What’s that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).

At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.

Yeah, keep making jokes. Your country is circling the fascist toilet while you make checks notes an average of 17.5 Lemmy shitpost comments a day.

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The Internet Archive. No need to reinvent the wheel. Have a discussion with them - set up a new project. Boom - everyone’s mods hosted in perpetuity by a free digital library.

Since mods are almost exclusively unable to be copyrighted nowadays, there is a very good chance the Internet Archive would be more than happy to host the mod data - as they have with many community projects.

I’m not sure and would like to know too. But I do believe it’s much less common for the uterus to be moved outside the body during Caesarian (exteriorization), the standard is intra-abdominal repair - ie repaired in place by surgery. Exteriorization is an older practice done due to surgical simplicity, and it’s fallen out of favour due to various risk factors it adds. Latest metal analysis I found on it with that recommendation from a 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34811700/

Dude I hope it’s popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:

New feature: Fash Block.

We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile.

Yeah i dont get it either. In a normal country the guy who shot the other person dead would be under arrest for manslaughter, or grievous bodily harm (or equivalent) at best. It’d be the job of the DA to decide if a charge would proceed, or a jury to decide if the charge is valid.

They killed a guy by firing unsafely into a crowded area, and they are from what I can read - a volunteer in a green vest, whom was asked by event organizers not to carry a gun. Not law enforcement, not hired security, no guarantee they have any weapons training - yet they’re apparently fine to shoot people they deem a threat and walk off home-free, even if they accidentally shot someone else dead. “Oh, that was your dad? My bad - I missed”.

Fair point to make, and look when I see most people on Lemmy talk about war they generally have the maturity to say they are against the leaders or government rather than every inhabitant of the country themselves. There are of course outliers on any large community, but generally I see people say “Putin is bad” and share desire for him and his government to answer to their crimes, rather than dismiss all Russians as evil/bad/etc.

The additional hour might be the time they have to work so that they can pay for the LLM access.

Because that is another aspect of what LLMs really are, another Silicon Valley rapid-scale venture capital money-pit service hoping that by the time they’ve dominated the market and spent trillions they can turn around and squeeze their users hard.

Only trouble for fighting this with logic is that the market they’re attempting to wipe out is people’s ability to assess data and think critically.

I dont believe in determinism. This guy was dealt a bad hand his whole life, no doubt - that can provide context for his choices but it doesn’t excuse them. He was in a squad with three other Russians that were all ex-inmates also, they were surprised when he executed this Ukrainian that surrendered. There are hundreds of thousands of ex-inmates fighting for Russia, not all of them are committing warcrimes.

I’m glad the journalist included his backstory. But there are absolutely people who lack empathy and could care less who they kill, regardless of background and upbringing.

This guy will face life in prison in Ukraine if found guilty, and will very likely be traded to Russia in a POW swap in future. His victim and their family gets no chance at a happy ending.

You’re wrong. Targeted assassination of political enemies is the use of violence against non-combatants for political/ideological aims. It’s textbook terrorism.

They’re careful not to label it as terrorism because once you get on the back foot and admit that one white MAGA guy attempting (and succeeding) in killing a Democrat is terrorism then you have to admit that the tens of thousands of others who are threatening it should also be monitored and treated as serious threats - and they absolutely do not want to do that as they know that white conservatives are the majority of domestic terror threats in the US.

Man, I hope that guy has a tasty hat.

Caesarian is absolutely not ‘much more dangerous’ for mother and child, cite some evidence. 32% of all births in the US are caesarian, about the same in the UK, and over 50% of those are emergency c-sections after natural childbirth has proven impossible and the doctors have had to step in to save the mother and baby from death or lifelong injury or disability.

“Delivering a baby via cesarean section is generally considered safe, and in some instances is medically necessary and safer than a vaginal birth”

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/how-many-c-sections-can-you-have

“The data shocked the study’s head author, Darine El-Chaâr, a perinatal researcher at the Ottawa hospital. In the planned vaginal birth group, there was a higher percentage of negative outcomes compared with the MRC [maternal-request, non-emergency c-section] group, driven by serious vaginal tears and babies admitted to intensive care. “I myself am challenged by the data,” she says, underlining that she believes vaginal birth is natural. “I wanted it to be the other way around.””

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/13/caesareans-or-vaginal-births-should-mothers-or-medics-have-the-final-say

Yes, sadly we have social media access in Australia too, and the same loony shit that glues eyeballs to screens in the US and makes people choose poorly has the same affect here.

50% seems like an overstatement, but who cares if the hospital uses c-sections regularly? Much like people’s lower jaws are evolving to be smaller over time and we’re experiencing many health issues related to teeth overcrowding (due to people having processed food and needing to chew hard foods less often) - we’re experiencing changes in childbirth too. Women are having children much later in life in western nations, which causes narrower pelvises, and they’re having heavier babies… Both of which lead to much higher likelihood of natural birth complications, especially when you factor in the obesity epidemic. So yes, c-sections are becoming more common - to ensure the child and mother are safe through the birth.

So wild to me that I interpreted it as an allyship at first. “Oh that’s nice i guess, he’s wearing black because so many black people are shot by the police or something…”. And then I read further and realised how wrong I was.

Vice signalling - all the rage under president Felon.

Its just as risky for a non-American buying from a US company. And despite what others have said, customs can be a point of interception. But it’s not customs you need to worry about, they hand-off to the spy agencies to do their thing when they get a valid order to do so. Example program:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

Like others have said though, your threat model is what’s important. And if you are a person of interest to security agencies eg a whistleblower or journalist then you’d be wise to have someone you know make the purchase instead of you.

I’d be more concerned about Chinese products in general, as they have been caught again and again with pre-embedded untargeted malware. Meaning, everyone who ordered that model got a helping of malware, not just those under active surveillance by three letter agencies.

A few examples in this blog entry: https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2018/05/23/flawed-by-design-electronics-with-pre-installed-malware/

If you’re not a person of interest though then you are 99.99% safe. You could always reinstall the OS when you get it and ensure the bootloader is locked. Again that would keep everyone except state security agencies out.

I’m not saying the election wasn’t stolen, but there are a lot of data points tying individuals and businesses together (which is not hard when they’re all billionaires and massive multinational companies), and not really any hard data proving the crime occurred. No evidence that UPS software updates have been used to install malware (malware would be needed to gain ‘root access’), no evidence that StarLink devices can interact with cellular devices in ballot machines. No evidence of anything really, not even enough evidence to get a warrant to subpoena communications or look through firmware/software code.

I could probably piece together a story with just as many convincing links with any arbitrarily-chosen Billionaire, given enough time.

If they had hard evidence of any of what they’re accusing, it would be world headline news. I hope they find it - but until then this is about as convincing as the ‘very big evidence’ of election tampering in 2016 by Dominion that Mike Lindell claimed he was about to drop on the public for several years.

This is important because unthinking tribalism pushes anyone on the fence away from wanting to hear your position, and we don’t need any more people pushed to the right.

Like when Trump torpedoed the Trans-Pacific Partnership - which would have meant all involved countries would have fallen under (globally draconian) US intellectual propery law and other controversial changes. In short, it was a huge win for corporations an a huge loss for consumer rights. Trump torpedoed it because it wasn’t “putting America first” enough. So, although he stopped it for a stupid reason - it was great that he stopped it anyway.

It was of course renegotiated a few years later as the ‘Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’, but notably with almost all of the intellectual property crap removed or vastly de-fanged, and various other controversial provisions removed - and that agreement passed. So it was a lasting win.

But if you ever say 'i hate Trump, but not everything Trump has done is bad because… ', you are still likely to get a hundred Lemmy downvotes even if you explain why. Hopefully people can learn that you don’t have to disagree and disavow someone/some entity all of the time just because you disagree with them in general. A win is a win and it’s ok to say ‘hey actually that’s good’, it doesn’t mean you support or like them - it just means you think they made one good decision.

Ah, all good. I didn’t downvote either way, just commented to try to make sense of the discussion. Sarcasm or facetious language is easily lost over text - thanks for clarifying