Ramp-up capacity and let us buy some on Ali.

The process through which we get more users is that something material changes in current Tirefire user’s life that puts them over the threshold needed to look for alternative. Then they look. Lemmy is the obvious Reddit alternative, it’s well indexed in search engines. Then they try it. If the quality of content is decent, there’s a decent chance they stay. They know the quantity won’t be as high, that’s the major reason they haven’t switched to begin with. So for this process to keep functioning, we need to maintain the quality.

Of course we should also suggest Lemmy, but probably when asked or otherwise appropriate. Or else it may have the opposite effect that naked shilling often has.

Sounds like pretty standard perf review stuff I’ve seen at other North American corpos I’ve worhed at. Not saying I like it.

Doubt. The resource they want from Mexico is cheap labour. That’s much more difficult to seize with a few strikes than Venezuelan oil. They need to take Morena down from power and install a right wing puppet to depress wages.

Umad Microslop?

I saw another article that said a third country could be any country. I know SAFE aims to decouple in principle but I’m infinitely suspicious of these fuckers (EU, Canadian, etc. politicians) because too often they serve moneyed interests and the US MIC is highly moneyed and connected.

I’m not concerned about buying replacement parts. Given everything we’ve seen, Trump’s government twisting nations’ hands into buying US goods, do you think the US MIC won’t be playing for as much of that fund as they can?

E: This spending would very likely be used to cut on social stability spending so the only way it is conscionable is if it goes towards the development of the MIC of these countries, so the capital is recirculated. Not towards the most overpriced MIC in the world whose political representatives happen to also be threatening our collective territorial integeity and economic stability.

In my opinion. As a Canadian taxpayer holding an EU passport.

Yes. Does this sound like it doesn’t allow for buying US weapons?

Under SAFE, third countries can account for a maximum of 35 percent of the value of a weapons system paid for by the scheme;

Please let’s not buy American weapons with this fund… please…

How do you know it’s a good answer? That requires prior knowledge that you might have. My juniors repeatedly demonstrate they’ve no ability to tell whether an LLM solution is a good one or not. It’s like copying from SO without reading the comments, which they quickly learn not to do because it doesn’t pass code review.

No shit Sherlock. It’s also bad news for Ukraine. And everyone else really. Case in point - the crisis over Greenland. That said Trump is in collab with Putin so it may not be all bad for Russia.

Also I think Scotty/Hotznplotzn/randomname/Sepia/tardigrade have advocated for China banning dual-use exports in the past.

All that makes sense. The whole thing is a bit ironic because Putin tried to do to Zelensky what Trump did to Maduro for similar reasons. Now Zelensky is like - do this to Putin. Even though it could easily be him who gets the treatment, if Putin and Trump agree on it.

The one who has natural resources and labour he doesn’t want to relinquish for US corpos to exploit. 😶‍🌫️

Worth noting that people elected this president in part on the promise to not start wars or do regime changes. Voting for peace did not produce what the voters wanted.

They’re already paying. They’re about to pay more. 😄

This drives everything, doesn’t it. Even when it doesn’t look like it on the surface, look for an upwards redistribution scheme is and you find the logic behind the madness.

WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that’s supposed to enable oil corpos to “invest”?

This is why labour organizing in the US is so important. “Tax” US multinationals by getting much higher wages.

You just wait till they fail to convict Maduro in their own kangaroo court. I’m loading up on popcorn.