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  • US threatens Britain over Falklands

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  • Well, I did call it a 'late night fever dream'.

    But any politician who advocates starting war should be required to be at the front line themselves, or their of-age children, no exceptions. That would put a damper on chicken-hawks like Drumpf, who dodged service himself.

  • US threatens Britain over Falklands

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  • Late night fever dream.

    BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

    1. No person shall be eligible for the highest office of nation, nor of their highest houses ('Congress', 'Senate', 'Parliament', or equivalent ruling body) unless they have at least one child of age eligible to serve active duty in their military at the time of attaining office, or are themselves eligible for active duty;
    2. Nation, upon entering a state of War, declared or undeclared, incursion, 'liberation mission', 'limited operation', or any other such terms causing military operation against another nation, triggers a mandatory enlistment and deployment of ALL politicians enacting said state of conflict, and their eligible children. This shall apply to the highest and second-highest leadership, as well as those of their highest houses; for service to enter active duty immediately, to be placed on the first offensive line, and remaining on active lines of conflict until their tour of duty is fully served, or their death, whichever occurs first;
    3. If the opposing nation does not have this same policy in effect, the first and foremost objective of nation, being in conflict with demonstrated cowards, shall be to eliminate the children of opposing cowardly nation's leadership, followed by the cowardly leaders themselves;
    4. The preceding clauses logically imply that any opposing nation should carefully consider if they are to engage in unprompted aggression against our great nation, and are strongly encouraged to adopt this same statute for the protection of their own leaders and their families.

  • How bout that

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  • Exactly. Would live on rice & beans just out of spite, rather than go back to a company that laid me off for AI, unless they 2-3x my previous pay rate.

  • Trump hid in catering cart to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat – reports

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  • Clever if true, but this trick only works once, and now it's out in the open.

    All nations contemplating assassinations now:

    Noted. If attempting to take out a leader-in-transit, don't just target the Presidential/Royal plane, target the support aircraft and any others that might exchange 'catering carts' on the tarmac as well, in case Dear Leader is stowing away on one of those.

  • Runk

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  • and tcc, which while maybe not as 'important', is extremely cool.

  • RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

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  • sit down!

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  • Hah, no idea... I just grabbed the first/best image link I could find :)

  • sit down!

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  • I like the cut of your jib, sir

  • Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt

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  • Enron got nothing on these crooks.

  • S&P downgrades Oracle stock to BBB-

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  • I haven't watched "The Big Short" in a long time... but aren't BBB- rated things "dogshit wrapped in catshit"?

  • Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion

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  • So is c/hackernews just the "all AI, all the time" community?

    Time for me to un-join and block I guess.

  • Why write code in 2026

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  • I can't stand these AI boosters. I got into programming precisely BECAUSE I enjoyed working through the logic; crafting the code, seeing and understanding how it worked. Crafting it with my own mind. "AI" was supposed to un-burden us from the things we don't enjoy, not take over the things we do enjoy and make us into reverse-centaurs just steering (or being steered by) some statistical model.

    As far as I'm concerned, a programmer that wants to build things but never look at the code, really wants deep down to be a manager, not a programmer or computer scientist. Maybe that's fine, but they should be honest about it with others and themselves.

  • Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

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  • Kill this with fire. I have had to deal with so many AI scraper bots on my server. The authors of this should be flogged and ostracized from the software community IMO.

  • sneakerweb

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  • Hmm, sounds like a nice tie-in to anonymous USB dead-drop sites and so on. Go connect to a tree somewhere, upload your new .snk files, download any new ones placed there since your last visit :)

    Maybe have a Meshtastic solar-powered node feeding new .snk files onto it too, from afar!

  • US PC shipments fell 7.0% in 1Q26, marking steepest decline since 2023

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  • And now SSD and hard drive prices. Keep your tech going, it's going to be a long few years, if ever, before affordability returns. They (cloud and AI tech-holes) want local compute and storage to be unaffordable so we use their crap. F-ck that, I'm gonna scavenge whatever I can to keep self-hosting to the bitter end.

  • NSA is sabotaging cryptographic standards to weaken it. Act now to stop it.

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  • Sure, but lots of people thought it was crazy conspiracy thinking that the NSA backdoored certain Elliptic Curves CSPRNGs years ago.. yet it turned out they in fact did, and successfully, and it took years to come out. Whether or not some 'threat model' applies to the situation.

    The chances of a normal person being targeted by some obscure NSA backdoor is very low, certainly; but that doesn't refute the historical fact that they do try to subvert standards processes.

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • ?!?! It's alive? thanks!

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • https://warehouse23.com/basement by Steve Jackson Games was hours of fun back when it existed. Think of the giant warehouse at the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (SyFy also ripped the idea off in the show 'Warehouse 13').

  • Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

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  • Indeed, beat me to it. Now is the time to make it hurt for these stupid C-levels execs. Oh, and UNIONIZE ASAP.

  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    DHS sends deportation notice to a US-born Citizen, who happens to be an immigration lawyer - "Leave in 7 days, or else"

    bsky.app /profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lmleebe2r22b
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    Elizabeth May suggests Cali, Oregon, Washington State join Canada or join British Columbia to form 'Cascadia'

    archive.is /xIjN0
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Arghblarg @lemmy.ca

    Canada is one of the world's top 3 producers of mustard

    www.foodrepublic.com /1493803/which-countries-produces-most-mustard-world/