If Iran still has a functional missile program, might hit an oil target in Saudi Arabia to restart peace negotiations.

This is the US AG talking about people ignoring the stock market during a hearing on Epstein - https://youtu.be/a7yv4fpfDbs. Some of Epstein’s victims are sitting behind her while she’s doing this.

Savage.

If you thought R&D can’t or won’t be outsourced…

Eat your free soup.

Phil’s in need of some Marx.

Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.

No, I’ve been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian. Some day when very bored, maybe in retirement I’ll try Plasma again. 😆

I’m using Tailscale plus the built-in RDP in GNOME with the Remmina client.

Compiz intensifies

I feel for you so I gave you an upvote. Here’s a hug too: 🤗

No question. I feel like by this point the problems with free trade should be obvious to most economic managers. This is why I’m a bit shocked at some of their statements against Buy European. They sound like they’re afraid making trade less free is a dangerous change.

Yeah, I don’t understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster’s behaviour.

Are some of these people really that ideological true believers in free trade? This looks irrational to me.

When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢

S0iX

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.