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More likely.

But there is more than one way to prevent nuclear proliferation.

You can just bomb the shit out of them, as an ally of their already nuclear armed neighbor and adversary, which only encourages them to keep trying to make nukes to be able to do a MAD standoff...

Or you could negoiate with them, maybe make some kind of mutual agreement whereby if they abide by it, only pursue far less enriched nuclesr materials for power generation, allow in IAEA inspectors regularly, and they get some sanctions removed from them.

You know, like that thing Obama did, that Trump then later reneged on, entirely predictably creating the situation we are now in.

We could always stop supporting the racist, rogue, nuclear armed, apartheid ethnonationalist state currently conducting a genocide.

That might help to ease tensions as well.

Then we could maybe even do another deal with Iran!

Our at the very least, stop assasinating all Iran's negotiators, giving Israel the intel to carry out assasinations that are too 'icky' for us to do ourselves (officially).

... but I already covered all this in my reply to you a month ago, I guess you just don't ingest or process information that you don't like?

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Anyway, could you please describe your apparently irreligious end times belief?

I am genuinely curious as to how that ... works, or makes sense.

What is 'the end times' to you, what does that mean?

Assuming you mean 'how massive':

... roughly 4.3 million solar masses, 4.3 million of our Sun.

They don't call them 'supermassive blackholes' for nothing, lol.

The US is unarguably less meritocratic than the amalgamated EU by every possible metric.... unless your conception of a 'meritocracy' is 'you have to be a genius to even stand a chance at doing better than your parents, otherwise, all that matters is how much wealth you were born into.'

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Class mobility is worse in the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/social-mobility-by-country

Less people can actually manage to do better than their parents in the US than the EU (broadly, or aggregated and then adjusted per capita).

Income inequality is worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

The EU is thus less hierarchichal, stratified.

You are also not considering that the aggregated EU has better life expectancy, better levels of functional literacy and lower infant mortality than the US, ie, the 'shared environment' is at a higher baseline.

Not to mention the US's political systems have far, far more corruption by way of corporations and the wealthy being allowed to spend infinite money to lobby and advertise and propogandize for their preferred laws and policies.

Look up the Citizens United cass if you've never heard of if, or maybe observe the now regular, astounding and blatantly corrupt deals and grifts the current fascist regime does on a regular basis.

Or, if you prefer an academic source:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Thats over a decade old now, its only gotten worse.

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The conclusions you are reaching fly in the face of obvious, exceptionally well documented facts.

You are wrong.

'God Emperor Trump' was a joke untill it wasn't.

Tends to be how the worldview of fascists evolve:

I'm just joking bro!

(They were in fact, not joking)

Oh jesus christ...

sigh

No.

No, it means that that particular denomination, that particular church or family of churches has had a historically super majority black membership.

Congregations like this are very common in the US south.

As a result of slavery and racism leading to blacks being forced out of many white congregations, black christians started their own churches.

Like uh, less Michael Jackson, more Martin Luther King Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference

Throw in about 125 years of majority black churches prior to the SCLC's founding in the 1950s, and yeah, there is a whole history of churches with their roots in being formed as places of worship that wouldn't threaten to lynch an attendee for being the 'wrong' skin color.

Its the roughly the same thing with a 'historically black' college or university: many of those were founded because other colleges were historically racist, would not allow black americans to attend, so they made their own colleges.

How do you define 'the end times'?

Also, it is worth noting that the last time I had an interaction with you on lemmy, it was you justifying the US bombing Iran's nuclear sites.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19286517

And then me explaining to you how utterly uninformed your stance on that is.

So anyway... you are an ... irreligious Zionist who also believes in 'the end times'?

???

You seem to be actively advocating for ratcheting up international tensions, advocating for actions that make nuclear proliferation and thus a potential nuclear exhange between countries / nuclear terrorism... more likely.

You do love the bomb, after all.

Maybe you could try not having a 'secular', self-fulfilling, accelerationist style apocalyptic worldview?

Its even more ludicrous than that.

Not only are there a significant amount of American Christians who... believe that Trump is a / one of the AntiChrists / Beasts from Revelation...

I have actually met some who believe that, and still vote for him.

Much of American Christianity is a literal apocalyptic death cult.

Many Christian Zionists are actively antisemitic, yet at the same time, vehemently support Israel... because they believe in some rough variation of the plot line from the 'Left Behind' books/movies.

Israel has to be wiped out or under serious threat of that for their preferred version of the apocalypse to take place, and they cynically support everything that makes that more likely to occur... so that Jesus can come back.

1I don't really know why <> was chosen as the old school 'not equal' for the SQL syntax... I just know it by way of having been working with/in various forms of SQL for... 20+ years?

If I had to guess, it may have something to do with keeping the character set down to a bare minimum.

SQL is fucking old, its been improved and modified and evolved over the years, but, it was first invented and formalized back in 1973, when you still had computer (storage) memory as basically giant spools of magnetic tape, personal computers didn't really exist yet, having 8 KiloBytes of RAM would have been considered astoundingly powerful, years ahead of its time.

Thats uh, 0.0000076294 GigaBytes of RAM, or I think about 512x less than what a basic Nintendo 64 had.

Most American Protestants do believe in it.

Roughly 40% of Americans believe we are currently living in the End Times, ie, the Rapture could happen at any moment.

https://baptistnews.com/article/4-in-10-americans-believe-we-are-living-in-the-end-times/

You may also note the Baptist author of this article is suprised these numbers are not higher.

Those things, and needing to prop up the commercial realestate market.

Elon's Boca Chica launch facility is a nightmare of violating all kinds of environmental and safety regulations, going way beyond the scope of what it was originally permitted and cleared for.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-BavKuMDed0&list=PL-eVf9RWeoWEfSK9mjKe4E67IK1-1vZxB&index=24

This is from 3+ years ago now, and most of the shit brought up here got poo-poo'd online by ravenous Musk sycophants, and seems to have just led to nothing actually happening in terms of some kind of a lawsuit or punishment for Musk or SpaceX...

... and of course, its all only gotten worse with more time.

SpaceX launches showering debris over the Caribbean, latest rocket being prepped to be the next IFT launch just fucking detonated while being fueled, damaged much of the rest of the complex... and the complex itself is now a bunch of very densely packed storage tanks, which easily could have also all blown up if that most recent on pad explosion played out just a bit differently, or maybe a landing capture/catch attempt goes wrong.

Musk's whole... reason for having the chopsticks catch system is that he doesn't want to spring for a larger launch facility with things safely spaced out, he doesn't wanna pay for something akin to the giant NASA crawler vehicle that moves rockets something like a mile or so from the VAB to the actual launch/fueling site at Cape Canaveral.

There's no actual compelling reason for the lower stage, Booster, to not just have landing legs, like the Falcons. Its not going to get 'refurb, refly' times to even within two orders of magnitude of what he's shooting for. The fastest ever turn around time on a Falcon is like, 3ish weeks... and he's talking about launching multiple Starship+Boosters in a single day now.

To date, no Starship nor Booster has ever been re-used without suffering a catastrophic loss on that re-use. He is no where near a re-usable fleet of these things.

Err, well, there is actually a real reason for the chopsticks, and all the rest of his nonsense: His engines aren't as powerful or reliable or fuel efficient as he said they were for years.

But he can't actually directly say that or else SpaceX probably goes bankrupt or at best gets pared down to just running Falcons.

He recently revised Starship+Booster down to only being capable of 50 tons to LEO, not the long touted 100 tons.

He then proceeded to have ... 2, 3? Catastrophic failures on 'test' launches where the claim is that they're being done for the 'data', when the obvious fact is that no almost no useful data of any kind is being gained from all this.

Whats going on is quality control sucks, Musk/SpaceX have no idea how to actually properly assemble these things, oh right and the design is fundamentally flawed, but its fine, because Starship 2 and 3 are gonna come out... some time later.

You know, like how Roadster v2 is gonna come out any day now, for the past decade, how all Tesla cars will suddenly become perfectly fully autonomous, any day now, for the last decade.

From the article:

Kevin Bagnall, a lawyer representing Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, also wrote a letter to Paxton’s office arguing the emails should be kept secret. He cited one main reason: They contain “commercial information whose disclosure would cause SpaceX substantial competitive harm.”

Most of the rest of Bagnall’s letter, which further explained SpaceX’s argument, was redacted.

Musk and representatives for his companies did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

imo, Abbot and Musk are and have been colluding to maunever around SpaceX's frequent and flagrant violations, to get investigations stalled, to get authorizations rubber stamped... so they communicate outside official channels to pull this off.

=D

The uber (edit: eldritch?) baby boomer steals his literal participation trophy, to make everything all about him, while angrily rejecting all criticism and calls for accountability for his many crimes.

He really is the perfect boomer.

Run them in a test sandbox environment, maybe run some network analytics to see if weird outbound or inbound calls start getting made... hope they are not more clever than your sandbox environment.

For APKs specifically... official support for Hypatia from the original team ended last year, but a 'MaintainTeam Organization' seems to be attempting to pick up the slack, and keep updating with new malware signatures.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.maintainteam.hypatia

https://github.com/MaintainTeam/Hypatia

... not sure if its... actually getting regular updates though.

EDIT: derp, yeah

Also, as upstroke says, do a hash comparison from the actual proper source to verify you aren't getting a malformed or spoof version of whatever APK.

<> is 'not equal' in SQL syntax

!= is another one for 'not equal' in SQL, and a good deal of other languages, but I went with <> because of the ls and Is, <> is more visually distinct.

https://www.iop.org/events/24th-international-conference-general-relativity-and-gravitation-16th-edoardo-amaldi

If you happen to be in Glasgow today, maybe you can ask them?

In seriousness... I don't think anyone actually has a rock solid theoretical explanation of how that uh, works.

Best I can give you is... maybe they vaccuumed up some other stuff in the process of merging?

Beyond that, or 'error bounds', I defer to the IOP, lol.

Yeah, but then you can point out that the 'super powered/divinely blessed, abandoned child/orphan' trope goes back waaaaay farther than when the myth of Moses originated.

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Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, is made into an orphan when Seth (Set?) kills Osiris, Isis goes off for I think years to find Osiris' body parts to be able to do a necromancy spell, Horus spends a lot of time on his own, but eventually grows up and avenges his father.

EDIT: (so, ok, this one in particular is ... variable, because it is so old and there are many variants of it. sometimes Horus is alive before Osiris is killed, sometimes he is born after Osiris is resurrected, sometimes he spends a while alone, sometimes he doesn't, sometimes it isn't clear, he avenges the death of Osiris in different ways, etc)

Herakles, son of Zeus, orphaned demi god who is a social outcast for his freakish strength and rage, who accidentally maims and kills people ... eventually grows into a heroic and beloved figure for his ability to solve problems no one else can.

Ion (from Euripedes), a bastard son result of Apollo raping the daughter of a King, left in a basket in the wilderness, expected to die, but is guided by Hermes, goes through many trials and tribulations, eventually ends up with Athena declaring him the rightful king and founder of Athens.

Enkidu, a beast-man created by the Sumerian gods, abandoned to the wilderness, whose astounding physical strength proves to be the only existing match for the 1/3 divine 2/3 human tyrant Gilgamesh, who then befriend each other and go a'questing, slaying terrible monsters, seeking magical treasures... which has the neat bonus effect of 'now Gilgamesh is away from his realm, so he is no longer raping every woman or girl he fancies.'

Sargon the Great, Sargon of Akkad, seems to have actually been an orphan in reality, but was greatly deified by the Sumerian religion of the time.

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I am fairly confident all of these stories temporally preceed the story of Moses, and there are a good number of ancient near east literature scholars who believe at least some of these stories were drawn on by whoever originally wrote the Exodus story.

Its really simple:

If you are a Zionist, Israel=Zionism=Judaism.

If you are not a Zionist, Israel<>Zionism<>Judaism.

The non Zionists are objectively correct, but Zionists are extremely good at intentionally not understanding this.

Its really no different than any member of any religion that cannot concieve of a non-objective, non-universal morality system.

They are brainwashed, propogandized, and cannot divorce the concepts, because they've been so strongly confounded and confabulated together in ways that are actually not logically consistent, but held together with an explicitly irrational faith.

This does get confusing with say...

"A/An herb."

Because different dialects pronounce herb differently, sometimes the 'h' is pronounced, sometimes not.

I know you specified American English, but even within American English, you can find areas that differ on this, and I'm sure there are other words where this kind of thing crops up.

Also, I guess this may be worth mentioning as well:

Though this no longer seems to be as common as it was 10-20 years ago...

"An hero."

Sometimes, either an unintentional misuse of this a/an rule will be ironically copied, and more widely used, essentially to either mock the original usage/user...

... or the a/an rule can be intentionally misused, as a way of infantilizing yourself, trying to come off as cutesy/ditzy, or maybe play up your own awkardness or inexperience, something like that.