Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
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Israel’s biggest defence company suspended by NATO amid corruption probe
Israel’s largest defence company, Elbit Systems, has been suspended by NATO’s procurement agency amid a major corruption probe, Follow the Money and its media partners La Lettre, Le Soir, and Knack can reveal.
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) is at the centre of a wide-ranging graft scandal, with current and former staff under investigation for bribery. Several suspects were arrested in May in police raids across seven nations, including Belgium and the U.S.
FTM has also learned that a key figure associated with Elbit – an Italian citizen identified as Eliau E. – is wanted internationally for his alleged role in bribing NSPA staff.
Elbit is Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, with a turnover of almost 7 billion dollars in 2024. The Haifa-based company – which makes drones, tanks and ammunition, among other military equipment – ranks 25th on the list of the world’s 100 largest defence companies compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/israel-defence-elbit-systems-suspended-nato-corruption-investigation
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Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau make their relationship Instagram official
The singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in JapanJessica O'Bryan (The Guardian)
Record 70% of Germans Dissatisfied With Government's Performance - Survey
Record 70% of Germans Dissatisfied With Government's Performance - Survey
A record 70% of Germans are dissatisfied with the work of the country's government, according to a new survey conducted by the INSA pollster for German newspaper Bild.Sputnik International
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Germany is a dictaorship of the bourgeoisie, spin it anyway you like, voting for progressive reformists will only get you one step forward, and two steps back
you don't vote your way to communism, communists participating in bourgeois elections only do so to draw attention to the farce, and as you said, it's literally illegal in germany
Stupidity and disinformation by conservative media, so same as everywhere else with that problem.
The people saw that it is shit after 16 years of stagnancy (Merkel), the new government had a opposition party directly in the government (don't ask how that makes sense, only good thing is that the FDP lost a lot of voters for this bullshit) and then voters immediately decided that conservative again is the right way to vote.
No it doesn't make sense to me either
Accidental Duplicate sorry
Record 70% of Germans Dissatisfied With Government's Performance - Survey
A record 70% of Germans are dissatisfied with the work of the country's government, according to a new survey conducted by the INSA pollster for German newspaper Bild.Sputnik International
Operation in Huliaipole: Russian Forces Clear Ukrainian Positions and Reach the Haichur River (Videos)
Operation in Huliaipole: Russian Forces Clear Ukrainian Positions and Reach the Haichur River (Videos)
Russian assault groups are advancing in Vilcha in the direction of Kharkiv. Russian units have taken control of more than half of Siversk, setting the stage for a full encirclement of the area.Anonymous834 (South Front)
La riposte pathétique d’Elon Musk face à l’Europe
C’est un spectacle fascinant, presque shakespearien s’il n’était pas joué par des clowns numériques, qui se déroule actuellement entre la commission européenne et ce qu’il reste de Twitter. Vendredi dernier, l’Union Européenne a frappé fort avec une amende de 120 millions d’euros pour violation du Digital Services Act. La raison ? Des pratiques trompeuses, un manque de transparence crasse et, surtout, ce fameux système de certification payant qui permet à n’importe quel escroc d’acheter une crédibilité autrefois réservée aux comptes vérifiés.
Mais au lieu de faire profil bas, d’analyser ses erreurs ou même de prétendre s’améliorer, X a décidé de réagir avec la maturité d’un adolescent privé de sa console de jeu. La plateforme a contre-attaqué en bannissant le compte publicitaire de la commission européenne. Le motif invoqué ? Une supposée tromperie. L’ironie est telle qu’elle en deviendrait presque étouffante.
Une vengeance aussi mesquine qu’inutile
Commençons par le cœur de cette blague cosmique. Samedi, Nikita Bier, le responsable produit chez X (un poste qui doit nécessiter une consommation industrielle d’aspirine), a annoncé triomphalement avoir banni le compte publicitaire de la commission. Selon lui, l’institution aurait violé les règles de la plateforme.
Le problème ? Cette dernière ne dépense plus un centime en publicité sur X depuis 2023. C’est là toute la beauté de la stratégie d’Elon Musk. Pour punir une entité qui vient de vous coller une amende de 120 millions d’euros, vous décidez de lui interdire d’acheter des publicités… qu’elle n’achetait déjà plus.
Un porte-parole de la commission a d’ailleurs confirmé l’absurdité de la situation, rappelant que leur politique de non-publicité sur la plateforme est en place depuis plus d’un an, en raison précisément des inquiétudes liées à la désinformation. La suspension imposée par X est donc aussi effrayante qu’un pistolet à eau face à un incendie de forêt.
L’accusation de la faille imaginaire
Pour justifier cette décision grotesque, X a dû inventer une narration où la victime devient le bourreau. Nikita Bier accuse la commission d’avoir utilisé un « exploit » (une faille) dans l’outil de composition publicitaire de X. Selon lui, l’UE s’est connectée à un compte publicitaire dormant pour poster un lien déguisé en vidéo afin d’augmenter artificiellement sa portée.
En d’autres termes, X reproche à ses utilisateurs d’utiliser son interface telle qu’elle a été codée par ses ingénieurs. Si le compositeur de posts permet de créer des liens qui ressemblent à des vidéos, ce n’est pas un piratage de haut vol. C’est simplement la preuve que l’interface utilisateur du réseau social est une usine à gaz mal conçue.
L’hôpital qui se moque de la charité numérique
L’hypocrisie atteint ici des sommets stratosphériques. Rappelons le contexte, X vient d’être condamné pour tromperie. Pourquoi ? Parce que son système de coches bleues, autrefois gage d’authenticité, est devenu un simple reçu de paiement. L’UE a jugé que cela trompait les utilisateurs en leur faisant croire à la légitimité de comptes qui ne sont pas vérifiés. Et quelle est la défense de la plateforme ? Accuser l’UE à son tour de tromperie parce qu’un bouton de lecture vidéo fonctionne bizarrement sur mobile.
C’est exact, sur la version bureau, le bouton « play » du post de la commission lance la vidéo. Sur mobile, il semble rediriger vers le communiqué de presse annonçant l’amende. X appelle cela une manipulation malveillante. Le reste du monde appelle cela un bug d’interface sur une plateforme en déclin technique. Ce comportement erratique des vidéos est d’ailleurs monnaie courante sur X. Mais quand il s’agit de l’UE, soudainement, c’est un complot machiavélique.
Musk – La diplomatie du « Bullshit »
Pendant que ses lieutenants s’activaient à inventer des excuses techniques, le grand patron, Elon Musk, a brillé par son éloquence habituelle. Sa réponse à l’amende historique et aux critiques détaillées de l’Union Européenne ? Un tweet lapidaire: « Bullshit ». Suivi d’une question rhétorique tout aussi nuancée: « Combien de temps avant que l’UE ne disparaisse ? #AbolishTheEU ». C’est la réaction d’un homme qui n’a plus d’arguments. Face à un cadre législatif rigoureux comme le DSA, les mèmes et les insultes ne suffisent pas. L’UE demande des comptes sur la transparence, la protection des données et la véracité de l’information. Le milliardaire répond par des slogans populistes et des représailles techniques inefficaces.
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La réalité va frapper fort
Cette petite guéguerre sur l’interdiction du compte publicitaire ne changera strictement rien à la réalité financière et juridique qui attend X. L’entreprise a 60 jours pour répondre aux préoccupations concernant les coches bleues et 90 jours pour régler ses problèmes de transparence publicitaire. Si elle échoue, les pénalités pourraient s’aggraver. La plateforme peut bien bannir tous les comptes administratifs qu’elle souhaite, cela n’effacera pas l’ardoise. Prétendre que la commission a piraté l’algorithme en utilisant les outils officiels est une défense qui fera rire n’importe quel tribunal.
En fin de compte, cet épisode illustre parfaitement l’état actuel de X, une plateforme techniquement défaillante, dirigée par l’impulsivité, qui préfère accuser ses régulateurs de tricherie plutôt que de réparer son propre code ou de respecter la loi. L’UE a demandé de la clarté et de l’honnêteté. En réponse, elle a eu droit à une crise de colère. Si c’était ça leur stratégie de défense pour prouver qu’ils sont une entreprise sérieuse et non trompeuse, c’est un échec spectaculaire. Mais au moins, c’est divertissant.
Bruxelles frappe fort - X écope d'une amende historique de 120 millions d'euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses
L'UE inflige une amende de 120 millions d'euros à X d'Elon Musk, saluant une victoire pour la régulation numérique et la transparence.GIGAWATTS
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
The Globe and Mail's Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait, Mark Mackinnon, and Stephanie Chambers have the deep dive on Sam Mraiche. I'll include some highlights, but this deserves a good read because it provides an overview with additional information about some of the relationships between Sam Mraiche, Danielle Smith, Jitendra Prasad, and Mickey Amery.
Her former chief of staff, Marshall Smith, hired multiple relatives of Mr. Mraiche at the same time as he was living in a home owned by one of Mr. Mraiche’s sisters.
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“All of my family is in Canada now,” said Jamil Omairi, a pharmacist in the nearby town of Lala, another springboard for people destined for Alberta. Mr. Omairi is related to Mickey Amery, Alberta’s justice minister, himself a long-time friend and relative of Mr. Mraiche.“All the young people here, people between 16 and 20, they have two ways to go,” he said. “If they find work, they stay. If there’s no work, they travel, and Brazil and Canada are the first destinations.”
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Mraiche may be a capable import/exporter, but his world view could be mercenary. An exchange between Mraiche and BTNX, a supplier of COVID rapid tests, highlights this view.
The following week, Mr. Mraiche proposed a solution: He did “a lot of business” in Turkey, he explained, and suggested the BTNX executive use those contacts to obtain additional tests.Mr. Mraiche also returned to the idea of diverting tests, this time from the federal government. “They’re really going to notice that a million is missing?” he asked.
“They will, yes,” responded Mr. Sunderani.
As deliveries fell further and further behind, Mr. Mraiche, who told Mr. Sunderani he was under intense pressure from Mr. Prasad, became increasingly frustrated.
“Do you know what you’re doing to me, Iqbal?” Mr. Mraiche said in an early February call. “I don’t only sell rapid test kits. I’m one of the biggest constructors here, too. Do you know what you’ve done to me? I’ve had so much mud thrown on my face, it’s not even funny.”
“You better hope there’s another wave that needs rapid tests,” he continued later in the call.
“Sam, that’s – that’s a bad thing to hope for,” Mr. Sunderani said.
“Is it? Me and you are in the business.”
“Sam, you know what? At the end of the day I don’t know about you, but I’ve made enough money. I don’t want to wish –”
“Has Jeff Bezos made enough money yet?”
“I don’t care who Jeff Bezos is,” Mr. Sunderani replied. “He has – I mean, I don’t want to wish –”
“No one’s wishing anything. It’s just going with the flow,” Mr. Mraiche said.
A month after that call, BTNX sued MHCare for $7.5-million, alleging Mr. Mraiche’s business failed to pay for more than 200,000 test kits and refused to pay for a truckload it received in error. MHCare countersued for $62.5-million, alleging BTNX overcharged, caused the company to lose money and tarnished its reputation. The two companies remain locked in litigation, and neither party’s allegations have been proven in court.
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By the spring of 2022, the government’s response to the pandemic left Premier Jason Kenney battered. A scant majority of United Conservative Party members supported him in a leadership review in May, 2022, and he agreed to step down after the party selected a replacement.Danielle Smith, then a party leadership hopeful, campaigned on COVID-19 grievances, railing against mask mandates and vaccine passports. Within a few months, she’d established herself as a front-runner.
A copy of Ms. Smith’s private calendar obtained by The Globe shows she took meetings during the campaign with everyone from physicians to executives – including Sam Mraiche.
In August, 2022, she was scheduled to dine at his north Edmonton home, the calendar shows.
Five days later, she was booked for a 30-minute Zoom call with Mr. Mraiche and Mr. Prasad, who retired from Alberta Health Services in the spring but stayed on as a consultant.
Ms. Smith, Mr. Prasad and Mr. Mraiche did not respond to questions about the meetings.
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutinyTom Cardoso (The Globe and Mail)
Google's AI Deletes User's Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: "I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am"
Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”
The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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Image via the IAEA.
Image via IAEA.
Why even care what the ai had to say? It’s not conscious.
The user is looking to deflect blame for giving a very fallible outside agent the ability to delete important information.
That’s on you my guy.
[Answered] Video players that look like IINA, or can?
Edit: I'm now enlightened and use mpv, I really like the ModernZ OSC (on-screen controls), and uses config files.
IINA is only on macOS. I looked up linux alternatives but none of them seem to have similar looking UIs, at least out of the box. I want the player UI to float on top of the video + with a blurred background, it as shown in the image; or at least the ability to theme it like so.
GitHub - Samillion/ModernZ: A sleek and modern OSC for mpv designed to enhance functionality by adding more features, all while preserving the core standards of mpv's OSC.
A sleek and modern OSC for mpv designed to enhance functionality by adding more features, all while preserving the core standards of mpv's OSC. - Samillion/ModernZGitHub
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I somehow keep running across videos that won't load in Clapper, Showtime, mpv, VLC, or Handbrake, and Nautilus won't show thumbnails for them. It's very frustrating. Supposedly I've already installed all the available codecs from RPMFusion, but still get the "codec missing" error on a bunch of videos.
Jellyfin on the other hand, it plays everything I've ever thrown at it. I don't know what the hell it's doing differently from the other video players on my system, but it works great.
GitHub - Rafostar/clapper: Level up your video experience with a modern and user-friendly media player.
Level up your video experience with a modern and user-friendly media player. - Rafostar/clapperGitHub
Israel's Love for Capitalism
Israel's Love for Capitalism
The colonial leader and commander-in-chief behind Gaza’s annihilation, Netanyahu, wants to convince you that capitalism is great actually! If you’re still on the fence on the ultimate question—soci...TankieTube
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I guess you've already done updates on your packages in termux?
Updating:pkg upgradeani-cli -U
I see that ani-cli prefer to use yt-dlp to ffmpeg if it's available so you could try installing that too.
Too many laws passing without 'proper scrutiny', Geoffrey Palmer says
A former Labour Prime Minister says Parliament is passing too many laws without proper scrutiny.
Sir Geoffrey Palmer told Nine to Noon the government was increasingly pushing through legislation under urgency, which allowed it to skip stages such as public consultation and select committees.
But Leader of the House Chris Bishop said just nine Bills have been passed in that way, and there were good reasons for all of them.
Palmer said the normal checks and balances were stripped out when laws were made at pace.
"Urgency has become the default mechanism for dealing with Parliamentary legislation and the standing orders are not followed and you also have extended sittings - and both of those mean the Government's agenda is completely at the will of the Government," he said.
Palmer said the Fast-Track Approvals Act 2024 - and its amendment - was a classic example of a trend that "ministers know best" and was "ministerial dictatorship".
"It was criticised by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment then, Simon Upton, the amendment bill puts the process that was enacted in 2024 on steroids.
"It gets faster and faster. It will be a fast-track to environmental degradation, [more] than it already is."
Bishop was approached for further comment.
The legislation, which passed under urgency at the end of last year, is back before Parliament with an amendment that the government intended to push through by the end of 2025.
It said the amendment to the Act would increase competition in the supermarket sector.
Despite being open for just over 10 days, it received 2158 submissions, with about 95 percent opposed.
Palmer said legislative checks and balances - which he already considered lacking - were further reduced when legislation was made at pace.
"What is the hurry? Legislation is law-making. You want to get it right. You have to analyse it, you have to do proper research, you don't bang it through because a minister has an idea.
"It needs to be properly drafted by Parliamentary council. We have had a degradation of our legislative system in New Zealand in recent years."
Bishop said the government had a big legislative agenda and limited hours in ordinary house time to get it done.
Regarding the use of urgency, he said: "I am reluctant to use urgency to avoid select committees outside of the standard Budget urgency process, and it is only done so when there are good reasons."
Too many laws passing without 'proper scrutiny', Geoffrey Palmer says
Sir Geoffrey Palmer says the government is increasingly pushing through legislation under urgency and skipping consultation.Ninetonoon (RNZ)
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Ripping Blu Rays is way deeper than I expected
I didn't think I'd spend hours reading about this today, but some things surprised me:
- Just using a Playstation sounds like it won't work or will be a huge time sink.
- Blu ray optical drives are way more expensive than I thought
- The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software -- MakeMKV -- that can work around them.
This post goes into some interesting details. - Finding a drive that is known to work with MakeMKV is a pain. There's a brand called Pioneer that seems promising but they have stopped producing bluray drives ~~went out of business last year~~. I have no idea which model works, and it's common that secondhand sellers will swap enclosures and pass it off as a different model.
- Sometimes you need to flash the firmware on the drive to make it work with 4K UHD discs.
I was going to try ripping a Blu-ray that I bought recently, since I couldn't find a quality rip anywhere, but I'm pretty turned off from the whole prospect at this point.
Anyway I'm not really asking for a specific reply, I just thought this topic was interesting and I'm curious what people think about Blu rays and optical media in general. Does the future seem bleak? Are we going to be stuck with shitty WebDLs for most new content? Or is physical media here to stay?
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I ripped a ton of my stuff back in the day, guess I've been lucky, every generic BD drive i've used just worked.
But once you get past the "works" hurdle, the real struggle begins.
It's slow, like really slow. Assuming you can find the right titles and convince makemkv extract them, it's a start the process and go brew a cup of coffee slow. But hey, I've got time and you don't need to watch it ... mostly.
Depending on the disk, it's still either crap quality or it takes up an ungodly amount of space. Even a decent sized drive buckles sooner or later if you're generating 20GB images.
Unless you're up on your network game, your streaming sticks/tv's can hardly handle the throughput to stream the video.
So you encode the video. HEVC (which is getting dicey starting january as the royalties go up and processors stop support hardware decoding) or hopefully AV1, which still has spotty support in places. and the re-encode? The easy software isn't free, the free software isn't easy, but FFMPEG isn't that hard to work with.
OR, you find an ISO provider and download it.
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I guess I lucked out when I bought my BD-R drive before I was aware that MakeMKV needed extra stuff like firmware. But my LG WH16NS60 is one that took the flash (never had to mess with firmware on an optical drive and was worried I would brick it). But the process was pretty easy and getting into ripping BR after so long meant that the easy option was around to handle the steps. Kind of considering getting a back-up drive to have around if/when the one I have dies (especially since big brands are dropping out or may do so in the coming years).
While not as easy as just using torrents or other P2P. I have found it kind of fun to get back into ripping CD/DVD/BD and learn/re-learn how things work these days. Also nice to have all the options I can to be able to have access to media in the event any of them are down. The only super frustrating thing is that so much of modern releases don't get physical (or even purchasable digital) releases. And in some cases where a physical release is an option, they are DVD and not even a 720p BD. Digital options are even worse in a lot of random cases where a store might have just part of a show (or even episodes in a season not part of it).
Currently the only real issue that I have is that I really really need to build a new main PC and finally turn my current PC into only being for ripping and hosting what I have. And to get large HDDs to replace the 2TB and 4TB SSDs I currently have for it all of course. I really would like to have good copies of 4K stuff without having to worry about going with bad encodes that look worse than many 1080p releases that my TV upscales.
GE-Proton10-26 Released
Github workflows:
- fixup automatic building and attachment of GE-Proton release tarballs.
Proton:
- changes imported for upstream proton
- changes imported for upstream build environment
- changes imported for upstream lsteamclient
- changes imported for upstream steamvr
- FEX now builds as part of proton as per upstream changes
- wine-wayland/em-10 patches rebased
- wine-staging patches rebased
- SDL dummy controller will no longer be active when steam input is inactive (such as when wine-wayland is enabled, in which case steam input doesn't work)
- ffxvi (16) crash with wayland enabled fixed
- DLSS Scaling now available
- add PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR to enable DLSS hud
- add PROTON_FSR4_INDICATOR to show FSR4 watermark
- docs: Update Readme for scaling _UPGRADE variables:
fsr4 PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE Automatically download amdxcffx64.dll and upgrade games with FSR 3.1 to use FSR 4. Version to download can be specified by supplying it as a value, like so PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE="4.0.1", instead of 1. Downloads version 4.0.2 of the required DLL by default. This option also disables AMD Anti-Lag 2 currently due to various issues.
fsr4hud PROTON_FSR4_INDICATOR Enable the FSR4 watermark at the top left portion of the screen.
fsr4rdna3 PROTON_FSR4_RDNA3_UPGRADE Identical to PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE but for RDNA3 GPUs. Enables some required compatibility options and downloads version 4.0.0 of the DLL by default.
fsr3 PROTON_FSR3_UPGRADE
dlss PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE Automatically download and use newer versions of nvngx_dlss(d|g).dll DLLs. Version to download can be specified by supplying it as a value, like so PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE="310.2", instead of 1, to download version 310.2.1.0. This option also sets DXVK_NVAPI_DRS_SETTINGS to use the latest preset. If you provide your own config for it through this environment variable, your configuration is going to be applied..
dlsshud PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR Enable the DLSS overlay at the bottom left portion of the screen. This is exactly the same as FSR4_WATERMARK=1
xess PROTON_XESS_UPGRADE
Protonfixes:
- yet another fix for space engineers
- fix for the outer worlds 2
- ntsync disabled for SOMA
- upscaler download handler utility added
- Check if a directory is readable before attempting to map it.
- fix for Zeit 2 added
- fixes added for Death end re;Quest series from GOG
- Add fix for "They Are Billions" crash when using Russian localization
- Add fix for "Not For Broadcast" and "Not For Broadcast: Prologue"
- Fix CEF issues in Duet Night Abyss
Release GE-Proton10-26 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Github workflows: fixup automatic building and attachment of GE-Proton release tarballs. Proton: changes imported for upstream proton changes imported for upstream build environment changes impo...GitHub
Protect your mental health from capitalistic thought as much as possible
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Does Anyone Use their Phone without a SIM Card?
This is something I've been thinking about for a while. I've decided to get a Pixel with GrapheneOS as my next phone and I'm trying to decide the pros and cons of putting a SIM card in it. Convenience vs privacy, public wifi with a VPN vs using phone data, etc.
I can't get a SIM card where I live without ID and I'm looking to reduce being tracked as much as possible. Does anyone else do the same thing?
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13 years later, the bold and terrifying sci-fi game Routine is finally here
13 years later, the bold and terrifying sci-fi game Routine is finally here
The sci-fi horror game Routine is finally out now on Steam and Xbox, after more than a decade in development.Lewis Gordon (The Verge)
KDE Plasma black screen with white flashes problem
Video description: after trying to select volume control option at bottom right the screen turned black with white flashes.
This issue arises in two ways. First when booting the initial ASUS logo will show and then straight this black, flashing screen and second way it happens is when I try to select wifi, volume, network options present at bottom right area.
When this happens, pressing the power button also doesn't work, so I have to force power off the laptop by holding the power button for some seconds.
This doesn't happen every time i.e most of the times it boots correctly and most of the time trying to select options work as expected.
Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: TUF GAMING FX504GD_FX80GD
System Version: 1.0
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Thai military launches airstrikes on Cambodia as cross-border clashes erupt
Thai military launches airstrikes on Cambodia as cross-border clashes erupt
Both nations accuse each other of opening fire firstStaff Writer (Nikkei Asia)
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Selfies of Endangered Sumatran Tigers Expose a Robust Population
Selfies of Endangered Tigers Expose a Robust Population
Selfies of Endangered Sumatran Tigers Expose a Robust Population: Array of camera traps captures surprising images of tigers in the wild.Devin Reese (Nautilus)
Ceding the future to China
Ceding the future to China
Delivered as remarks to Brown University’s Watson School during its “China Chat” series, Chas Freeman reflects on China’s return to global prominence and the United States’ accelerating retreat from the international order it once led – and asks what…Pearls and Irritations
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We are in the midst of a Great Leap Backward or Cultural Revolution-style assault on the domestic institutions that made America great – the rule of law, freedom of speech, academic freedom and scientific excellence, federal partnerships with research universities, openness to foreigners and their ideas, policies based on evidence and expertise rather than fake news and unsubstantiated prejudice, and the prioritisation of objectivity over political correctness.
For the longest time US liberals used weasel words like opposing authoritarianism and supporting democracy to justify the US's foreign policy from sanctions to war crimes. "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East surrounded by authoritarian Islamist regimes", "I don't hate the Chinese I hate the authoritarian CCP and I support Taiwan because it is a democracy". Never mind the claims being false, they were a good attempt at masking their national supremacism and cultural chauvinism. US conservatives have always been more honest about being racist and just hating Arabs, Muslims, Chinese and so on. So witnessing the US decay into fascism has been a guilty pleasure of mine. US liberals now will look really silly accusing others of what their government is guilty of, but I am sure they will find a way to spin it. They are already blaming Trump on Russia, Saudi Arabia and others. Denying the fact that Trump is the US at its rawest and truest form.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project
The East Plano Islamic Center has pitched a residential development, formerly called EPIC City, with more than 1,000 residential units, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school and retail shops outside of Dallas. The project drew numerous state investigations earlier this year — some for unclear reasons — including one from Paxton, who said in March he was looking into potential violations of consumer protection laws.
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“The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” Paxton said in a statement, vowing to stop the development. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to stop Muslim housing project in North Texas
Paxton began investigating the East Plano Islamic Center in March for potential violations of consumer protection laws.Alejandro Serrano (The Texas Tribune)
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues EPIC to stop Muslim housing project
The East Plano Islamic Center has pitched a residential development, formerly called EPIC City, with more than 1,000 residential units, a mosque, a K-12 faith-based school and retail shops outside of Dallas. The project drew numerous state investigations earlier this year — some for unclear reasons — including one from Paxton, who said in March he was looking into potential violations of consumer protection laws.
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“The leaders behind EPIC City have engaged in a radical plot to destroy hundreds of acres of beautiful Texas land and line their own pockets,” Paxton said in a statement, vowing to stop the development. “I will relentlessly bring the full force of the law against anyone who thinks they can ignore the rules and hurt Texans.”
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to stop Muslim housing project in North Texas
Paxton began investigating the East Plano Islamic Center in March for potential violations of consumer protection laws.Alejandro Serrano (The Texas Tribune)
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Immigrants were moments away from pledging allegiance to the United States in Boston — the final step of the long process to becoming a U.S. citizen — when government officials pulled them out of line, according to a new report.
The scene unfolded at Boston’s Faneuil Hall on Thursday, Dec. 4, according to the report from WGBH, a National Public Radio member station.
As people who were already approved to be naturalized — having completed the lengthy U.S. citizenship process — lined up to pledge allegiance, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials told them they could not continue due to their countries of origin, the outlet reported.
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Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape the rest of their lives.thepoint.com.au
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Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers
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What Skwawkbox-Canary and other independent news outlets, together with local journalists and international activists have been reporting for months, has finally made it into the ‘mainstream’ media. A CNN ‘investigation‘ ‘revealed’ that the Israeli military bulldozed some of the bodies of aid-seekers slaughtered at so-called ‘aid’ stations into unmarked Gaza mass graves. Others were simply left […]By Skwawkbox
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Canada literally occupies unceded land right now.
And as I commented in another thread - I believe in response to your post - we can either collectively acknowledge the true and full cost of rectifying this situation, including fairly compensating those who are affected, or we can stick our heads in the sand and pretend that me and my kids, who were born in this country no differently than indigenous families and who know no other home, are expected to destroy our lives in service of the wrongs of the past.
If private property is affected, then the displaced people need to be fairly compensated. In general the impact on everyone needs to be considered in the calculus. I opened my eyes for the first time in this country, just like everyone else born here did, regardless of what atrocious actions were committed by those in the past. I have nowhere to go, this is my home as much as it is anyone else's.
If we don't acknowledge these facts willingly and openly i fear we will be forced to acknowledge them unwillingly.
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I'm going to talk about private land exclusively.
What happened in the past is the government appropriated the land, it seems at the very least unethically, and then sold it to private interests. Somewhere along the line an innocent citizen bought the land thinking it was freehold or otherwise was the owner's land to sell. It seems that now the land is being expropriated.
If it was never the government's land to sell, and the courts have ruled in that way, then the government needs to compensate the people to whom the land was sold.
This cost needs to be considered by the government when they negotiate with FN groups. It is the true and total cost of reconciliation. If it is excluded then it will cause enormous dissatisfaction with the entire exercise of reconciliation, and it will eventually destroy the program. If the goal is harmonious coexistence, this will be unachievable if some of the victims - and they are also victims - are pushed out and ignored.
My other adjacent point is that a full cost and schedule for reconciliation must be made clear to everyone, so that all stakeholders can understand the objective and agree on the end goal.
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Let’s be clear about what you are actually saying here. You are describing the privatization of stolen land as if it were a simple matter of unfortunate paperwork. The government did not simply unethically appropriate the land. The settlers orchestrated a campaign of displacement and genocide, then laundered the loot through property deeds to create a class of settlers whose innocence is built on that foundational violence. That citizen did not buy freehold land. They bought a fantasy, a clean title washed in the blood of the original people who were murdered or removed from it. The courts are not handing down philosophical rulings. They are finally, begrudgingly, acknowledging a truth that Indigenous people have never stopped stating which is that the land was never Canada's to sell.
Your entire argument hinges on the moral panic of the settler who feels cheated. But where is your panic for the people who were cheated of everything? You call for the government to compensate the buyer, to make the settler whole, but this just completes the cycle of colonial logic. It says the ultimate victim of theft is the one who ended up holding the stolen goods, not the people who were robbed in the first place. You call them also victims. They're not victims, they are the beneficiaries. Unwitting perhaps, but beneficiaries nonetheless of a system that granted them property through ethnic cleansing. Reconciliation priced on making those beneficiaries happy is not reconciliation. It is the perpetuation of the same power dynamic with a polite apology attached.
When you demand a full cost and schedule, you are talking about a budget for justice. You want to put a ceiling on what is owed. But true reconciliation isn't a government program you can sabotage with stakeholder dissatisfaction. It is the unfinished business of dismantling a colonial project. If the current property owner is compensated, that is a cost of doing business for a state that built itself on theft. It is not a debt owed to the public by Indigenous people. The goal is not harmonious coexistence built on a ledger that balances the comfort of settlers against the rights of nations. The goal is justice, and justice is inherently disruptive to the unjust peace that has existed here for centuries. You cannot put a timeline on decolonization. The only thing that needs to be made clear is that the era of pretending these lands were ever legitimately Canada's to give away is over.
You can wrap it in as many words as you want. What you are saying is that I, and others like me, who were born here just like you were, and just like indigenous people were have less of a claim to this country as their homeland. This is the basis that seems to allow you to justify taking away the lives of other people.
The goal can only be harmonious coexistence, or it will be doomed to fail. If your project is built on the destruction of the lives of others, then it will not succeed.
I will say again - I first opened my eyes in this country. It is my home and I know no other. I and FN peoples are the same in this regard. I am not special nor do I hold an exalted position over you, and neither do you over me. In the end I'm putting demands on the government to recognize the true and full cost of reconciliation. I'm not putting demands on FN people. I'm not sure why you feel aggrieved that I've identified another group that is being impacted by this project.
You are asking for people to sacrifice to right the wrongs of the past. I want to do this, and others do to. But if you treat them as lesser and don't try to understand the impacts on them, and you invoke academic concepts to justify why they should just 'suck it up', you're going to be unsuccessful. Eventually you have to live with these people. And like I said before, they are no different than you, no less and no more.
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This is not about wrapping anything in words. It's about confronting the central lie you are telling yourself. You are conflating birthplace with historical claim. Being born on stolen land does not grant you the same claim as the people from whom it was stolen. That is the brutal fact of colonial history. You opened your eyes here. But the people we displaced had their eyes open here for thousands of years before you had your epiphany. To pretend those two facts are equivalent is the foundation of the injustice.
You keep talking about harmonious coexistence as the only goal. But you are demanding that this harmony be built on your terms, on the continued denial of the original crime. You want reconciliation to be a polite transaction that leaves your sense of home and ownership undisturbed. That's just perpetuation of a settlement that never ended. True coexistence begins with the uncomfortable truth that your homeland is built on the homeland of another, and that reality demands more than just a budgetary line item.
You say you are putting demands on the government, not on First Nations. But you are. Your demand is that the government prioritize compensating settlers as the true and full cost before anything else. You are framing settler dissatisfaction as the primary risk to the project. That is a direct demand on Indigenous people to wait, to accept less, to once again watch as the state manages the feelings of the beneficiaries before addressing the rights of the dispossessed. You have identified another impacted group, yes. But you have placed them at the front of the line for justice, ahead of the people who were robbed. That is why there is grievance.
No one is asking you to suck it up. You need you to wake up and understand that your personal connection to this land does not erase the collective, unbroken connection of the nations that were here first. The question is who has already sacrificed everything and who is now being asked to share a fraction of what was gained through that loss. You say we all must live together. We do. And living together means finally building a shared home where the foundation isn't the myth that we all started here with the same claim. We didn't. Justice starts when we stop pretending that we did.
Ah, the classic we're all just squatters on a rock defense. This is the intellectual equivalent of throwing a smoke bomb and hoping no one notices you're trying to justify a very specific and recent theft by invoking a vague, ahistorical free-for-all. Let's unpack your masterclass in bad faith.
First, the statement nobody has any claim to any land is a philosophical thought experiment for freshman ethics seminars, not a serious framework for modern justice. If you genuinely believed that, you wouldn't be paying a mortgage or respecting property lines. You'd be trying to plant a flag in your neighbor's backyard. But you don't. You only trot out this radical nihilism when it's time to dismiss Indigenous sovereignty, because applying it universally would immediately collapse the society you benefit from.
Then we get to the core of the argument, the whole they did it too school of history. Sure, conflict and displacement happened between pre colonial societies. To then equate that with the organized, state-sanctioned project of genocide, land theft, and cultural eradication enacted by European empires is so laughably dishonest it borders on parody. It's like saying a bar fight and the Normandy invasion are the same because both involve violence. The scale, intent, and lasting structural power are so fundamentally different that only someone desperate to avoid accountability would conflate them.
Your hypothetical about one tribe taking over if left alone is pure fantasy, a just-so story you've invented to make colonialism seem inevitable. It's not history. It's fan fiction for the apologist. You're judging real people who suffered a documented catastrophe against your imaginary scenario of what might have happened, and then using your own fiction to wash your hands of the real consequences. This is the ultimate colonial mindset, projecting your own violent assumptions onto other cultures to make their dispossession seem like a natural event rather than a deliberate crime.
The punchline, of course, is that this entire line of reasoning only ever flows one way. It's only ever used to undermine Indigenous claims. You never apply this nobody has a claim logic to the current title holder, the corporation, or the state. Their deed, derived directly from that original theft, is somehow treated as sacred. So your whole philosophy is a sham. The goal isn't to debate land claims. It's to freeze the current distribution of power, which you benefit from, by pretending all claims are equally invalid except, conveniently, the one that gives you your house. It's a shell game of morality where you get to keep the prize and call everyone else a hypocrite for wanting it back. 🤡
You didn't read, or chose not to understand, what I wrote, likely because you've decided who I am and have responsed to your own construct.
For one I never said it wasn't going to impact private property owners, nor did I say I diidn't expect it to. What I am saying is if you see this as a zero sum game and refuse to acknowledge the injustice and pain that will be caused to other parties in this process, and you refuse to demand (or at the very least actively obstruct) government recompense to other injured parties then I would caution that you are not headed in a constructive direction.
You're asking others to put aside their hate and move in a positive direction, but it doesn't sound like you're willing to do it. Thankfully I have hope that you are not representative.
I don't care about history with respect to claims of homeland. This country is not more yours than mine. I don't expect you to buy my cultural heritage or ancestry, and you can't expect me to do it either. You don't have a magical connection to the land - you took your first breath here and so did I. With respect to native land, this is ours, not just yours. There is a broken contract that needs to be reconciled, but this does not dictate who has more of a right to live here. If you can't accept that then you are definitely going to gave a hard time, particularly since I'm broadly a supporter of reconciliation and you can't even find a way to connect with me.
Edit I also said nothing about prioritizing one claim over another, or one compensation over another. I ask that you seriously reflect on what you've assumed about me.
I directly addressed the points you were attempting to make. What you're saying is that you think your needs are more important than those of Indigenous people whose land you occupy. It's very clear what you're actually saying despite all the sophistry you're using. You are a supporter of reconciliation entirely on your terms, that's not what reconciliation is.
Your whole argument is inherently premised on prioritizing one claim over another. The fact that you don't even understand the implications of what you said yourself is frankly hilarious.
I never said prioritizing. I said both expropriation if appropriate, but also compensation to those who lost land. I said both.
You clearly think of all of the people like me as second class citizens, at least with respect to homeland. But generally, you do not consider the people on the other side to be equals with their own value and their own pain. You have made it clear in the way you insult me and call me a clown, and misinterpret what I say. I have not insulted you once.
You seem to believe that this is a zero sum game and we must lose so you can win. I will not be able to understand that position. It will only lead to worse outcomes.
I'm sorry we can't find a way to understand each other.
It's like you don't understand what the word implied means.
You clearly think of all of the people like me as second class citizens, at least with respect to homeland. But generally, you do not consider the people on the other side to be equals with their own value and their own pain. You have made it clear in the way you insult me and call me a clown, and misinterpret what I say. I have not insulted you once.
See, you're just doing projecting here because you very clearly see First Nations people as second class citizens whose rights are superseded by your own. Nobody is misinterpreting anything you said here.
You seem to believe that this is a zero sum game and we must lose so you can win. I will not be able to understand that position. It will only lead to worse outcomes.
More projecting, because nowhere did I say anything of the sort. You're just putting words in my mouth because you're unable to engage honestly with what's being said to you.
This is not going anywhere. I've made it clear that I don't think of anyone as second class, I never diminished FN claims, and I think I was abundantly clear about what I was asserting, so any implying that you see is entirely of your own making.
You don't trust me and you are obviously not willing to understand me. There's nothing here to discuss. I gave my honest and forthright concerns and you see it as an attack.
I've got enough stresses in my life. I don't need to create more online. Best of luck to you.
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Ukraine condemns Olympic diver Lyskun’s switch to Russia
Ukraine condemns Olympic diver Lyskun’s switch to Russia
Ukraine has condemned two-time Olympic diver Sofiia Lyskun’s switch to represent Russia amid the ongoing war and will try to strip her of awards.The Associated Press (CTVNews)
The federation said it will seek to strip Lyskun of all awards she won and will appeal to international sports institutions to apply competition restrictions on her.
Totally normal behavior form that federation/association
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Russian Forces Take Control of Rovnoye in DPR, Kucherovka in Kharkov
Russian Forces Take Control of Rovnoye in DPR, Kucherovka in Kharkov
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Tsentr battlegroup has taken control of the settlement of Rovnoye, is eliminating Ukrainian troops in Dmitrov and are clearing Grishino in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.Sputnik International
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- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
The suspensions have more to do with political polarisation than genuine security concerns related to the invasion.Volodymyr Ishchenko (Al Jazeera)
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So man poor arguments
take the NY Times artile from 2024
The top court of the United Nations ruled on Friday that it would take up the question of whether Ukraine committed genocide in its Donetsk and Luhansk regions, an accusation at the heart of Russia’s argument for its 2022 full-scale invasion.
No convictions, just accusations from Russia
So many garbage articles and load of factual worpress sites lmfao
Putin is a fascist fuck and is closer to nazism than even the Ukranians holding literal swastika flags. if you see interviews with the ukranian 'nazi' then you would realize they are not brutal murders but want what's best for their country. Its about the national socalism, what got hitler in power in the first place before he became a meth addicted warmonger.
And Russians weren't much better than actual nazi's during WWII.
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How about real evidence like so...
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
I am too lazy to point the arrow to the correct place, but you get the point
There is videos of Russians in ukrainian drab, Russia was supposed to take Prok 2 years ago and in the past month they claimed to have fully encircled and taken prok, which is still not entirely true.
Russia is a fucking joke of a country and Putin should be hung by his testicles
Ok, what about these??
Is this better or worse than holding a flag/having an ideology??
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
BUT WHATABOUT THE SHELLING OF BERLIN.
Don't start a war if you don't want a war
holding a flag/having an ideology
You have fully transformed into a cryptofascist who complains about being disliked for "just a difference of opinion" (the opinion is that non-whites aren't human and must be enslaved or exterminated)
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the fuck are you talking about, Russia started the war in 2014 when they invaded Crimea.
Ive seen lots of interviews with these so called nazi and not a single one was about killing non arian people lmao
Go suck Putin again
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Wrong, Ukraine began ethnic cleansing of their russian-speaking minority in 2014 after the US coup
Ive seen lots of interviews with these so called nazi and not a single one was about killing non arian people lmao
"Well this Hitler guy was just talking about making Germany great again, not killing people, you're just making things up"
So-called nazis bruh they're doing the salute and waving the swastika, at this point you just don't want to believe your own eyes because it would mean you're wrong, and somehow being wrong is more uncomfortable for you than being a nazi.
You're not that much of a dipshit, nobody is. Purging anyone outside the "master race" is the nazi's whole thing. You just want to plug your ears and shut your eyes and keep cheering for the goose steppers for some suspicious-ass reason
go suck putin again
You fascists sure do love turning everything into weird homophobia, huh? Fuck outta here, loser. Your favorite seig heilers are losing the war, and no amount of desperate spin can change that.
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Wrong, Ukraine began ethnic cleansing of their russian-speaking minority in 2024 after the US coup
You mean 2014.
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Putin is the fascist here, look up the definition dumbass
Putin has invaded Georgia, Transnistria, threatens lithuiana and estonia and several other countries.
Russia can get fucked
Sincerly, A Canadian
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Hmm actually I think these are the fascists
Sincerely, a Canadian
A) Take that shit back to reddit
B) Your parliament gave a standing ovation to a member of the Waffen SS for his actions during the second world war
And which country Signed a deal to not invade so long as their neighbour gets rid of the nukes but does so anyways and then proceeds to attack a bunch of neighbouring countries...
Go spred your bullshit propaganda elsewhere
Putin is the fascist.
Ukraine at least follows geneva conventions regarding POWs (not killing surrendered soldiers, fair treatment, no torture, etc) unlike Russia which attacks civilians (apartments, hospitals, schools, grocery stores, etc), killing their own for not going on suicide missions, Russian commanders stealing money from the ones sent on suicide missions.
You can spout Russian talking points that have 0 evidence, but there is lots of evidence showing Ukraine is on the right sode of history.
Slava Ukraine, Crimea is Ukraine
the irony of you braying about everybody who disagrees with you being a fascist and then finishing with a literal fascist slogan is just 🤌
mronline.org/2022/11/07/the-hi…
The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I: The Origins of the OUN 1917-1941 - MR Online
Once believed to be an anachronistic Cold War relic, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) has emerged as the most successful post-war fascist group.Editor (MR Online)
How is attacking hospitals and schools not nazism?? Putin is a greatan for having his military kill children and the sick....
nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/e…
hrw.org/report/2023/11/09/tank…
abc.net.au/news/2022-04-06/20-…
globalnews.ca/news/9925644/rus…
aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/…
bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y45md…
hrw.org/news/2024/07/11/russia…
press.un.org/en/2024/sc15761.d…
reuters.com/world/europe/russi…
Russian Drones Hit Sumy Maternity Hospital After Ukraine Strikes Energy Facilities Inside Russia
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
How is war not nazism??
Damn maybe you are that much of a dipshit, never say never
So what you're saying is that every single participant in WW2 was nazis? Oops, all nazis? Come on lmao
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That is not what I said.
Attacking civilians is an act of terrorism, not war.
I have no clue what the fuck you're on about, stop trying to make stupid arguments by putting words in my mouth.
I am pointing out the acts of Putin are fascism.
Fascism and Hitlers Nazism are one in the same. Military dictatorships that use fear and propaganda to control the population along with military expansionism.
Youre a terrible propagandist
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this is about the russian forces capturing rovnoye, not the ukrainians
Japan Pleads for US Backing as It Ramps Up Militaristic Urge Against China
Japan Pleads for US Backing as It Ramps Up Militaristic Urge Against China
Japanese officials believe the US hasn’t shown enough support after PM Sanae Takaichi declared a Chinese “attack” on Taiwan would trigger Japan’s military involvement, the FT reports.Sputnik International
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in reply to weissbraeu • • •This is a good read and makes a lot of great points. I think everyone in tech needs to understand the arguments here. The biggest thing for me is that LLMs are incredibly useful tools, but not in the way they are advertised. They are great for learning how existing code works, but shit at writing anything novel or innovative. From the article:
In my opinion, if you're using LLMs to do anything but help you learn from the past, you're doing it wrong. LLMs cannot move you forward, and I think that may be the point.
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in reply to 6️⃣9️⃣4️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ • • •I've always said LLMs are fantastic rubber ducks. But taking said rubber duck and telling it to build something end to end or hitting tab without verifying anything is going to lead you to a world of hurt. the person doing it won't know the world of hurt is coming because they simply don't know any better. the company won't know the world of hurt is being built around them because like the vibe coder they dont' know any better.
then suddenly it's finished, pushed to production, and there's your world of hurt.
but hey I get paid to fix said world for them so keep on trucking I guess. at this rate I'll be retiring by the end of the next year.
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