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Still xenophobic. And your source is very open that it has selection bias and aggregation methodological issues. Essentially, it describes how migration as an aggregate, all across the world seems to function, disregarding individual peculiarities, within the people they managed to access. Migration from India to the UK doesn't function the same as migration from Lybia to France, or Mexico to the USA and most definitely not from Venezuela to the myriad of counties the diaspora has found themselves in.

Poor immigrants do not account in this data, as they weren't interviewed, are the most likely to be undocumented, and thus avoid attention and refuse interviews the most. It also most definitely ignores the peculiarities of Venezuelan migration. It might inform some political decision makers on a very broad and vague way. But it is an extraordinarily narrow, incomplete and impractical understanding of the issue.

Oh yes, the 7.9 million wealthy millionaires that...walked through a deadly jungle... to get to the US.

Please, Lemmy, stop trying to talk about Venezuelans as if you know shit. You don't know jack.

Also, this post is extremely xenophobic, racist and classicist, the fact that mods let it stand is a shame.

Well, let's follow Umberto Eco's dissertation (Ur-fascism) on the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

Cult of tradition (with strong syncretism: Chávez and Maduro proclaimed a traditional bolivarian thought. With a cult to independentist era thought. While at the same time participating in all (from Catholicism to Cuban Santeria) forms of religious rituals.
Rejection of modernism: the revolution cites and follows traditional indigenous practices. Going as far as to promote the use of plant fiber as female hygiene products as a replacement for menstruation pads. As well as the rejection of scientific communities and advanced industrial processes in favor of traditional and extractive economies (artisanal mining and others). Defunding universities and outright persecution of teachers.
Cult of action for action's sake: there are way more examples than what can fit in here. But in 2002 Chavez fired every single worker from the state oil company PDVSA, prompting the quick collapse of oil production that never recovered. When people tried to protect themselves by accumulating US dollars, a ban was quickly established on money exchanges. Billions of dollars of infrastructure was lost and the country started the spiral that lead to 2015 humanitarian crisis and breaking all historical hyperinflation records.
Disagreement is treason: or Maduro's version "dudar es traicion".
Fear of difference: Chavez promoted several forms of hatred towards all sorts of groups. Mind you, calling political adversaries gay is state practice. Quite lefty isn't it?
Appeal to a frustrated middle class: this is the only one that chavismo spun with originality. Instead the middle class was demonized as the source of all evil and the appeal was a populist appeal towards the impoverished. Never mind they are still just as or even poorer than they were before chavismo.
Obsession with a plot: I don't need to say much here as chavista paranoia was well justified, perhaps, but also ever present in the figure of the north American empire. Even when the plot was all fantasy.
Enemies are simultaneously too strong and too weak: no need to say much, just watch any state communication and figure it out yourself. Also, the oligarchs are in power and impoverished the people, while all the big corporations are in the hands of chavista puppets after two decades of expropriation.
Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy: patria, socialismo o muerte. Life is warfare, every civilian is a combatant, perfect military-civilian fusion. Have been motos for two decades.
Comtempt for the weak: chavismo substitutes this with patronizing the weak in order to make the usual Marxists quotes not out of place. But it is comtempt all right.
Everybody is educated to be a hero: back to every civilian is a combatant fighting the imperialist threat. Chavismo also intervened all education to include ideological training and personality cults towards the traditional figures of the revolution.
Machismo: the regime in power organizes feminists rallies, while simultaneously rejecting any law that brings advancement of women's rights and restraining funding to implement the few that do exist.
Selective populism: el pueblo as a concept that is entirely in the hands of the powerful elite.
Newspeak: just listen to anything granko says when defending chavismo.

This, along with over a 1000 political prisoners, 33 thousand or more dead in political rallies, armed groups of colectivos acting as shock forces against political dissidents, 3 thousand verified victims of torture, and a long list of etceteras. I don't know man. It awfully sounds like fascism to me.

It's not nuance though. It's cowardice, fear of taking a solid stance. The fact it can be ambiguously interpreted both in favor and against Trump actions, and both interpretations are contradictory with her historical position on the matter, shows that she is just playing optics.

The fact is that the Venezuelan situation doesn't fit neatly across the US bipartisanship lines. Doing domestic politics based on foreign affairs always creates that sort of dissonances. It's hard to explain to people that overall Venezuelans are mostly left leaning but communist and socialist rethoric causes rejection. That, for example, most would love Mamdani's policies, but hate him over his stance about Maduro. That most would love Petro's policies, but hate him over his history with leftist guerrilla. This is no accident. It's the consequence of living for almost 3 decades with a red painted, communist rethoric, but in practice fascist regime. There's love for progress but also a deep understanding that progressive discourse is not inmune to being corrupted and coopted to oppress and bolster oligarchs in power.

Stop talking.

Please. You don't get it, you're not Venezuelan. Then shut up.

Your comment was awfully racist, xenophobic and classist. Just stop.

If you disagree about the US dictating what Venezuela does through violence and threats. Then lead by example and stop being the dumb gringo that pretends to know what foreigners think and do better than them. Stop.

Well, she already announced she is ready to cooperate with the US to ensure peace.

I could argue that he is just as horrible as Hitler but just to a smaller set of people and that it is justified. But I also bet that wouldn't change your mind. That's the problem with crimes against humanity, suffering can't be quantified. And it never would feel justified until it happens to you.

I like that line of thinking as much as the next guy, but it strikes me as wildly misguided that the US politics has reduced to that. Like, I get the symbolic aspects of the Epstein's files for politics, but still think it is mindless engagement.

An indisputably genuine video of Trump raping a literal toddler could be released tomorrow and nothing would change. Their support base and the gears of power are already too deeply entwined to his personality. No amount of public rage or national indignation changes governments.

"I didn't say it, I declared it!"

But seriously, declaration of war is a legal term specific to each country internal law system. War, as a legal term, hasn't actually been a thing either in international law since the 50s. It was changed to armed conflict. Which, before you think is stupid and why not call a spade a spade, is actually not that stupid. It created a well defined but much broader concept that (this is the important bit) is independent of a country's internal law standing or diplomatic declarations thereof. If a situation fulfills the criteria, then it is an armed conflict whether the countries involved like it or declared it. It gives tools to nation states and international organizations to do certain things on the international stage more freely in these situations even when the countries involved don't want them to.

OK, I disagree but raise you one more. Chocolate covered popcorn and chocolate covered bacon are treats sent by the gods as the secret food of the initiated in the misteries of taste.

It is comparing height paw to the shoulder, not the length. It's the standard way to measure quadrupeds.

It's all about composition

Alca torda, aka razorbill.

Entirely different things, and I think the meme actually correctly corresponds to orthopedics. It's a pediatric specialty, and unfortunately, most of the treatments are some form or another of restraining body parts so they grow straight. Hence the snake tied to the rod in order to remain straight instead of wrapping and slithering around.

Unironical, it kind of works like that. There are usual combos, and straying off from them costs extra.

Yes, the world is only the us, UK and the EU. No one else counts.

Which country's?

It is awfully priviledged and insulting to imply such horrible things and wish harm on others because of your xenophobia and limited experience with diverse contexts.

Lol, tell me you've never step inside a data center in your life without telling me.

Just because the US dominated market is wasteful and destructive doesn't mean it is like that everywhere. You buy a server today and the offerings will be the same CPUs that were available five years ago. Servers are mean, powerful beasts, and upgrades have been slow and incremental at best for almost two decades. While manufacturer guarantees might last 7 to 10 years, operators offer refurbishment and refreshment services with extended guarantees. A decade old server is not a rare sight in a data center, hell we even kept some old Windows servers from the XP area around. Also, mainframes are most definitely not legacy machinery. Modern and new mainframes are deployed even today. It is a particular mode and architecture quirk, but it is just another server at the end of the day. In fact, the z17 is an AI specialized mainframe that released just this year as a full stack ready made AI solution.

A business that replaces servers every 3 years is burning money and any sane CFO would kick the CTO in the nuts who made such a stupid decision without a very strong reason to do it. Though C suites are not known for being sane, it is mostly in the US that such kind of wastefulness is found. All this is from experience on the corporate IT side, not at all hobbyist or second hand market.

Cool, the best AI has to offer is worse than the worst human code. Definitely worth burning the planet to a crisp for it.

Comparing AI to the Saturn V is morally insulting. Sure, servers do have a lifespan. There's a science to the upgrade rate, and it was probably 5 years…back in the 90s. When tech was new, evolving fast and e-waste wasn't even a concept. Today, durability is measured in decades, which means provision is typically several decades.

There are many servers with chips from the last 20 years that could be spun today and would still work perfectly fine. They were furbished with proper cooling and engineered to last. In 2020 I worked in a data center where they still had a 1999 mainframe in production, purring away like a kitten and not a single bit less performant. It just received more network storage and new ram memory from time to time. This is not what is happening with AI chips. They are being planned to burn out and become useless out of heat degradation.

All based on the promise from NVIDIA of new chip's design breakthroughs that still don't exist for new models of LLMs that don't exist either. The problem is that, essentially, LLM tech has reached a pause in performance. More hardware, more data, more tokens, are not solving the problems that AI companies thought they would, and there's a development dead end where there's very few easy or simple improvements left to make.

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YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

[Video] Hasan Piker criticizes Kamala Harris both sides statement on Maduro

[Video] Hasan Piker criticizes Kamala Harris both sides statement on Maduro

[Video] Hasan Piker criticizes Kamala Harris both sides statement on Maduro

Rubio says U.S. won’t govern Venezuela but will press for changes through oil blockade

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Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike"

Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike"

Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike"

Chocolate and fruit do NOT go together

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Make it make sense

Make it make sense

Make it make sense

AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

Make it make sense

I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced

What is you backup tool of choice?