“Not sure why downvoted”
Many find “me” unacceptable/offensive.
Downvoting me is fine: it makes them happy, & I don’t value such “social-validation” delusion.
They’re making the world be more the way they want!
Isn’t that worth something?
Integrity’s worth more to me than “friends”, so human-“reality” & I are on divergant-paths…
My continuum/soul won’t be getting caught in this-world again, if I succeed.
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Zelenskiy’s Jewish, & was pro-Israel, & was getting lots of donated military means from Israel, too…
Ukraine had a big problem with Israel getting stolen-from-Ukraine grain, by the shipful.
Things aren’t as simplistic as many say they are.
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That question I’m incompetent to answer.
Sorry, I wish I could help you.
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This is why visual-spacial Issue-Diagrams need to become THE standard for debate:
Emotional-political-force’s winning, though video/bullying/etc can’t produce better-quality results.
It’s a systems-question, not “lack of political-will”.
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You get it:
MSM has to maintain the illusion for the majority of their subjects,
so they have to balance between pushing-as-hard-as-they-can to manage their population’s “knowing”…
but they have simultaneously to keep owning their subjects, & that obliges them to hold-back enough to retain credibility…
Not an enjoyable tightrope to walk.
I prefer the more-cutthroat culture of journalism/science, where disagreement is normal.
That isn’t going to be preferred by humankind in-general in my lifetime…
So, instead of survival-of-the-fittest ( the disagreement-is-normal cultures ), we’ve got survival-of-the-momentarily-dominant-consensus, with no roots-to-objectivity … & then … viability is only … political-moment, or social-moment: it isn’t robust, or strongly-rooted.
< shrug >
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You do realize that your non-standard alphabet/character-set fucks-over people who’re trying to participate in such discussions through screen-readers, because they can’t see, right?
That may be an unintentional-effect, but it is an effect of such difference.
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The presumption may be right, but it’s also entirely-possible that people have finally figured-out that unless you open-up, & communicate what-we’re-doing, and our-process ( ANY organization ), THEN conspiracism takes-root & fills-the-gap.
& there’s also the problem of idiotic-framing: “it doesn’t affect me” … when said about the fascists coming for others … until there was nobody left to protest when they came for me…
we’ve all seen that line…
the same is true of imperialist-psychopaths.
“they aren’t coming for me, therefore I don’t care” is the same head-in-sand ignoring/denial, just in greater scope.
It is aggressors who decide how much defensive-capability is required, not making-believing.
The fact that we won’t provide all girls in school with aikijutsu or jujutsu or something, makes force-reducing the rape-rate not happen.
As someone pointed out a couple weeks ago: the ONLY charges for the Epstein Files … are charges for illegally sharing secrets, NOT for child-rape…
So, enforcement is pretend, for that category-of-crime.
Then “arming” girls becomes the only way that rape’s going to be mitigated, right?
The same is true at country-scale.
We falsely told Ukraine we’d protect them, if they just give-up their nukes…
so they did…
& then Russia invaded, & we … mostly sat on our hands, until Zelenskiy’s “I don’t need a ride: I need ammunition!” speech.
We could have solidly-backed them while Russia was building-up for their invasion…
but head-in-sand prevailed, & some of us remember what Russia did to Mariupol, from what we saw in the images… shortly thereafter.
So long as aggressors are a real threat, then fighting-capability is required.
Not having that capability means … sooner or later … becoming their carrion.
As Canada is going to be finding-out when Trump’s soon-to-be-dictatorship annexes Canada & Greenland, & sets about enforcing his “Greater North America” ( modeled on Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” … including much/all of Lebanon, same with Syria, etc… ) “Manifest Destiny” imperialism…
Trump NEEDS Greenland to force-butcher Canada more efficiently.
WE need to be armed-to-the-teeth.
The time of rule-of-law’s nearly done: the time of rule-of-bullets is going to begin, soon.
The world’s times change.
& ruthless objectivity increases one’s likelihood of surviving the coming mess.
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Some of this I got from a book by a guy who knew … 29 or something? … languages & worked for the CIA.
Other stuff ( songs ) from science news, & my discovering that language-destroyed-by-stroke people could sometimes still communicate through picking a song which had the idea they were trying to communicate…
I have a bad time learning anything through hearing, though, so … language-learning seems itself to be kinda broken ( I learned English before anything, & it was my 2nd wave of braindamage which took much learning from my life, not the autism 1st-wave ).
These are the best tools I know-of.
I wish I could learn languages.
I wish everybody learned other-languages, to understand just how diverse humankind’s meanings can be…
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For gaming, Ubuntu’s got the strongest support.
Why do I know that?
Because I tried running Steam on … perhaps openSUSE or Void, & was told by Steam that they only support Ubuntu.
Since then I’ve read that they support others, but it was only a few years ago where they told me they only backed that one.
Linux Torvalds has spoken on how you simply can’t make an app that will work on all distros: it isn’t possible.
Gentoo would except for that kind of compatibility probably be your highest-performance OS, since you can intentionally include ALL of the CPU-optimizations which test to work best for you.
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Then they are IDIOTS at understanding crypto.
Bitcoin is the ecologically-costliest/electricity-costliest/machine-costliest cryptocoin to standardize on: it’s nearly used-up.
They’d have been much saner to have standardized on some other crypto.
I’d prefer that Algorand-type ones were standard, but they can be attacked by country-level attackers.
For anybody who wants outside-the-hype-bubble view of what crypto is, & how its ecology works, PLEASE read https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-smart-contracts
The reason that Steampowered stopped taking crypto, is plain, in that book.
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( PS: I’d enforce that there be an Algorand-type crypto for recording accounting-records with, country-wide, so that books couldn’t be “cooked” between closout-of-the-books & reporting. & I’d want to make daily closeout normal, if possible. Cisco did that, years ago, so it is possible, but some will scream against such economic-integrity measures, of course… )
Residual surface-contamination.
Most people don’t understand how much rinsing is required to get residue all off things…
Dishwashers which have 2+ rinses seem to do a good job.
less than that doesn’t work.
People … seldom get anything as clean as a dishwasher can.
( NOT recommending that anybody put their 3-D printing bed’s sheet through a dishwasher: it might well destroy its surface-chemistry, given how strong dishwasher detergents are )
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The idiotic assumption that social-pressure is what “protects” against ideological-highjacking of one’s country.
Hiring private-investigators to get the evidence-of-crime, of those most-corrupt ( & the ideological-supremacists assume that law doesn’t apply to them, same as class-supremacists do ), & then hiring the criminal-circuit lawyers to prosecute them ( because the establishment WON’T prosecute its-own, herds/gangs always protect their-own-category against their "inferiors ), is the ONLY method which could have protected against the far-right’s world-is-theirs-to-rule time that is coming.
Trump’s, Netanyahu’s, & Millei’s countries voting AGAINST a UN anti-slavery resolution shows what’s coming.
Wait & see!
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Budget? Plywood: DIY.
Can’t beat plywood for budget…
XOR 2nd-hand stuff…
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This book clarifies how to solve project-equity-for-contributions sanely, in startups.
It, therefore, also helps with solving how to do equity in FLOSS/OSS projects.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/slicing pie handbook
Any project which may in the future be wanting to be paid full-time for some people, please understand that book.
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ANDDD…
Iranian drones blowing-up Ukraina didn’t make Ukraina designate Iran as a legitimate war-target??
Iran ought now be a legit Ukrainian target, if that’s Iran’s position.
Ukraina’s selling defensive drones, not assault ones, from what I’ve been seeing.
This is mere ideological-convenience/gaslighting, not accuracy-of-view.
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IF the distro’s .deb is recent-enough, THEN go with that.
IF it’s generations out-of-date, then you may have no choice but to go with the flatpack.
OS-integration ( with apt, for the .deb ) is to be preferred, generally.
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~ no plan survives 1st-contact with the enemy ~
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/05/04/no-plan/
This is a known fact, & among the competent, is in the basic-checklist for planning a war.
Plans based on delusion are not plans: they are delusions, themselves.
Sunzi/Sun Tzu would hold the “planners” in absolute contempt, in this farce.
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I’m suggesting something orthogonal: I’m suggesting specifically rTorrent hosting.
Apparently rTorrent provides the maximum GB served per unit of CPU used, & since seedbox hosting is on such pathetic virtual-machines, this can matter.
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The AI-rewrite should be considered a derivative, & therefore subject to the parent-license, I believe.
Except that AI doesn’t have any right to copyright, & therefore to licensing.
Which means that it’s just an illegal derivative made by a tool.
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Yes: I’m old, so emojis look fake to me…
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