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matlag

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  • Trump, 79, Sparks Health Concerns With ‘Heaven’ Declaration

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  • Yeah, he's more likely to decide he was chosen by God for a mission, botch it while claiming a tremendous success, and declare he has a guaranteed spot at the right of God, if not as his successor.

    All of these overrich believers will stretch their beliefs with no limit until they encompass their whole life and actions. They're "chosen".

  • TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguards

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  • You misunderstand him. When he said that space conquest would have casualties, he was thinking about NPCs. He's the Player1 in this universe. Contrary to all of us, he's not expandable: the game would instantly ends.

  • TIL Elon Musk travels with as many as 20 bodyguards

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  • Imagine if someone had travelled to the past to kill Hitler, failed, and then Hitler would include them in his speeches: "I already survived a homicidal maniac!".

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • We've been hearing about this decades.

    Yes, you've been hearind that for decades, just like climate change: if you wait for an abrupt treshold with a clear before/after cut , you're going to wait for a while.

    China has developed an advanced high speed trains network. You have no idea how much US looks backward on that.

    China still opens coal burning power plants, jut also a very large number of renewable and nuclear power plants. They're serious about electrification.

    They took the lead in scientific publication.

    US needs to put up tariffs to protect its car makers from being wiped out by Chinese ones. Western car makers rely more and more on Chinese batteries suppliers.

    All the signs are there. You just need to ackowledge them.

    People underestimate just how corrupt, dysfunctional, and incompetent the Chinese system is under the CCP.

    As compared to what? In the US, corruption is legal, it's called campaign donation and SuperPAC. At this stage, elections pick which pack of oligarchs will rule: GOP donators or Dems donators.

    If the system is so much better, where are the high speed trains, advanced power grid, decarbonation plan, school that can get high potentials to the top, decent healthcare system?

    Where are the fruits of this less corrupt dysfunctional and incompetent system?

    China's isolation give it the illusion that it's better, but in reality, it's even worse.

    Alother delusion from local US news. China is not that isolated, they have developed deep relations with a number of countries in Africa and middle east, and they're a privileged trade partner with many more. Worse even: with the current US policy of tariffs, several countries that were reluctant to have deeper ties with China are pushed in their arms.

    Every major Chinese achievement from their mass transit system to their big corporations to their economic growth to them pulling ahead technologically to so many more, all come with big asterisks attached that make them much more questionable.

    Meaning what? Their high speed trains are absolutely working. In large cities, half of the cars in the street are electric cars, majority from domestic brands and a few Tesla. They have very advanced and very cheap mass transit networks.

    As I was saying: it's just like global warming: if you sit and wait claiming it's not really happening and/or not that bad, you're totally unprepared when disasters hit you.

    The only thing I will agree with you here is their emonomy is not half as great as they want to claim. The estate market has been in a free fall in all but the big 4 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guandong, Shenzhen).

    But if the US wants to be the first power of the rest of the 21st century world, they need to wake up!

  • No concessions, no ceasefire: how Putin outplayed Trump in Anchorage

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  • What happened to the sanctions if Russia didn't agree to a ceasefire?

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  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • I do 1:1 videocalls on XMPP. Quite some clients implement that now. But there were no videoconferences until very recently. That's changing, though. See Movim right now, for example.

    Main 2 issues with XMPP are inconsistent clients (in terms of GUI but also features wise) and the incredibly, astonishingly, ridiculously sloooooooooooooooow evolution of the protocol through the XSF. Nothing can get in there until it's "perfect". Clients devs are reluctant to implement things until the extension is stable. And the best part is this approach hardly work: the best way to figure if something works is to deploy it in larger and larger scales and improve it on the way as you identify corner cases you didn't think about. Not to review the description for months/year until it qualifies as literature...

  • House Republicans block Democratic maneuver to force release of Epstein files

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  • Do the dems really want these released or is it just a pretend game from both sides?

  • Spirit animal

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  • In a wild area untouched by humans, there is not much "unwanted" you could get from grazing.

  • "Source code file"

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  • Assuming people upload their code to fix it, that means it's non working code. Great training material!

    I'm joking but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't think that through...

  • Trump Hit by Bombshell Threat From Hackers Who Stole His Aides’ Emails

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  • What could they possiply contain that may harm him and we've not heard yet?

    He's an idiot? Corruption? Sexual assault? Dictator's dreams? Nazi ideas?

    At this stage, there is nothing that could deterr his cult, and he already doesn't care about his perception out of the cult.

  • Musk Vows to Back Trump’s Nemesis as Their Feud Explodes

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  • Trump's Nemesis? That would be a socialist. A very decent and articulated socialist.

  • America's spies say Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment

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  • To be frank, if I was them, I would do everything to get a nuke before the crazies in Israel and the USA decide to wipe out Iran. So Iran trying to get it makes perfect sense.

  • WhatsApp is officially getting ads

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  • It's not just the funding, it's the business overall. Public companies need to show growing revenues year to year, and worse: growing revenues with a minimum yield. A product can grow by attracting more users up to a certain point. Then the only way to grow is by making more money out of the same users base. If the revenue is based on ads:

    • Extend the product so that the user's engagement increases (channels/others kind).
    • Add paying features (freemium approach, that includes blue stars or whatever the hell you want it to look like…)
    • Serve them ads

    Freemium is not always working well and Meta never used it. They have no new great idea to extend the product without eating their other products users bases. So the only one left is more ads.

    Funding is not the issue, for-profit companies are. Non-profit is the way to go. Federation is even better as individuals/families/small organizations can run their own servers.-

  • Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff

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  • "Well... if they promise that this time it will be different and they will only deport criminals and not the others..."

  • Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk

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  • But so you know well that a party committing to change the voting system will have a change of heart after realizing the current system brought them to power. (I'm in Canada too ;) ).

  • Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk

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  • This illustrates the issue of having only 2 political parties. You used to have left and right. Then the right extended all the way to batshit crazy nazi while losing touch with the centre-right, and it collapsed to keep only t̂he nazis. Meanwhile the "left" extended to centre then all the way to the economic right.

    Now you have a nazi party and an everything else party, and people ask the last to "get their shit together", as if socialists would sort out their differences with neo-liberals and conservatives over a quick diner and build a common ground plan.

    That just can't work.

  • JavaScript

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  • That's also my understanding: "Javascript is great because you can use other languages and then transpile them to JS."

  • Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe

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  • Being factually incorrect is not an opinion. It's being factually incorrect.

    But knock yourself out: X does not censor, Earth is flat, whatever you want to believe...

  • Not fair

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  • Yeah, me too. But first I had to count to infinite to make sure the decimal parts of these would fit.