The egregious thing here is they’ve arrested more Jews for antisemitism which is just actually Palestinian liberation protests, and yet neonazis can just do this shit.

Mining and refining them is moreso about technological capacity

Economy of scale not technological capacity.

Essentially the problem is you have a yield of 84% iron 3% antimony for example. It only makes sense to use a nondestructive process to refine the antimony if you can make a profit on it, but with a 3% yield that is hard not only because of the small quantity, but it puts additional cost in refining out the iron later (or earlier). So sometimes you just say fuck it and only refine the iron.

The mine that the US just approved for antimony that’s an ecological disaster is a gold mine that’s like 2.5% antimony I think in terms of sampled yield.

Germany is the worst place ever:

https://x.com/leonidragozin/status/1895866684692709496

All Canadian energy is going to be 10%. I can only hope that in New England this is going to be the year where we regional energy conglomerate CEOs. Our prices are a cluster fuck because of inept government management (thanks “transition” fuel and “free market” energy) and the fact that our regional energy conglomerates are monopolies that have captured all regulation, to the point where they are freely admitting they haven’t done proper maintenance and also that money is gone so they need to raise the rates to do maintenance. Obviously the YoY profit keeps coming.

They killed thousands of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. They ran child camps teaching kids songs about killing and eating Russians, which journalists went to and got on video. They terrorized ethnic Russians, tortured and killed them and their families.

War crimes in the DNR/LNR are not the same as what you were implying. You’re completely mixing shit up when it suits your argument.

Songs about killing Russians have been in Ukraine since time immemorial and have been taught to children since time immemorial. A large portion of Kolomyika songs over the last 2 centuries are about hating Russians in some way. You’re entirely culturally out of your depth. For example the famous "Гуде-шумить сосоночка ", or “The Pine Trees Hum and Rustle” has the line:

Ви, москалі, людоїди, You (slur) Russians are cannibals

It was literally recorded in the USSR in 1988 for the first time and is a folk song from time immemorial. You’re literally out of your depth in figuring out what is and isn’t Nazi. You don’t even speak any of the languages involved.

Russia effectively exports white people to Israel, they’re very cozy. Russia is Israel’s main supplier of oil. Which is why the Ukraine and Gaza Wars have always been funny from the perspective.

this is who they sent to fight the Ukrainian Nazis

Ukraine has a ton of Nazis in power who were specifically targeting ethnic Russians.

This is actually a farce of a point, Ukrainian Nazis aren’t stupid. They don’t have enough real support to go blackshirts on Russians. If this was the case the original “de-Nazification” argument would have taken a lot better and a lot quicker in Russia. Ukrainian Nazis went after extremely soft targets like Romani, Jews, and foreigners. “De-russification” has (stupidly IMO) been the most democratic policy post-Maidan. The outsized influence of Nazis in Ukraine has been because they’re effective at hiding behind/within the government and popular sentiment. The reason Ukrainian Nazis are entrenched is because they get bureaucratic positions, they do absolutely terribly in the polls.

What’s important to figure out is “how out in the cold are they”? Did we pull back intelligence? Are they relying on laughs Britain?

Like is the Kid Starver MI6 and Royal Airfarce supposed to be supplementing their field. The materiel is pointless without the actual intelligence. The US is essentially their lifeline to geostationary battlefield intelligence. Without that they have absolutely nothing in comparison.

Nobody at google knows the ics format anymore they’re all setting this up thru gcal LMAO

Same problem exists in the self driving space.

Level 2 partial automation is ADAS or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Some Level 2 features actually harm driver attention like:

• Adaptive cruise control
• Collision avoidance systems
• Lane centering
• Lane change assistance

https://newsroom.aaa.com/2019/12/long-term-use-of-advanced-driver-assistance-technologies-can-result-in-disengaged-drivers/

I actually work with…

Yeah after dealing with my annoying corporate job I also don’t want to deal with computers, but it’s not a reason to complain that people have found durable elegant solutions to running their own services on their free time.

This just smacks of jealousy. Someone has to write the yaml, if it’s not you it’s gonna be the people you’re paying $X/mo to also steal your data/call the cops on you after they find IP finger prints/etc.

This reads as pro CIA.

It doesn’t matter if there are minorities driving imperial machinery over minorities in the third world. In fact if the CIA was filled with only white men who couldn’t gather intelligence and were bumbling morons, it would be a net positive for the world.

We’re no longer in the Dulles Era. We’ve traded both Dulles brothers, Hoover, and Pappy Bush types for Brett McGurk, John Bolton and Adrien Zenz types. Let them shoot themselves in the foot.

Competent imperial managers are overall worse than incompetent ones. Take the W.

JDPON Don has done more in a month to destroy the empire than leftists have been trying to do since WW2.

There are rules against much of what trump is doing.

The rules you and I exist under are strictly policed and enforced. That is what most people think of when they think of rules. Liberals think of Big Mommy. The problem for liberals is that Big Mommy is not coming to save us. In reality our rules are enforced by a monopoly of violence done to us by the state, no such thing for those in the Ruling class in practice. For the Ruling Class the only enforcement is inter-class squabbles, oligarchs shiving oligarchs thru the state.

In as much the rules that Trump is breaking might as well be a completely different concept.

Haha. Liberals suddenly knowing about Myrotvorets style shit would be hilarious since the ones that knew about it were like “Well yeah, they have their reasons”.

(Also misleading headline)

This is a joke headline for a joke country.

New album seems to be back in the same musical / aesthetic place. I haven’t heard disease yet, mainly because I gave up on Gaga a long time ago… but I’m willing to actually give MAYHEM a try.

DeepSeek is probably going to be the straw that breaks the camels back in terms of full mask off fascism vs keeping status quo of polite business fascism that America loves. Let me explain, keep in mind, a pro-move would have been if TikTok did this.

So for those who don’t know DeepSeek is covered by the GPL. The current bill to ban DeepSeek and “imports of Chinese tech” basically has a problem.

• Source code is free speech
• GPL’d source code exists before the ban
• The way copyright works if that if I make a change in DeepSeek no matter how minor it becomes a derivative work that I can then release.
• Therefore PiggySeek is my freeze-peach not China’s

Essentially the US has to destroy the last 100 years of jurisprudence in multiple arenas (free speech, copyright, etc) to effectively create this ban. The reason the TIkTok ban was ruled legal is because by the US law, your speech is your speech, the platform is the platform, so there is a technicality there that can be used without talking about chilling effects. GPL and OSS enables “their” speech to be “your” speech in terms of software.

With the tech industry dollars and demand time table behind this… well let’s just say it’s the time of the cool zone folks.

This process was already killed and ignored once with encryption where the government made the issue go away by loosening requirements and not prosecuting, despite a ruling against them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

If we’re getting USSR style academic censorship we should at least get a USSR social economy

What does this even mean practically for the technology right now? Are the Trump failson appointees to the nuclear security groups in National Labs asking chat gpt to do their homework for them???