TSMC is getting ready to pull the plug on the US fab, since US gov has not given any of the promised subsidies.

I'm not paying for Telegram and I haven't noticed missing out anywhere because of it. I'm using the APK file instead of the Play Store version because the latter censors Russian media channels (and I hate censorship). I wasn't even aware there were premium accounts.

I'm in 2 dozen channels, have a few friends who mainly use Telegram instead of the competitors and I haven't noticed a single issue, except for their homegrown encryption scheme.

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If you trust Kurzgesagt, I'm sorry: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/inv-006792

Agreed, Porkbun are great.

So you're completely uninformed and yet chime in with your opinion? The danger is real and this isn't a reporting issue.

NATO shill.

So basically "the US said so", okay.

Whenever I think of Fomenko (basically daily) I think of how fake everything about the Roman Empire is.

Same here. I'm using Syncthing to keep states synched between my MacBook and Pixel. All I'm missing is a shared grocery list for me and my girlfriend.

"People do evil things while at war". The Russians do it, the Ukrainians do it.

Who trains ChatGPT biases? Humans.

Yeah, unless your computer is permanently hooked up to the TV, then it's probably irrelevant. :)

I don't know, perhaps I'm not getting the question.

It's basically a streaming service with a library that you fill yourself. It doesn't matter if you use a laptop, app or streaming dongle to watch the content. I'd say that it's easier to watch content if you already own a dongle like a Chromecast though.

You pay for the amount of storage you want, then you select whatever torrents you want to download, either via a browser extension or services like chill.institute that look through common torrent search engines for you and give the opportunity to download instantly to your put.io account. You're completely in charge of your library and put.io won't show you anything you didn't download yourself.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd skip the shots and rely on my immune system. Something definitely wasn't right with these shots, in my view.

There have been sane scientific reports about impurities and traces of foreign DNA being found in samples of the vaccines from all vendors and a study implying that two shots caused cancers in mice (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1158124) doesn't inspire confidence either. I know all the "fact checks" around the topic, no need to link me to it. They're all written by people with no medical expertise.

The entire reporting about the pandemic was (in my opinion) highly unscientific, excluded critical voices (real doctors, not some snake oil salespeople) and came basically down to "just have faith in the science" and I feel terribly stupid for having participated in the sharade (not implying the entire pandemic was fake, but the way it was handled) and I hated myself for quite some time for having given into the pressure instead of listening to my intuition.

These vaccines definitely screwed with my health. My heart didn't perform as well for about a year (confirmed by a doctor), I felt fatigued despite having been active and fit despite the lockdowns (also confirmed by a doctor), I definitely had some issues with blood flow/clotting and my lymphatic system is definitely still trying to get rid of something.

I'm not giving health advice here but please be aware that even if we accept the official number of 1/10000 likelihood of the vaccines having severe side effects (and I don't think that's true anymore based just on observations in my family and social circles, like women having screwed up periods, several miscarriages of otherwise healthy women, sudden appearances of cancer in people under 50) - if you're the 1, it'll fuck you up and no one will give damn. After talking to a few people who now can no longer work after having taken the shots, prepare for massive gaslighting, especially from doctors. Don't trust in whatever is left of social security systems to care about you. They've all been told they're imagining things or that they just had a genetic predisposition and would've had these issues even without the shots.

My trust in the medical establishment is at an all time low. And now they're planning on dumping mRNA into everything, like animal vaccines and crops. This doesn't seem right. I have a real bad feeling about this.

I'll accept the risk if getting COVID from now on.

I was never anti vaccines, btw. But there's been so much suspicious shit going on around this whole topic that my trust "in (capitalist) science" is in shambles. Just the appearance of "sudden adult death syndrome" right after the vaccinations started was highly suspicious and should've warranted at least a pause of the vaccinations. At the very least, I'll have to assume that it was more important for people to get back to work as quick as possible and to "return to normal" was a terrible driving force behind the way of this pandemic was handled.

I'm sure people will come at me for all of this. I'm not (alt) right, I'm not anti science, but I worry that the rushed rollout of these shots was a big mistake. That doesn't mean that the extreme anti vaxxers were right either.

Edit: Not to mention how my girlfriend's migraines have increased severely and that her Astrazeneca and Moderna batches are known for having headaches as a side effect according to VAERS.

To the first 2 downvotes: Thanks for proving my point.

Yeah and every Christian commiting a crime is doing so in the name of the Lord. Sure.

It's basically a Torrent tracker as a service with a web interface to directly stream your torrents in your browser or to a Chromecast, Apple TV and whatever.

Billionaires also pledged to fund rebuilding Notre Dame in France and no one paid anything. Almost no one actually paid and it seems the press doesn't care to see if anything has been paid since 2019: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-fire-update-big-donors-delay-fulfilling-pledges-to-rebuild-notre-dame/

Pledges are PR, nothing more.

Christian "Schuldenbremse" Lindner. No money for education, public transport and energy investments but the feeding the war machine is completely within budget.

Around 2010 there was this "pledge" where a website people basically collected a list of things they'd require in order to stop pirating tv shows and movies and I think it came down to:

Provide easy access to large library Provide multi language support, must offer original language Allow downloads/offline viewing Be reasonably priced

Plus some additional stuff I can't remember.

When Netflix got big, they basically covered it all. Then everyone wanted a piece of the pie.

Back to piracy then. 15$ for put.io ✨🙏

Not being forced to use Windows or having to hope that Ubuntu works, battery life, raw SoC performance, good keyboards (after they fixed the duds from 2016-2020), best trackpads in town, good quality apps, native Unix shell?

I was really looking into buying the Framework laptop but apart from that, everything seemed to be more or less crap (for my use cases) if you don't want to deal with Thinkpads.

But it's misinformation and it might lead to some gullible idiot to take it seriously and this it should be censored in the name of making the Internet more safe for everyone!

Definitely, I wouldn't recommend macOS to anyone who already enjoys Ubuntu or other Linux distros.

Dead Internet Theory is a thing.

You mean people with opinions that don't align with your own?

That made me cry just now.

What a graceful statement from him. Damn. 😭

macOS over Ubuntu (don't get me started on Windows). I use macOS on my MacBook Air and it's just so well thought out. Ubuntu is decent but I wouldn't want to use it for my daily work.

I love Obsidian and use it to manage my Markdown files and I'm in awe. Checked out Logseq as well but it didn't work for me.

VS Code. As much as I hate Microsoft, this is great. I'll likely look for a community-supported version without the creepy telemetry shit though.

Have you read any of it or did you just skim Wikipedia? I'm perfectly aware of people's biases and that he's likely to tend towards a pro-Russian spin. But after years of researching I can't deny that a lot of his claims aren't that unlikely.

I'm not here to convince you. OP asked, I answered.

From a Western perspective, you'll have a hard time reading fringe criticism of the West without someone chanting "bUt tHiS iS RuSSian prOpAganDa" from the sides. The immediate shift in reporting about Ukrainian politics in Western media was so blatantly obvious propaganda and yet you come at me with this.

We've all been fed propaganda since the 40s, from all sides, in every country, the media is either heavily centralized or state-controlled, no journalist covering socialist/anarchist topics is likely to dig deeper into this (hell, they're likely fighting for truth in smaller areas where they can actually move the needle, more power to them), we have almost no real journalists with reach and impact left, Assange has shown that investigative journalism is as good as dead, we're being fed Ministry of Truth crap as "fact checks" and we've all been programmed with our go-to responses for dissenting voices. I've had my share of normie "Anarchists" coming at me only to debunk their BS as centrist garbage dressed in nice patches, shirts and rhetorics.

Have you debated a historian at a university about Fomenko (and they actually read it!) and hit them with facts until they had to admit that a lot of our history was under strict control of very few influential people of shady untrustworthy organisations and that there's no irrefutable proof that certain documents, drawing and writings haven't been either been manipulated or may be outright forgeries and that there's a lot of trust involved in keeping it all together?

Just consider it a hobby interest of mine if it makes you sleep any better. If you read at least one of Fomenko's books, let's debate without resorting to boring "you're basically Putin's right hand" rhetoric.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not into genetics, I don't care who belongs to which race, I don't want to paddle to any nation state that their narrative about some race being superior is true. I can read scholars without having to adopt their entire world view.

Most of our historical narratives were invented by a few Western elites (nobility, priests, scholars) about 400-450 years ago.

(Basically Fomenko's New chronology.)

32 trillion. Just one more. ✨

In a better world I'd appreciate this. In our current capitalist hell scape, stuff like this will land in the wrong hands.

Nope, thanks.

Definitely, I didn't mean to sound too defeatist.

The put.io Google/Android TV app is pretty decent, as long as you don't have to reencode content.