Just put some money into advanced sailing ship tech and in a decade we’ll have advanced clippers with many more seamen needed.

There’s at least still debate that the nukes significantly impacted the diplomatic process, unlike the firebombing of Tokyo which killed more people and didn’t move the needle on Japan’s commitment to the war at all.

The training data contains writing that downplays the negative impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, probably along with a healthy dose of writing from people like Douglas MacArthur and Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay, evangelists of the tactical use of nuclear weapons and the belief that sufficient bombing would “break” the will of an enemy (despite zero examples of that happening until the use of nukes on Japan.)

I don’t know a lot about Sudan but I think part of the focus on Palestine is the near universal support for Israel from western industrialized nations. There doesn’t seem to be the same situation with Sudan.

Family of Secrets is such a goddamned mindfuck. That plus Chaos (about the ties between MKULTRA and Charles Manson) made my summer a few years back real freaky.

Please, she is a freedom fighter.

Purple Man should be labeled “billionaire elites.”

I was going to say, image macros recontextualize the original image but usually not to the point of reversing the original meaning.

I was being like 99% facetious and the 1% serious has more to do with how eMacs updates are distributed as compared to Notepad++. To your point, any non-vetted packages would be a huge source of risk, and even vetted packages should be monitored.

eMacs wasn’t compromised!

When I read a summary of a film before I go to watch it, I don’t assume that I have absorbed the intensity of an actor’s performance. I have been disappointed too many times by excessively long YouTube videos to spent an hour and a half without knowing what the general content of the video is.

ITT: deliberately unhelpful comments.

You know why text summaries are good? If I read a thesis statement and go “yup, I agree with the thesis and know enough about the major points raised to skip this” I save NINETY FUCKING MINUTES of my life. Alternatively, if I see something in the summary that piques my interest, I can watch the video to get more detail.

Cheaper than the Makhno look with the $900 pants.

All good points. FCPX was by all accounts a major step back from FCP, the comparison I heard the most was that it was basically iMovie.

Also, wasn’t the main selling point of FCPX that it was cheaper? I feel like they sold it for ~$100 for a long time. Going from that to $129/yr is bullshit.

So, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that part of US support for Israel is to have a destabilizing force in the Middle East. Israel and the US both backed various forces in Syria and Lebanon, because it serves the purpose of destabilization to have basket case pseudo states that are crippled by internal conflict. It would not be a stretch to argue that Mossad has sponsored at least some of the groups involved in the current uprising in Iran.

However, if there was not a popular movement against the current theocratic regime, mossad would have nothing to sponsor. Cuba didn’t rise up in revolt against Castro despite tons of CIA funding because the majority of Cubans (the ones who stayed in Cuba at least) felt that whatever Castro’s faults, his government was better than whatever the US would put in place.

The issue in Iran is that (like in Syria a few years ago, or in…Iran in 1978) you could have a situation where multiple groups want the current regime gone but don’t agree on what comes next. That’s what happened in Syria which led to a dozen or more factions fighting for control, and it’s what happened when the Shah was overthrown in Iran, leading to the current theocracy.

I know this is just emphasizing it but I don’t know how anyone saw “white lives matter” as anything other than anti-black rhetoric.

Like, I can believe that a genuinely ignorant but well-intentioned liberal thought “all lives matter” was valid because they were more concerned with being nice than real justice, but “white lives matter” could never be anything other than racist.

100%

That grass is not native to the environment, maybe not to any environment, and it’s maintained by the use of clean drinkable water and enough herbicides and pesticides to commit a war crime.

I picture a bunch of grass that’s not doing anything useful. If golf changed the rules to mandate native plants for courses, naturally maintained (eg, no lawnmowers or sprinklers) I’d be slightly less than 100% opposed to its continued existence but that seems unlikely.

A food forest.

The second is Stalin, not Mussolini.