Yup. If you want no foreign money interests in your elections, then make it so. But if you pick and choose which countries can lobby and which countries “interfere” just based on who you like today, it’s stupid.
Pretty much nobody in the world can speak truly freely except in like the anarchist areas of Somalia.
Otherwise there are limits. Even in the USA. There are literal criminal laws on the books in the US for speaking against Israel in any way, bolstered recently. This isn’t a “yelling fire in a movie theater” type of restricted speech that most everyone can agree on. This is just straight up censorship. And it exists for many subjects.
You can criticise the prez, but you can’t threaten. You must acknowledge certain objectionable truths as hard fact, or else be against the law.
When a study says “I am free and everyone who doesn’t behave just like me isn’t free”, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that’s idiotic.
A restriction on free speech that bans misinformation in the news for example is wonderful. Many countries have this. It is considered anti-free speech for the US where money wins.
Joe Biden and his political opponents have sharply criticized Khan’s announcement, arguing the court does not have jurisdiction over the Gaza conflict and raising concerns over process....
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
Yeah that’s not how CBP works especially for non citizens. I tell Americans this all the time and nobody believes it. Until it happens to them or someone they know.
You have zero rights. You can be detained without legal representation or cause for 72 hours thanks to the Patriot Act. Even as a citizen. Your electronics seized and spied on. All your social media, email, picture, everything read. It happens daily.
It happens more often to black and brown people and non citizens. But it shouldn’t happen at all.
It used to be that all versions of windows were fine. Then Home was a mess and you needed Pro or above to stop being nannied. Now you’ll need Enterprise to not be nannied and spied on. The cost is completely worth it.
I do NOT blindly hate windows. It runs software today that existed 30 years ago. I haven’t had a real blue screen since my Win98 machine that was upgraded to XP. It just works, it works well, and gives my company life. Linux is a mess comparatively unless you want to tinker. And yes I also daily drive nix machines, and only fan bois don’t see how hassle free windows can be comparatively.
The big words are can be. Because out of the box, they’re making it worse and worse. I don’t have a Microsoft account, local only. And boy do they not like that. Enterprise doesn’t force updates at all, I can keep my machine up and running indefinitely like the old days. The only issue I have today with Win11 is the forced task tray “overflow” menu that nobody asked for and nobody wants. Currently no way to disable without hacks, and if it isn’t fixed soon then I’ll do that.
But this screen shotting malware cannot happen. I know there are many places where it legally cannot happen. Therefore there will have to be a way to disable it or install a version without it. And that’s what I’ll be getting.
If Microsoft sold a Windows 11 Platinum Edition 3000 for $2000 that just gave you all the knobs like XP and let you shoot yourself, I’d buy it. Totally worth it.
I have never encountered a user oriented Linux experience that is more hands-off that Windows this decade.
My embedded Linux systems, sure. The Linux backends in a closed system, sure. But something that is interacted with, not a chance. People love to hate Microsoft but there is a reason why they have the install base they do.
That’s your corporate overlords screwing up your system. Not Daddy Gates. Yet.
Enterprise is something almost no standard corporate drone uses. The benefits are really for nerds and IT people. But it is a requirement for Xeon processors, and most of my machines are Xeon including my laptop.
I have no problem paying for software at this point in my life. But I won’t pay for a subscription. And if I pay oodles of money, I’d hope Microsoft would opt me out of all the crap they hope to make money on with an install base like ads and inevitably copilot data sales.
I love this. This is my current favourite part of the timeline where Americans are treated with the same hypocrisy they demand of everyone else globally. Then whine and complain as always, and the other government just doesn’t care. Stay strong Turks and Caicos, makes me want to buy one of your citizenships so much more.
You know one of the reasons why Cuban tourism was then wasn’t then now is so popular? Because Muricans can’t go there. Seriously. People would flock from all over North America, except Murica, to Cuba and get to enjoy a civil holiday devoid of a bunch of angry yelling tourists demanding they do thing a certain correct way.
Countries like this in the world today in 2024, will be just fine. American tourism is declining to the point of irrelevance for everybody but the 1% Americans. The Chinese have the crown but COVID paused their global ambitions. There are many tourists that try to go out of their way to avoid American hotspots when on holiday for good reason.
Just like Iran, these issues are caused by the US and economic warfare, ie sanctions. Learn about how your country enables Genocide all over the world before replying again.
It’s more the opposite. The hardware level updaters, are usually small pieces of non-updateable code called bootloaders. These are purposefully made small, slow, and ROBUST. They do parity checks on everything, status checks, store local copies of data transfer in weird esoteric ways to not be disturbed during the actual update.
The issue is that you can make it work 99% of the time without issue way faster. But bricking a car that then has to be towed for free to a service center and flashed is super expensive. So the fix is slow and robust updates that happen when the user isn’t even there.
The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
Why? Just a few hours ago 3 people were shot at a supermarket in the USA. There is much more gun violence (Edited from "fun violence! Lol), and RANDOM gun violence in the US than in Afghanistan today.
If you think 3 gun deaths is too many and should ban tourism, I agree! Prevent people from vacationing in the US until it’s at least as safe as Afghanistan
The majority of Jews and Israeli people are of European Caucuses descent today. Very few are descendents of the Semites. Ironically, the majority of Palestinians are closer descendents of the Semites than the current global Jewish population… Hmm…
Don’t know if you’re aware or if it’s the point, but that’s EXACTLY what the US government has done repeatedly. Selling the cartels weapons as “undercover stings” and then losing track of the weapons and people. Which means all they did was literally sell weaponry to the cartel.
Most Americans aren’t aware of this routinely happening, so I wasn’t sure if you’re comment was aware or not.
After the arrests of pro-Palestine student protesters occupying a Columbia University building last month, New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior police officials repeatedly said there were "no injuries," no "violent clashes" and minimal force used....
The US ranks 129th in the GPI out of 163. That’s pretty awful. And when you actually live outside the US, you realize just how awful it is.
Just because most Americans are too brainwashed to notice it is not normal to be in perpetual fear, to have guns around you everywhere, to treat everyone like a threat, to have a constant surveillance of your property because of theft and vandalism, etc. These are not normal things in the world. These are American normals because the US is a shithole country.
I spend most of my time in a country where I don’t lock my front door. I leave my wallet, phone, laptop, etc just out and about and walk away for hours sometimes to have fun in a park, beach, or just walk around the city. Nobody touches it. My car keys are on my windshield, just like everybody else. Comes in handy when the fuel delivery and car detail service comes around. That is what can be. The US is nothing like it, and won’t ever be.
They should be locked up, maximum sentence. American idiotic laws don’t apply, they are just like everyone else. Criminals that broke the law and smuggled ammo in. Ignorance is not an excuse of the law, American justice system loves that phrase.
Anybody who believes this is the answer is incredibly stupid.
The region has land borders. There are aid trucks at the land borders. The Genociders refuse to let the trucks in. The same people that won’t let the aid very far off the pier. The same people that just crossed the US’s “non red line red line” about destroying the last remaining city
I have the spheres. I of course, for science…, tested one over a small garbage can fire I set purposefully. It worked way better than I thought it would. I have one in my server racks, multiple ones over my mining equipment, and did have one over my older 3d printer. The miners are the only thing I think would ever actually catch fire.
Democrats propose ban on officials receiving payments from foreign governments after Trump probe (apnews.com)
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Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according to a new report on freedom of expression....
Blinken willing to work with Congress on potential sanctions against ICC (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden and his political opponents have sharply criticized Khan’s announcement, arguing the court does not have jurisdiction over the Gaza conflict and raising concerns over process....
Blinken says he wants to work with Congress to penalize International Criminal Court (www.cnn.com)
I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? | Ilan Pappé (www.theguardian.com)
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
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New York City said 'no injuries' at Columbia arrests; students' medical records say otherwise (www.reuters.com)
After the arrests of pro-Palestine student protesters occupying a Columbia University building last month, New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior police officials repeatedly said there were "no injuries," no "violent clashes" and minimal force used....
State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad (abcnews.go.com)
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Hey 3D printing fellas,...
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