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- Comment on U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access 1 week ago:
This lays bare the actual reasoning and motives for US “aid” around the world: to wield power and obtain leverage.
Samantha Power, the former director of USAID, also laid bare how the US weaponizes humanitarian aid by masking its strategic interests with the rhetoric of altruism. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Power acknowledged that the agency has “generated vast stores of political capital” in the countries where it works and uses its leverage to bolster American financial interests, like helping a US company “enter a new market.” New Jersey Senator Andy Kim, a Democrat who once worked for USAID, was even more blunt. “USAID isn’t charity,” he wrote in a post on X. “It’s a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment. Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.”
- Comment on BYD's latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes 2 weeks ago:
Tenuous, sourcelesa statement alone - that has no bearing on automotive batteries which use different battery chemistry, design choices, and validation processes. Apples to oranges.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Russia’s been relying on secondary kinds of manpower like one time mercenaries or now conscription of Ukrainians when they can.
Wait, let me get this straight. You think the conscription officers in this video are Russians?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you get attacked it’s your own citizens who make up the army
“An army is comprised of citizens”
“The army ought to kidnap people off the street and send them into the grinder against their will”
Are two very different concepts. You dont think those are really the same, do you?
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 months ago:
Yeah I should’ve mentioned my last 2 are single player. We took turns after each death and it was super enjoyable. Using the controller and navigating is only half the battle with those two games. The other half is just brainstorming and planning a solution to the puzzle.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 months ago:
Overcooked
Super mario 3d world
Limbo
Inside
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 4 months ago:
Damn girl, you shit with that ass?
let me tongue punch that fart box
i see youre a fellow arborist, what’s your favorite thing about [tree in pic]
Or really anything other than a milquetoast expression of horniness. Could try to be funny, could try to be genuine… honestly “nice ass” is very low effort. This person is probably getting 20 of those a day. You need to stand out.
- Comment on What was I thinking? 5 months ago:
This kills the fuel pump.
- Comment on Bed 5 months ago:
Ain’t an AI photo, is it?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Have you since tried Viva New Vegas? It is apparently well supported and stable.
- Comment on ... 5 months ago:
Oof, ILS is a menace.
Paddlers of invisible carpet rolls.
- Comment on Kinesi Protein 6 months ago:
Making my way downtown
- Comment on The Mouse meets The Beast 6 months ago:
Don’t lie to me Walt, you sussy baka.
- Comment on Footage showing the assassination of former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy, has surfaced online. 6 months ago:
Meh, it appears this dude was a Nazi and one of the original architects of the Social-National Party of Ukraine.
…wikipedia.org/…/Social-National_Party_of_Ukraine
The dudes’ career section on Wikipedia is just a list of Neo-Nazi, ultra nationalist orgs.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 7 months ago:
They also claimed 7 out of every 10 Nazis killed in WWII, and by all accounts at the time, contributed the most to winning the war.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 7 months ago:
Wouldn’t that count as slave labour?
Not according to the Allies at the Yalta conference.
By the late 1940s, the only people claiming that the labor enjoyed by the Soviets at the hands of captured Nazis was “slavery” - were Nazis.
By all allied accounts, using German labor to pay reparations was deemed acceptable given how the Soviets had just sacrificed 27 million people.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 7 months ago:
The difference is that the Americans rolled out a red carpet for the Nazis and offered employment contracts. The Soviets showed up one night and kidnapped nearly 7000 nazis at gunpoint, and then forced them to work to pay reparations. Based.
- Comment on Which way? 7 months ago:
Yeah the science is above my head but I believe usually after they rip out the nail (be it whole nail or a strip), they will apply a cotton ball of phenol to the bed and that is supposed to stop the nail from coming back. It failed to do so 3 times in my case, albeit on two different toes.
- Comment on Which way? 7 months ago:
Fair, edited to bring the final choice back to podiatrist.
- Comment on Which way? 7 months ago:
To anyone who gets this: do not let the podiatrist convince you to do the partial removal. Ie, removing a tiny strip from one or both sides of the nail. It is HIGHLY likely it will get bad again. Have them do a full phenol cauterization and remove the entire nail. You dont need it, and you’ll be better off without it. However, I’m no doctor.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 7 months ago:
Which has nothing to do with the myth of a social credit score…
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 7 months ago:
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 7 months ago:
So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.
merics.org/…/chinas-social-credit-score-untanglin…
Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.
- Comment on Off topic 8 months ago:
Turning up the center channel gives you more dialog. But that assumes you’ve got surround sound set up… Producers don’t give as much love to stereo setups these days.
- Comment on Off topic 8 months ago:
*Laughs in Dolby 5.1 with high quality Remuxes that have a center channel.
Seriously though, you can’t blame them. Audio production these days is engineered for theaters and surround sound. Most of Gen z is watching this content in stereo - either through phone speakers or shitty TV speakers.
- Comment on Peak male form 9 months ago:
That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 9 months ago:
Pretty much every component in a car these days has some sort of microcontroller. They use software to lock you out of repairing things that have no business being locked behind software. In your example, even suspension tuning is locked behind software for Teslas.
- Comment on Be sure to count your turns 10 months ago:
There’s a remote risk of this catastrophic failure happening due to bad maintenance, installation, or building, but there’s no risk of this happening due to normal rotation/swing. In other words, assuming the machine is in good working order and used for realistic applications, this will never happen.
Here’s a video that explains how excavators achieve infinite swing angle without tangling the hydraulic hoses that go to the motors in the tracks. The dude in the video knows his stuff.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 11 months ago:
Same. I had to look it up. In doing my deep research, I learned that they used an EKG on Jonny P II to confirm his expiration. That shit’s hilarious. It was someone’s job to EKG that OBVIOUSLY dead corpse, lol.
- Comment on A bit of salt makes it taste more savory 11 months ago:
Do you think there has been an ongoing genocide in Gaza since Oct 7?
The way you poke fun at the term is psychotic, frankly. I.e. “HolOCauST”
