deleted by creator

deleted by creator

I have to believe he wanted to do something of a “suicide by enemy fire.” No way he was up for the kind of detainment and “enhanced interrogation” they’re gonna put him through.

Honestly, I’m just back to multiple apps. I work with people from all over, so I have like 7 different apps. Ah well.

I’ve been using it for a while. I stopped.

My two issues were security concerns because Beeper needs to unencrypt my data from all platforms to re-encrypt it to send it to me, which sounds like a huge single point of failure; and regular connection issues where I had to switch back to the original app.

Great concept, but not quite there yet.

A crypto company turns out to be shady? Who would have thought!

I treat them as sports team insofar as I hope that the stadium catches on fire and collapses on both of them in the middle of the match.

I think you’re right. And I think NATO wants Russia to completely commit to a war they can’t win until the government collapses and/or rethinks its global strategy.

I was in China last month where mask-wearing is frequent and not stigmatized. They had a surge of Covid cases, so I wore a mask on public transport. It’s a total no-brainer there.

Back in Canada, I don’t wear it as much because I’d be in much less trouble if I caught it here. Still wore one when visiting an aging relative in a medical facility.

I have to believe this is just posturing for the people at home on the part of Zelenskyy. He has to know immediate membership of Ukraine into NATO means direct war with Russia leading to nuclear escalation, as Ukraine would immediately invoke Article 5.

Just saying “Ukraine will be invited to NATO once the conflict is over” is enough; it means whatever territory Russia gets to keep over the course of this conflict is it, because then Ukraine becomes NATO territory. It forces Russia to try and win it all (which they can’t) because there won’t be another invasion of Ukraine.

Oh, I see! I misread the article. Good news!

It sounds like Erdogan is saying this is conditional on the EU reopening talks about Turkiye joining. Is that even happening?

The terrible message is precisely that NATO is only defensive in theory, but is willing to expand into the Pacific to defend a territory that is nowhere near its original purview.

The problem with the “purely defensive” argument is that historically, NATO Article 5 has been invoked to declare a war on a country that only indirectly threatened a NATO ally’s regional stability. That’s how NATO ended up bombing Serbia, which was doing despicable things to Albanians, but was not threatening NATO sovereignty to a degree that justifies Article 5.

Add these two together and China’s opposition to a NATO presence in the Pacific makes a whole lot of sense.

deleted by creator

It’s only a war crime if it comes from the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. Otherwise it’s an unfortunate but necessary defense strategy.

Except we all know the U.S. is aggressively containing China. NATO getting into the China containment business sends a terrible message.

The hell does NATO need a presence in the Pacific for.

AI datasets can be built by scrubbing web content and doesn’t require API access.

This is about making sure Reddit controls the user experience and users can’t, say, block their ads or hide Reddit awards. It’s also a cold (and short-sighted) calculation: some people are making money from our product without sharing our costs, better kill them.

I hate to be a pessimist, but it’s not gonna work.

Most big subs will reopen, and those that don’t will get their moderators replaced. The bulk of the user base is gonna switch to the official app and meme about how bad it is right on Reddit and get Reddit Gold for it.

I’m still gonna stick to either Lemmy or Kbin. I like the smaller community here; it reminds me of Reddit’s olden days when everyone wasn’t a cynical asshole.