cygnus

cygnus , 1 day ago

Targeting state media because you're at war with that country is bonkers. Imagine the outcry if Ukraine were assassinating TASS reporters on sight.

cygnus , 1 day ago

How close to the port is that beach?

cygnus , 1 day ago

Wuh-wuh-wuhddabout... Get a new tactic. That one is completely worn out at this point.

For our other readers, those missiles were intended for the military facilities nearby and were shot down by Russian AA and debris fell on the beach (hence the lack of explosions)

cygnus , 1 day ago

And using cluster munitions is banned.

TFW you don't know how treaties work

cygnus , 1 day ago

You're the only one here talking about Israel and Palestine. The rest of us are talking about Russia and Ukraine. Neither of those two (nor the US) signed the convention on cluster munitions.

cygnus , 1 day ago

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cygnus , 1 day ago

When F-16?

cygnus , 3 days ago

I hope they learn good lessons from this. The main strength of the US military is its logistics, and being unable to deploy a simple pier is concerning.

cygnus , 3 days ago

Can't wait for an AI toaster that asks me to prompt it on toastiness levels

cygnus , 3 days ago

Ah, this helps explain the Biden + Milei meeting. I can't imagine Captain Libertarian siding with China.

cygnus , 3 days ago

In some applications sure, but Lithium batteries are denser. Lipo in particular has no substitute yet.

cygnus , 5 days ago

a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti

This is very odd, but also very intriguing. The President met with Biden a month ago, so this tracks. I kinda hope this happens just to see how it plays out.

Edit: this will also be a great test of who reads past the headline. There are going to be a lot of knee-jerk "Murica Bad" comments.

cygnus , 5 days ago

Ha, sorry about that — the President of Kenya, actually. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/23/fact-sheet-kenya-state-visit-to-the-united-states/

cygnus , 5 days ago

Americans don’t seem to understand that every time they swoop in to ‘save’ Haiti, what they are really doing is enforcing the same colonial ideals that landed Haiti in the mess to start with.

You might find the article reassures you on this point if you decide to read it!

The truth is that the United States outsourced the Haiti mission to Kenya. U.S. President Joe Biden has admitted as much: “We concluded that for the United States to deploy forces in the hemisphere just raises all kinds of questions that can be easily misrepresented about what we’re trying to do,” Biden said in May during a news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto, adding, “So, we set out to find a partner or partners who would lead the effort that we would participate in.”

cygnus , 5 days ago

What would convince you?

cygnus , 4 days ago

Kenya as far as I know has no experience in operations of this type — do you think it's reasonable to expect them to do this alone? It makes sense that the US are helping to get this up and running. I expect a fuller handoff when whatever they're doing is in place.

cygnus , 4 days ago

I would prefer to see a non-military solution.

Me too, but that would only really work if Haiti had a functional government to maintain order. Unfortunately that ship has sailed.

cygnus , 3 days ago

A real solution for Haiti needs to come from and be supported by the people.

Of course, but it's impossible for them to do that when the country is under the thumb of warlords. Having a successful former colonial state helping stabilize things makes a lot of sense. Kenya has been there and done that.

cygnus , 6 days ago

The September Revolution

cygnus , 6 days ago

I was wondering how they "punctured" this military vessel, then I watched the video... They're fighting it out on freaking zodiacs.

cygnus , 6 days ago

Have you seen videos of the skirmishes at the Kashmiri border? It's absurd, like something out of a bad alternate history movie.

cygnus , 5 days ago

Also conveniently forgetting thousands of years of Chinese imperialism and Han chauvinism.

cygnus , 6 days ago

They're merely retvrning to tradition, although the ancient Romans weren't nearly as racist.

cygnus , 6 days ago

Ironic username!

They didn’t judge you on skin color [...] but they were still [...] racist as fuck.

I don't understand which definition of "racist" you're using here, but OK. Romans didn't care what colour you were, as long as you were educated and spoke good Latin. They even had two Maghrebin emperors.

cygnus , 6 days ago

I don’t care what I sound like, they’re also one of the few leaders/nations who successfully defended against American capitalist aggression attempting to destabilize their government to open up its resources/people to our owner’s merciless exploitation in their insatiable need for infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world, and remove as many potential global examples of alternative economic systems as possible, a feat many South American nations that dared to attempt a better future for their people failed to accomplish defending against.

And yet somehow I doubt you live there. Nor do the thousands of people who risk their life to escape every year.

cygnus , 6 days ago

Yeah, the US are awful too, but it doesn't logically follow that Cuba is great just because they're an "adversary". This isn't a comic book — it's possible for both sides to be bad.

cygnus , 6 days ago

Don't gaslight me. They replied in agreement to a comment saying "at least Fidel cared about his people" and then went on to praise Cuba some more.

cygnus , 6 days ago

Nah they're a Jimmy Dore fan, i.e. an "anti-imperialist" who simps for the two most egregious imperialist countries today (China and Russia)

cygnus , 7 days ago

the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

Jefferson must be rolling in his grave so fast that he could power the whole east coast. Bunch of uneducated goons.

cygnus , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

China's approach to international relations is truly remarkable. It's like they're deliberately trying to alienate every other country. Do they have a single non-vassal ally?

cygnus , 7 days ago

BRICS is a fabrication of Goldman Sachs and is little more than a punchline. What kind of "alliance" has its two biggest members actively involved in a border conflict? Also, has a single one of them stepped in to "help" Russia invade Ukraine?

cygnus , 8 days ago

Given the long history of kathoey, I'm kinda surprised they weren't among the first in the world to adopt it. Good news nonetheless.

cygnus , 8 days ago

The article doesn't clearly explain it, but that means this guy's dying wish was to have his remains put inside a jug of wine? He must have been quite the character in life.

cygnus , 8 days ago

But this dude was cremated like a good Roman.

Yeah but then asked for his ashes to be decanted into an amphora?

cygnus , 8 days ago

Fun fact: the Romans used lead for water pipes too. They knew it had detrimental health effects, but the water caused a mineral buildup in the pipes that protected the water from lead contamination.

cygnus , 11 days ago

I didn’t know Cuba was actively supporting Russia.

Cuba has been staunchly aligned with Russia for like 70 years. That was the major reason for the US embargo in the first place.

cygnus , 12 days ago

Somebody whose job or context prevents them from saying what they really think (something along the lines of "that person is a fucking moron")

cygnus , 12 days ago

Yup. From a legal standpoint this was the right decision. Too bad the SC isn't always so punctilious in its rulings.

cygnus , 12 days ago

“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

But to what end in this case? Impede their pharma industry? It doesn't even make sense. It's so childish and spiteful.

cygnus , 12 days ago

someone with a fucking conscience in the command chain should have stopped this.

Based on the article it sounds like many on the US side did strongly oppose this, which is slightly reassuring. I'm going to tell myself the goons that went ahead with this were MAGA.

cygnus , 14 days ago

One notable example cited in the lawsuit is a mural commissioned by General Mills in 2005 at the Covington plant. Designed by a member of the “Good Ole Boys,” the mural depicted characters from General Mills cereals in the likeness of Confederate figures, such as Sonny the Cuckoo Bird as Jefferson Davis, Chef Wendell as Robert E. Lee, and Buzz the Bee as Stonewall Jackson. The mural was only removed in 2021.

I just can't... Is this satire?

cygnus , 15 days ago

The funniest part of this story is learning that American hospitals have gift cards. What a joke of a healthcare system.

cygnus , 16 days ago

Wow, another map where the old GDR borders are easily visible. This time they are voting for Nazis. Horseshoe theory proved correct yet again?

cygnus , 16 days ago

as is assuming GDR was a “far left”

Communism isn't far left? TIL

cygnus , 20 days ago

That's a relief! Hopefully the far-right wave has bottomed out by the next election.

cygnus , 20 days ago

Great link, thanks for that. We should also note that those are only combatants and don't include the far larger number of civilians who dies because of these conflicts (Holocaust, Siege of Stalingrad, etc.)

I agree that the last 50 years, in terms of "war deaths per capita", must be the most peaceful in all of recorded history, and probably by a huge margin.

cygnus , 20 days ago

HR doesn't work for you and is never on your side. They exist to cover your employer's ass.

cygnus , 20 days ago

For example you can't adjust spacing between paragraphs at all. I think that's because it's unsupported in the SVG spec rather than an Inkscape issue, but still. Adding printer's marks is also a total shitshow.

I will say however that Inkscape vs. Illustrator is the closest matchup of the three Adobe design apps. I like Inkscape and use it whenever I can to avoid firing up my Windows VM.