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  • Are leftist against globalists?

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  • Depends what you mean by "leftists". The specific kind that's on Lemmy classifies the word dualistically in terms of Western imperialists vs. non-Western anti-imperialists, as opposed to in terms of my nation vs. outsiders. It's kind of an ill posed question, then. An anarchist might just say "I am a globalist".

    You're getting a lot of emphatic nos because nobody wants to be associated with right-coded vocabulary, even if it's more of a "wrong question" than a no. Same as if you bring up class war to the other end of the spectrum.

  • What if today's Iran is resigned to a long, hellish war with the US?

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  • they also do not have the capability and capacity to do so.

    TBF you don't need to be the CIA to observe that part.

  • What if today's Iran is resigned to a long, hellish war with the US?

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  • Russia's original plan was to take Kyiv in a week. Everything since then has seemed more like reaction than anything else, and I don't see how they could have controlled events to make this happen when they can't even control their own supply chain adequately.

    Would they take advantage of a distraction, though? Sure.

  • What if today's Iran is resigned to a long, hellish war with the US?

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  • Honestly I doubt Trump would stick it out for any significant period of time. He's already acting surprised that Iran doesn't fold immediately when someone credibly threatens to break their toys. If the US attacks, there will be more of that, followed by some kind of TACO and and comments that "NOBODY though defeating Iran would be this hard". The main question I guess is how fast it would all happen.

  • Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027

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  • Flaming obvious whataboutism. There's no attempt there to even connect it to the discussion at hand.

    It gets upvoted anyway because it's pandering in the right direction.

  • Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027

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  • When there's human decision makers who can change their mind on the other end, it's about as good as you can do.

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • Ahh, because of the 9 month gestation. 9+3=12

    I thought this was about some kind of obscure subnormal float convention or something.

  • What are some things about the past people get wrong today?

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  • Did you read the whole comment?

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • You probably know, but someone is going to point out an ipv4 address is four bytes.

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • That's because humanity dates back to the teletype era, before bytes. It was decided that saving candles was more important than having the extra century of lifespan.

    Now, by convention, the leftmost candle being unlit indicates it's a standard human and not a member of another species-alphabet, possibly requiring multiple cakes.

    (On a serious note, aging is not necessarily thought to be as simple as just the Hayflick limit)

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • Look, an OpenRISC user.

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • 64 bits and you get to watch heat death slowly set in. (Or, y'know, cosmological catastrophe depending on the full physics)

  • Don't grow older than 255 or else it will overflow

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  • You win Lemmy, I need this one explained.

  • What are some things about the past people get wrong today?

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  • Things to ask a priest, I guess.

    What I've seen just in media makes me think modern churches use a fresh batch of normal water with a little holy water added. All kinds of things have changed over the centuries, though. The practice of a priest wedding people is comparatively modern, for example, and originally had a practical purpose.

  • Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island

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  • There you go. As of OP being written that wasn't public, though.

  • What are some things about the past people get wrong today?

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  • I mean, there was a selectivity to it, yes. But also a whole lot of random chance, which is why it kept happening instead of fixing itself in a few generations.

    It's still how it works. We're either going to artificially fix the problems or go back to that, and do so in an evolutionary eye blink - almost certainly in our lifetimes, by the look of it.

  • What are some things about the past people get wrong today?

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  • Modern slavery includes forced labor, bonded labor, trafficked people, and child labor - it’s analogous to chattel style historic slavery in that the conditions are similar.

    No, no it's not. NGOs conflate them sometimes to draw attention to an important issue, but it's a large continuum. A job where you can't quit early is not the same as what's in Roots.

    Actual chattel slavery still is around in places, but only pretty marginal and lightly populated ones. Mauritania is an infamous example.

    Current estimates are 50m people living in these conditions today, vastly more than at any time in human history.

    Global population in 1 AD was around 200 million. 25% slaves isn't impossible. It kept going up from there and slavery wasn't seriously challenged as a concept until the 1700s.

    And going by absolute number instead of proportion is another lie with statistics you might be repeating. Yes, population has grown. What does that have to do with it?

  • Mortgage debt soars while starter homes get out of reach for many Canadians

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  • TBF it's early days, they still haven't fully legislated it in.

    Housing prices are coming down in most places now, but more due to paused immigration than anything else, as far as I can tell.

  • What will happen if the Linux kernel starts having AI generated code in it?

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  • Either it will work, or it won't and it will get removed.

    I'm not really sure what's interesting about this.

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    Premier says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804
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    About That (Venezuela Invasion Episode)

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    What is there to know about magnetic storage mediums?

  • Futurology @futurology.today
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    Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o
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    Carney says a U.S. trade deal without some tariffs is unlikely

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/carney-trade-deal-tariffs-unlikely-1.7585280
  • math @lemmy.world
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    What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?

  • Computer Science @lemmy.world
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    What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    What about AT protocol?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    So how is not buying American going for you?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What's some good FOSS news?

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    Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts - CBC Radio

    www.cbc.ca /radio/ideas/child-sex-abuse-pedophile-treatment-1.7381743
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    Netanyahu not doing enough to secure Gaza hostage deal, says Biden

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cm2np7p1yr7o
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com /notes/corrupted-skins/
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    Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)

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    What's the issue, specifically, with Lemmit federation?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What are your opinions of Guix?

  • sdfpubnix @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Can you add new instances here usually?