PhilipTheBucket

Good news only slightly undermined by the fact that Atlassian is not an American company or close to it

Yeah, but now they're on his radar. When he thinks of "Africa" now he has this frame of reference of these specific countries and leaders, and probably not much else that's specific.

I don't really know if these people had the option of gracefully just refusing to do the visit or participate in any way, but if there was any smooth way to do that, I think it would have been better. Both for their own personal dignity and the dignity of their people, and for their long term future.

Columbia University tried to appease Trump by punishing their protestors severely, and all it did was put them into the news cycle associated with "protestors" and get them punished even more harshly by Trump. Zelensky was invited to play this humiliation game, and pushed back instead, and Trump and Vance got very mad and made some shows of humiliating him, but nothing really happened. Because Trump's a punk, he's still pushing to send aid to Ukraine.

He's not some kind of Tito / Stalin figure where crossing him means your days are numbered. He's just an old man who's confused and mean, and generally gets distracted before he does much of anything. Just staying out of his field of awareness is better, if you can manage it, is my read of the situation.

I don't really think so. With some leaders, playing along with the theater might be humiliating but they might at least secure a better future for their people. With Trump, the prize they get for their humiliation is nothing. He's not organized enough to even follow through on whatever good things are supposedly due to them for their obeisance.

Yay 😃

Someone post it

Needs more kings riding unicorns

My God man

Usually the tankie nonsense doesn’t really bother me. This one got me. Idk, maybe the boycott of .ml is the right idea. This is basically the same as not wanting to have anything to do with the openly nazi instances.

My experience from !communities@ponder.cat:

• MAU divided by total subscribed users, I found to be quite a good metric. It prioritizes new communities (maybe a little bit too much at the expense of more established communities, for your purposes) and requires them to have recent activity. The only flaw is that one post that blows up in an otherwise quiet community can spike that metric way way up for the whole month, but maybe that’s fine.
• I think crawling every node once a week or something, making a small handful of queries to get all the community counts, is probably more than fine.
• Yeah that stddev sounds too high, maybe look at a plot and check the math

Tito smoking Cuban cigars in the White House while sitting down with Nixon is also hilarious.

Nixon told him, “Mr. President, we don’t smoke in the White House.”

Tito laughed and said, “Lucky you!” and finished his cigar and no one attempted again to make him stop.

Türkiye

Yeah I think any time you hear someone in the “geopolitics” part of the government talk about antisemitism you can safely assume it’s that second thing.

Christie attempted to assassinate Spanish fascist Francisco Franco, serving three years in prison before being released

That seems like a surprisingly short incarceration.