UA media is being their cool, cryptic self about it and redditors are eating it up.

I meant more like how including liberal premises of how the world works into media. But I guess that only means it was made by liberals with their worldview. I still experience it as propaganda though, maybe cause I’m just sick of it.

Accidents happen.

From January to November 2023, the Chinese shipbuilding industry’s output climbed 12.3 percent year-on-year to 38.09 million deadweight tons, accounting for more than half of the world’s total, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Chinese shipbuilders also commanded global orders with 134.09 million deadweight tons, or 53.4 percent of the world’s market share, over the same period, a 29.4 percent year-on-year increase, according to the official statistics.

They produce half of all the ships on the planet. Then it stands to reason that half of all the shipbuilding accidents would also happen there (more or less).

Just like with the failed test launch of the Russian missile. Western media was gloating. But anyone whose brain hasn’t atrophied yet would think “it’s a test launch, that’s why they do test launches.”

Speaking of media, and going back to China, when it was first reported the headlines made it sound as if a Chinese nuclear submarine sunk. Usual implication being that it sunk out at sea. e.g. China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization

I often think Hezbollah should have attacked Israel on or right after October 7. But then I think “who am I to wish war, death and destruction upon the people of that region?” because that attack probably would have triggered a regional war with the involvement of the US. I think Iran has a big say in what Hezbollah does and they are afraid of Israel. And rightfully so, Israel has the ability to nuke Iran.

Killing the leadership of Hezbollah doesn’t make them any less effective. If the report is true, then new leadership is already in place. They know exactly who is to replace whom when these things happen.

And then you storm off to play the piano and solve math problems?

That’s pretty funny, and tragic.

NewPipe does.

Did someone use AI to write a whole book?

Her endorsement of Kamala Harris shut down that community real quick. Hasn’t been a post in the 15 days since Taylor’s post lol

I don’t understand the angle of “Punishment” because anyone who fucking says that has never spent a single day in jail. If you have, then you’ll know that spending an entire lifetime there is more than enough to punish you for whatever tf you did.

In this case the judicial angle isn’t punishment, but completion. They can now “close the case”. If he were released, then the case would still remain open (and unsolved), which looks bad on their record/statistics. Now they (the DA/police) got +1 solved/closed cases.

Another possibility is that the actual perpetrator is well-connected or known to the DA, so they threw this guy under the bus.

If you want to think “wtf?” for an hour and a half watch the documentary The Thin Blue Line (1988). The subject of the documentary was actually exonerated after the documentary came out (but received 0 dollars as compensation).

Spotify sucks. Youtube sucks. MP3s suck.

https://newpipe.net/ (for mobile, playlists, background play, no ads)

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube (desktop youtube app, no ads)

If you have an android phone, you can just seach for “Spotify premium apk” and you can find a cracked Spotify premium.

But if music is “your thing”, then there really is no substitute for the library of FLACs available on private torrent trackers for music. What.CD has been down 8 years now (rip), but RED and OPS exist.

You can pass an interview on IRC to get into the trackers. The interview is a short test about file formats, rules and transcoding, they give you the page where to learn it all.

https://interviewfor.red/en/starting.html

https://interview.orpheus.network/starting-the-interview.php

For a lossy format alternative to mp3 try (ogg) vorbis.

Try private torrent trackers, they have rules on tags/labels as well as quality control. It is much better to rip from FLAC -> 256kbps mp3 than it is to rip from 320kbps mp3 -> 256kbps mp3.

nobody pirates FLACs these days

There’s two private trackers for music full of FLACs: RED and OPS

I’ll watch it. I also found a recent (2023) paper by two economists/Marxists in China, among other things.

David Axe

That guy’s a clown.

Literally.

“How much Vuhledar is worth to either side is a matter of debate … it’s possible Bohoyavlenka, a few miles to the north, could perform the same function”

Are they buying facebook ads again?

I couldn’t find the meme I was thinking of, so I made this one in the same spirit.

the one playing Taylor Swift music