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@ Barbarian @sh.itjust.works

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Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.

  • Carne asada burrito

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  • Ah, Mexican shawarma :P

  • Republicans vow to block Trump from seizing Greenland by force

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  • There's no deal. Anybody who tells you there's a deal is lying to you. Any danish politician who would even consider a deal at this moment would get lynched in the street by their citizenry.

    What the US has is what they had before: as much military presence as they want and the ability to negotiate with the local Greenlanders over minerals (who will likely not want to deal with the people threatening to invade them for weeks). They've had that deal since 1951.

    Alberta has always been full of crazy people threatening to leave Canada as far as I understand, would be surprising to me if they actually do it.

  • Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'

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  • Different people have different thresholds. I can say that in my personal experience, the majority of people in Romania have been able to rationalize everything until this point as Trump just running his mouth, but the "real powers" (Romanians in general are very conspiracy-minded) would never let him actually upset the apple cart.

    Some people had the spell broken months ago, during the first round of universal tariffs. Some people saw the stories of Europeans being abducted for weeks at the border for no reason and that woke them up. Some explained all that away as a few unfortunate mistakes, not a real pattern. Then the next round of negotiations with the EU, widely considered a capitulation to the US around here put some people back to sleep (we gave him what he wanted, maybe he'll leave us alone now).

    The higher tensions get around an actual military engagement, the more worried people are getting, the more people are snapping out of it.

    LBC radio host James O'Brien has been shouting from the rooftops about the worst case scenario for months, and unfortunately he's being proven right.

  • Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'

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  • It's normalcy bias. Career analysts, people that have made their living predicting the next major geopolitical shift, are more vulnerable to it than your average Joe. The world has operated one way for their entire lives, and it's very difficult for most people to see that the rules of play have completely and irrevocably shifted.

    They assume that the US won't do something this patently self-destructive because the US has (mostly) operated on a logical set of self-interested principles dressed up in the language of "Democracy" and "Freedom". The idea that it would blow its own kneecaps off while overtly and clearly talking the language of imperialism and might makes right is so outside their experience that it's unthinkable until the spell of normalcy bias is broken.

  • Over 200,000 Danish citizens Sign Petition to ‘Buy’ California From U.S After Greenland Dispute

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  • The Californian Republic would definitely have the most interesting flag in the EU. Too many tricolors, not enough bears.

  • What do you guys think? Would this greatly decrease your chances of being hacked?

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  • Dunno why people are down voting you. Password lists have been around since forever, and anybody trying to brute force will start with one. Why cycle through "A", "AA", "AAA", "AAAA", etc first when you're far more likely to score a hit faster with a list?

  • What is your country's equivalent of the last name "Smith"?

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  • No way it's Popa in Romania. Popescu is an insanely common name, by far the most common I've heard.

  • Republicans vow to block Trump from seizing Greenland by force

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  • Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in turn part of the EU. This is about as ridiculous as saying that Russia could walk into Alaska and claim it because it's sparsely populated.

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    We're here to answer any questions you have about PieFed's code

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  • I mean, it's not that bad if you've spent far far too long on regex101.com...

    I guess I'm one of the few weirdos who actually likes messing around with multiple capture groups and complex patterns.

  • ‘We don’t want to be Americans’: Greenland’s parties respond to new Trump threat

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  • I think a better group to ask would be Puerto Ricans. They are US citizens, but as far as I'm aware (not an American myself), being a citizen without any representation or voting rights means they get fucked over a lot.

    Difference between Venezuela and Greenland is that for Venezuela, they are openly saying they want regime change and compliance, not annexation. For Greenland they're explicitly calling for annexation.

    Hypothetically, let's say Denmark backs down and gives up Greenland (not gonna happen, but let's assume). No way are the republicans going to give them senators and congresspeople, they'd immediately be opposed to the Republicans.

  • when you put it like that, how could we say no?

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  • That makes a lot of sense to me. I really enjoyed my Computing classes in high school, and I've never used the specific programming language since. Was still very useful because it taught me how to think about programming problems.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down in an unapologetically progressive inauguration

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  • I 100% agree that progressive liberalism doesn't work, but that doesn't stop them trying. Center-left capitalists love them as well, because they get to look like the nice guys while keeping the focus away from any serious regulation or reform.

    This picture perfectly encapsulates what I mean when I say progressive liberal:

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down in an unapologetically progressive inauguration

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  • There is a real difference between the two. Others have made the point that CNN doesn't care, it's all just scary "THE LEFT" wording to them, but the difference in political theory is the following:

    Progressive liberals care about social issues, but not economic ones. They will actually care and move the needle on LGBTQ+ rights, the gender gap, minority rights, etc, but as a liberal they'll also care about the free market and the wellbeing of corporations.

    A social democrat wants to regulate and control the economy for the benefit of people. They aren't going to go full communist and sieze the means of production, but they will actively oppose economic interests in order to improve the standard of living.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubles down in an unapologetically progressive inauguration

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  • The constant flipflopping between calling him a "progressive liberal" and a "democratic socialist" is annoying. Pick a lane, CNN. He's one or the other, and from what I've heard from him he's very clearly a democratic socialist.

  • Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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  • Like it or not (I certainly don't), we've gone full circle to the old server-client relationship instead of the peer-to-peer model we had for a while. Almost everything is in the browser now, which means we need EU infrastructure. That takes time, money and effort to set up, even before you start dealing with user inertia.

  • Russian politician charged with ‘abusing press freedom’ after calling for end to war in Ukraine

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  • Can't blame him for walking right up to the line of acceptability. If he'd have actually laid the blame where it's fully deserved, he wouldn't have a fine, he'd be defenestrated.

  • Is this common in the rpg space?

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  • Foundry VTT is amazing. Been running Kingmaker for almost 2 years on it with the official module (very slow pace, 1-2 sessions a month). I'd argue it's basically mandatory if you're serious about online TTRPGs.

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  • "You can't have programs that do multiple things! Any program that is multi-use is ebil. Standardized syntax and functionality between different related systems? NO! PROGRAM DO ONE THING!"

  • A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

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  • Adam Something, is that you?