Forget US and China, Pakistan next door forces their hand every 5 years lol.

Which is an insult considering its a military regime state built on IMF loans and an economy that has been kaput for nearly 2 decades.

India actually has serious geopolitical leverage but Modi doesn’t use it like former PMs have because he traded it all away in exchange to be a suck up to foreign powers, especially the US, despite India historically being a close Russian ally.

Me continuing to harass Nintendo by transferring my 20 year old DS games and saves from my equally old R4 flashcart (and microSD) to my AYN Thor because digital media & freedom is forever.

Tbf my first email has been so utterly destroyed by spam that there’s a big chance I missed an old contact sending me something.

Plus since they all got bought out by Microsoft and converted into Outlook, there’s an even better chance that the useless spam filter decided to throw only an actual message into the spam folder, which conveniently gets deleted after 30 days, despite only ever having like 20 emails tops.

Can’t even remember the old hotmail UI anymore ;/

BJP (the potential) is the reason the original Muslim League wanted a separate Pakistan.

RSS didn’t even spare Gandhi. Jinnah’s assessment of the extremist group eventually becoming the majority turned out to be true.

And not like BJP is even better for Indians from a policy perspective, they’re infamously even more nepotistic and corrupt prone than INC. Modi basically spent his first two terms throwing away the leverage of the nation’s massive IT industry and solid relations with Russia for getting dumped by Trump via tariffs and visa bans.

Not to mention his double air force fiasco with Pakistan.

I blame my crappy Samsung android keyboard lol

It’s gonna sink like the artifact from Indiana Jones and cause the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt lol

Sorta of a blind shot, but does anyone here know where to look for their asset liquidation & auctions?

I can’t afford an A320 but I’m sure they have some good tools, equipment, servers, etc.

https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension

https://lemmy.world/post/45527405

TL;DR: 84,000 extensions and it took 2 hours to startup on a fat 42gb+ RAM workstation, but mostly because Firefox “regressed” from using SQLite to JSON for addons lol

Directors cut is defnitley worth a watch, but you’ll probably only enjoy it if you have at least some context/interest in the history of Jerusalem or its crusades.

The thing that kicked off 2007 was that CDOs ended being largely made up of crappy mortgage bonds which caused their massive trillions in debt “value” to dissappear when the underlying bonds failed which was tied to people not paying their mortgage on crappy adjustable mortgage loans.

After getting bailed out with a shit ton of tax money, the banks agreed not to repeat the same mistake by ensuring their trillions of debt trading doesn’t depend on a single point of failure, so they’ve diversified it across multiple markets (like how a CDO was otherwise supposed to work)

This type of warning shows up every now and then because the vulnerability is still there (since nothing really changed), but its much harder to knock it down without causing some type of collapse in multiple areas first.

Right now, I think its estimated that private credit makes up about 40% of their investments into the AI boom, which is 1 trillion dollars exact. That’s proportionally less than what CDOs were with mortgage bonds, but it’s still entirely possible that a couple of hits in some businesses sectors could collapse the system.

Iran actually succeeded in affecting multiple supply chains due to their strait closure, including AI, so if they continue on that path it might actually happen.

I’m hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.

It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you’re spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.

Tor is the only one that has that type of association because it’s the biggest, so it always gets mentioned in the media.

Most people don’t even know that there are other darknets like i2p.

On top of that, current Tor actually has pretty good latency and connection speeds when not on a bridge. Last time I tried it out, I was getting 80Mbps up/down. Several users here even regularly or exclusively access lemmy with Tor.

I think i2p should actually make an effort to promote higher base bandwidth sharing out of box because it scales easily since its completely decentralized and everyone is a node, unlike Tor. It could easily become more user friendly if nodes weren’t starting off at like 128kbps speeds.

Plus like the other reply mentioned, you have to go out of your way to find the criminal stuff on darknets. Most users would probably be accessing clearnet stuff anyway, and .onion addresses on clearnet sites that have dedicated onion addresses like duckduckgo or some social media platforms.

I’m still mad we lost sport sedans for this EPA bs.

Everything is a crossover or SUV to gg ez the emission laws because of the weight class.

Random 5 seater SUV will be producing more emissions than a WRX or Evo Lancer.

Yeah Uber (thankfully lol) actually died in a ton of countries because of this.

Either government sponsored or just local competition that actually pays well.

There’s even tiered niches for each app that go for quality/speed etc, so no one app becomes supreme.

The funny thing is gig work (proportionally) makes a lot more in plenty of 3rd wold countries because the business owner isn’t taking a massive chunk of the income, and because it started out with everyone paying cash so there’s no shoehorned services fees at every transaction.

Its so lucrative that I’ve seen office workers run it as bonus income on their way to and from work if they travel by car or motorcycle.

I always thought about making a free equivalent platform to stuff like Uber, but I think people would be too scared of the individual liability, despite Uber offering the absolute bare minimum.

While Toyota and Honda at least have an acclaimed history in low cost and efficient vehicles, Ford is literally 1/3rd the the reason the US doesn’t manufacture sedans anymore, with the other 2/3rds being GM and Chrysler.

I actually witnesses them layoff their entire sedan division in real time when they announced the end of the fusion. I’m pretty sure it was mostly liquidated by the time covid hit.

They bought into the colonial system from their very existence. Most of the GCC started out as British backed insurgents against the Ottman empire.

Once they kicked the Ottomans out, they all established hard monarchies to solidify political power, and outsourced their security to the British, who took immediate advantage of the massive oil reserves discovered in the region.

Post WWII, after the British empire collapsed, they transitioned to the US under the same deal.

They make trillions of dollars through oil sold only in USD, which they reinvest into the US economy. The US gets to dictate their foreign policy and use them however they please in exchange.

The benefactors are exclusively the royal families and their friends, which is why KSA and UAE are notorious for human trafficking and exploited foreign labor because they spend none of that money on actually developing their nation’s societies.

They had multiple opportunities not to enter such an exploitable system, but they chose not to, with the grand exception being Iran, which was the only successful overthrow of a US/UK imposed government.

Yeah honestly I look kinda dumb in retrospect lol. I forgot even the Houthis manged to constrict the red sea with an order of magnitude less munitions.

Even better, they even blew up some GCC oil refineries with massive economic effect.

Its actually so much funnier watching people compare the “blandness” of the TV to the book lmao.

It only cost the livelihood of 260 million people, but the ISI has successfully joined hands with Mossad to put Trump on their payroll. And only for the purpose of publicly demeaning India /s