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carpoftruth [any, any]

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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  • left wing ideas have been popular in America for a long time. the reason they aren't enacted isn't because there is a dearth of popularity, it's because capital controls the commanding heights of the economy and isn't beholden to popularity. there is no popular organization/coalition that has the material power to force politicians to realize popular ideas. concepts like main street before wall street, massive health care reform, stopping bullshit wars have been broadly popular with the american electorate since at least 2008 (that's the wave obama rode) and yet all of those things have gotten materially worse since then.

    I am cynical about American electoral politics because capital has a demonstrated history of either co-opting or defanging left wing politicians and movements when they arise. See Obama/Acorn, Bernie, AOC, Jesse Jackson & the rainbow coalition, McGovern.

  • Gaming Copilot? Fuck off, Microsoft

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  • "With copilot you tell us what game you want to watch being played and copilot procedurally generates a boobilicious hot tub streamer who gently encourages you to self harm"

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  • I just got a copy of Seth harp's book "The Fort Bragg Cartel" and fuck me if it isn't harrowing. There have been a number of chapo episodes about the antisocial behaviour and attitudes of delta force and if anything the dry boys paint a generous interpretation of the "operator" types. Based on the description of horrible, sociopathic crimes depicted in the first couple chapters of the book, the delta force scene sounds like a grotesque parody of Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas with brutal, instinctive violence replacing any search for the American dream. I'll share a more detailed review once finished.

  • Not the magician!

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  • I bet the canadian billionaire is the lululemon guy, he's a libertarian weirdo and loves ayn rand

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  • All Commenters Are Beautiful, but some posts are truly fabulous. DM me to feature effort posts and good threads in the newsmega/newscomm here (including your own posts)

    See the NewsMegaMeta thread for discussion and feedback on comm policy

    @sempersigh@hexbear.net with a thoughtful post on moralism vs materialism

    resident materielist @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net on the limits of Russian missile strikes against Ukraine imposed by aircraft refueling needs

    @MelianPretext@hexbear.net on modern colonialism and double standards of foreign interference in Bosnia

    Me, on Indigenous political economy in the context of resource extraction in Canada

    @FuckyWucky@hexbear.net, @goldroger@hexbear.net, and @jackmaoist@hexbear.net on who really likes Modi anyway

    Previous: Oct 27 | Nov 3 | Nov 10 | Nov 17

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  • actually dangerous snakes notwithstanding, cats in australia have absolutely devastated the population of birds, small mammals/marsupials, and smaller snakes/lizards. shit over there is just not set up for mammalian hunters

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  • alternative movie title, "Shitting Bull" was narrowly rejected

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  • I'm not sure how one fights against a country that has so many spies/intelligence assets in your territory and has no compunction whatsoever about executing civilians along with combatants

  • Japan to place SAM missiles on an island near Taiwan

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  • I'm glad you find them useful. Please link more good posts and threads as you see them. Probably over winter holidays I will sort and consolidate notable posts in a separate index post.

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  • Which would be another win for the Americans

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  • Just having a gaping wound in the region, from which the US could sow chaos and dissent against other insufficiently vassalized countries seems like an acceptable outcome for these ghouls.

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  • There are some pretty big concessions on the Russian side if that 28 point writeup is to be believed as well. $100b of reparations from Russia out of their frozen assets, plus another $100b in euro fun bucks, the military cap is enormous and is well bigger than the next smallest euro army, US security guarantee (functionally the same backstop as NATO), and amnesty for all parties involved in the war (no revenge for Bucha, but also no audit of Ukraine aid).

    Well, the same bunch of naive children thought that April 2022 was a bad deal too. I wonder how this off ramp will look when it is seen through the rear view mirror.

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  • Yeah I wonder where he'll choose. Israel seems the more common bolt hole, but otoh there are more Russians there than Miami.

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  • he's really walking a fine line. I don't envy being the leader of a puppet state

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  • Oh right on, floating panels is a great idea. Ty comrade

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  • https://www.intellinews.com/macro-advisory-will-dark-water-take-the-shine-off-kyrgyzstan-s-golden-growth-412521/

    archive: https://archive.is/bENzO

    bne intellinews on how Kyrgyzstan's rapid economic growth is linked to energy availability, the vast majority of which comes from hydroelectric power off of the Toktogul reservoir. water level in the reservoir is directly linked to how much electricity can be generated, and this reservoir is stressed by general resource management challenges as well as climate change. I wonder how much chinese solar could help here. Reservoirs plus hydropower work great as batteries by using pump back systems and could be coupled to intermittent solar/wind generation.

    Over 90% of the country’s electricity is produced from Hydro Power Plants (HPPs). The main problem is the Toktogul Reservoir, the country’s largest. It feeds five major HPPs that generate around 97% of the country’s hydroelectricity. That includes the Toktogul Hydropower Plant, which alone generates up to 40% of the country’s power. The reservoir can hold about 19.5 cubic kilometres of water, but below about 5.5 cubic kilometres, the hydroelectric cascade that depends on it cannot operate. Currently, the volume is close to 9.5 cubic kilometres. In 2008, the only time in recent memory that Toktogul’s September water level was lower than this year, it triggered an energy crisis, which saw GDP growth decline from 8.4% to a 0.5% contraction in 2009.

    But the country plans even more water-dependent HPPs. President Japarov has pledged that the country will overcome its winter power shortage difficulties and has made a very ambitious declaration that the country will become energy independent within two and a half years. He means to achieve this with the completion of almost 40 new HPPs and a new coal-fired power station (at the Kara-Keche deposit).

    Water is also an issue of concern to the country’s “downstream neighbours.” Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan rely on water from Kyrgyzstan, so if there is a reduced flow in the rivers or a major expansion in the HPPs/Dams cut the downstream volume, this will intensify existing water supply problems in some regions of these countries. The Kyrgyz Government is now proposing that the downstream neighbours pay considerably more for water in order to help fund remedial actions.

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  • Of course, I didn't mean a poison pill like a sneaky clause that russia wouldn't notice, I meant a detail that we the general public aren't privvy to because we're reading summaries of a conceptual plan, not any resultant final plan