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  • Apolitical

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  • Scratch that, get people to demand and vote for public transit and cycling infrastructure. It's much cheaper per person than building&recycling batteries for all the EVs, and beefing up the power grid to support the exploding demand. Much better for the environment and society in general too.

  • China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’

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  • That's what Xi keeps repeating, that reunification is only possible by continuously strengthening economic, cultural and even political ties. Western media keeps trying to claim he wants to "take Taiwan by force" but there's never a source, it's always "read between the lines" of his speeches.

  • Qatar warns that oil could double to $150 a barrel and 'bring down the economies of the world'

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  • I think the correct term is not "insisted on provoking" but "started". Dropping bombs on primary schools and city centers is not a provocation, it is an act of aggressive criminal war

  • I was told it would be a cultural experience

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  • Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

  • simpler times

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  • I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

    The fundamental problem with them is that the concept of "owning information" is ultimately absurd.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • I think it was pleasing enough to right-wing billionaires (sorry for the tautology) - both the campaign itself and the ultimate failure.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • modern corporatism is a long way from the rights-respecting free trade that was originally meant by capitalism.

    After seeing it cited multiple times in Das Kapital, I've recently read "The Condition of the Working Class in England". Read it for yourself to see what "was originally meant by capitalism".

    Modern-day corporatism is not the worst form of capitalism (for the USians themselves), due to workers organizing and literally fighting for their rights in the past century.

    While it's true that the ideology of liberalism "has its heart in the right place" - by that I mean it does advocate for human rights and development - it also promotes capitalism which is in direct contradiction with those ideals.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Campaigning with Cheneys, promising full support for a zionist genocide, backing off from universal healthcare and trans rights. Need I go on?

  • is this even possible

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  • So you believe that a dictatorship of capital, wielding the power of state violence to suppress its enemies and plan the economy, is better than a stateless, classless, moneyless society? Basically what you're saying is that USSR was the absolute peak of societal development, and while I do like many faucets of USSR I will disagree here.

  • ok then

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  • Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.

  • Lemmy Release v0.19.16

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  • The security advisory is not viewable

  • ok then

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  • Russia has been trying to make a whitelisted internet for over a decade. It's still easy to get around their blocks with obfuscated VPNs etc, even my parents can do it. It's really really difficult to implement this kind of blocks without breaking everything. It's possible to access the outside net even from China if you know what you're doing. Worst-case scenario, your local mesh network nerds will hook more and more people up to the network, eventually the town-local movie sharing groups will come back like in the good old days. And even if they shut all that down, movie swapping groups will pop up in big cities - piracy existed long before the internet, after all.

    As for the hardware, well, yes, that's a concern on some level. But then again you can still play DVD-quality movies on 20 year old potatoes with Linux, and DVD-quality is quite watchable if you aren't too snobby about it. There's a lot of old computing hardware around, even if no new computers are produced starting now we will be fine for a while just with second-hand parts and dumpster diving. Perhaps the biggest concern for video content specifically is storage, which has a more limited lifetime and is also getting very difficult to find new, but if you're only aiming at DVD-quality, a few dozen TBs will give you something to watch for the rest of your life.

  • ok then

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  • Most streaming services are nothing like Steam. "Your" stuff can disappear with no notice and no ability to watch it even if you have it "downloaded" due to layers of DRM.

  • Or the person wearing a thin jacket in -20C

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  • It's snowing so it can't actually be that cold, it's fine

  • not this time

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  • Cyprus I guess? Not sure if there are others

  • Sometimes AmeriKKKan troops get what they give

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  • It's hilarious when you neoliberals of lemmy, post on your communist-built platform, raging about communists on our communist instance... just move. I'll send you the URL, reddit is dying for people to move there. You and SatansMaggotyCumFarts both.

  • A wooden record that actually plays.

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  • I'm not convinced. The edges of laser-cut plywood are not smooth, they still have a rough grainy texture to them, and they're also covered in soot which is probably not conducive to music playback.

    I'm really interested in hearing what this sounds like, but I don't expect much.

  • A wooden record that actually plays.

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  • Yeah, if you've ever tried to polish up wood (without any sort of coating), you know it's almost impossible to make it completely smooth, it always has a certain texture to the touch. And here, where you have to pretty much cut it once and can't polish it at all, it's probably going to retain a lot of that texture in the groove. So I guess it is possible that it might """play""", but it would probably be mostly noise with some music coming through at times.

  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • Good, let the nutjobs fight

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    Desert Sunrise

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    Winter Dawn

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    Late spring in Georgia

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    Late spring in Georgia