Some of the comments on that post are hilarious. "This makes it look like America is fascist." Yeah, I wonder why.
How to make an "advanced" western military:
- Make stuff that breaks constantly
- When it breaks, fix it with glue
- Done. You can now claim you're better than everyone else because you have an "advanced" military.
The real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new units.
I'm not sure how much more blatant the bourgeois propaganda can get. I mean, they are just going completely mask off at this point.
Let me finish those libs' sentence: "Capitalism breeds innovation in new ways to exploit the proletariat and, being the bootlickers we are, we're hoping that saying this is going to lead to us not being exploited as much."
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today (Dec. 13) announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) — a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements ...
More than 50% more energy was generated than was used for the reaction. 2.05 Megajoules in, 3.15 Megajoules out. Let's see how fast the US fossil fuel oligarchs start creating anti-fusion propaganda like they did with fission.
It's so weird how it disappeared from Twitter. I wonder why that happened.
This place is much better than Reddit. I can actually say stuff without being bombarded by libs who think they're going to convince me they're right by assuming I'm Chinese because I'm a communist (This has happened multiple times, and I'm not even close, my family is a mix of Armenian and Russian, and I was born in the US) and then informing me that I'm being paid by the Chinese government to post propaganda (I wish)
A while ago, I realized how pervasive big tech spyware was. It's everywhere. In search engines, word processors, even the OSes themselves. Upon this realization, I decided to try to get away from that spyware, and researched how to do that. This is when I came upon self-hosting. There are certain open-source programs that allow you to do the same thing the big tech services allow you to do, but you host them yourself, so you control them. There was just a slight problem: I had no servers.
This is when I learned about "the cloud" and how you could rent servers from companies and then use those to host your software. I tried it, but realized I was just hosting my own services on big tech servers, so it wasn't helping. I'd been wanting a raspberry pi cluster for a while at that point, but never had the motivation to get one, so I waited until my birthday, collected the money gifted to me by my relatives, and bought 4 raspberry pi 4s with just 1GB of RAM, as well as all the equipment to run them (an 8-port network switch, power cables, etc.). Since then, my cluster has grown. Little by little, I've collected money and bought new parts. Now, I have 8 raspberry pi 4s (four 1GB, four 2GB), a Pine H64, a RockPro64, and my old 2012 Mac Mini running Debian. I also have an old 2011 MacBook that I've revived and patched to run the newest macOS which I will use to compile and test apps for iOS and macOS, as well as a Radxa Rock5 Model B with 16GB RAM on the way that I will be adding as well.
Originally, whenever I wanted to run a new service, I'd just kind of find a server and stick it on there, then manually configure everything and hope I remember where it's running. Now, I have a Nomad cluster with Consul and Traefik handling everything automatically for me. If I want to run a new service, I just make a Nomad config for it, and Nomad finds a free server with enough resources, downloads it, configures it, runs it, and then publishes it to Consul, from where Traefik automatically picks it up, sets up routing rules, acquires a TLS certificate, and exposes the service. Everything happens automatically. If a server goes down, Nomad will run the services that were running there on a different server and Traefik will reconfigure itself to match.
This is what my setup looks like:
!Image of the glass cabinet containing my servers
At the top is my Mac Mini, a WiFi antenna for Home Assistant, and a RockPro64, on the shelf under that, there are 8 raspberry pis, under that is a network switch and a Pine H64 running the reverse proxy, and under that is a UPS that lasts over an hour in the event of power loss. On the right is my 3D printer, which is connected to one of the Pi 4s for OctoPrint.
This has been very useful for me. Not only does it mean I own my data AND my services, it also means outages don't affect me and my services are always very fast and reliable. I've had numerous times where Github was down and most people couldn't do any work, except me because I have my own Gitea instance, for example. I think anyone with the expertise, time, and resources to do this should do it.
"Chinese Communist Party Congress set to anoint Xi as president for life"
If you read past the headline, the article goes on to say "We can be almost certain that Xi, as the Communist Party's general secretary, will be appointed for another five-year term," and "Technically speaking, since the term limit has been removed, he can stay in power for life, [although] that may require some formal ceremonies after five years."
Apparently, a theoretical 5 year term that they aren't even completely sure will happen means for life, and "technically speaking, he can" means he will do so.
I used the prompt "Stalin Zedong" at https://diffusionui.com/b/stable_horde. This is what it made.
South Korea launched the domestically produced, Hyunmoo-2 missiles. On this occasion, one of the missiles malfunctioned and landed on one of its own air force bases.
Hit their own base (trying) to own the tankies. Kim Jong-Un must have telekinesis powers now in addition to necromancy.
I kept calm for the most part because he is an American teenager.
That's not much of an excuse. I am a teenager born and living in the US. I am also an ML. Before becoming an ML, I never really thought about ideology, but I was anti-capitalist because I realized before I was even a teenager that the incentive structure of capitalism must lead to misery because it prioritizes capital over everything.
Is this the free speech all the libs here are talking about?
Russia, China, BRICS plan new int’l reserve currency
Hopefully this puts a dent in US global dominance
Yeah, it is often slower than Discord. The reason for this is that it's decentralized and encrypted. It's slow because it's secure. I'd rather lose a few minutes of time than have the US government spy on me.
Yes, Capitalism does in fact create innovation, in precisely the wrong direction.
Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.
Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn't get enough money.
Are anglos just permanently brainwashed or what?
Not necessarily permanent, but very, very hard to get rid of. It is ingrained from birth, and schools try their best to condition you not to question anything. I'm lucky enough to have noticed and resisted the conditioning, but had to pay the price of being extremely stressed in school, which led to burnout and a low GPA, which has repercussions in the future.
They will try as hard as they can to indoctrinate you, and if they can't, they make sure to make your life as difficult as possible.
Then, there's the fact that they teach everyone that people who don't agree with the propaganda are evil fascists who want to destroy freedom and democracy, which means that if you reject the propaganda, you get vilified for it. Therefore, the more social a person is, the less likely they will be to reject the propaganda, and a lot of them will be in denial of the truth because they don't want to lose relationships over it.
It's truly an evil, despicable system that needs to be abolished.
So they're lambasting Russia for invading Ukraine while plotting to invade Ukraine? How does this make sense? Oh right, it's only bad if someone the US doesn't like does it.
