Capitial and power mostly.

Yay! I am all here for it.

US is currently to busy shooting themselves in the foot to bother to much with Latin America right now. Something about an impeding oil crisis

It’s not like his government is actually doing anything.

What have they done so far? Lay down their arms and encourage Hezbollah to do the same?

We know exactly what would happen if they were to do that. Israel would just roll over them and steal whatever they want from Lebanon with impunity the way they’re trying to do now.

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US-backed President Aoun

We shouldn’t believe a fucking word out of his lying mouth.

Oh I don’t think like that. As I said if things continue the way they are the US is going to collapse. Thats a good thing from an anti-imperalist perspective. Blue or Red administration it does not matter; they don’t care and continue to keep things as they are or make things worse through clampdowns.

I want the masses to riot because that will be the beginning of the fall of the US government but until that happens the US government will act with impunity and that fucking sucks.

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The middle east is a shit show of the US’ making but it’s too early to tell if the roosters are really coming to roost or if the Epstein Class will wiggle their way out of it somehow.

Does he? At this point, unless the people begin to fucking riot, nothing is gonna change In the next few years. US is going to continue going down the shitty path it’s currently on.

Suppose that’s pretty good for the rest of the world though.

Don’t be not west in a world of western dominance.

500,000. Thats is a quarter or more of the population in gaza that was exterminated.

The IOF doesn’t need humanization but forced into reparations and the mercy of those they have slaughtered.

Its also not misinformation to dehumanize people. Your using the word wrong. Its propagandic which I think is closer. But its certainly not a wrong sentiment to have.

Nonviolence one works when the enemy has a conscious and I don’t see any ounce of consciousness from anyone who is responsible for the Genocide. 🤦

Death to the IDF.

You don’t get to commit a genocide and then whine when people call for death against the force that perpetrated that genocide.

Gamification of the system. I love it

This is missing the bigger picture, which is that a ton of companies rely on VPN services to work. So if they block VPN services to the entirety of the public in Michigan, they’re basically going to delete their entire IT sector and tech sector overnight.

This is a really interesting read, but this dude missed a major component of best practices, which is that your architecture needs to be able to respond to a proper disaster, which includes Amazon just dropping out of the sky and nuking your entire account.

Frankly, it’s shocking that he didn’t have local copies or a home server that he kept backups too. I’ve seen some people mention that a multi-cloud architecture is hard to set up, which is true, it’s also expensive, but I don’t think it would be super hard to set up, like, a blob storage in Azure, or a Google Cloud Storage, to just keep backups of whatever you’re working on. We should always keep in mind that our accounts getting locked is always a possibility.

It’s kinda weird, normally when you hear about things like this, it’s the other way around where somebody was running a major production component on personal infrastructure and couldn’t handle the bare metal.

Eh I thought it looked ok

That’s like half their GDP, are we sure this is accurate?

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Over 11 years, it’s about $100 billion, per year or about 5% of their GDP.

Do it do it do it do it

“It’s deeply troubling that Kaiser would stray from this principle, and NUHW stands ready to help Kaiser in any way push back on the pressure that led to this decision and end the “pause” on gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 right away.”

Insurance companies continue to suck

Yeah but those services tend to care a lot less then the payment processors but the I do see your point.

For instance, it’s not as easy as you think to get a website pulled down, or to get a domain name restricted, mostly because they’re not paid for on a monthly basis, they’re paid for on a yearly basis, and sometimes they even have contracts for multi years.

Different clouds support different things, that’s why sites like Parlour still exist despite the massive amount of animosity the administrators of that site face.

Getting a hold of a global register to get them to do something about a domain name on their register, while possible, is not nearly as easy as getting hold of the payment processor.

It seems to me that if payment processing was made to be less effective by this tactic, they would have to choose less effective tactics that sites could choose to ignore. You’re right that they don’t own the hardware, but for big companies like Valve, it would be a pretty trivial setup for them especially with companies out there like open cloud.

Hockman’s parents financed its acquisition, but in every sense Hannah led the charge in the theater’s redevelopment.

Im not trying to diminish her accomplishments, but this does feel like it cheapens things quite a bit.

Personally, I think these sites should do a thing with cryptocurrency so that you buy crypto with your card and then use that to buy the games. So that way the payment processor can’t get mad at you.