Yup. You just made me think of an excellent BBC doc about the topic, would highly recommend if you haven’t seen it:

Power of Nightmares

Thank you for taking the time to write out such a well reasoned rebuttal. I’m always on mobile and simply don’t have the stamina, but I appreciate all the points you’ve laid out.

I am always sad when I see the left wing criticisms of the “both sides” argument on Lemmy. Like, I don’t necessarily disagree, but I find the whole premise of one side vs another as some of the worst tendencies in democracy at work. I refuse to equate left vs. right == democracy. It’s bigger than that.

And speaking of democracy, I think it’s really important that everyone be unbiased around what constitutes a threat to democracy. Yes, J6 was objectively bad, and I don’t trust Trump to put his big boy pants on in round two. But I’m also alarmed at the lengths to which this legitimate fear is used as a justification for antidemocratic strategy from the DNC.

No matter their political ideology, when people start letting fear inform every decision - and justify their worse impulses - I get reeaaaalll nervous, as should we all.

Hell no to Harris, she has negative charm every interview I’ve seen, like she has utter contempt for anyone else.

There were 4 opeds in the NYT over the weekend talking about Biden’s age, which felt remarkably candid for the elite rag it is. One of them in particular was an “interesting” idea where Biden is swapped out before the convention, but after the primaries / delegates are assigned. Democracy FTW (/s)

Now that I think about it though, why would the aides actually running the white house want a real leader? Seems like they have it pretty good as it is.

Yup, the same dynamic as the right and immigration. More to gain using as a political football instead. The tactics are from the same, cynical playbook, and partisans are happy to play along when it’s their team.

Subnautica! That’s the first (and better) one IMHO. The sequel is Below Zero.

Might be a little scary for a 4 yo - at least it can be that way for this thirty something.

“They’re just like us!”

Definitely agree it’s not an Illuminati cabal meeting in hoods and masks.

But it’s not not that either - there’s lots of overlap on boards of directors and VCs invested in these companies. They’re in the same circles and probably play golf together. Or, they hang out on the tarmac before their Davos keynotes on saving the world.

Mission Accomplished?

/s

Great call out, I’ve been keeping up with that saga and it seems things never change when it comes to the US state department.

I’m beginning to feel that the instability caused by US hegemony is a feature, not a bug.

This rhetoric is insane and imaginary considering a number of constraints - army mobilization force, their failure to “eliminate” Hamas, escalating and fighting actual armies like Hezbollah. Even the prison ghetto policy obviously failed on October 7th, so what is the substance of their proposed policy here?

Although I suppose if all they need to do is be “parking lot” security guards it could be pretty quiet.

I really hope the US isn’t dumb enough to volunteer our service members to be their new police force.

Years of Saudi air strikes with US weapons systems ended in a victory for the Houthis. Not to mention causing one of the worst humanitarian situations of the 21st century.

WTF does the US think it’s gonna do other than escalate the situation (and continue the next record breaking humanitarian crisis)?

Ahh, that makes sense. I was wondering, “Why the hell are they announcing their zero day to the Internet?”

Ha, I always knew this concept as PEBKAC - problem exists between keyboard and chair.

I’ve used ente on a family plan for the last year and really like it. Although I have the aptitude to run a NAS, the last thing I want to do in my free time is look at a terminal. So for me, ente has been great - pretty plug and play.

Most people have. I was hopeful that the extension on FISA / section 702 would get removed from the NDAA today but it looks like that failed 65-35. I suppose some hope still remains as it works it’s way through the house, and / or the extension ends.

Not holding my breath, though.

Finally. The concept of war crimes being fairly applied, rather than used as a political tool, is easily dismissed when looking at a career like that of Kissinger.

I really enjoyed Behind the Bastard’s six part series on the man, would highly recommend for anyone interested in learning more.

I’m pretty sure that Amazon tried to do this with Kindle a few years ago and got sued by book publishers.

Ahh, it was audible.

It’s only a matter of time though before this sort of thing is ruled on and deals are inked. Open source is already getting pretty far too.

Yeah, modern CPU production is incredible and a pet interest of mine lately. I’d highly recommend the Asianometry YT channel if anyone wants to go deep.

https://youtube.com/@Asianometry

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the coverage of actual diplomatic motions and communications. We are certainly moving out of the pax Americana and into a new multi-polar global order. At this point, I’ll be happy as long as it doesn’t end in nuclear confrontation / apocalypse.