In Matthew McConaughey’s voice:

I was doomscrolling before there was scrolling.

Yes, it’s a sockpuppet troll with many accounts. This is one of the newer ones.

“For me, any change for us will be better than what we are living through, because what we are experiencing is not humane,” Isben Peralta told CBC News in a phone interview during a blackout.

This is the point of sanctions. Get people to suffer so much so they come to accept anything in order to stop the pain.

Trying not to fall for it on a moral and idealist level isn’t enough. The far-right groups are gaining momentum because they’re offering more prosperity to the people of their respective countries than the status quo. The foreign funding provides fuel to their ability to operate but their promise is what gets them real numbers. This promise is not going to be fulfilled long term since it doesn’t address the real problems. But that won’t stop people from trying it. There’s a very real possibility that their message will still gain overwhelming support even if the foreign funding is cut (which should absolutely be cut). People are entirely capable of funding popular political movements themselves. Not to mention domestic corporate interests coming onboard. This is why I think the real medicine is a material alternative for increased prosperity beyond the status quo. Increasing the retirement age to pay for tax cuts in the age of automation is the opposite of that.

But the European right has prior art in the domain. Surely they know their histor… Oh. 😂

You can move your mouse over them. 😆

Well they finally delivered a decent camera. That’s what made me buy one. It’s a step down from a Pixel 8 Pro but not a huge one.

A Perplexity knockoff?

If a power user, perhaps. But for a good UX enjoyers:

$ bluetoothctl devices

$ bluetoothctl

$ virt-manager

This is the kind of thing I’ve been waiting for. Looks brand new. Is there anything more mature or this is the first of its kind?

Can’t vaccinate my ZFS pool against it…

Apparently owned by PEPSI 🤭

Shush

Another symptom of the collapse of the model

An international airport without fuel for weeks is an exceptional and very uncommon situation in countries with functioning economies. In the case of Cuba, this adds to a context marked by daily blackouts, rampant inflation, shortages of food and medicine, a standstill in tourism, and mass emigration. The inability to guarantee fuel for civil aviation not only jeopardizes the country’s connectivity with the outside world, but also highlights the logistical collapse of a model incapable of sustaining basic strategic services. While the regime insists on blaming external factors, the facts demonstrate a deep crisis that is already isolating Cuba, even by air.

There’s also this gem of a paragraph.

44TB (SMR)

Completely agree. A lot of countries were on some path or another of dealing with liberal capitalism’s collapse that gave us The Great Depression. The propaganda you mention steered these changes right back to the right - towards oligarch class dominance over working people, like it used to be before the depression. Unsurprisingly we find ourselves in a situation very reminiscent to the pre-depression environment.

Yeah, you’re probably right. Just looked at unionization rate and it’s around 16%. Workers won’t see much from this investment.

Funny exerpt from wiki:

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the U.S. Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions, but reversed course as part of broader anti-Communist measures.

Takaichi is known for favouring proactive government spending. She supports heavy government investment in critical strategic sectors in what she refers to as “crisis management investment”. These include artificial intelligence, semiconductors, nuclear fusion, biotechnology, and defence.

Her other policies aside, the economic one looks like a winner.