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More gross than China enabling North Korea to send troops to help Russia attack Ukraine?

Not even close IMO.

That doesn't change that Democrats might respond to his comments?

I dunno, Bernie has said that and I haven't heard any Democrats outraged at his comments. But I get what you're trying to say.

It's metaphoric. Macron is saying "if you don't stay out of our geopolitical backyard, we will become more closely involved in yours".

China is increasingly invested politically and financially throughout SEA (Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and more).

Pros of fibre:

• cheaper: much cheaper than copper or satellites.
• faster: latency is faster than copper and wireless (to satellite).
• very high bandwidth: theoretically unlimited. In practice a commercial fibre optic multicore run for domestic use at street/town level will be pushing ~800Gb/a, and this number generally doubles every few years as tech advances. The new spec being finalised is 1.6Pb/s.
• high stability: does not give a crap if it's cloudy, foggy, or rainy, or if the trees have wet leaves, or if it's just a very humid day, unlike all forms of outdoor wireless comms. Does not care about lightning strikes, as copper does.
• long life: 25 to 30 years life quoted for most industrial in-ground fibre, but real life span is expected to be much longer based on health checks on deployed cable in countries with large fibre rollouts. Upgradable without replacing the medium throughout that lifecycle.
• lowest power usage: fibre optic uses far less power and energy than 4G 5G and satellite infrastructure.

Cons of nationwide fibre:

• billionaires who launched thousands of satellites make less money.
• monopoly Internet Service Providers won't be able to fleece their cable internet customers some of the highest charges for net access in the world.
• people will tell you "uhm acktually wireless internet is the speed of light also as it communicates via photons", but will usually leave out all of the interference it experiences.

There's nothing better than fibre optic infrastructure for general public Internet connectivity. Wireless/satellite should only be a last resort for remote users.

'Disappointed' is certainly not the language I'd use in her position. I'd remind Trump that future presidents may follow his lead and pardon his attempted assassins. TACO in no time.

What the hell does it take for US centrist/centre-left politicians to be outraged?

Because North Korea doesn't make any geopolitical moves without asking China first. They are by far their primary trade partner and arguably closest ally, with literally the only defense treaty to China out of all countries in the world.

Troops getting to Russia in order to fight alongside them in their invasion of Ukraine have to either pass through China for the shorter route, or go through the tiny 17km sliver of Russia-NK border on the far east of the Asian continent that China monitors very closely (more likely). Either way, China is giving their approval to NK for the troop movements.

Religious Jews believe in Jesus as a person that existed. Opinions on him range from very negative to very positive, it's complex and varied - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_views_on_Jesus

Possible this guy's family has a very positive view of Jesus.

I don't see how grant immunity, sign documents, transfer them to US - take all documentation and knowledge, higher court later declares the immunity invalid, execute them for war crimes was off the table. It would likely be legal. It would surely be less immoral than letting them free.

What, did the US generals not want to have a bad rep with future war criminals??

'Gosh no we can't do that - we made a pinky swear to some of the worst people who ever lived'.

As any current or former Windows admin will know - they can barely handle Windows OS updates without breaking something major every other month.

I mean on the one hand it would be good to do away with all the duplicated efforts of in-app automatic updaters and app 'agents' that tie up background resources. But colour me jaded, i think this will just be a walled garden that app developers have to pay to opt into, and will mean users lose control over which apps they trust to update without thinking, and which they selectively update after a 'hmm i better just check they didnt cause any major bugs' search. A new revenue stream for MS is the primary goal.

Neat, but like others have mentioned, it's proprietary.

If you want an open source alternative, I believe the best option currently is Open Voice OS - which arose from the ashes of Mycroft.

https://www.openvoiceos.org/
https://github.com/openVoiceOS/

Edgy humour just means it's goes up to the edge of what is acceptable, it's generally distasteful, harsh, unkind. This joke absolutely fits the definition.

You can use YouTube without an account. And without even using their website, bypassing their ads and their tracking.

Android has Grayjay, Newpipe, Pipepipe, Vanced. Windows has Grayjay, Newpipe, Freetube, yt-dl and others. Linux has Red, Utube, Freetube.. You get the point.

You do still need a login for age-locked videos, but those are a small subset of YouTube.

Personally i wait and see how the institution responds and make my assessment then. Cool heads and all that.

There is a tendancy on the left to become reactionary - spot one bad actor and 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' by personally blacklisting a whole attached group.

While that might feel good and have some short term positive feedback with upvotes on a social post, its also great for the right wing too. They just have to highlight a single problematic incident and watch as their enemy platform/org/service is abandoned by leftist puritans. The same does not happen for right wing groups, as their users are far less likely to baulk over one or two issues, so they don't even need to worry about this attack method being turned inward - no blowback.

No, most people do not seek out competitor businesses (or even businesses in other sectors like in this case) so they can fire all the human workers in the hope of making more money.

Non-tax-deductable donations are a voluntary waiver of salary. Most people have ethics and a conscience, its just the greedy minority that fuck it up for the community-minded majority.

Its an investor cult. Like Bitcoin. The valuation and the real world tangible value are completely disconnected.

Cool disinformation.

Any country is allowed if they are full members of the European Broadcasting Union or paid 'associate Members' that are invited to compete by the EBU.

Lebanon is absolutely allowed - as are any EBU full members. However their national broadcaster has declined to join the contest due to their own laws prohibiting the transmission of any Israeli content, and their concerns of this being impossible with Israel being members of the competition.

Turkey has been part of Eurovision over 30 times and even won and hosted the competion in 2004. They withdrew in 2013 citing criticisms with the rules of the competition and have not competed since - their government's choice, so blame Erdogan.

I thought I must have scrolled past an edgelord memes community, but here we are on just a regular meme community.

This is funny?

"AI is the first realistic means of bypassing [laws and bureaucracy]"

Huge disagreement on all fronts.

The AI companies state in their Terms of Service broadly that users have commercial rights to their prompt outputs, and can even copyright them - while also keeping the output for their own data naturally. It doesn't bypass laws or bureaucracy.. At all. Rather its the billionaires trying to steal all creative arts, coding, and any other industry works they can manage - and package into their "same but slightly different" slop that outcompetes the original creators - with no protection given to those creators whose original has been copied without any kind of compensation or agreement. Its another wealth transfer.

One of many problems the article points out - they don't invent anything, it's all just regurgitations of past work. This is the path of stagnation, not innovation.

Why would we rule out all the kids under 10 from the life expectancy stat? To skew it older just to make it seem like people lived longer back in 1875? We don't do that with life expectancy stats now, the life expectancy for 2020 is 78.81 and yes that includes anyone unfortunate enough to die as a child or infant. It also doesn't mean that anyone who is 74 will be dead in ~4 years, it's an average - which is helpful when talking about large demographics (which we are).

Wtf does the president have to do with anything lol. They only pick presidents over 35 "because they had the expectation they had lived for a lot longer". So.. They expect that people who are older than 35 have lived longer than those who are under 35? Um yes that is how the passage of time works.

I'm not sure how this helps the discussion.