sqgl

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[–] sqgl 1 points 7 hours ago

Unfortunately it is hard to prove things like CFS (regardless of vaccines). If we believe all claims then some will rort the system. I have no opinion on how to deal with it.

[–] sqgl 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Is it misleading?

r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then.

The thread I stole comments from was answering a person asking someone like "how can the US order Taiwan to do anything?". I hate to promote Reddit but credit where it is due...

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gnowuf/comment/lwd8fy0

 

US ordered TSMC, not Taiwan the country. The vast majority of sales are made to US based firms so they likely have a lot of sway.

US is the major customer of TSMC, so they can order them, not to mention we protect them with defense pacts, so they might want to actually listen. Pretty sure they make some of our military grade chips as well.

Cutting edge chips are used in cutting edge military hardware. TSMC provides a lot of the chips used in advanced American weapons. Turns out a faster chip in a missile makes the missile better able to make sophisticated split second decisions.

US can order most of its allies to do anything. Remember when the US thought Edward Snowden was on the Bolivian presidential airplane and within the span of like, half a hour, managed to get all of western europe to deny airspace to Bolivia, ground the literal presidential plane and search him like a dirty drug mule? Was pretty awkward after that when Snowden wasn't even there.

[Cobbled from Reddit thread]

[–] sqgl 2 points 3 weeks ago

A close friend in a long term relationship told me his partner wanted kids but he wasn't sure he would make a good father. My advice was along the lines of Douglas Adams.

Both kids are now in their 20's and doing fine.

[–] sqgl 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks. Despite my scepticism I have sought out such communities and had not heard of those two.

There is also Mondragon in Spain..

I know of only one community in my country of Australia: Tuntable Falls. I can only find pages related to the school or real estate. It is 20 minutes drive from Nimbin which in turn is 40 minutes from Byron Bay, NSW.

I suppose there is Kibbutzim in Israel.

[–] sqgl 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

The only place I have seen that work was the Internet in the 90's. Nowhere in the real world.

Humanity just isn't spiritually evolved for anarchy. It may never be.

[–] sqgl 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or just use Safari. I use a browser for FB for years on my Android phone. Only problem is that when I try to chat it tries to install messenger unless I am in desktop mode.

On a Windows laptop it is easy to use with a browser, even chatting.

[–] sqgl 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Gives me hope. Would you also say the males are less constrained by the macho culture of older generations? More capable of talking about emotions?

And women less constrained by their own old stereotypes?

I find it hard to be sure because both stereotypes are still alive and popular. The gender benders have been around for decades but perhaps not as flamboyant now so they merely seems more mainstream now.

[–] sqgl 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

younger people today are skilled in ways could have only dreamed of.

Any examples?

[–] sqgl 1 points 1 month ago
[–] sqgl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point is there was no global outcry. You hadn't heard about it had you?

It is only when Israel responds to an entire year of daily missile attacks by Hezbollah that attention is paid.

UNIFIL was warned by Israel to get out of the way before they entered to stop the attacks by Hezbollah which UNIFIL couldn't/wouldn't.

[–] sqgl 3 points 1 month ago

The price of living has gone up in all developed economies it seems since the pandemic. Price gouging by corporations despite record profits.

I don't understand how it is synchronized globally. Seems unlikely they agree at Davos under a full moon and then laugh maniacally but I am at a loss for a plausible explanation.

[–] sqgl 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Israel warned UNIFIL well in advance to get out of the way. Why are they still there?

Until now...

it has failed to investigate a single one of the more than 3,000 Hezbollah arms depots and other military sites targeted by Israel since October—including bombed-out bases run by Hezbollah’s supposed environmental group “Green Without Borders.”

Bear in mind that Hezbollah's been firing missiles into Israel daily since 8 October 2023. So much for UNIFIL "peacekeeping".

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/pros-and-cons-salvaging-or-ditching-unifil

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Julian Assange in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction - and their chilling effect on human rights - on 1 October 2024 ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In his first public remarks since his release from detention at Belmarsh Prison in the UK, Mr Assange told parliamentarians: "I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was."

 

Hamas is literally an internationally recognized terrorist organization, proscribed by many countries including the UK and the Arab League.

CBC also refuses to call Hamas terrorists despite their government labeling them as such.

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Alt text: cartoon frame #1 shows disembodied arm reaching out to pluck a speaker's speech bubble.

Frame #2 shows speaker looking puzzled wondering where his speech bubble has gone.

Frame #3 the arm reappears having reshaped it into a regular inflatable balloon and offers it back to the speaker.

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[alt-text: Still from the Monty Python dead parrot sketch with Musk's face replacing that of John Cleese returning a blue twitter logo with an X for a dead eye. Pet store owner, Michael Palin, says "it was alive when you bought it"]

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