Russia's high tech side of their military industrial complex is incredibly weak compared to the old USSR days, and even their low tech side is struggling.
At least 1 month ago I recall seeing articles about it.
Maybe stop reading articles that are for some reason supportive of the drug and sex trafficking gangs that have caused the most recent collapse of Haiti?
Wired AR glasses / laptop geared for work. Seems like a cheaper, lighter alternative to apple’s Vision Pro. Looked it up after seeing a cybersecurity guy use it in that crazy documentary on the Ashley Madison hack and a few people post about it on LinkedIn...
Can vouch for Viture being much more open source friendly, there's a redditor making a plugin for the steamdeck to make it work far better with the Viture's, and Viture has apparently given them access to some things that Xreal has refused.
Their openness is what won me over for them over other AR glasses. Not only are the willing to help what's effectively a competing software developer, it's also incredibly helpful when the product is so niche, don't have to worry about a company going out of business and your device suddenly becoming a paper weight.
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...
It's called second campism, and it's been happening for a long time, it just used to make more sense when it could actually seem like there was two hegemonic camps during the cold war (still an oversimplistic view).
Now they just support any regime that's anti-US/the original capitalist camp because they have no hegemonic camp of their own to support, just a broad smattering of authoritarian regimes with completely different ideologies.
It's definitely troll bait, but the underlying logic isn't faulty.
Putin could walk away from the war today and face nothing more than embarrassment. If Ukraine surrenders, they lose the eastern half of their country, if not their whole country.
Britons will be urged to stockpile tinned food, batteries and bottled water under a new campaign launched by the UK government to encourage the public to prepare for emergencies....
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Monday that he has requested arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel....
Yeahhhh it's the age-old campism of
"If it's anti-america, it must be good"
I'm so sick of this black and white thinking, we can force the U.S government to do better without praising whoever is doing atrocities in the name of attacking the west.
While there is probably a large amount of support for Hamas in Gaza, that's completely disregarding all of the people who dont support Hamas and have been forced into silence or murdered by them since 2007.
Hmmmm the guy everyone thought was gonna be leader next suddenly dies and the son of the current leader is now the heir presumptive... I know nowhere enough about Iranian politics and ik it was a heli crash but this sounds suspicious as hell.
"So hear me out, we place a bomb in one of the Hueys and then stop supplying them with new ones, one day their leader will totally get on it and then we got em"
"Yo bill maybe slow down on the company acid please."
I'm not sure the CIA was doing stuff as advanced as Stuxnet in its LSD days when it was supplying Iran.
Though now that you mention it, I'm surprised we've never heard of the CIA doing more things like obscure Stuxnet style sabotage on leaders' aircraft and the like.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating....
Proposed restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights have proven far harder for politicans at home and abroad to unite against than the government’s “foreign agent” bill....
Depressing but not surprising, Putins favorite little sycophant in Chechnya, Kadyrov, has been saying, "There's no gay people in Chechnya" like "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" while simultaneously throwing thousands of LGBT people into camps for a decade now.
Every 10 days a few blocks wouldn’t match the expected construction rate, and there’s no reasoning why they think it was for the Great Pyramid
Unless there were other crews, like there almost always is in any construction. The journal also specifically names the pyramid, it'd be odd for the stone they're moving to go to the site of the Pyramid of Khufu, mention the name of the pyramid of Khufu, and then not be used for the pyramid of Khufu.
If it was the guy’s tomb, why isn’t his name anywhere? All the other tombs are positively lousy with art. But not this one. The one - graffiti, not official, not sanctioned - name is hidden in the equivalent of a closet and that is in shorthand even?
I don't know a ton about Khufu, but us it possible that he just didn't want as much iconography? I know it's been common for several other cultures (some of Byzantine and Islamic) to not what to have icons or representations of people. Definitely odd, and I'm not sure why almost all of the other pyramids would be tombs and then his wouldn't be.
Yeah idk it certainly is confusing, I have multiple ideas from him wanting it to be more dedicated to the gods than just him, to the inscriptions not having the time to be finished before he died.
Just seems weird to me that we have a bunch of Tomb pyramids, and then one that isn't so tomb like but still has a Pharoah inside.
Hopefully this is one of the things we'll find an answer to.
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
The U.S. also had local opposition fighters to help them gain sympathy from the local population, and we were actually trying to nation build.
You can say that Fatah is basically that for Israel, but they aren't fighting in Gaza. If the fighting in Gaza was being done by Fatah, then global perceptions would probably be a lot different.
It would also probably involve less civilian deaths as Fatah would be much less likely just to bomb a neighborhood to get 10 Hamas fighters as opposed to actually fighting for it and taking casualties which is what Israel is currently doing.
Of course, this couldn't happen under the current Israeli government. They barely trust Fatah with enough weapons to be policemen in the West Bank, let alone enough to take a city of 2 million.
Yeahhhh Afghanistan was a shitshow. We were actually nation-building, not just nation rebuilding like we did in Iraq, a lot harder to create a national identity out of several tribes and ethnic groups than it is to change/"modernize" a nation like we did in Iraq.
Even Iraq had that issue with the sectarianism, but atleast almost everyone spoke the same language (sorry Kurds). Iraq had also had a national identity beat into them by the monarchy and then the Baathists, which probably helped as well.
Afghanistan never really had that.
Yeah I was aware of the other ethnic/religious groups in Iraq, but haven't done enough research into them (except the Yazidis, ISIS made us get exposed to them in the west). I know about the Iraqi kurds and the factionalist fights they have, so it would make sense if the rest of the country was similar.
My point was really that a state structure already existed in Iraq, all the U.S. had to do was seize it while not damaging it too much in the process. (Or doing something stupid like idk firing the entire military and all the teachers and anyone remotely tied to Baathism)
Afghanistan would've taken far, far, far, more effort.
the fact that you basically gave the country to the iranian backed political groups which forms the backbone of a lot of political parties - security forces and businesses clashing with the rest of the very diverse iraqi society whether shia or sunni.
Possibly a bigger mistake than invading in the first place. Not completely sure how it could've been avoided without an endless occupation, but there had to have been a better solution than letting them fund opposition groups, and then letting them be one of the key military components against ISIS with the PMF system.
Saddam was the state structure it wasn't like some organic thing existed through a shared nationalist identity.
Oh you've misunderstood what I've said. Sadam definitely wasn't some good leader that united the country, and I know we helped put him in power to stop the Iraqi Communists.
I'm just saying that the oppression had effectively held the country together for decades, and so when we arrived, stuff was a little more stable, and then we fucked it up.
Afghanistan had already been going through a civil war for a long, long, time. I wasn't making any value judgements like "Saddam is good", I was simply saying that Iraq was an easier situation than Afghanistan.
This is just blatantly false, if an organization is committing crimes or doing something the government dislikes then the government will sanction it, like it has done with almost every Russian Oligarch's business, or front businesses for terrorist groups.
I'm pretty sure the whole point of banning TikTok is that the government is alleging that TikTok has engaged/can be forced to engage in abusive or illegal practices.
Inside a ballroom at the Gaylord Convention Center overlooking the National Harbor outside of Washington DC, Saudi dissidents and activists from all over the diaspora came together for an in-person conference to discuss the elusive prospects of a representative government in Saudi Arabia chosen by its citizens....
You think that the Saudi population would rather keep living in a country that chops up journalists for fun?
The Saudi monarchy is entirely propped upon religious fundamentalism, and the oil currently ruining the climate, I say the sooner they find another system the better.
I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....
Don't be hyperbolic, it's not 1984 and you still live on a democracy.
You won't face any serious criminal repercussions for saying anything in Canada or any other democracy.
Another sign of rigging is that 2024 election results peaked at round figures, Shukshin wrote. This distribution of results looks like a saw on graphs, which led to the nickname "Putin's saw."
While they're definitely wrong in ignoring the communist party's value as a signal for disliking the regime/as a protest vote,
you're also feeding on propaganda if you think Navalny and his smart voting campaign weren't a very large movement.
If Navalny wasn't a threat to the regime, then Putin wouldn't have hounded him for a decade.
Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship ( www.kyivpost.com )
Coup attempt in Bolivia reportedly under way as army and police storm palace ( www.ctvnews.ca )
Too powerful for their Euro arteries ( lemmy.world )
Back when AAA game developing was a fun process ( lemmy.world )
Spacetop AR laptop / glasses ( www.sightful.com )
Wired AR glasses / laptop geared for work. Seems like a cheaper, lighter alternative to apple’s Vision Pro. Looked it up after seeing a cybersecurity guy use it in that crazy documentary on the Ashley Madison hack and a few people post about it on LinkedIn...
Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...
Ukraine updates: Belgium to deliver 30 F-16 fighter aircraft ( www.dw.com )
Belgium is committed to delivering 30 F-16 fighter jets by 2028 to assist Kyiv in countering Russia's invasion....
‘We Have Shot Dead All the People’: Survivors Recount Horror of Myanmar Monastery Massacre ( www.irrawaddy.com )
what's the latest image in your download folder?
that you're willing to share obviously
Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning ( www.ft.com )
Britons will be urged to stockpile tinned food, batteries and bottled water under a new campaign launched by the UK government to encourage the public to prepare for emergencies....
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Requests Warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas Leaders ( www.nytimes.com )
The International Criminal Court prosecutor said Monday that he has requested arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel....
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for brutal crackdowns against political opposition, dies at 63 ( www.nbcnews.com )
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details ( www.cnn.com )
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating....
Georgia’s other Russian-style law is fueling a bitter culture war ( www.politico.eu )
Proposed restrictions on LGBTQ+ rights have proven far harder for politicans at home and abroad to unite against than the government’s “foreign agent” bill....
Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind construction ( www.bbc.com )
Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.
Ocalan calls for Kurdish action on Isis ( morningstaronline.co.uk )
The imprisoned PKK leader has urged for resistance against Isis militants in Syria....
Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region...
Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
'An unprecedented gathering': Saudi activists unite in US to discuss ending kingdom's autocracy ( www.middleeasteye.net )
Inside a ballroom at the Gaylord Convention Center overlooking the National Harbor outside of Washington DC, Saudi dissidents and activists from all over the diaspora came together for an in-person conference to discuss the elusive prospects of a representative government in Saudi Arabia chosen by its citizens....
rule conditions ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?
I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....
Evidence shows recent presidential elections most rigged in Russia’s modern history ( kyivindependent.com )
Another sign of rigging is that 2024 election results peaked at round figures, Shukshin wrote. This distribution of results looks like a saw on graphs, which led to the nickname "Putin's saw."
Elon Musk admits he has this secret account on X where he ‘pretends to be a child’ ( www.hindustantimes.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14173417...