No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn’t be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won’t have much flow anyway, as it’s meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

Still no worse than the worst of the male grifters.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.

Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

To be fair, it’s not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is “imminent collapse!!!”

Private property.

This reminds me in broad strokes of the thesis of Sakai’s Settlers, which is roughly contemporary. In the introduction Sakai similarly calls out social sciences like “African American studies” and “Asian American studies” for what they are, the societal position and historiography of these peoples from the perspective of the white settler. Settlers thus aims to discuss the white settler in similar terms, ie. as the subject of such “science.”

Inb4 Deutsche Bahn blames their legions of unforced own goals on ,rUSsiaN hÄcKeRs.

Between basically every process being done on paper, and most of the civil servants having no idea what an operating system is, I’m sure this will go great.

It’s kinda standard but Pihole is how I got into the general realm of home labbing.

Private property.

If we want to exclude athletes from international competition just because the ruling class in the country they happen to have been born in undertakes military action, that’s fine. We just have to be consistent about it. I’d like to see athletes from the US, Isreal, UK, France, Canada, and many other countries treated the same way the west is currently treating Russian and Belorussian athletes.

Cixin Liu. Not only is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (Three Body Problem) epic, his short stories are really fun reads.

Happy April Fools!

Political means more than just parties and institutions of government. Society and economy is inherently political. Who owns what is produced and the tools used to produce it is inherently political. Therefore software development, just like any other type or work or other economic interaction, is political.

The DDR truly was something special. Didn’t they even start before the 1980s with LGBT rights and medical care?

That is reasonable from the perspective of the US ruling class though. They are fascist. Anti-fascism presents a threat to their interests.

The whole Russiagate thing is just ghost stories democrats tell themselves, and even if it were true it doesn’t justify torturing anyone or threatening the very concept of journalism.