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@kibcol1049 Now... how can we replace him with Putin? This would be very good!
@kibcol1049 Excellent! That is definitely not the place for climate alarmism.
There are plenty of regular, woke, universities where he can teach, while west point can focus on teaching how to best kill people in the service of the state.
I suspect that both parties in this transaction will end up happier in the end.
@Dan_Ramos Hmm... more tariffs urgently needed!
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Modern spinning hard drives using modern file systems (ext4, XFS, NTFS, ZFS, etc.) do it automatically in the background for you. Meanwhile, solid state drives don't need it since there's no physical seek time that benefits from having data in contiguous physical locations.
https://x.com/SeedOilDsrspctr/status/2093119550472466558
https://nitter.poast.org/SeedOilDsrspctr/status/2093119550472466558
@DamienWise I think the problem is that most open source projects have become socialist and woke, so the maintainers and founders who have remained unaffected and rational, by comparison, seem extreme. In reality, it is most of the other open source people who gave gone completely mad.
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"If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?" ~ James Madison
Democracy is not a system that puts the people in power. "The people" will never be in power.
Democracy is a system that puts the best manipulators in power.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ H. L. Mencken
"Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered." ~ R. Lee Wrights
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." ~ Lysander Spooner
“Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” ~ Joseph Sobran
Democracy is not a system that puts the people in power. "The people" will never be in power.
Democracy is a system that puts the best manipulators in power.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ~ H. L. Mencken
"Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered." ~ R. Lee Wrights
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." ~ Lysander Spooner
“Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” ~ Joseph Sobran
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Awful news that the wonderful Dolly Parton has died.
The time has finally come, Jolene.
(Just to be clear this is meant as a tribute joke to Dolly, she would have smiled at it and realise this too. RIP Dolly, thank-you for everything you gave us.)
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The oceans might rise and drown Atlantis, destroying its temples and libraries. But with this powerful conjuration the priests and scribes could maintain copies in Lemuria and other far-flung lands. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/rsync.html?s=mc
@akoustov Why now? Why not 10 years ago? Academia is woke b.s. and I am happy I got out as quickly as I could.
@polymarket Ahhh... is the madness over? Or is it on holiday and will make a strong comeback once Trump is out of office in 2 years time?
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JUST IN: LinkedIn users are scrubbing “DEI” mentions from their profiles at historic rates.
@kibcol1049 This is good! But it is sad, that one of the most poewrful countries in the world, is no longer able to wage war effectively. What they should have done is to invade and take over the country, and then install a pro-western leader.
This would have been much quicker than the current farce, but also, very expensive. But Trump started it, so now he is the one who has to fix it. And no, I will not pay for his ineptitute in this situation, so he and the US tax payer is on his own here.
@kibcol1049 Sounds to me like the "analysis" is based on models as usual. Alternatively, the oil and gas fields are tiny. A third aspect that is most likely neglected, is how much the tax revenue will be able to help people. By refusing to develop, basically we are saying that a model based guess is worth more than helping actual people. It is so sad to see western europe destroying itself on the altar of climate hysteria. =(
@stubby Thank you!
Testing.
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https://www.usluck.com/884825/arriving-in-the-city-by-boris-vallejo/ Arriving In The City by Boris Vallejo #Futurism #Retro #RetroFuturism
@carolen the west would have joined at the start, the war would have been over in 6 months.
@carolen Don't worry, russia will never do anything. In fact, I think they have threatened to start WW3 if the west helped Ukraine about 6-7 times by now. It was money, it was weapons, it was tanks, it was planes, and some more stuff, and every single time, they just backed down.
They know that if the west joined the war, they would lose badly, so that is why they are trying to hard to scare the west from joining.
As it is, we've wasted 4.5 years. If
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the automated surveillance (flock cameras) are a threat. Also the EU is now pushing for the digital currency for 2029 launch to fulfill the agenda 2030. I'm sure EU tries to ban cash by then since Ursula Von Der Layen said that's the goal.
Joined Apr 2026
