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I actually went back to because of the Ukraine war. So I could ban all the apologists for the Empire from /r/BreadTube. It's pretty empty now, TBH. LOL.

to avoid endangering U.S. troops

LOL fuck you.

Not sure why they'd even bother appearing to give him a "trial" at this point, TBH.

What a coincidence. A near-identical parrot was an executive at the place I used to work. Five years ago, he wouldn't stop uttering "how can we put AI in that?" Love it when the boss tells you to use a "solution" which has no associated problems. Marks a great outlook for all of our futures.

Some people say its "safe" and then others dispute that.

It's not safe. It just makes it easier to write safe code. Important difference. Just like when people claim you "can't have a memory leak in a garbage-collected language", they are also full of shit; all you have to do is keep a reference to something you never plan to use again, and you have as bad of a memory leak as in any environment where you can forget to call free/delete.

I'm also using "easier" here with mild sarcasm. Sometimes it's difficult to get the constructs right in Rust so that shit will compile. Once you do, it's less likely you'll do stuff like leak memory than if you get a program in another language to compile. So "easier" is really more like shorthand for "somewhat harder, most of the time, to let your brain worms escape to the runtime stage" (i.e. production).

It was simply a case of community self-defense. Nothing to regret.

Every day the same doesn't happen to Rittenhouse is a failure to protect against his own next hate crime. Of course, for legal reasons that failure must continue, because killing fascists is illegal under fascism unless you are their boss. Don't do illegal stuff, y'hear?

Interesting. Not sure why, but for some reason I can't even imagine a bank admitting to making such a move due to being pressured, rather than making up some kind of legalistic excuse for it.

Someone suggests electing an "AI" to political office without a hint of irony, and outright mocking derision constitutes less than half of the responses.

The cost of housing may turn you into a liar. There could easily be three other people dying next to you!

I wonder if this is measured in dollars or some kind of other units. Yes: either way it fucking sucks. But I just have a particular sardonic loathing for the usual measurement by dollars spent. Like, are people actually spending more hours in a room with a doctor, and/or popping more pills (etc.), or are we just paying astronomically more money for the same amount (and it not being captured in "inflation" because inflation is a metric defined for political convenience)?

This podcast seems to have pretty good analysis. In this episode from last week they talk about the EU, Ukraine, and Venezuela. An interesting take is that the current dynamics aren't really all that similar to the fall of the Roman Empire, but to the fall of the Roman Republic and advent of explicit, unapologetic imperialism.

Colonial Outcasts: The EU Is A US Colony: How the Ukraine War Lets the U.S. Plunder Europe & Block BRICS