strypey

strypey, 19 hours ago

@theindex
> Biden allows Ukraine to use U.S. weapons for limited strikes inside Russia to defend Kharkiv

Maybe this is explained in the linked source, but what gives the US any power of what Ukraine does with weapons once they've been delivered? Surely supplying weapons under US command blurs the lines between supplying weapons to assist a sovereign state in its self defence (proxy war), and entering the war themselves?

strypey, 19 hours ago

@LovesTha
> Apparently it was off for -56 minutes, probably 4 actual minutes. It was advertised as 7 hours

It would be much worse if it was the other way round ; )

strypey, 19 hours ago (edited 17 hours ago)

@chrisU
> treason is still a capital offense

@zakalwe
> the US has to be in an active state of declared war

Weren't some of the whistleblowers charged with treason? Or do you mean it's only a crime the state can legally kill you for when the country is at war?

@Nonilex

strypey, 18 hours ago

@foldworks
> Here's a more balanced view of Zuckerberg

Thanks, I'll have a listen. Added the feed to AntennaPod and downloading the episode.

strypey, 18 hours ago

@thomasbeagle
> Z vegan pies are made by The Hub and are available frozen

Good to know, but that's a different product category to buying them warmed and ready to eat.

Having said that, I've seen The Hub pies in some of the greengrocers and other small food shops around town. Most of them have added sugar, so I can't eat them. But the ones I can eat were lovely.

strypey, 17 hours ago

@jomangee
> Figured as such, otherwise you’re looking at Chinese based wholesalers, who I figured were even less up your alley

Z it is, I guess...

strypey, 18 hours ago

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub
> so much of the services of the state are done by government funded ‘independent’ organizations

Ae, and one of the reasons for this, is that it allows governments to dodge OIA transparency. Changing the OIA so transparency obligations follow public money wherever it goes would reduce the incentive for that.

strypey, 18 hours ago

Parliamentary supremacy being what it is in NZ, a future government that wanted to go back to dodging transparency could just change the OIA back. But that would look pretty shifty. In practice, successive governments have been hesitant to tinker with laws regulating government itself (including the OIA) for petty partisan reasons.

@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub

strypey, 18 hours ago

@inlaing
>speaking as an intermittent recipient of public money in the form of small community and arts grants AND someone who has processed privacy and oia for govt departments anything is dangerously expansive

I've been the former, as part of various organisations I've worked with, so I can relate. The devil, as always, is in the details.

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strypey, 18 hours ago

The same carve-outs for stuff like "commercial sensitivity" could apply. Although I suspect that like outsourcing, these are often used as a loophole to dodge transparency. The rules around such exceptions, and when they can be used, probably need to be tightened up too. Based on what's been learned from observing their use since the OIA came into force.

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@inlaing

strypey, 18 hours ago

The main change I'd make to the OIA is that public entities that pass money to NGOs have to respond to OIA requests about whatever that money is used to fund. As if they were spending it internally. No more responding with; well I'd like to tell you, but that service has been outsourced to an entity not subject to the OIA.

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@inlaing

strypey, 22 hours ago

@musicman
> no doubts these measures are dumb but Brexit has got to be a big contributor to the Poland note

That would certainly knock the UK economy off its perch. But if austerity policy worked, you'd see a big dip as the effects of leaving the EU kicked in, but the overall trend would be a growing economy and/or an increase in standards of living. Do we see either of these if we look at the last 14 years worth of data?

strypey, 23 hours ago

@icedquinn
> they aren't just using antisemite as an excuse to shut down protests

That's exactly what Morton Klein and his ilk do. What he's criticising there is Biden not helping them do that with sufficient enthusiasm.

I posted the quote to highlight the weirdness of both sides of the Israel/ Palestine culture war in the US claiming Biden is working for the other side.

strypey, 22 hours ago

@icedquinn
> russia and china fund green protests because they know it hurts america

ROTFLMFAO. This reminds me of the tankies who used to claim back in the 90s that environmentalism was a borjwah plot to stifle industrial development in the third world.

@sun

strypey, 22 hours ago

News flash, green politics doesn't come from the left or the right. It doesn't prefer industrial capitalism or industrial communism. It has come to be aligned with the left in the West only because the right has mostly aligned itself with ecocidal corporate capitalism. To the degree there's a green movement in China (there is effectively no civil society there beyond WeChat groups), it's just as critical of corporate capitalism with special Chinese characteristics.

@icedquinn
@sun

strypey, 22 hours ago

@sun
> is there something wrong with BDS?

Only if you think that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic, which this guy clearly does.

strypey, 22 hours ago

@amerika
> now do taxes

There's a number of ways of looking at taxes. One is that they're the fees we pay for the maintenance of a money system optimised for everyday transactions. As the crypto experiment has clearly shown, unregulated tokens are useless for that, and regulation has costs that must be paid.

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@icedquinn @sun

strypey, 22 hours ago

The MMT way of looking at it is that taxation is a way of reducing the money supply, while govt spending increases it. In this model, inflation would not be rampant across the world if governments had the stones to increase taxes (ideally on wealth not work), to balance out the effects of spending on pandemic management and post-pandemic stimulus.

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@amerika
@icedquinn @sun

strypey, 17 hours ago

@icedquinn
> the reason you don't see Monero in a lot of places is that the state's fearmongering has been very effective

That might explain a failure to go mainstream, but not a complete failure to be adopted as a POS payment method, even among the millions of people who remain ideologically committed to it. Further millions like me would have been happy to see it succeed, and would have used it had it taken off, even in a niche way. It hasn't.

@amerika @sun

strypey, 17 hours ago

@icedquinn
> transacting it for USD is deliberately inconvenient

... to mitigate the most common use of crypto involving ordinary people; conning them out of large sums of money.

@amerika @sun

strypey, 18 hours ago

@Natanox
> I wanted to try this one

Haven't heard of Goosle. Curious to know what experiences folks have had with it.

> Put it in a Docker and add Mullvad VPN in front of it

Good solution to the anonymisation problem.

@tokudan @MetaGer

strypey, 17 hours ago

@sj_zero
> for something like the new york to la route, an airplane may be the most environmentally conscious method because while you burn a lot of fuel you don't need to build or maintain any infrastucture between the points

You also don't serve any of the communities between the points, or help them travel to the points. So the cost of maintaining 2 airport+fuel vs. the cost of maintaining a high speed railway+fuel is not apples vs. apples.

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@fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

strypey, 17 hours ago

@sj_zero
> you need to redesign corners because something you can safely take at 40mph is suicidal at 200mph

You can also slow down for those sections of the trip. So for every such section, it becomes a calculus of how much reduction in travel time you can get, for the cost and clearing of new ground involved in smoothing out a corner.

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@fgraver @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

strypey, 19 hours ago

"Just because we expect technology, and engagement with the wider internet, to bring ever-worsening disappointment doesn’t mean better outcomes aren’t possible.

...

It’s possible to create the communities we want, based on the goals and parameters that are important to us. This exercise also proved to me that with good inputs and thoughtful preparation, you can get great outcomes, even with something as emergent as an internet community."

@anthrocypher

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want

Great stuff!

strypey, 19 hours ago

Also, this!

"Whatever your goals: the internet we need is waiting for us to create it. Years of mega-scale social platforms have trained us to accept a one-size fits all approach to community, and it doesn’t work that well.."

@anthrocypher

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want