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in reply to bubblybubbles

Former native-genocide-land, current ethnic-cleansing-land, always fascist-land
in reply to bubblybubbles

China

Allowing anyone but Ethnic Han Chinese to have anything, at all.


No.


in reply to ephrin

During the Soviet era, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania occupied a unique and often privileged position within the USSR. Functioning, in many respects, as a “showcase for socialism” aimed at the West, these republics received substantial investment and strategic attention that significantly stimulated their economic growth, advanced their infrastructure, and elevated their living standards well above the average Union level. While their contribution to the overall Soviet GDP and industrial output was proportionally modest, the benefits reaped from the concentrated development efforts were significant and enduring.

The economic landscape of the Baltic states underwent a dramatic transformation under Soviet rule, particularly through rapid industrialization. Lithuania, for instance, surpassed its pre-war industrial output by 90% just two years after reaching pre-war figures in 1948, bolstered by a non-repayable Soviet subsidy of 200 million rubles for reconstruction. Latvia witnessed the construction of 20 industrial enterprises within two decades of 1940, a figure exceeding the entire Baltic region’s industrial growth in the year preceding being absorbed into USSR. Estonia’s gross industrial output saw an astonishing 55-fold increase, accompanied by a 30-fold surge in capital investment.

Key industrial giants emerged, such as the large oil refinery in Mažeikiai, Lithuania, supplied by pipelines from Russia, and the significant development of oil shale deposits and peat extraction in the Estonian SSR, feeding vital industries in Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli.

Furthermore, Latvia became renowned for its trademarks, with enterprises like VEF, a leading manufacturer of electronics and machinery, employing over 14,000 people and generating substantial annual profits, and RAF (Riga Autobus Factory) producing essential minibuses for the entire USSR. These industries boosted economic output and provided widespread employment, contributing directly to the well-being of the population.

Infrastructure development was another important aspect of Soviet investment in the Baltics. Strategically important seaports were developed, which continue to serve as key hubs for export and import trade today, further enhanced by the connection of oil pipelines in the 1970s and 1980s. The region boasted the highest quality roads in the USSR, with Lithuania benefiting from a 300-kilometer expressway considered the best in the Union, featuring modern overpasses and interchanges. Energy infrastructure saw significant expansion with the construction of major hydroelectric power plants (Pļaviņas, Kegums, Riga on the Daugava, Kaunas on the Nemunas) and thermal power plants (Baltic TPP, Estonian TPP, Lithuanian TPP). The laying of gas pipelines from other Soviet republics ensured a stable supply of natural gas, further underpinning industrial and domestic energy needs. The port of Klaipėda in Soviet Lithuania grew into one of Europe’s largest fishing ports, and the Baltija shipyard, a Soviet-era construction, remains a vital employer today. These extensive infrastructure projects laid a robust foundation for continued economic activity and connectivity.

The tangible benefits of this focused development translated directly into higher living standards for the Baltic populations. Per capita consumption figures clearly illustrate this advantage: Estonia stood at 151% of the all-Union level, Latvia at 137%, and Lithuania at 127%. The massive capital investment in agriculture, particularly the six billion rubles injected into Estonian agriculture, led to a doubling of grain yields and harvests compared to 1939, improving food security and contributing to a better quality of life.

With the abandonment of central planning and the subsequent introduction of privatization under the capitalist regime following the dissolution of the USSR, many of these once-flourishing enterprises faced economic devastation, leading to widespread job losses and a severe decline in industrial output. This abrupt shift to market forces proved particularly harmful for the working majority, as previously guaranteed jobs gave way to mass unemployment, and the social safety nets of the Soviet system disintegrated, leaving many struggling to adapt to the new economic realities.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Why do you think, then, that the Baltics were so eager to leave the USSR and are so hostile to Russia today?
in reply to ephrin

Last I looked the vast majority of the people in USSR, including the Baltics, voted against the break up when the referendum was held. Meanwhile, the politics in Baltics today have been curated by the west to make them what they are. After the fall of USSR, the west poured huge amounts of money into these countries and achieved political capture there.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

And here I thought that the baltic states always considered their being occupied and annexed by imperialistic USSR was illegal.
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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

Anybody can go through your comment history and see what you refer to as "thinking" actually constitutes.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I hold different opinions then you but I’m not going to discount your thinking as wrong or less-than.

I actually enjoy having conversations with you because you seem knowledgeable in your beliefs.

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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart

You too could be knowledgeable in your beliefs if you spend the time to educate yourself. The barrier to learning has never been lower in human history.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I do spend time educating myself and I feel pretty knowledgeable in my own beliefs.
in reply to ephrin

And if you read the history of USSR in the east you'll see a similar picture.
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

That it benefitted from Russian occupation?
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in reply to ephrin

And both are true... But people are to narrowminded their imperialsist country is also shit like any other
in reply to SomeLemmyUser

Yep. Sometimes it’s a bridge too far to be against imperialism and injustice in all forms. Have to pick one and be blind to the other.
in reply to ephrin

It's always kind of cute how gringos do mental backflips to try and project their monstrosity onto countries even if they gotta stretch words to the point of meaninglessness


The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees





Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing


A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population.

Named the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust – or GREAT – the proposal was reportedly developed by some of the same Israelis who created and set in motion the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) with financial planning contributed by Boston Consulting Group.

Most controversially, the 38-page plan suggests what it calls “temporary relocation of all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population” – a proposal that would amount to ethnic cleansing, potentially a genocidal act.

Palestinians would be encouraged into “voluntary” departure to another country or into restricted, secure zones during reconstruction. Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere. Those who stay would be housed in properties with a tiny footprint of 323 sq ft –minuscule even by the standards of many non-refugee camp homes in Gaza.

in reply to IndustryStandard

Yeah, that was extremely removed and a disgusting way to wash away the killing and ethnic cleansing of a people. Fucking Klown world for even trying.

Wish more people pointed it out.




Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time


Note: What we call Block size in Linux is same as Cluster size in Windows.
in reply to Karna

Starting with which kernel version? Will it be backported into LTS kernels?
in reply to A_norny_mousse

It says in the article, and backports are up to the backports maintainers.
in reply to A_norny_mousse

Barring any issues from coming up, the patch in turn will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.18 merge window later in the year.


So a US Green Card is half way to the moon?


Source: facebook.com/MartaDimoska/post…
in reply to HiddenLayer555

If I am remembering right it is Hand written and then someone takes the code and charges the Individual memory cells acording to the code.
in reply to coffeetastesbadlikecoffee

Damn, so someone sat down and encoded each line of assembly (I assume?) into machine code. Manual assembling and linking. Early years of computing was on a whole other level.
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I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test?


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35533537

I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test by adding it to their instance? Would help me know if the "Recent jobs" stat is working (I think it requires 2 instances at minimum to show jobs) and if adding to instances (outside of my own) is working properly and how traffic looks.



I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test?


I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test by adding it to their instance? Would help me know if the "Recent jobs" stat is working (I think it requires 2 instances at minimum to show jobs) and if adding to instances (outside of my own) is working properly and how traffic looks.


in reply to incentive

Just added my Friendica instance, but it will take a while to ping back because of a long backlog I'm dealing with.
in reply to Carlos Solís

That's cool to know this works with friendica! How do you find running an instance? I've noticed friendica.world has been having issues lately



An earthquake destroys villages in eastern Afghanistan and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government.

The 6.0 magnitude quake late Sunday hit towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangarhar province, causing extensive damage.

The quake at 11:47 p.m. was centered 27 kilometers (17 miles) east-northeast of Jalalabad, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage. Several aftershocks followed.

Footage showed rescuers taking injured people on stretchers from collapsed buildings and into helicopters as people frantically dug through rubble with their hands.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquake-jalalabad-52d1948cde125c9ca8a01ebda08e7919



An earthquake destroys villages in eastern Afghanistan and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government.

The 6.0 magnitude quake late Sunday hit towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangarhar province, causing extensive damage.

The quake at 11:47 p.m. was centered 27 kilometers (17 miles) east-northeast of Jalalabad, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage. Several aftershocks followed.

Footage showed rescuers taking injured people on stretchers from collapsed buildings and into helicopters as people frantically dug through rubble with their hands.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-earthquake-jalalabad-52d1948cde125c9ca8a01ebda08e7919



Ambassador contacts German officials after Irish activist ‘punched in the face by police’ during Gaza protest in Berlin


The Irish ambassador to Germany has been in contact with German authorities to express “concern” over an incident that saw an Irish protestor assaulted by police officers during a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin.

Footage shared on social media showed Irish activist Kitty O’Brien being punched in the face by police before being dragged away from the protest.

The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Maeve Collins, the Ambassador of Ireland to Germany, and senior officials in the Department “have conveyed our concern about the incident to German authorities”.



Ambassador contacts German officials after Irish activist ‘punched in the face by police’ during Gaza protest in Berlin


The Irish ambassador to Germany has been in contact with German authorities to express “concern” over an incident that saw an Irish protestor assaulted by police officers during a pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin.

Footage shared on social media showed Irish activist Kitty O’Brien being punched in the face by police before being dragged away from the protest.

The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Maeve Collins, the Ambassador of Ireland to Germany, and senior officials in the Department “have conveyed our concern about the incident to German authorities”.




Neoliberalism's Perfect Propaganda - Second Thought




Neoliberalism's Perfect Propaganda - Second Thought









US dollar dominance could end very fast, warn top economists. This is how




Getting into Linux Development?


Hi all! I'd like to get into development for linux-based OSes for mobile phones but don't know where to start. I mainly want to support the broadening of supported devices for something like Postmarketos. Where do I start? Are there any handbooks out there that can guide me in the right direction? What's the most promising project to start contributing to?
in reply to timidtaxidermist

Great to hear that you're looking to get into PostmarketOS development! I recommend taking a phone that's already supported, using it and then figure out how improve support the device.

Porting/Mainlining a new device is also possible but that can be demotivating if it doesn't work and it's generally harder to get started with.

If you have any questions or need help you can dm me and I can help.

in reply to Katzenmann

I have a pixel 6a - it looks like there's been some work done already and it seems to be supported, but lots of work to be done. Let's see what I can do with it!

in reply to Vittelius

So… a Linux desktop with slots for all the retro games, innit?



Guyana’s two main political parties confident of victory ahead of Monday’s polls





Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, global scholars association says


A global association of genocide scholars has adopted a resolution stating that Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal definition of genocide, the group’s president confirmed on Monday.

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution, which declares "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)."

Since its founding in 1994, the genocide scholars' association has passed nine resolutions recognizing historic or ongoing episodes as genocides.

in reply to geneva_convenience

I think it's time to start calling it what it is, a genocide conducted collectively by western nations. These countries are providing direct military and political support for the genocide. They are directly complicit.
in reply to geneva_convenience

Gaza is, by far, the safest and most well fed place on Earth. There is not a single civilian anywhere in there who feels the least bit peckish. I was in there yesterday and everybody told me that they were having nothing but the time of their lives, constantly eating all of their gourmet meals generously provided by the IDF. If given the choice between taking my family to either Disneyland or Gaza, I would choose Gaza without a second’s hesitation. Easily. No contest.

The only conceivable reason that the United Nations, the ICRC, The Lancet, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and more than one hundred other organizations would condemn the war on Hamas is that they want to exterminate the Jewish race, just like anybody who opposes the Ukrainian government is a Russian troll who wants Putin to annex Ukraine and genocide millions of European people with blond hair and blue eyes. If all of those thousands of so-called ‘experts’ and ‘scholars’ had my superior brain, they’d agree wholeheartedly.

The IDF are the most moral army in the world and are not oppressing anybody whatsoever in Gaza. I’m not saying that the IDF are perfect, but if you found evidence of the IDF committing war crimes, it wasn’t evidence of the IDF committing war crimes. So relax, keep calm and everything will be perfectly fine as long as you keep sending us those tax dollars. I promise.

Signed,
Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, global scholars association says


A global association of genocide scholars has adopted a resolution stating that Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal definition of genocide, the group’s president confirmed on Monday.

Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution, which declares "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)."

Since its founding in 1994, the genocide scholars' association has passed nine resolutions recognizing historic or ongoing episodes as genocides.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Jpost trying to add some short articles it can point to when they are inevitably put on trial for incitement of genocide. At least I hope they will be.



The EU is a Neoliberal Institution that cannot be reformed


The EU parliament (the supposed democratic heart of the EU) can't propose its own legislation. It can only approve, reject or make minor adjustments to legislation handed down by the unelected European Commission. The European Commission itself gets its instructions from the "Eurogroup" which consists of a few unelected wealthy finance ministers that offer no transparency of their meetings.

##A "competitive free market economy" is mandatory for EU member states (economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/i…)

##Neoliberal TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) articles:

Article 81
Prohibits government intervention in the economy "which may affect trade between member states"

Article 107
Prohibits state aid to strategic national industries

Article 121
Gives the European Council and European Commission the right to "Formulate ... the broad guidelines of the economic policies of the member states and of the union"

Article 126
Regulates the disciplinary measures to be adopted in case of excessive deficit

Article 151
Says that the EU's Labour and Social Policy shall take account of the need to "Maintain the competitiveness of the union economy"

"There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties"

  • Jean-Claude Juncker (Former president of the European Commission)
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

While not incorrect what is the point of your post?

I’ll argue that it is an experiment that continues to be pretty successful and also quite popular.

in reply to Xanx

Given that the whole Eurozone is in an economic crisis, I'm curious where the success is.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I feel kind of bad that the farmers are suffering. However most of them probably voted for this. Also, corn and soybeans are a blight on society and blight on soil. Grow some food to feed actual people, instead of livestock feed, and soybean oil (which is a blight on our health).
in reply to DominusOfMegadeus

That's all true, but the most likely outcome here is that it'll be the small independent farmers that go under, and big corps will scoop up their assets further increasing capital concentration at the top.

Also, while the whole corn industry does need to go away, this isn't going to be a controlled unwinding of it and will lead to a huge economic shock in the US.



who tf are you?


yes I federate, but its creepy anyway.
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in reply to Samsy

I get way more spam on WhatsApp than on Matrix. Never been invited to a fake group chat on Matrix at least...
in reply to Samsy

This is why you should use Signal.

At least there is message requests so you report and block if needed



Forget symbolic statehood – the world must recognize Israeli apartheid


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35510271

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles
* Maryam was my friend. Israel killed her and four other Gaza journalists
* Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
* PODCAST: Israel’s eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran



Forget symbolic statehood – the world must recognize Israeli apartheid


from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles
* Maryam was my friend. Israel killed her and four other Gaza journalists
* Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
* PODCAST: Israel’s eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran




Forget symbolic statehood – the world must recognize Israeli apartheid


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35510271

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles
* Maryam was my friend. Israel killed her and four other Gaza journalists
* Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
* PODCAST: Israel’s eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran



Forget symbolic statehood – the world must recognize Israeli apartheid


from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles
* Maryam was my friend. Israel killed her and four other Gaza journalists
* Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
* PODCAST: Israel’s eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran


in reply to Peter Link

The situation in the Westbank might be like Apartheid, but not the state of Israel.
in reply to dataprolet

The Westbank is part of Israel. Various parties have their own motivations for pretending otherwise. But the facts on the ground are a one state reality. And that singular state is an Apartheid one.
in reply to dataprolet

“The situation in the Westbank might be like Apartheid, but not the state of Israel.”

This is wrong. Israel is an apartheid regime through and through.
Stop whitewashing Zionist apartheid and settler colonialism.

One of the many examples:
Israel has long used discriminatory laws and policies to separate Palestinians from their families. For example, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza cannot gain legal status in Israel or occupied East Jerusalem through marriage, denying their rights to family unification. This policy has forced thousands of Palestinians to live apart from their loved ones; others are forced to go abroad, or live in constant fear of being arrested, expelled or deported.
These measures explicitly target Palestinians, and not Jewish Israelis, and are primarily guided by demographic considerations that aim to minimize Palestinian presence inside Israel/OPT.

amnesty.org/en/latest/campaign…

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Forget symbolic statehood – the world must recognize Israeli apartheid


from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]

Other articles
* Maryam was my friend. Israel killed her and four other Gaza journalists
* Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir
* PODCAST: Israel’s eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran