That fantasy looks like the Western government offering tax cuts and incentives for a private company to set up shop in a rural town, hiring a bunch of employees for as little money as possible, cutting corners in safety and quality to boost their revenue from the investment, and ultimately delivering a shit product by comparison. Then, when the public finds out, the company will "downsize" by laying off most of the employees they hired, stranding those that are laid off in a rural town they can no longer afford to move away from while protecting the company's profits.

The CEO gets a bonus for record profits, a couple hundred people's lives are ruined, a small town has to deal with the fallout of high unemployment and the socioeconomic issues that come with that, and the Western government is at a loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Lawmakers get their kickbacks from the company in the form of political donations and lobbying vacation trips.

I'm sorry, my internet friend, but I have little hope for that fantasy without significant change to the system at large.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha. USA tried. It failed so hilariously bad that they're now actively protesting against new rail. There's this crazy thing, rail needs to be near places people actually want to go. But those places have NIMBY voters, so populated areas won't get rail. Instead they go to empty parking garages near malls. And then shocker, no one rides. It's so bad in Denver that they're using them as a case study to prevent expansion in Utah.

denverpost.com/2024/12/08/uint…

It appears HTS is now starting fights in the north with the Kurds.

The Kurdish YPG is Erdogan's enemy and Turkeye is the primary HTS backer. So more sectarian infighting and no support for Palestine.

HTS is not attacking the Golan Heights so far. It is all super convenient for Israel.

Not necessarily.

There can be knock off versions of many expensive looking things.

That article disagrees with the second part of your comment. It says that the Welrod replicas are rare and mostly used by veterinarians, and looking them up, they've only been available for import to the US since 2021.

I don't know where you got your 300 million figure from. Wikipedia puts the total number of civilian firearms in the US at about 393 million, and that includes shotguns, hunting rifles, etc. The most popular pistol in the world I think is the 1911, and I imagine that holds true for veterans as well, and there have been about 4.3 million produced in the past 110 years. The most produced handgun is the Glock, estimated between 10 to 20 million guns.

It's also not confirmed that that was the pistol he used, just suspected. I saw people talking about how you'd potentially have to manually cycle a regular semi-auto pistol like he did if you were using a suppressor and subsonic rounds because they wouldn't produce enough force to cycle the gun on their own.

Edit: You fixed your comment while I was writing this, but I'm gonna leave it unedited for the info.

Yeah, there are a lot of bells and whistles and a fundamental difference between the way they intend to manage dotfiles and the way stow does. Makes it difficult to get started.

One thing that helped me when I was first getting into it: Chezmoi doesn't like compartmentalization like stow. It supports it, but it want's you to lean into the config langue a bit before you start doing that.

If you do that you can get away with only touching the add, cd, and update commands.

Exactly... but it still adds some overhead, which I'm honestly not a huge fan of.

At the end of the day, I want a single directory, where I can symlink the files and folders into their appropriate places, and share them across multiple machines, all that, without digging too deep into the tool, especially when I frequently update things, like a neovim config, etc..

And stow, paired with git, does exactly what I need. I only made some "aliases" to simplify the workflow.

Exactly. For now, it's main focus is to only move configs to the dotsdir (since stow throws a conflict when there's already something in place), let stow create the symlink and push it to git.

on a remote mashine, however, you still need to handle conflicts yourself. but it's also mostly intended for fresh installations, or where you don't mind just rm -rf the existing config

cnn.com/world/live-news/syria-…

en.etilaf.org/soc-institutions…

My bad I saw the ones from hexbear and world (and I don't think world would like to discuss this so hexbear would likely be the c/politics).

Smh it still feels odd to me to see discussion posts in a news community - at least for a specific topic (if it was a general discussion abt the Syrian civil war it wouldn't bother me that much tbh)

But I understand why you shared it here a bit more now on the other hand. \^\^