Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Why does nobody care that the PC leader for years, and even recently, was a US citizen?
The same fucking loser who faked being an insurance broker, that's even lower than real estate agent.
Some cared, I sure did.
I think most Canadians were in denial about the USA being our enemy or that the CPC were turning into MAGA loyalists at the time he was in charge on that party.
No shade to Eby but it doesn't take a lawyer to understand that water is wet.
Since he's a lawyer though, he should know there's more than enough to convict them of attempted treason, conspiracy, or any other inchoate crime thereof. Unfortunately it looks like neither provincial nor federal prosecutors will go after them for it.
That's only in the military, it's just a life sentence in civilian court.
Relevant law that hasn't updated to HIS Majesty
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Relevant punishment
I live a block away from the tavern where the trial of the bloody assize was held. Traitors friendly to the US in 1814 were put on trial, then brought to Burlington to be fitted for custom hemp neckties. Then, their heads were cut off and placed on pikes and paraded around Ontario villages. We didn't have a traitor problem since then.
These cosplay cowboys are all foreign agents and if they were supported by China everyone would be freaking out.
Why do you think Canadians have a worse view of China than America?
We're raised hating the US, China is just an afterthought.
Just the ones led by Democrats and Republicans right?
Or are you a Zoomer? Surprisingly they seemed to like the Americans.
Yes. Obviously.
Albertans need to make it personally painful for any politicians that do this.
of the Alberta Prosperity Project
You gotta love the names of traitor groups like these. It's the same in the US, and it's always something super duper positive, something that sounds like wisdom, but it's always a shiny turd
Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit
Google has agreed to a preliminary $135 million settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by Android users who accused it of harvesting their data without consent. The suit alleged that since November 12, 2017, Google has been illegally collecting cellular data from phones purchased through carriers, even when apps were closed or location features were disabled.
As reported by Reuters, the affected users believed Google using their data for marketing and product development meant it was guilty of "conversion." In US law, conversion occurs when one party takes the property of another with "the intent to deprive them of it" or "exert property rights over it."
Subject to approval from a judge, a settlement of $135 million was filed in a San Jose federal court earlier this week. The payout would be one of, if not the largest ever in a case of this nature, according to Glen Summers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit
Android users involved in the class action could lawsuit could receive up to $100 each.Matt Tate (Engadget)
Do you use Arch btw? Best Arch distro?
I've been using Debian (and formerly Ubuntu) for many years.
But I've been wanting to tell people that I use Arch.
I've been considering the following distros:
- Arch
- Cachy
- Manjaro
- Any others?
I'm leaning towards Arch or Cachy. This is for a mediocre laptop that I'm planning to use as a media center: Kodi, Retroarch, Steam, etc. Should I even be using Arch for this? Maybe Debian is more stable...
Sorry if this has been asked before. Thanks for any tips!
For a mediacenter that isn't on bleeding edge hardware, fedora or Debian would be my choice for stability. Performance will be similar regardless of distro.
I use arch on my desktop and laptop and Debian/Ubuntu on servers.
Wait...so you're looking for a solution with zero problems because of...clout or something? I don't get it.
If you like Debian, just stay with Debian. Especially if you're not familiar with what running Arch really means in the deeper sense. Mostly that the guardrails are off, in a sense.
CachyOS puts a ton of work into adding UX helpers that makes it pretty user friendly, but it's still going to have a lot of manual intervention required, but that's a feature to some.
If you have an AMD laptop, maybe look into installing SteamOS and Kodi as a non-steam app. That could be your sweet spot.
I've always gravitated toward various Arch-based distros. Installed vanilla from scratch a decade ago for a college workstation, sunk a lot of time into tinkering the steam deck's SteamOS, and my desktop's been running CachyOS for just about a year now - the latter's been so smooth that I opted to wipe my Deck and install their handheld edition just because, and that's been pretty solid too.
I haven't really distro-hopped enough to say much else, but Cachy's been my go-to since I first set it up and it'd take a lot to move me off if it. All the Arch benefits with some extra bells and whistles.
I use Cachyos on my 13yr old system.
Xeon e5, DDR3 ram, mix of SSD & HDD Sata. GTX 1070 ti.
it's excellent. by far the best linux experience I've had (started using Linux in the late 90s).
But I’ve been wanting to tell people that I use Arch.
Biblically accurate arch user
-older hardware/no need for up to date packages - Debian
-new hardware, needs up-to-date software - Arch
And that's it. Though obviously, you can also use flatpak if you truly need newer versions of software. Personally I have arch on my gaming PC + Debian on my multimedia-consumption laptop.
I use plain Arch, but if you are just gonna use it as a media center, use Debian or something like it. A media center doesn't need to be up to date if you're just using it for TV and retro gaming. However, how mediocre are we talking? Are you intending to run full steam games or are you planning on streaming them from another computer?
If the latter, I think Debian or even a healthy rPi running RetroPie might be up your alley because you can install Kodi and SteamLink on that.
I was using Endeavour, btw. Needed almost zero tinkering and was good to go straight away.
But I run Linux on an ancient 2012 MacBook Pro, so eventually swapped over to Debian, btw.
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Endeavour worked totally fine, no issues whatsoever… or no issue where Debian does better at least.
My 2 main reasons were:
1) Ignorance over the point at which hardware components become so old and deprecated that bleeding edge updates might just break something one day. Couldn’t find a definitive answer, but I knew if Debian 13 works fine now it should still be working fine in 2 years. That Mac has outdated Intel/Nvidia graphics that have always been problematic on Linux, and many distros won’t even boot the live USB on it, so it felt like if any computer was ever going to spontaneously have a post-update issue it would probably be that one.
2) Trying the give my ageing hardware the easiest ride in its senior years. The SSD is still original and approaching 14 years of pretty heavy use, so I thought to have it surviving as long as possible an OS that might only give 0-300MB of updates in a week would be a safer bet than an OS that would have many many more gigabytes of updates over a longer period of time.
Thanks for the explanation. That reminds me an issue. I changed my default gamepad.
At least one issue with EndeavourOS I had in the past (and that's not an issue with the distribution, but with the model of having newest Kernel) was that the newest Kernel sometimes broke the driver for my gamepad, XBox One S proprietary dongle using medusalix xone driver from AUR to be specific. So I had to wait sometimes days or longer until the driver was updated in order to use the controller. This issue could be avoided when using an LTS Kernel instead, which is very easy to setup in EndeavourOS as it comes with such a GUI.
Your given arguments makes lot of sense. So it is about stability (in the sense of not changing, not about bugs). So you seek a setup and forget installation, which is understandable and maybe would have preferred doing so too in your case.
Yes, at this stage. Although before now I’ve installed a few different things over the last couple of years as a learning experience also.
It’s not my main computer, but one I replaced. This freed me up to have a computer with no music or photos or anything on it, so I could test different distros and DEs and troubleshoot stuff without having any concerns about losing anything if I made a mistake or just erased and started over.
I’d never actually used Linux before 2023, much more familiar now.
I'm interested in what you've done withe the MBPro. I have the same thing and I've been wanting to do something with it since it still seems like a solid platform.
What made you switch to Debian?
Also what do you use the computer for?
For the reasons I switched to Debian see my other reply.
I use the computer for:
- Learning and understanding Linux, in the broader sense. It’s a “spare” computer and over the past 3 years I’ve installed Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Gnome, Pop! OS, Spiral Linux, G4OS, Linux Mint, LMDE, Spiral Linux, Debian, EndeavourOS, Fedora, Garuda… and I’ve failed to install (wouldn’t boot to live USB, or wouldn’t boot after installation) many more, including Void, PikaOS, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, and probably a few others…
- Playing old games. I’ve got a steam deck, but for things like Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the Settlers II you just need a mouse and keyboard. Lutris has been awesome.
If you have a 15” Retina MBP, it’s been a huge pain in the ass, and multiple distros just stopped working after updates, often not long after installation. But also it’s been a good learning experience for the very same same reason. To work well in 2026 it needs the Nvidia graphics disabling - but the NVRAM defaults that Mac to Nvidia at startup for Linux, so even that bit isn’t straightforward! If you simply blacklist Nvidia it won’t boot.
I also bought a USB WiFi adapter as the Broadcom card doesn’t work initially on most distros, and can’t support WPA3 even when it does work.
Arch in the front, Debian in the back(end). I run Arch on my laptop and Debian on my homeserver. I've ran Debian on laptops before and if stable is getting older hardware support can be a struggle, much better on a rolling distro like Arch. And having all the newest toys on your desktop is very very nice. While on my homeserver I mostly want stability, everything else runs in (podman) containers anyway.
Cachy is a distro I would consider, because it'll theoretically give you slightly better battery life due to the optimised compiles, although I'm not sure you'll ever really notice. Manjaro has a reputation of breaking far more often than Arch does, so that one's a no for me.
Probably not a universal answer as you are optimizing for different things.
I will say that EndeavourOS is essentially vanilla Arch once installed. If you really love configuring everything yourself, vanilla Arch is what you are looking for. If you like Arch but just want to fire up a system with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS adds a lot of value without corrupting the purity of the base system.
So, my vote is for EndeavourOS.
Cachy adds the most additional functionality but also changes the base system the most. If you have a T2 MacBook, this is the best option for sure.
I would avoid Manjaro.
Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.
Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.
When you take away the garish KDE theme the gaming spin ships with it's pretty much just an opinionated ready-to-go gaming Arch with a bunch of convenience tools. If that's what you want then Garuda is pretty neat.
Use whatever you're comfortable with, and what you know works.
On that note, Manjaro and CachyOS don't work. You should avoid them. They both make changes that harm reliability, and both frequently make avoidable mistakes (especially Manjaro). If you need something like those two, EndeavourOS is a better option, or just base Arch Linux.
Arch Linux itself is a good distro, but made for a specific target audience. If you want to tinker with your system and learn along the way, it may be a good option for you. If you want to "set and forget" your media center PC, a stable-release distro like Debian or Rocky might be better options for you.
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I've been using it for 5+ years with no issues specific to Manjaro.
Arch on the other hand has intervention notices on its front page. Manjaro holds updates back a bit so they don't have to deal with the bleeding edge of Arch.
EndeavourOS. It's like Arch, but a bit easier with a few automation and gui stuff builtin. It's still heavy on terminal usage and it comes light out of the box. I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS, because Manjaro gave me some problems (especially their package manager and because of the AUR too, and I didn't like the maintainers, no further comment). It's my daily driver for years now. I use it for everything, daily usage, little programming, gaming on Steam and especially RetroArch too. I'm a huge RetroArch fan. 
So if you plan to use base Archlinux or Manjaro, then I can recommend to use EndeavourOS a lot.
Cachy OS is probably a good choice too, because their focus on performance optimizations. But they do also have a bit more, let's say bloat, out of the box and their branding is a bit strong it seems. It's a bit farther away from base Archlinux than EndeavourOS is.
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If you're going to use Arch you should use Arch. One of the biggest advantages for Arch is the AUR which can cause many issues on Arch based distros that are not Arch.
That being said, for a media center, if you're not used to, I wouldn't go with Arch, Debian is a much better choice since you're already used to it and should be good for that use case.
I’ve had great success with Garuda Linux. I’m running the KDE “Mokka” version.
It’s quite opinionated, so be aware of that, but it’s been very reliable on my HP laptop (it even has hibernation support!) and the built-in apps are top notch.
Just be aware that Arch-based distros tend to shun things like Flatpaks in favor of their own repositories and the Arch User Repository (AUR), and there aren’t any friendly point and click app stores like KDE Discover or GNOME Software. You will have to install apps using the command line or tools like Octopi, which is great if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but terrible for app discovery.
Since I mostly use Flatpaks, I installed Bazaar. You can install Discover, but it only works for Flatpak.
I used to run Manjaro, but after it left two of my computers in an unbootable state after an upgrade a few years ago, I moved on.
I used to experiment around with various distros some years past until I got into Arch.
Haven't distro hopped once since, I've completely erased Windows from my life and I'm gaming exactly as I would if I was on Windows.
I never have trouble finding a package since almost everything exists either in the official repositories or in the AUR, and I get the latest versions with all the new features and fixes.
Rarely some things do break because of the rolling releases, but it's almost always just a matter of a single google search to fix.
For me it's worth it for having all the latest versions of everything.
My opinion would be different for a server or a work laptop where stability is much more important.
For servers I would pick Debian for sure, for work laptop I'd consider Fedora probably
i use cachyos, runs swimmingly for me. I'm not sure arch is good for your usecase tho.
Mediacenter/homeserver? I'd personally choose something like fedora, but debian sounds fine too
I just found out that what I pictured was EndeavourOS was ElementaryOS. I was so confused with the Endeavor recommendations because i thought it was based on Ubuntu 💀
Ahhhh more I gotta at least check out EndeavourOS now x_X
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Stay away from Manjaro.
I've heard great things about Endeavor and Cachy, but personally use Garuda. Highly recommend it.
Same. Tried manjaro twice, fully broken after a few months every time. Thought Linux was just too much work and I wasn't smart enough. Been on Garuda for over 3 years without issue.
I feel like manjaro keeps people from adopting Linux. I have friends that will argue about my Linux experience because they tried manjaro and think that's how all Linux is.
aight let me tell you MY arch experience. itll be a long one.
i first installed arch with the install script and later manually, i ran this setup for quite some time, and as time goes, small erros cascade into bigger ones. it got to the point where i was reconfiguring system configs every week to fix something that broke from an update. the thing that ultimately caused the most trouble was converting my existing ext4 system to btrfs. this caused all sorts of issue primarily with gaming performance (i had to disable cpu boosting in order to not have constant lag spikes for example). this old system was a mess held together with duct tape and hope, it broke with EVERY update, and not at small scales. at some point i had to reinstall grub everytime i changed something in my boot order. Ultimately i decided 2 days ago it was time for a reinstall. i tried installing it normally, i followed the official install instructions and got greeted by a grub shell. i fucked something up during the install, so i decided fuck it, i will use archinstall script again. then it took me legit 6 hours to get my system running in a way i could use it, tgen the next day an additional 3 to get everything set up so i can game with proper OBS recording and all.
now i have a perfectly functioning Arch setup. and a lot more performance (even tho the setup should be the same, like i really dont know what was wrong with my old setup)
arch WILL be a hassle at some point. in turn you get bleeding edge packages, no bloat, complete customisation, a great learning opportunity, the AUR, and (if properly set up) great performance.
i like arch. i wouldnt use anything else.
can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they're handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I'm some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw's good name and whatnot...
the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?
-bin versions of the packages you want. Those are precompiled and should install only marginally slower than a regular pacman package.
Not quite as that its user-created and submitted.
But yeah lots of packages have a -bin counterpart that will install a lot quicker than compiling it for yourself.
Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM
Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos
Manjaro is the best, but you'll have to see it for yourself.
Don't trust the "wisdom of the crowd." It does not exist.
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Yeah, none of that matters.
On the other hand, bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…
Nobody mentions this because it's not 'cool' and doesn't make you fit in with losers/strangers on the internet.
Tampered Linux Mint ISO Linked on Official Website
A hacker posted a tampered Linux Mint 17.Hot for Security
All of it matters, hard disagree, even if none of them are individually that bad it shows an insane degree of incompetence
the linux mint thing happened one time and was resolved, it shows no history of being incompetent, that's why it isn't mentioned, it's hardly worth mention, one security breach in the entire history of the project is not a big deal.
furthermore i personally don't think mint is a good distro either so, whatever.
Most of it speaks to their lack of competency. Issues like this are less frequent on arch and the whole point of this distro is that It's supposed to be an easier arch.
it is in fact harder arch.
Its a small team and those are mistakes. We can find hundreds of examples of major companies with IT teams in the 100s making those same mistakes. The solution was figured out by the team and fixed. The original version of that GH page that most people remember was much longer but its been significantly reduced as most of the claims were disputed and the author had to reel back their claims or remove them outright. Now whats left is just a few pedantic complaints.
With arch they make those mistakes less but they shift a lot more configuration onto the user and when those mistakes get made they dont need to take any blame because it was the user who made the mistake. Arch has pushed updates that have broken bootloaders how many times? I'd consider that to be catastrophic failure on any distro except arch where i think its fine as the user should be able to fix their bootloader pretty easily.
So you basically hold them to a higher standard than google, apple, Microsoft, cisco, Amazon. Because theyve all had outages cause by certs expiring.
Its a common issue and its not a huge deal. The package manager cert was a big outage but their wiki website cert is the most minor shit ever.
Arch if you want to do the install completely by yourself and/or have some setup that can't be replicated by the usual installers.
EndeavourOS/Cachy if you want a simple GUI installer for Arch, but you don't get bragging rights.
Don't use Manjaro
Do you use Arch?
Not currently but I have in the past.
Best Arch distro?
Just install vanilla Arch. If you don't want to install it manually, archinstall works fine. But you really should install it manually, following the Installation Guide on the Arch Wiki, at least once.
Don't use Manjaro.
Endeavour or Cachy are the current recommendations for "easy Arch". If you're able to install and maintain vanilla Arch, I'd recommend Arch though. Cut the middleman.
I see there is a lot of concern(hate?) over Manjaro. I have used it on three machines continuously for the last 6 years without any major issues. Some updates would break some packages but going to the forum gave me answers.
I know about the issues they have had but I don't agree with the negativity.
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Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
SpaceX taps former Liberal senior staffer to lobby Canadian government
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Following a year of public controversy and cancelled contracts, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has hired a former Liberal staffer to handle the company’s communications with the Government of Canada.Sharan Kaur, principal at public relations firm Navigator Ltd., is now a consultant for SpaceX, according to a lobbyist registration filed on Jan. 26. Kaur was previously the deputy chief of staff to former finance minister Bill Morneau.
Though she hasn’t held a public office since September 2020, Kaur has continued to work on the campaigns of several federal Liberal election candidates. In the 2025 federal election, Kaur provided “counsel to several high-profile candidates,” and was the campaign manager for Evan Solomon, MP for Toronto Centre and minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation.
Kaur joined Navigator in June 2025.
SpaceX’s renewed lobbying efforts target 14 government institutions, including the Prime Minister’s Office, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and Public Safety. Lobbying records show the company intends to meet with officials to discuss “Satellite and ground station policies and regulations in relation to an application for a Foreign Satellite Authorization and broadband service.”
Several provinces have contracts with SpaceX’s satellite network subsidiary Starlink to provide internet access in rural and remote areas. But after U.S. President Donald Trump’s unpredictable tariff threats, and billionaire Musk’s influence within the Trump administration, governments have been increasingly looking to limit their reliance on Starlink.
In March 2025, Ontario announced it was cancelling a $100-million contract with Starlink, with Premier Doug Ford saying at the time, “We won't award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province ... and our country.”
After a report disclosed that SaskPower had paid more than $100,000 to Starlink for internet services, Saskatchewan NDP MLA Erika Ritchie also questioned why the Crown corporation was contracting “allies and supporters of the Trump administration.”
The Quebec government opted not to renew its $130-million contract with Starlink when it expired in June 2025. The government’s initiative gave customers in remote areas a $40-a-month subsidy as well as free Starlink receivers. Though the Quebec government has said it is pursuing a strategy to build “connectivity sovereignty” in the province, it also awarded a new $826,007 contract to Starlink last year for high-speed satellite internet in courthouses in remote regions, citing a lack of alternative providers.
In addition to Kaur and Navigator, lobbying records show SpaceX is also employing consultant Sean Webster, managing director of Chelsea Strategy Group and former deputy chief of staff to Premier Ford.
Communication reports show Webster met with policy advisors from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on behalf of SpaceX in November, as well as the director of policy to Minister of Industry and Economic Development for Quebec Mélanie Joly.
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Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’
Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’
A reported meeting between individuals in the Alberta separatist movement and White House officials amounts to “treason,” B.C. Premier David Eby said Thursday in Ottawa.The Canadian Press (CP24)
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It's not the separation talk itself that's the problem, it's the meeting with US officials.
Also, what someone may have gotten away with in the past has absolutely no relevance to what people should be getting away with today.
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Separatism isn't inherently treason. Conspiring with foreign actors to conduct acts that undermine the sovereignty of Canada while promote the interests of that foreign actor(s) is.
Especially when the said foreign actor has expressed intentions to ANNEX US.
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At least Russia had the decency to put a transparently thin veneer of subtlety and justification when they did it to all their neighbors. It was all lies, it was all paper thin, but at least they, y'know, tried. I respect the effort put into the hustle.
Trump is just like "yeah whatever they can't stop us, we'll take whatever we want if we want to."
The fucking disguises have been dropped and the gloves are off, time to wake up and start paying attention before our entire planet is stolen from us by despicable, hateful monsters who want to destroy it and then fuck off to Mars and leave us all to die.
Quebec never talked to the USA about being a state.
Maybe you need to see this in crayon to understand it, but the plan is to make Alberta into North Montana.
The British army got it right in Ontario in 1814.
Trial
Hanging
Heads cut off and placed on pikes and paraded across Ontario towns.
And he's right - this is a separatist splinter group trying to drag the majority of Albertans who want nothing to do with them kicking and screaming into the abyss of US annexation.
I love this quote - it provides a little more context - from CBC's coverage:
"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.
This is a bigger problem and it is being ignored by governments for far too long. It's not just these clowns, the Ottawa protest, all the Alberta "think tanks" and these NFP NGOs like "Canadian Federation of Taxpayers" who get tax free status in Canada but do not reveal that they are being funded by US Fascist Foundations like Atlas.
You want NFP status in Canada, you should have to be 100% transparent as to who is funding your agenda.
Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Airports in Thailand and Nepal have begun screening passengers from West Bengal.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
Chinese drug shows promise against Nipah virus in study
Chinese drug shows promise against Nipah virus in study
Chinese researchers have demonstrated that an existing oral antiviral medication exhibits potent activity against the Nipah virus.CGTN
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Emmy-winning Owda points to changes in TikTok’s US ownership, remarks from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to explain ban.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Any ff android extension or website or whatever to rip network stream url from youtube to watch youtube content in vlc ?
It used to be possible right ? doesnt have to be a strictly youtube focused site either, being able to grab url from other sites are always a plus, only suggest apps that are on fdroid (main repo) .
Also for those who dk and might find useful you can use webtor to get a network stream url from magnet links, tho i wont suggest it as the lag and experience is abysmal and misses important functions like seeding .
Creating an addon collection as per this guide allows me to install computer addons to my Android phone:
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The addon I use to grab streams didn't want to work on youtube though, but it worked to grab video streams from other sites.
Ah, I take it this is the tactic you use?
Go to addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ rather than addons.mozilla.org/android/ when you find the extension you want to try use the menu button (hamburger/three stripe icon) and toggle "Desktop site" then you can use the "Add to Firefox" button.Otherwise, if you followed an extension link, you may have to switch to "Desktop site", then remove /android from the URL in address bar.
It should then install the add-on, but if it tries to download the file instead, then change privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager back to the default false in about:config.
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in reply to Manmoth • • •The global south is developing partially with the assistance of the PRC, yes, but there's also general south-south trade and alliances, like the Alliance of Sahel States. The PRC isn't imperialist, it isn't plundering the global south. BRI has been enourmous for win-win economic development, compared to western enforced austerity and plundering.
Vassals of the empire include western Europe, Israel, Austrailia, etc, imperialist powers that don't outweigh the US Empire but still benefit from imperialism. The global south aren't vassals, they are imperialized (but breaking free). The new geopolitical paradigm will be marked by a rise in the global south, having escaped underdevelopment, and the decline in single hegemonic powers like the US.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Lol okay. What world do you live in?
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Because it is too weak right now. It's waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It's a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it's rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it's capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it's empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Bahahhhahahha I'll take whatever you're smoking.
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in reply to SupraMario • • •I don't smoke. I'm not sure which you believe is funny, the idea that the commanding heights of industry are publicly owned in large SOEs, or that the working class controls the state, but both are factually true and easily verified. For example, when looking at publicly owned industries, we can see the following:
Even checking Wikipedia, data from 2022 shows that the overwhelming majority of the top companies are publicly owned SOEs. This is China's strategy, they've been honest about it from the beginning. The private sector is about half cooperatives like Huawei or farming cooperarives and sole proprietorships, with the other half being small and medium firms. As these grow, they are folded into the public sector gradually. This is China's Socialist
... show moreI don't smoke. I'm not sure which you believe is funny, the idea that the commanding heights of industry are publicly owned in large SOEs, or that the working class controls the state, but both are factually true and easily verified. For example, when looking at publicly owned industries, we can see the following:
Even checking Wikipedia, data from 2022 shows that the overwhelming majority of the top companies are publicly owned SOEs. This is China's strategy, they've been honest about it from the beginning. The private sector is about half cooperatives like Huawei or farming cooperarives and sole proprietorships, with the other half being small and medium firms. As these grow, they are folded into the public sector gradually. This is China's Socialist Market Economy.
As for the state being run by the working classes, this is also pretty straightforward. Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the CPC, a working class party, dominates the state. At a democratic level, local elections are direct, while higher levels are elected by lower rungs. At the top, constant opinion gathering and polling occurs, gathering public opinion, driving gradual change. This system is better elaborated on in Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance, and we can see the class breakdown of the top of the government itself:
Overall, this system has resulted in over 90% of the population approving the government, which is shown to be consistent and accurate. If you want to learn more, while not nearly as in-depth due to time limits as Roland Boer's work (and mostly focused on the Xi Jinping era), Red Pen's A Summary of Xi Jinping's Governance of China can be a good primer! There's also This is how China's economic model works: Explaining Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Geopolitical Economy Report.
Support for government in China: is the data accurate?
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in reply to Manmoth • • •LOL trust me bro
They did it with pure imperialism, looting countries and wars. And they still do.
China did it purely on their own.
orc_princess
in reply to Manmoth • • •What world do YOU live in? Who has been putting dictatorships EVERYWHERE in the global south, who has bombed Yugoslavia, southwest Asia and North Africa, Vietnam? Who has kidnapped the president of Venezuela? Who has been carrying out genocides against indigenous people and terrorizing black and other POC, and now even white liberals?
Edit: typo, I'm drunk lol
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in reply to Manmoth • • •so you really don't understand what is being talked about here.
you wrote it off but is somehow still here.
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in reply to Manmoth • • •And it's BS propaganda
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •I'm convinced they did it in purpose to highlight what a dumbass Caesar is. He verbatim says dialectics makes it inevitable that the NCR is destroyed by him, which is just so incredibly stupid. If you read enough of Hegel to write Caesar talking about Hegel as he does, then you've read enough to know that would be about the dumbest you could say.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Look the only critique I can leverage at new Vegas is that there isn't a communist or anarchist ending where the courier unites the disparate communities and makes something that lasts until after the courier dies. I want to be the Stalin of the wasteland.
Edit: After getting the Lee Kuan Yew speeches on my Instagram reels I also realise Houses "give me 20 years" speech is taken from there. The people behind the game were very politically aware.
Also apparently fallout 1, 2 and new Vegas are based on a tabletop game the designers played? Arcade Gannon was Josh Sawyer's character
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Having seen a documentary about the production the designers wanted the game to be about "letting go of Old World Blues". All the factions cling to the past, to systems that led them to where they are today. I take it they were a bit better than regular US radlibs, which is why there isn't any left-bashing, but they probably see communism as part of that old world blues too. It would also go against their goal if there was an obvious "good" ending.
That said it would have done wonders for the political awakening of a bunch of people if there was one. Or, at least, if it was made clear the courier was likewise constrained by their environment, so the reason a post-post-apocalyptic spartacist movement isn't possible is because the courier and like individuals can't think like that. The red scare has long tendrils.
Or at least a yes-man ending that wasn't going all "great man" theory about the courier, where everything revolves around them and their presence.
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in reply to mudkip • • •But what if it’s a slow burn instead of a bang?
Also, remember how eastern Roman Empire kept going, on an unrelated note, Canada’s economy is actually doing decent compared to the US.
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in reply to mudkip • • •Mandated Constitutional Convention every 200 years wouldn’t be a bad idea. Rewrite the whole thing.
Maybe also mandate the execution of the 1% at the same time. A solid reset.
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in reply to mudkip • • •i think they haven't been an empire for just as long as it had existed?
they were settlers first, right? with the indigenous genocide and all.
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in reply to arctanthrope • • •more like imperialist and settler ideology are subsets (variations?) of a bigger settler-colonial mindset, but different in the sense that one is mostly genocide, and the other is mostly enslavement.
ie. when the us coups bolivia, they don't want to annex the land, but rather enslave it's people through their imperial machine. when israel invades palestine, they don't want to make palestinians their vassals but rather just kill everyone and keep the land underneath their feet. these are mostly similar but different things.
i'm not that well versed about north america before the europeans but it's safe to say there was societal organization before they came, but they decided to settle that land instead of making them european vassals.
edit: to bring this closer to my mentality with this: i'm from a colony and i find what they do to palestinians, or what they did to native americans qualitatively different to what they do to us.
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in reply to mudkip • • •I see this meme all the time, which is an oversimplification. The 250 year time frame that people ascribe to is usually assigned to a country's lifetime, but really, the time frame is the average length of a golden era of a country, not its existence. Rome lasted for 2,000 years and China today still exists. When the Chinese talk about this "250 year" thing, they would refer back to how long certain dynasties ruled, not China's existence. Same with Rome having had its peak come and go while it existed until 1453. France also has had several golden ages as the bigger power in Europe from middle ages to Napoleonic era.
America won't cease to exist, but it will not be the power it once was, and that's okay (except for the ultranationalists). It's okay to be humble.
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in reply to BanMeFromPosting [none/use name] • • •i'd say the end of ww2 cemented them as the empire. the monroe doctrine was hemispheric domination as the precursor to global domination.
every other strong world power was weak from the war and they just swooped in and claimed the actual victory and all the spoils to themselves.
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in reply to ☂️- • • •I would say probably the Spanish-American War.
Remember: the Maine was a pretense for continued expansionism.
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