Synaesthesia

Remember that Chatgpt and other LLM's don't think. They just return the most likely next word based on a statistical model.

3.2" display. Weighs 100g. Cheap (presumably)

I think it will be like the 90's collapse but bigger. It must be noted that the financial markets have been awash in cash for some time since companies have been making huge profits since the 90's. So the money that will be lost will mostly be that of rich investors and large companies who were sitting on a bunch of capital they didn't know what to do with.

It was the greatest war in history, and made the Western front look small by comparison. 26 million people killed. The Soviet Union fought the Wehrmacht alone from June 1941 until July 1943. They made by far the largest contribution in defeating Nazi Germany.

A while back I opened a bank account for my daughter. All that I needed was to scan my face, then the bank got everything from the department of home affairs (South Africa)

That means my goverment already has my face, with all my details associated with it. Bit Orwellian but there we are.

I'm glad Iran is teaching the US and Israel a lesson. Their aggression and attacks have gone unchecked for far too long.

The entire rest of the world is not just 3rd world countries.

Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter.

I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies are having a bonanza.

Now I really want to read Middlemarch.

Buy some other crypto like Litecoin then exchange it for Monero, there are quite a few exchanges around that do it anonymously.

Africa sadly just gets ignored. But one day it will unite and develop itself, so I hope anyway.

It's a business selling trinkets, I doubt it's going to make money.

Guernica shocked the world. It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians, something which we have sadly normalised since WW2. but which I regard as terrorism.

Picasso also painted another great work titled "Korea" in the same vein.

War is an abomination, something we should all fight against.

It was wrong, and yes would likely be seen as genocidal in the current day, rightly so. You can't just randomly kill innocent civilians, no matter what. It didn't even meaningfully accelerate the end of the war.

Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.

Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.

Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.

When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.

The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.

Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.

Because as the article explains the US ships cannot even approach the straits due to the threat of anti-ship missiles.

It counts more! His novels are mind-blowing. Blood Meridian is unsurpassed IMO

I mean have you seen what US colleges cost?

Iran was never a threat to NATO. It was posing no threat when the US launched this war. The entire threat is the fault of US aggression.

5k is almost free. And yes you pay tax to find universities. Makes sense. Paying full tuition in the USA is like paying a tax, only worse, it's a lot more.

The big loser in this war is Europe and other roil importing nations.

The US is a major oil and has producer. It's benefiting from this war of aggression and not even taking any damage.

Oil companies and arms manufacturers are having a bonanza.

After the violence wracked 20th century I was hopeful the 21st century would be a bit more enlightened ...

Israel is an arm of the US empire. It's a very useful ally of the US in the region. And when I talk about the US here I mean ruling elites.

The US is doing just fine from this war. The US is an oil and gas producer, the largest in the world. So they benefit from rising prices.

I'd say the biggest losers are countries like Europe, and neutral oil importing countries around the world.

The purpose of the war is to destroy the Axis of Resistance, Iran, Hezbollah and its allies, the only force standing in the way of US/Israeli hegemony in the region.

He writes that the region is not very important to the USA. It's not, but it is a strategically important area, not only in terms of its location, at the nexus of Asia, Africa and Europe, but also because of the oil there.

Now the US is not dependent on Middle Eastern Oil, but Japan, China and other countries are. So controlling the region will mean a lever of power over those regions.

I don't know, I always see this pattern with iOS or MacOS releases. Everyone piles on at the time.

I've actually quite enjoyed some design changes in Tahoe, and looking at older versions of MacOS just looks old fashioned once you're used to them.