Real “What is Propaganda?” inside a single headline.

In June, Britain said it would provide 150,000 drones to Ukraine by the end of 2026 as part ⁠of a £752 million ($996 million) funding package.

Isn’t Ukraine doing a better job of building drones, to the point where they’re trying to export the weapons abroad?

I would be curious to know this uptime relative to any other self-hosted sites.

I remember Reddit and Twitter constantly suffering from uptime issues and they were far more decentralized, with modern infrastructure to match.

Is 95.2% all that far out of the realm of expectation?

odd i didnt know female (the majority of the population) bathrooms had pee troughs…

Women’s restrooms regularly overcrowd because they don’t

I can kind of understand why places like women’s domestic violence shelters and women’s prisons need a legal definition of “woman” in order to define who is allowed in them

I’ve found that a lot of these policies are a legacy of affirmative action in response to the historic gulf in wealth between women and men.

They don’t exist to keep men out. They exist to give women in abusive relationships a place to go without facing homelessness.

One might argue that gay men and trans-people can find themselves in exactly the same kind of relationships, for exactly the same reasons.

lmao a piss trough in a baseball stadium is quite the strawman my dude.

I don’t think you know what a strawman is. But this need to hide people from one another while they piss and poop is a big part of what feeds the anti-trans hysteria.

Not gonna yuk your yum but microdosing golden showers is not something most people are into.

This is why people traditionally wash their hands after using the toilet.

They hated their own 2024 presidential candidate Chase Oliver so much for being gay that there was an attempt by many in the party to replace him with Trump

I’m intimately familiar with Texas Libertarians, having family who are actively involved in the state party. They were woo’d by Trump pretty much day one of his campaign. So much of modern southern libertarianism is just a mask over the Neo-Confederate ideology that went out of style under Bush Jr.

Chase Oliver only won the nomination in 2024, because so many self-proclaimed libertarians had defected back to the GOP already. The folks whining about the nomination wanted to have their GOP affiliation and eat their Libertarian cake, too. And while he took a ton of cheap heat for his sexual orientation, the real thing that made Chase a target for ire is that he wasn’t a closed borders militant white supremacist psycho.

Libertarians used to be at the forefront of individuality and personal liberties

The party has always worn two faces. One face pointed towards the liberals, which promised weed and free love and no more wars. Another face towards the Dixiecrat south, which promised Jim Crow and indentured servitude and CSAM.

Love my NORML libertarians, but I quickly recognized this group was not for me when I spent a weekend at the state convention way back in 2012.

I guarantee you can fight more people around one of those pee-troughs at a baseball stadium than you can fit individual toilets separated by walls and doors.

Hell, the entire appeal of the standing urinal is to conserve space.

bathrooms would be single rooms with nothing but a toilet

Hope you’re ready to wait in a hella-long line.

If were gonna police anything in the bathrooms it should be hand washing.

angry libertarian noises

Beginning to suspect these laws exist to criminals the existence of transgender people.

the Polish government, and the people largely too, seem genuinely convinced the US will help in case of a Russian attack.

The best it can count on is EU support, assuming any attack occurs before the next anti-EU government is in office.

We’ve seen a number of Russian rockets land on Polish soil. We’ve seen flyovers. We’ve seen sabotage and other espionage.

Poland gets a Gulf of Tonkin once a week. Shy of a T-90 showing up in Rzeszów, I’m not sure what else they’re waiting for.

Very funny to literally link to Pravda for News You Can Trust.

Given how much of the Ukrainian supplies are getting backed up into Poland and the number of strikes that have landed around the Polish border, it’s largely an artifice of political expediency that nobody has found cause belli to date.

Idk how that is going to change moving forward. Is NATO really committed to backing Poland up if they enter a shooting war with Russia? Or will this be Greece/Turkiye all over again? Cause without NATO, I can’t imagine Poland doing anything now then they already have.

Really the problem is not cs degrees being bad its that bachelors degrees are not all that useful in general any more.

I’ve worked at a few places that won’t touch you without one. But the GPA also counts for a lot. Anything under a 3.0 regularly gets ignored. For the bigger firms, it can go up to 3.5

I had a weak GPA and took a job at a real bottom of the barrel company. But after five years, it was just “oh, this guy can hold a steady job” and degree/GPA stopped mattering.

In my experience, people can start as server or network admins and pivot over pretty easily.

The skills continue to have plenty of value, even if the official title isn’t a hot hire. As soon as your office gets hit with a ransomware attack, you can write your own salary.

Not nearly as bad as the now headline news presents.

Tech unemployment is still just about the lowest of any industry. Pay remains competitive (although nothing like the $200k entry level jobs of the 1990s). The labor demand is definitely growing, both domestically and globally.

Silicon Valley is shedding jobs. But if you go chase a job at EPIC up in Wisconsin or JP Morgan out in New York or take a job at Deloitte or SAP or Schlumberger, you’ll find them. Look for positions in the airline or finance or real estate or energy industries, there’s a superabundance of work and a perpetual shortage of labor.

Most of these big corporate outfits are glued to Microsoft products, though. Oracle also remains a popular database environment. Or they’re using some proprietary nonsense - Dell Boomi for visual programming of interfaces or UIPath for botting or some other ill-conceived overpriced insanity.

But - at least where I’m sitting - AI hasn’t replaced shit. My office is still trying to implement Agile and we’re a Fortune 100 company. Most firms are way behind the curve. Don’t let the hype cycle fool you.

What does that have to do with the drm mandate being easy to get around?

You can get around the DRM mandate with a bicycle. That doesn’t mean you’ve solved the underlying problem

Very important to know the difference and be clear eyed about it

I’m not sure honestly sure what your point is

3D printers produce plastic crap.

It’s helpful to understand what you actually have control over, rather than confusing good fortune for savvy decision making.