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  • Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’

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  • You know that you can just get a visa, go there, and talk to people there, right? Or watch many of the interviews from reporters (western or otherwise) who went there already. It's not like NK where you can only visit certain pre-approved areas with a "tour guide" either, in Cuba you can go whenever you want (within reason) and talk to whomever you want.

  • Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’

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  • US is a similar style of "democracy" to modern-day russia, in that despite there being elections, whoever ordinary people vote for they are still fucked and the oligarchs get all the money and power. It's just that the US political system achieves the same goals with a slightly more sophisticated machinery of "two parties" serving the same interests, which is enough to fool many people into believing they have a meaningful choice.

  • daamn, now that's how you do an expression

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  • Chat, is this real?...

  • Life comes at you fast

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  • Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy

    Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations

    Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house

    Commits uncountable war crimes

    Still loses in just 3 weeks

    It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can't even do imperialist forever wars now.

    The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there's nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA

  • Just relax

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  • TBH I'm very happy with the state of Linux desktop as it has been for the past 3-5 years or so. If things enshittify I'm just gradually freezing the versions that I like for most things, except stuff that directly interfaces with the internet (kernel, nftables, browser, nix, git, ssh, rclone). My main hope is that LibreWolf keeps updating and doesn't let in too much AI slop from firefox, and I'm reasonably sure everything else on that list is quite difficult to enshittify.

  • I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup

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  • I don't think the pen input sensitivity/features on it is suitable for pro-level artists, but I might be wrong.

  • The Best Laptop of 2026 was Made in 2016

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  • I mean, it is some carbrain propaganda that aligned with the government-approved destruction of walkable cities and public transit. Soo it is kind to a hymn to enshittification in its own way.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • I have multiple contributions to FOSS projects (incl. small patches to bash and linux), and I'm a commit-access maintainer of Nixpkgs. While I do use a local LLM occasionally for boilerplate stuff, the attitude here makes me immediately distrustful of the Lutris maintainers. Going out of your way to disable the Claude Co-Authored-By on commits is counterproductive and dangerous to the project in the long run. LLMs can often confidently spit out good-looking code with subtle but critical flaws. Commits with non-trivial amounts of LLM output need way more scrutiny than human-written commits, and making it more difficult to tell the two apart is fucked up.

  • Just Imagine

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  • I also dislike Iran's political system, but overall the US has killed, maimed, tortured and ruined the lives of many more people then Iran's government ever could. US is currently the most evil country on this planet, and has been in the running ever since its founding.

    But even then, let's suppose for a second that somehow Iran's government is more evil. So what? Bombing Tehran city center, destroying mosques and museums, causing an immense ecological disaster by blowing up oil reservoirs, and double-tapping an all-girls school with tomahawks will not help the people of Iran in any way. It made their lives measurably, verifiably worse for generations.

  • Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas

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  • Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas

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  • US has been doing the exact same shit to leftists ever since the founding of USSR, this is not new. Sadly the tea party people have nothing to worry about.

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but usually the reason you do this is because the cost to produce this benefit is lower than the price you usually sell it for, so you can inflate the claimed value of the benefit, both to appeal to candidates and to write it off on your taxes. But at the moment tokens are usually sold way below cost (i.e. the companies are not profitable), so why the fuck would any company do this? Are they this short on cash now?

  • I love password based login

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  • I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

    Well, email allows you to solve that issue by self-hosting. But what you can't solve is that if you do self-host, gmail will drop your emails to spam or just discard them completely, just because it feels like it, even if you do the whole dance with DMARC and have used the domain for a good few years. It's frustrating as shit.

  • Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to

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  • Don't forget the Ukraine war and the ongoing social, health and economic consequences of the pandemic.

    Trump is a dumb, racist, idiotic pile of pedophile shit, but US wasn't doing great before him either.

  • Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to

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  • You're about 2 weeks too late for that, US&Israel have committed multiple war crimes already.

  • FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert

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  • The previous bush-era logic of "Dave slapped me because I was an asshole to everyone in the class, so now I'm going to torture and kill Rick who kinda looks like Dave to me" was not much better

  • Spain permanently withdraws ambassador as rift with Israel deepens

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  • Well, technically the condition was to expel the israeli and US ambassadors. This is the other way around, and AFAIK withdrawing your own ambassador is considered a less aggressive move than expelling the ambassador of the other country. And either way I strongly doubt they will do anything about their US relationship. So this seems to be just a based thing to do rather than trying to comply with iranian demands

    edit: it seems israel already withdrawn their ambassador from Spain last May, so this move now feels completely unrelated to the demands.

  • Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats

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  • This is a really naive take - this amendment (which requires message scanning to be targeted) passed with a slim majority and could well have failed. In that case the existing mass surveillance ("voluntary scanning") would probably keep happening at least until 2028.

    The council meanwhile is overwhelmingly pro-message-scanning, and they (together with the commission) are the ones who are pushing to break e2e encryption. There will now be talks between the three institutions to decide on how to proceed. Sadly I expect that some "compromise" will be reached eventually.

  • Western Imperialism

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  • Poland, Lithuania and a few others became "the west" very recently, and didn't get in on colonialism directly; hence "most" in my claim.

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