Not to go all conspiracy brain or anything, but it’s possible that the US bought some MiG-31 planes from Kazakhstan after the dissolution of the USSR.

Why we aren’t talking about it… I can only speak for myself when I say that I’m over all these alleged airspace violations, they feel like made up reasons for Baltic warhounds to froth at the mouth. And what would Russia gain from acting aggressively against a NATO member?

Flea markets in Berlin can have some good stuff.

I’ve also found Soviet memorabilia at Swiss second hand stores.

Today is the first day of my apprenticeship. I feel too old to be doing this but I needed to start fresh in terms of work.

I haven’t worked 40 hour weeks in years, it just hasn’t been feasible for me in terms of mental health. Unfortunately there’s no other way to do the apprenticeship. I really worry that I won’t have enough time in the day between work, family, household, hobbies, and self-care.

Intel Management Engine is already a back door, and US capital doesn’t need laws to agree to give the US government access to said back doors. They’re on the same side.

We discussed this video last week. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8759857

Academic Agent is his own unique flavour of cryptofascist. He’s probably just questioning the narrative about Stalin as a means to start questioning the narrative about Hitler (or German Moustache Man as he self-censors in a very strange way).

Without knowing what modem you have in mind, what the network load is, or what the ISP requires this may not be helpful, but I can offer an AVM Fritzbox 7560 for free.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

What a read indeed.

He sees the Trot-Neocon pipeline and then makes the leap that this means neocons are actually leftists!

Yeah this guy is really out there, definitely a cryptofascist but with his own flair. He’s funny to read until you get to the comments and realize people take him seriously.

He says things like (to paraphrase) “anti fascism is anything that’s against the defence of tradition, home and hearth, cultural heritage, tribe or people, hierarchy” and (to quote) “what is called ‘Progress’ in most cases is entropy and a sign of moral decline.” And thinks that self-censoring his use of “Nazis” and “Hitler” somehow makes him cool or something (and hides the strong possibility that he likes them).

Thank you!

Great essay, thanks for sharing! Could you please link the German original?

Also just from my personal social circles, all the moms I know are wage-labouring as much as they can. Cost of living isn’t getting any cheaper and family benefits exist but only serve to paper over the gap for a short time. The only things holding working moms back from working more (out of necessity) are lack of childcare and the so-called “part time trap.”

Other German politicians and think tanks have also suggested enticing retirees to return to work, aside from the usual noise of constantly raising the retirement age.

I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I’m using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can’t get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don’t load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn’t helped. Can’t even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it’s basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don’t have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

And yet it took until 2020 for any MSM to report that all of Crypto AG’s equipment was backdoored and that it was indeed a CIA cutout the whole time. That information was available since at least 1993 when the West German intelligence sold its share to the CIA and the Swiss government as well as some reporters caught wind of it.

I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

The “maintaining privacy” is just a bit. It’s about gaining complete access to everyone’s private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.

/s