You know that you can just get a visa, go there, and talk to people there, right? Or watch many of the interviews from reporters (western or otherwise) who went there already. It's not like NK where you can only visit certain pre-approved areas with a "tour guide" either, in Cuba you can go whenever you want (within reason) and talk to whomever you want.
Chat, is this real?...
Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy
Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations
Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house
Commits uncountable war crimes
Still loses in just 3 weeks
It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can't even do imperialist forever wars now.
The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there's nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of ~~humiliation~~ hallucination for the USA
TBH I'm very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I'm just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn't let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I'm reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.
I don't think the pen input sensitivity/features on it is suitable for pro-level artists, but I might be wrong.
I mean, it is some carbrain propaganda that aligned with the government-approved destruction of walkable cities and public transit. Soo it is kind to a hymn to enshittification in its own way.
I have multiple contributions to FOSS projects (incl. small patches to bash and linux), and I'm a commit-access maintainer of Nixpkgs. While I do use a local LLM occasionally for boilerplate stuff, the attitude here makes me immediately distrustful of the Lutris maintainers. Going out of your way to disable the Claude Co-Authored-By on commits is counterproductive and dangerous to the project in the long run. LLMs can often confidently spit out good-looking code with subtle but critical flaws. Commits with non-trivial amounts of LLM output need way more scrutiny than human-written commits, and making it more difficult to tell the two apart is fucked up.
I also dislike Iran's political system, but overall the US has killed, maimed, tortured and ruined the lives of many more people then Iran's government ever could. US is currently the most evil country on this planet, and has been in the running ever since its founding.
But even then, let's suppose for a second that somehow Iran's government is more evil. So what? Bombing Tehran city center, destroying mosques and museums, causing an immense ecological disaster by blowing up oil reservoirs, and double-tapping an all-girls school with tomahawks will not help the people of Iran in any way. It made their lives measurably, verifiably worse for generations.
US has been doing the exact same shit to leftists ever since the founding of USSR, this is not new. Sadly the tea party people have nothing to worry about.
$3.68/gal is just under $1/L, or 0.85€ / L. Still insanely cheap.
Yeah sure, this movie with 1.3 rating and 5 (out of 100) metascore, with only 50k ratings, is the #1 movie this week. The algorithm is really transparent and trustworthy, clearly there's no manipulation going on.
(for those who don't know, IMDb is owned and operated by Amazon)
This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.
China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it's not even closely comparable to the other two.
US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you're (a small) part of the problem.