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According to Wikipedia, kyivinsider.com was founded with a grant from European Endowment for Democracy which like its American cousin, National Endowment for Democracy, is an NGO explicitly set up by Western intelligence agencies to push pro NATO narratives.
The people you see with tables full of firearms for sale at gun shows are literally all FFL dealers.
Bari Weiss’s substack had an article month ago that talked about some of the known cases of claim #2.
https://www.thefp.com/p/debanking-america-melania-barron-tru...
Here is a thought experiment: what if Bernie had won in 2016 and remade the Democratic party in his image the way Trump eventually would?
Would the media and political power centers align with the Republican party?
If a local police department wants phone records they have to go through the company's legal compliance department.
The disturbing revelation here is that it sounds like the federal government has direct backdoor access to all these records without having to show any warrants.
subvert an election by any means possible is not yet one of those warts
The Democrats are famous for trying to have 3rd party candidates stripped from ballots. Straining smaller campaigns under the cost of fighting off endless lawsuits.
Democrats invented the term lawfare.
Would love to see SMIC apply for CHIPS act grants. Would be like the time Russia asked to join NATO.
Even in the USA courts have some limited investigation powers over matters under the jurisdiction of the court, for example when a draft of the Dobbs abortion ruling was leaked.
Brazil has dialed this up to 11 by declaring the Internet as being under their jurisdiction. That means they can act as judge, prosecutor, and jury and issue court orders regarding anything that happens on the Internet. There is zero recourse because they are the supreme court.
Laws don't even seem to be applicable at this point. It is one supreme court justice that is issuing court orders as if he were a king.
Durov was forced to divest and flee Russia because he refused to censor and share private info on his users with the Russian government.
Now he has been arrested in France for refusing to censor and share private info on his users with Western governments.
Say what you want be he does stick to his principles.
Moderna’s results indicating 94% efficacy
Yet strangely every person I know vaccinated or not still got COVID. YouTube banned people for even simple observation like this.
If one needed to re-run electrical wires, I assume you could drill holes and pull new cabling through the walls into the attic space.
If you had to re-run water or sewer, you have to jack hammer the foundation. But that is the same a wood frame homes.
I toured their factory one time and saw some demo print structures. The walls were double layered, spaced out 8-12? Inches. The bead would flip from inner to outer to give lateral support. Inside the walls were insulation. Plumping in Texas is embedded in the foundation but I believe electrical wiring was in the walls as well.
The printing gantry only could move in one axis so building width is limited.
$21 an hours is not unreasonable for entry level technicians. These are in line with other entry level blue collar jobs such as automotive factories.
keep in mind experienced fab technicians are making much much more.
Solar panels are great at a consumer level due to utility metering agreements. At a grid level they are another story. Decentralized, fault tolerant, power grid with fall back generation just in case, is a tough challenge. This is why Europe pays the highest electricity prices in the world.
What extensions/apps would you recommend?
I have tried to set up something similar with text-to-speech browsers extension but I loose my place if I have to close and reopen.
> it would be entirely non-immersive because moving your upper body
Not sure what you mean by this?
Imagine full 3d scan of the players in real time. You could move around the court and watch them play.
Are there really that many HNers who subscribe to FT, or have we devolved into having entire conversations as a mere reaction to a headline? (as I post this 2-3 hours after many other comments) Damn. :-s
There are paywall bypass browsers extensions. I don't even notice when a site has a paywall.
The Simpsons started playing on TV in 1989. Single income family, no college, working low skill blue collar union job. Yet they still owns a large home with a yard. That premise is absurd by modern standards.
Tucker Carlson interviewed the founder of Telegram, interesting interview. Telegram is based out of UAE to avoid jurisdiction of Russian and Western intelligence agencies.
Tucker Carlson also revealed that he's had the contents of his private signal messages leaked to media (allegedly by US Intel agencies monitoring his communication).
They also passed a FISA bill that expanded government spying on its citizen. I'd trade all those items you listed to have illegal spying killed.
Lack of affordable housing is the number one cause of homelessness
Homelessness isn't a monolith. Treating someone who gets evicted after job loss the same as mentally ill drug addicts is making the problem worse. Homeless assistant programs are successful at helping people who accept the help.
The drug addicts you see on the streets are engaging in destructive antisocial behavior. Sadly the only effective remedy for this behavior is to be roughed up by police and thrown in jail.
The US Navy is using $10 million missiles to shoot down $10k drones. Do the math. They could deplete US Navy stockpiles for trivial costs. They have turned the US Navy's strength into its own weakness.
They had to add a rule about not using it to spy on Congress. That tells you all you need to know about how often fisa is abused.
DDG never pretended to be unbiased. They have all the same policy decisions around artificial boosting/throttling as google without the tracking.
In their golden era search engines were essentially super sophisticated keyword matching. Users used to find novel websites from passionate people. Now it's becoming more of a social media feed of the same 100 website where you train it what you like.
This is exactly why search is so vulnerable to disruption from LLMs.
Glenn Greewald is the journalist who is best known for founding The Intercept and broke the Edward Snowden story. He is also anti war and spends his time these days criticizing the US policy that created the situation in Ukraine.
That makes him an agent of Russia using the same logic that decades ago said opposition to invading Iraq made you a terrorist sympathizer.