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Dissipé, curieux, ultracrépidarianiste.
développeur (#python :python:), vegan :seedling: (éco/éthique), linuxien (ubuntu depuis 2005)
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futurebird , to random
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Trump's "Migrant Fight League"

Trump has repeated this story 3 times. The point: Migrants* are so dangerous and vicious they could beat everyone in the UFC. It is wildly dehumanizing.

(The word "Migrant" is used now instead of "illegals." "Migrant" describes the work people do, there are documented migrants. One step closer to it being openly about race and nothing else.)

I think his followers would have enjoyed it more, if he'd said the UFC fighters would win. They would have cheered.

"I told Dana White of UFC, I said here's what were going to do, you know these are tough cookies coming in to our country. Coming with prisons and mental institutions. I said to Dana White, UFC, he's got a big fight going on right now, he's a good friend of mine, you know what he said the other day? They said 'who's the toughest person you've ever met?' He said, 'Definitely Donald Trump.' He said 'Donald Trump.' How 'bout that? But, I said 'Dana, Dana, I have an idea for you to make a lot of money. You're going to go start a new migrant fight league. Migrant. Only Migrants. And then, at the end of the year, the champion migrant is going to fight your champion. And I hate to tell you, Dana, I think the migrant might win. That's how tough they are.'" Donald Trump in Philadelphia
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    • tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird the usual contradiction in fascism, the other is inferior, but still a mortal danger, always have to pick which on it is, for the line to work.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🚨 “'s far right is gaining momentum for the first time since World War II

    The political landscape in France is shifting, with a far right party continuing to gain momentum ahead of the country's snap parliamentary elections later this month.”

    https://www.npr.org/2024/06/22/nx-s1-5015244/frances-far-right-is-gaining-momentum-for-the-first-time-since-world-war-ii

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff it's been getting momentum for decades, and slowly, it's getting to a majority of expressed opinions.

    The nuance is important, many people don't vote, and in particular, people on the more radical left, tend to not vote, or refuse to vote to make a center-left candidate win, i don't know if them voting, would be enough to turn it around. The right has a large responsibility by blurring the lines over the years, ostensibly distancing themselves, but reusing their vocabulary.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I can get behind that.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    tshirtman ,
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    @lowqualityfacts make a "will vote for whoever eat the most pie" contest, with people pledging to also vote for the winner, and oh boy, will they come and shove down pie until they are the last one alive. 😆

    GottaLaff , to random
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    French President Macron urges moderate politicians to regroup to defeat far right in elections -AP

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff he’s not just doing that though, he’s also putting the "far left" (at least half of which is pretty much socdec) in the same bag as the far right, and hopes for a split vote on the left so his party is the only one facing the far right in the second step of the election, to gain back a real majority.

    But the left is actually working really hard to unite widely and make the most of the crazy situation macron created.

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    Promoting the German AfD party to 187,000,000 followers in the middle of a European parliament election.

    This man has zero sense of responsibility.

    But at least, now Germans can pick another car brand than Tesla, if they do not want to ride his extreme right AfD supporting car brand.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl he's just telling on himself, if he doesn't find their policy extreme, he's just one of them.

    colinpurrington , to random
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    Part of my morning ritual is to fix incorrect IDs on iNaturalist for the one species on the planet I'm really, really familiar with, Silene latifolia (my PhD focus). It gives me a quick buzz of competence that lasts several minutes, plus reminds me of good times in graduate school.

    tshirtman ,
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    @colinpurrington i often wonder how confident people who confirm (or affirm, if for some reason, non-expert me thinks it's not that) the automatic id are, it's nice that we have this feature to have a "best guess", but i fear it's creating a lot of unwarranted confidence.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    … and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

    Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird you are much wiser than me, i once got a hat pulled in by the wind created from a train, in paris, onto the track, i looked at the time for the next train, which was 3 minutes i think? went down the stairs at the end of the dock(?), walked to it, picked it up 😬 and made the way back. Terrible idea for sure, but another one of these i survived. 😅

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Omg.

    Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
    https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff damn, flying solo at 90! Sad, but certainly a fitting way to go for an extraordinary life.

    RIP.

    futurebird , to random
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    They don't have to nominate him.

    They have a choice. There could be emergency meetings scrambling, an effort to save face.

    This is a choice and it's a bad one except as a cynical and increasingly desperate play for power.

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird sunken costs fallacy, misplaced pride edition. They don't see replacing him as "saving face", on the contrary, it would be admitting being wrong, for so long, and in such a dramatic way.
    They also know it would garantee defeat, because it would lose them 30% of the base, at least, as he'd probably run as an independant and they'd vote for him.
    They don't want to confront their mistakes, they want to get away with it, whatever the cost to others.
    They have a shot at that with him.

    randahl , to random
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    The Danish national tv debate preparing Danish voters for the European Parliamentary election coming up this Sunday, is a shouting match between party leaders — who are not even EU Parliament candidates — accusing each other of wanting to bring more refugees into the EU.

    I sincerely hope other EU countries are presenting more inspiring debates to European voters.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl i have bad news from france 😬

    randahl , to random
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    Elon Musk officially turns his social medium X into a porn site.

    I still remember the day when Twitter was an essential tool for many professionals, but does anyone seriously think ANY politician, media person, or CEO will open X on the go and risk being seen viewing pornographic material in public?

    Man, this is a desperate move.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170352/x-xxx-porn-adult-content-terms-of-service-policy-update

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl i mean, there is a lot of easy to find porn around here too, most servers only ask to put it behind content warnings, and i'm sure some even don't ask for that. When i was using twitter, it was not very uncommon to stumble upon porn either.

    As long as it's produced by consenting adults, is not stolen material, and presented hidden behind CW, or limited to people who already accepted the possibility of viewing that, i don't see anything wrong with that.

    hannu_ikonen , to random
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    Friendly advice: if you like your brain, stay the fuck away from glyphosate.

    https://www.sokolovelaw.com/blog/foods-glyphosate-cancer/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/

    "...it is unequivocal that exposure to glyphosate, alone or in commercial formulations, can produce important alterations in the structure and function of the nervous system of humans, rodents, fish, and invertebrate animals."

    Thanks in advance.

    tshirtman ,
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    @DemocracyMattersALot no, it's used to grow everything, but that doesn't mean it ends up in your food, at least in more than very low quantities.

    While as any product of this kind it's a bad idea to have frequent and large exposures — and that's why farmers are very much advised to use protection — just like any toxic product, there is a dose to the poison.

    This article advise growing your own food, but ironically, gardeners overuse that stuff way more than farmers.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Democracy Docket:

    NEW: A right-wing media company stopped distributing and streaming the election conspiracy film "2000 Mules" and apologized to the Georgia man the movie falsely depicted as committing ballot fraud in the 2020 election.

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff Will they send a correction to everyone who bought and viewed it, to ensure they understand they were fed lies?

    futurebird , to random
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    I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

    There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird i think the idea is simple to the point of being naive indeed, if we are smart enough to build something smarter than us, then this thing is, by definition, also smart enough to build something smarter than itself. Perfectly logical, but assumes a very unidimensional understanding of intelligence, and the total ignorance of the possibility of different kind of limitsd

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    China demonstrates robot dog which can hunt down humans and kill them with automatic gun fire.

    Man this is dystopian.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/china/china-military-rifle-toting-robot-dogs-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl this is a bad take.

    rbreich , to random
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    Speaking of hidden Nazi symbols, Trump keeps calling Manhattan's DA "Soros funded."

    George Soros did not contribute to DA Bragg's campaign, but incessantly pretending he did plays into a range of antisemitic conspiracy theories surrounding Soros.

    tshirtman ,
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    @rbreich it's not even a dogwhistle at this point, it's a full blown siren.

    So many people think soros is like, walking devil on earth, the work of antisemitism loaded conspiracy propaganda.

    randahl , to random
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    Hello? Politicians… hello?

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    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl are these homes where people need them? it's not the most fungible asset. homes in areas with low economic activity are almost worthless, homes are in demand where jobs are.

    Of course, there are certainly people sitting on homes others would love to live into, but these numbers are probably much less crazy.

    ElleGray , to random
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    so. in January I was in a bad car accident. fractured spine, ruptured discs, cracked pelvis, broken arm. last 4 months have been v hard. tonight though I'm going back to my adult dance class for the first time. I wasn't sure I'd ever even walk properly again so this is a moment for me. a good one

    tshirtman ,
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    @ElleGray No need to be sorry, we need good news, too, happy to learn about your recovery.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    #TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal

    Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

    Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

    1/… Via Rupar: Trump wraps up his morning rant by attacking one of the prosecutors, Colangelo, which is a flagrant violation of his gag order

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff NFL, no it's fucking not, do we have to believe everything we are told? are we never mistaken in our believes? And that's a high profile lawyer? The best people, really.

    Nonilex , to random
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    #TrumpTrial 🧵 Thursday 16 May 2024

    Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.

    #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #NodFarter #StormyDaniels

    tshirtman ,
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    @Nonilex lol, what is the role of a witness already? 😆

    randahl , to random
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    Brilliant proposal by German politicians: Let us place air defence systems inside NATO, and have these systems save civilian lives by shooting down missiles over western Ukraine.

    This is pretty clever because

    1. Russia cannot bomb these systems as that would be an act of war against the entire NATO alliance.

    2. The systems cannot trigger a war with Russia themselves, as they are not attacking Russia.

    Do it!

    https://www.dw.com/uk/u-nimeccini-proponuut-zbivati-droni-nad-ukrainou-silami-nato/a-69054148

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl @benroyce @juancho_me Russia has been putting red lines everywhere, and when we crossed them, it didn’t fucking change a thing, because putin is a bully who absolutely can’t afford a war against NATO and does all he can to look scary to avoid it, his bluff needs to be called, what is he going to do if we shoot down missiles? Nothing, absolutely nothing, because if he escalate against NATO states, he’s at war with them, plain and simple, and he’s already struggling with "just" Ukraine.

    randahl , to random
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    Yesterday, Russia lost 1740 soldiers.

    Putin will lose this war.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl they were losing hundreds a day already, and they opened a new front, with the same "meat assault" tactics, so that's unsurprising, they still have a lot of young men (mostly from poor areas, mostly minorities), to expand, the war will stop when people get feed up with this terrible waste of human life, or the economy crumbles, but i don't see that happening soon.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🧵 starts HERE.

    Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

    1/

    Pagliery:

    Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff NFL, you mean to keep him awake? 😆

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via MuellerSheWrote:

    Yeahhhh that’s not what that means.

    : I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff maybe his lawyers managed to convince him of that 😆

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.

    EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

    See — https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

    That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.

    We need system change NOW.

    tshirtman ,
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    @breadandcircuses seems that there should be enough money in there to finance a transition to climate friendly energies.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    MEANWHILE, at #SCOTUS, via Ryan Reilly:

    Supreme Court Trump immunity arguments underway.

    "There can be no presidency as we know it" without presidential immunity, Trump lawyer John Sauer argues. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff
    some people seem to really want joe biden to send team six to their home and suffer no consequence.

    18+ futurebird , to random
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    TYT hosts are baffled when a Trump rally crowed starts chanting "Genocide Joe." Trump has made it clear he doesn't see the Palestinians as people.

    I'm not baffled by the chant. Trump has been promising anti-interventionism, know-nothing isolationism for years. There is a deep isolationist streak in the US.

    To them any money spent on foreign aid or on wars, or aid to make wars is wasted. They also hate support for Ukraine, and humanitarian aid to Gaza.

    https://youtu.be/NeBtmLm1NLk?si=Y0EBoi1GYEfHzWua

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird
    it's also a message that resonates a lot (even if on the left) and he loves nicknames, of course he'll take it. He needs everything that can help, too.

    randahl , to random
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    Dialog from prison in 2025:

    🤡 … and I had the biggest crowds at all my rallies…

    🙄 Shut up man

    🤡 … I should be rallying
    right now for the 2028 pres…

    😕 Will you shut up?

    🤡 … because I would totally win in 2028, and…

    ☹️ SHUT! UP!

    🤡 … but now I can't run because of the very conflicted judge and…

    😠 SHUT UP OR I WILL F…

    🤡 … crooked Joe Biden, you know I call him sleepy Joe, but anyway, he is so dishonest, and…

    😖 SAY ONE MORE WORD, AND I

    🤡 … it was all a witch hunt and…

    😡 AAAAAARGGGHHHHH

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl "i'm not in prison! You are in prison !"

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Starting a new thread 🧵 1/...

    Via Inner City Press (I call him Press):

    Trump's lawyer Blanche: There are a number of the jurors that we have social media posts for very much contrary to what they said. We don't want to confront them openly

    Judge: They were not told it is an anonymous jury.
    Trump's lawyer Blanche: Juror number 1 has a series of extraordinarily hostile Facebook posts-
    Judge: Can I see them?... Was I handed the right thing? The sheet has 2 screen grabs

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff NFL i find it pretty incredible that there are still people with no strong opinions on trump, i'm almost concerned about their awareness about, like, everything, but i guess they'll have to figure it out. :ablobgrin:

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🧵NEW THREAD for #TrumpTrial #legal #Trump here. 1/...

    Apparently Trump woke up.

    Via Orden:

    Trump has re-entered the courtroom, per pool, but the video feed hasn't yet been turned on in the overflow room.

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff I can't know what I would have answered to that question about heavily to be impartial, can someone not have strong opinions about trump? If not, does it mean in practice he'll be tried by people who probably overestimate their ability to be impartial? Honesty would tell me to excuse myself, but ugh, that would feel terrible.

    randahl , to random
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    It worries me, that in the Hush Money trial, Trump is to be convicted by a jury of 12 ordinary people.

    How do you protect 12 New Yorkers from a person who has no limits to the tricks he will pull?

    Yes, judge Merchan has said, the jury will be anonymous, but Trump's defence lawyers will know their names. And I have no doubt, that Trump will try everything to figure out a way to influence, pressure, or otherwise compromise this jury.

    For Trump, no rules apply.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl if their names leak, and they voted to convict, they might need protection for years or decades, even if he says nothing (as if..), as many of his supporters are potential domestic terrorists.

    futurebird , to random
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    There are giant cave centipedes in Minecraft (Create and Alex's Mod) ... but they just bite you! You can't even tame them or hug them. Injustice.

    How do I get these "bug pheromones" ??

    Can someone who knows how to computer game help!

    https://alexs-mobs-unofficial.fandom.com/wiki/Bug_Pheromones

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird bees obviously get a pass. They are everyone’s favorites.

    randahl , to random
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    Republican lies:

    Picture 1: Republican Senator J. D. Vance tells CNN, the US cannot help Ukraine, because the US is “stretched too thin” and Ukraine is demanding “thousands” of Patriot systems per year.

    Picture 2: In reality, Zelenskyy has said, just 25 Patriot systems would be enough to keep Ukraine safe — some of which they already have.

    Source 1: https://youtu.be/c04I6oIk7xY?si=FaEBGIIaN0ASkMbp

    Source 2: https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-ukraine-needs-25-patriot-air-defense-systems-to-be-completely-covered/

    image/jpeg

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl considering what they first with the little they were given, and the immense capacity of the us, it doesn't make any sense to restrain help, Russia could be pushed back in it's borders and humiliated without getting anywhere close to stretching us resources. The issue is the west, and particularly the us, doesn't know if it wants a victory, it wants order, manageable problems, not the chaos of a Russian collapse. And of course, the GOP being in Putin's pockets.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Wow.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    tshirtman ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Good think i’m not an elephant, heh.

    futurebird , to random
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    The least enjoyable part of coding is getting the IDE setup, the folders named, the correct libraries installed and trimmed down so they have what you think you will need.

    If the language is java then the least enjoyable part is deciding if you want to store a number as a float or an int (formatted if you need decimals) ... then always changing your mind and having to go through and fix the numbers so they work.

    I know python is lazy, but strict typing still feels like a drag to me.

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird @phryk Not a java expert here, but i would be surprised if Java doesn’t have an equivalent to the Decimal type in python, apparently there is BigDecimal, from a quick search, but i don’t have experience with it.

    Floats are great when used appropriately, but they definitely don’t fit all our number needs.

    (looking at Javascript…) "right?"

    randahl , to random
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    Now we are getting somewhere! On top of the 19 F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the 24 jets from The Netherlands, and an unkown number from Belgium, Greece is allegedly planning to deliver 32 of the F-16 to Ukraine.

    Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

    https://breakingdefense.com/2024/04/greece-plans-largest-international-supply-of-f-16-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-reports/#:~:text=BELFAST%20—%20A%20Greek%20news%20outlet,to%20discuss%20support%20for%20Ukraine

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl I hope a maximum number gets in service at the same time, to take maximum benefit of the period before the Enemy learn to adapt to new threats, one consistent issue with our help to Ukraine has been giving hardware as a trickle, so by the time the systems are in sufficient numbers, their impact is not nearly as massive. But on the other hand, Ukraine can’t wait and will have to use whatever it gets as soon as it gets it.

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    “I am dead sick of what is happening”

    Absolutely awesome Member of the European Parliament @guyverhofstadt of Belgium tells the speaker to stick his agenda where the sun does not shine, because now we will vote on more air defence systems to Ukraine. AND WINS THE VOTE BY 515 TO 62!

    This is how it is done! 🇺🇦

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl hm, it’s a vote to work on an agreement, if i understand what he’s saying correctly, these systems are not shipping tomorrow, sadly, but seems like a step in the right direction.

    This guy was prime minister of Belgium, saw him once an a debate with a french politician.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.

    bitter snickering

    tshirtman ,
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    @futurebird so many people predicted that that i'm pretty sure we could get gpt2 to say it for us.

    randahl , to random
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    Trump’s reality: The price of an airline ticket is up by 33 percent.

    Reality: The price has developed as follows

    2020, -18 percent
    2021, 0 percent
    2022, +30.2 percent
    2023, -5.6 percent
    2024, -7.1 percent

    So the end result of the last five years is a price drop of 6.4 percent.

    And before anyone says, but the price drop of 2020 must have been thanks to Trump, please recall that this drop was caused by Covid-19 which meant, people could not fly — hardly a compliment for the former guy.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl and the +30% is certainly also a consequence, companies had to make up for the lost money and people also wanted to make up for the "lost time",

    However, I'm of the opinion that plane tickets should be more expensive, especially for frequent flyers. We need to deincetivize such unsustainable practices.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl that could be a start/thing to try indeed. Probably not enough, but certainly a large step in the right direction.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    He’s lying.

    “ on Wednesday said he would not sign a federal ban if one reached his desk were he to be elected in November.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/politics/trump-says-he-wouldnt-sign-federal-abortion-ban?cid=ios_app

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff Convenient useless hypothetical, doesn’t say anything about what he’d do if he was to be elected in November and put in power next January.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    “#Hamas has told international mediators – which include Qatar and Egypt — it does not have 40 living hostages who match those criteria for release, both sources said. CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.”

    https://cnn.it/3VWZ2Ir

    tshirtman ,
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    @GottaLaff can’t say i’m surprised, after so much time in such terrible conditions… sigh.

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    I kid you not: Marjorie Taylor Greene has released a video on YouTube, where she says, “If I had it my way, we would have been successful in our [sic] objection on January 6, and [Joe Biden] wouldn’t even be president.”

    That is the same woman, who claimed the violence on January 6 was started by federal agents disguised as insurrectionists. And now, she says, if “WE would have been successful… on January 6”.

    I wonder what the US Justice Department does now.

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl @kristen_d it kinds fo sound like "in our objection" but it doesn’t make a lot of sense, maybe she caught herself late and barely avoided saying "insurrection", or maybe it’s something else, but that’s the best i can hear.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I'm with Abe on this one.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    tshirtman ,
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    @lowqualityfacts I knew about his battle against werewolves, but not werecats. 🤔

    randahl , to random
    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar

    This is absolutely priceless.

    MAGA Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas has delayed her reply once more in the infamous case, where she allegedly tried to get Arkansas to pay USD 19,000 to her MAGA friend for a fake speaker’s lectern which was worth less than 1,000 dollars.

    Ben Meiselas has the story:

    https://youtu.be/C1JtTdhoon4?si=9myojSYeTGjOxN0i

    tshirtman ,
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    @randahl trump really had the best people 🙃

    randahl , to random
    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar

    Instead of saying all Palestinians are Hamas, or all Israelis are Likud, listen to the people on both sides who want peace.

    These days, the streets of Tel Aviv are filled with protests calling for Benjamin Netanyahu's resignation.

    I applaud them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCZAQovM89U

    tshirtman ,
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    @Willie1foot @Lassielmr @randahl I suspect many just don't know anything about the war, let alone war crimes, just that it's ongoing, I recently read the words of an Israeli writer about how palestinians, in Gaza or otherwise, were simply never discussed by mosy people, much less publicly, they are a non-subject. If certainly helps a lot ignoring the war crimes.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

    I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

    tshirtman ,
    @tshirtman@mas.to avatar

    @lowqualityfacts
    Ah yes, the United kingdom.

    (I'm very far)

    lowqualityfacts , to random
    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

    What is your NSA person seeing?

    tshirtman ,
    @tshirtman@mas.to avatar

    @lowqualityfacts glaring proofs of ADHD that I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge, mostly.

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