OK, the conspiracy theory that Musk is deliberately tanking the company is starting to become believable. Given his insistence on people working in the office, refusal to pay the rent seems to be a little contradictory. He may have to reconsider that policy

Good. The sooner the US pulls out the better, the newly fascist America isn't going to uphold NATO anyway, so the sooner the band-aid is pulled off the better

Not terribly credible. The reddit thread I first saw it on had a translated MoD announcement that only said Wagner were treasonous (but not shoot on sight) and some people arguing that the Russian version looked fake.

Definitely grain of salt for now.

I suspect the families of the dead civilians in Kyiv are even less happy

Fash and tankies aren't what I want to see in my feed, and I'm fairly sure there were a large number of (ShJW member) comments saying exactly that in the defederate exploding heads thread

After the painfully long time it took to deal with the defederate vote for exploding heads and imaqtpie's post on hexbear federating yesterday I doubt we're defederating, so I'll go find somewhere else to hang out. Lemmy world has blocked them according to another poster.

I've been on internet communities since the days of dialup BBS' and there's a really simple pattern. A swarm of bright eyed ideologues descends then every conversation becomes about their cause whether you like it or nor. I've watched the locusts swarm in and ruin so many communities it's a lay down misere what happens next.

No one has their politics changed by an online missionary it just annoys the recipents of the preaching and gives a little triumphant glow to the proselytiser "I told them the only one truth. MY truth"

As for the "just block them" proponents - that doesnt work where it's a swarm. It only works if it's a small number, because the swarm crowds out all other conversation killing the community.

Defederate hexbear. They're no different to Lemmygrad. Tankies and fash shouldn't be allowed at the table. They operate in bad faith.

Won't be responding to any HB comments so rollout your usual insults (we saw your methods in the thread yesterday). I won't be reading them

Good.

Stealerships have been raping and pillaging for years. The sooner they go the way of buggy whip makers the better.

And before you ask: Direct purchase from manufacturers and licensed service centers is a much better model, if we can't have that then manufacturer direct service.

It's a real word. And used correctly in context so unlikely to be a typo.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym

https://www.wordnik.com/words/backronym

Acronyms were very rare prior to about mid 20thC.

A number of words sound like they should be an acronym or people searching for an explanation of them make backronyms out of them.

Posh and rap being turned into acronyms as per the first like are good examples of a backronym.

My dude I've been running Linux for literally 20+ years and I still don't feel like I know anything.

Carry on bumbling along doing your best, it's all everyone else is doing.

You've got this

Quite the opposite, after fiddling with it for six months I fully uninstalled flatpak and deleted the directory to get away from the fact it kept downloading copies of nvidia drivers when I had moved to an AMD a year ago, and the drivers were locked from being manually removed even after I uninstalled all flatpak packages.

I'm an Arch user, trust me when I say I read the documentation.

After wasting hours on it I nuked it.

Fairly standard central bank activity, nothing unusual in and of itself.

Unlikely, he's been running it a loss for years now, propped up by his money, his billionaire mates' money and some launch contracts in addition to Starlink.

This is the reason he's building in terms into the IPO that prevent him being ousted - public companies making losses are at risk of board shakeups, he's making sure that isn't possible before the float launches.

He doesnt care if twitter or spaceX lose money, they're valuable levers to get what he wants

scientists and researchers, is that they throw more money at it.

You seem to be using the present tense there rather than the past tense. Are you sure that's still true. I was under the impression the Bibulous Bumbling Bill had slashed research budgets (among other things like medicaid) in order to fund billionaire tax cuts.

Not to mention the attempts to proscribe what can be researched that Harvard is currently litigating

It has been a fortnight filled with so much good news. Yes the orcs have landed a few blows but Ukraine definitely has this rounds on points.

Putin has transparently murdered dozens of people far more important to the West without being toppled.

Russia's newly displayed military impotence shifts the calculus, but Prighozin isn't the guy to cause an international uproar.

That isn't however the argument the article is making (noting I'm rather dubious on it).

They're not arguing that NATO will suddenly invade because Pringles got SAM'd.

They're arguing that a) the Wagner lieutenants are competent and experienced which makes it likely that they are not only capable but likely to be effective at seeking vengeance; and b) that Putin has systematically culled all the competent generals and hence there's a reduced capability.

Now I'm dubious on the likelihood of the first, and while the second is true I'm not as convinced it will be a game changer.

So in the future lots of people 6 and 8 fingets and two thumbs ? Lord the nuclear fallout must have been bad from the war

Only Russia broke that agreement. The US & UK have upheld their end.

Hint, do you actually know what's in it ? I suspect not

Your odds of getting caught are extremely low, but if you are you will be deported and have your visa cancelled (as an Aussie our border guards really do suck I'm sorry). I genuinely wouldn't risk if it you're moving here. If it was just a holiday and you didn't care too much about getting banned then sure, but definitely not worth risking a work visa on.

The lowest risk way is to put it on a cloud drive and download it on arrival in Oz.

I'm saying the Marshalls are this body, they should be reassigned directly to the judiciary.

Which involves asking the oppressing person/organisation to hand over the capability to resist them.

"Please Mr Mugger, give me your gun, then you can't rob me"

How exactly do you think that request is going to go ?

Payment by facial recognition, what could possibly go wrong ?

I walk past at the wrong time and pay for someone else's coffee ? Wrong person gets charged through an ID mistake ?

Aye