China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
Playing Devil’s advocate there, but there are probably three reasons: it’s expenaive, they want their best hand picked men and vessels to rattle the sabble without potential fuck ups, they need to toy the line between acting too small and too big so they are scary but no one thinks they are here for real and other countries should get involved.
In that process they went through a full circle of first establishing and then gradually reducing it’s usability and the health of the web itself. Their sometimes obscure ranking of pages enabled SEO, then AI written articles and now they try to replace the need to click on any site at all with THAT. A very interesting saga.
Their integrated drive+mail+docs+forms+… cloud system is not the first or maybe the best one out there, but it’s very popular and I like it more than the competition for some of their key decisions. More obscure things are their accessible API anyone can use, some free computing power they provide for experiments, their analytics system for marketing, and their benchmarks of how fast the page loads being a standard. There’s probably Scholar somewhere here but I haven’t used it. Android gets installed everywhere even if it’s unreasonable. Search is their major brand, but they have fingers in many buckets.
Visiting relatives, working, studying, being a refugee etc are still on the table for those who are able to do that. I find it pretty reasonable due to the situation and not as huge of a barrier as the difference in average person’s wealth between countries and how it’s expensive and hard to get there in the first place. That kinda underlines the kind of people who can afford a vacation there. Can’t remember when I checked the tickets’ price but them alone were a ±yearly wage for a regular clerk from the countryside, and this is a leisure for the same group that can afford buying property in Dubai and who actively benefits from the war, corruption, power and siphoning natural resources. It’s more surprising this exact measure isn’t a usual occurence in Europe.
No direct flights in most cases, only hopping through third countries, partially because since the war started and there was a problem in money transfer, import and foreign expertise, they ‘nationalized’ the planes their companies leased\bought (?) and service them with whatever parts availiable to them at the schedule they themselves choose.
IIRC Finland closed the direct entry by land from St. Petersburg. Don’t know about others.
Personal sanctions and Internation Court’s decisions are also there but they don’t touch relatives or associates.
Beijing say the drills are a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts,” three days after Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te was sworn in. Taiwan has condemned the “irrational provocations.”...
I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...
This also ties back to the survival aspects I mentioned earlier, because I also felt like equipment was much more important in Fallout…
Pretty much agreed with everything and this paragraph is probably why I am picking Fallout and (partially) TES3 for I like the opposite than you and OP, and both sides are valid. My journey is of sharp spikes of interests when I find a new shiny thing or mechanic, even if it’s not my speciality, rather than a smooth gradual progression that puts an accent on a character you nurture. On that distinction, it sound like playing the mechanical part of an RPG like an arcade\action game.
Besides what others say it also strenghtens monopoly on information, a resource used in research, but also valuable in creating hyped up LLMs (like Reddit did closing their API). Likes can be used to map which groups like what, which content is seen as valuable, singling out bot networks from organic reactions etc etc. This information enriches datasets you can gather (without paying Musk?).
I would probably vouch for that info to be accessible to either no one or anyone. Twitter is still a public square where politicians and orgs announce stuff and leave their official remarks, so it’s more valuable if it’s transparent. And we also had some scandals with famous douches liking controversal shit or just porn from their main accounts (:
Also grocery bags. I pay for them, don’t want you logo on it
One alcohol bewerage chain in Russia popularized the blank black bag format in recent years, in theory - to make it less obvious you’ve bought booze. They are sturdy, have good handles, so overall it’s a win. But since they are the most popular source of them, a blank black bag therefore automatically means booze.
Word. There’re endless memes about the least respected and put through mud women who happen to be the most avid voters for Vova. Stockholm syndrome is named after the wrong city.
I’m more troubled by the thought it’s irrational even if you are comically evil, like some Mister Rouble or General Bloodthirst. And even if peace could’ve happened tomorrow on any terms, there’s an overwhelming critical mass that doesn’t even touch reality and would do that shit all over again if opportunity is present. One hallucinating 100mil people powder keg. And that is it’s course for a decade at best if not more. Besides my own interests of not having this around, I feel many in Europe should know it’s not a single occurence, it’s a trend that won’t magically end with the end of reasons or a feast of sacrifices some suggest to calm the beast. It’s suicidal in it’s hunger. All these nice theories grounded in logic felt from the window a long time ago.
At the time they’ve been seen as a gimick, mostly because they were PRed by the government as our local invention and an iphone-killer it wasn’t. That’s a shame.
Al Capone was originally jailed for tax evasion. 45th would be jailed for being greedy and not giving up papers when even the first batch was discovered, cementing his intent. Both are criminals, but only one is a federal case level moron.
Ukraine will receive the first delivery of funds stemming from the revenue of frozen Russian assets in July, the European Commission said on May 21....
Right. There were probably battles around that but not giving up any ‘nazi gold’ is a long-standing rule that makes even the worst states keep their money here. Freezing the assets and letting the interest go is bigger than it seems.
I don’t want a dumb phone, I want a reliable PDA that doesn’t hallucinate it’s smarter than me. Older android on a current hardware could’ve been the best but it’s not supported anymore by major devs. As a consumer, I don’t understand why that’s the case. I’m not interested in their new design choice or whatever they market it with while bloating the shit out of it, I want a low-powered portable PC to edit docs and browsing the web without eating through 8gb and 6000mah like it’s nothing.
It’s true, but it’s no longer a reality. Keyboards now can only happen in dumb phones or some luxury concept phones. It’s against a couple of current paradigms: making phones easily replaceable, incentivizing quick and short-term usage, having full control over UI\UX, maximizing interactive screen’s real estate, making sure you always look at the screen, and, besides that, engineering challenges that are kinda hard by themselves, but moreso they are in a conflict with banning replaceable batteries, holes for headphones and so on. We are out of luck.
Nevertheless, I’d probably do any stupid thing to get the modern version of something akin to that beast.
Winning an internet argument may seems small, but it’s a brick in the foundation of the next revolution (not to say it’s an excuse to masturbate before the mirror).
I’m with you on that. I hold a strong belief in anarchism or\and mutualism, but if TEH LIBS are those who are helping political prisoners or minorities at the moment, I’d help them to do so. Since my state is happy to torture activists and is soon to ban satanism as extremism with a 10+ year sentences, it seems chameleoning is the only way to keep acting and causing a little, but difference.
It advocates working within existing mass organizations, such as trade unions, in order to transform them into vehicles for a social revolution.
How narrow or broad should we go? They come from a different side, but being flexible and ‘work within what works’ is a pretty close thing. It’s telling ‘anarchism’ is unusually ommited from the name.
China testing ability to ‘seize power’ in second day of military drills around Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
Archive link: archive.ph/GtA4Q...
Norway bans entry for most Russians (www.politico.eu)
Russians traveling for tourism or other nonessential reasons
Jaw-dropping model of Rome took 107,000 LEGO bricks to build! - The Brothers Brick (www.brothers-brick.com)
China holds military drills around Taiwan as a 'punishment' (www.dw.com)
Beijing say the drills are a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts,” three days after Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te was sworn in. Taiwan has condemned the “irrational provocations.”...
Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)
I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...
X Confirms Plan to Make 'Likes' Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles (www.macrumors.com)
X is the worst social media app for LGBTQ+ people, says new report (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Paying for advertising (sh.itjust.works)
Well, children aren't THAT important (lemmy.world)
New open-source, high resolution, low-latency E-ink monitor announced — Modos Paper delivers 1200p in a 13.3-inch form factor (www.tomshardware.com)
Additional classified records found in Trump’s bedroom after Mar-a-Lago search (thehill.com)
Accurate (lemmy.world)
European Commission says Ukraine will receive first payment of revenue from frozen Russian assets in July (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine will receive the first delivery of funds stemming from the revenue of frozen Russian assets in July, the European Commission said on May 21....
US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/15863526...
People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? (www.bbc.com)
Yo ho! (lemmy.world)
Lefty Nemesis (i.redd.it)