

We’re not against Russian sources, but we tend not to use them so often, because they’re seldom well-received by Western liberals, whom we tolerate up to a point. They tend to be more accepting of Western leftist sources, and of course Western corporate sources are their gold standard.

Unit tests can’t win ’em all. That’s where things like integration tests, staging environments, and load testing come in.

The final layer of protection is the deployment strategy, be it rolling, canary, or blue-geen.

If Trump is to annihilate any institution, let it be the Federal Reserve System. Please try to nationalize the central bank. You’ll probably get assassinated, which I’ll take as a consolation prize.

🙄, but I’ll only address:

the US justification for using nukes in Japan was that forcing a surrender via attack against civilian targets prevented a years-long slog and invasion.

That was the US’s public-facing narrative, not its actual justifications. Japan was already ready to surrender at that point, but the US was worried that Japan might surrender to the USSR instead, and the US wanted an unconditional surrender, not one with conditions. It also wanted to scare the living shit out of the USSR, to discourage it from further spreading its influence. And it wanted to test the bomb on a city that had been left intentionally undamaged during the war, namely Hiroshima, for its own nuclear weapons research & development.

Hahaha North Koreans are NPCs amirite? 🍆✊

Good question. That’s a leash I’d keep on my rabid dog if I could.

I’m short on sympathy for anyone who had the means to leave and hadn’t already done it.

But for you to say Iran isn’t authoritarian is ignorant of the facts.

We are not ignorant of the facts, but you are ignorant of your carrying water for Western imperialism. Which is understandable thanks to a lifetime of propaganda, but it’s never too late to stop.

Chickenshit IOF troops. Israel army stations soldiers in Palestinian homes to avoid Iranian strikes, residents say

Israel has barred its own citizens from leaving the country, so I wonder where that leaves dual citizenship settlers. Even if they show up at the border with their US passports, I’m sure the border field office computers will out them as an Israelis.

[Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev] clarified that only non-Israeli nationals—such as diplomats and tourists—are currently permitted to leave the country.

Edit to add: This is all I’ve found so far, from a law firm. It’s a bit vague, but seems to imply that dual citizenship won’t save you.

In practice, this means that any Israeli citizen seeking to leave the country must now prove that their travel is essential and urgent. Travel for leisure, non-critical business, or personal convenience will not suffice.

In contrast, foreign nationals and tourists holding non-Israeli passports (not including Israeli dual nationals) are not required to obtain special approval.

leave it to ML users to debate subjective experience.

Then support your “subjective experience” with Lemmy comment links of actual examples.

Don’t you think you’re being needlessly incendiary?

You libelled our community, which was incendiary.

So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.

That’s ridiculous—no they weren’t. Links or it didn’t happen.

it’s almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.

They do run deeper, and that is fundamental to Marxist historical materialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism#%22Great_man%22_history

"Great man" history

Marx rejected the enlightenment view that ideas alone were the driving force in society or that the underlying cause of change was guided by the actions of leaders in government or religion. The "great man" and occasionally "great woman" view of historical change was popularized by the 19th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) who wrote "the history of the world is nothing but the biography of great men". According to Marx, this conception of history amounted to nothing more than a collection of "high-sounding dramas of princes and states".

Today is a good day to be old. I don’t have to worry about conscription, only nuclear annihilation.

True. Nothing beats running your unit tests in the actual container image that will be run in production.

Relatedly, Silicon Valley wants to ban Chinese drones while ‘covering’ San Francisco in their own

It’s amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater “max evil potential” in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.

What the hell is the imperial core?

It’s the “always the same map” countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries

Feel free to educate me if you have more information than me but my understanding is Iran was a nice happy country then the U.S. and Britain helped overthrow their government to get a pro oil authoritarian, then the Islamic revolution happened and it turned into a theocracy which shortly after began doing things like treating women as second class citizens

The reason that the first things that come to your mind about Iran are authoritarianism and theocratic patriarchy is because our governments, think tanks, and corporate media have spent the last 35 years beating these thoughts into our heads. There’s certainly some truth to them, but they greatly exaggerate & incessantly repeat them. And they only do this to the countries they want to regime change. They don’t do it to allies or vassals who treat their citizens as badly or worse. And they want to regime change these countries not for any humanitarian reasons but because they’re not being sufficiently subservient. They don’t actually give a shit about the Iranian people’s or women’s freedoms, any more than they give a shit about Palestinians’ lives. They’re always working to manufacture consent for the various regime changes they want to prosecute.