Empires are generally more about having puppet states - subsidiaries - then “allies” that they’re on equal footing with. It’s tempting to think of things in terms of countries being allies, since that’s how we’re used to thinking of the organization of the world, but economically - i.e., in terms of the bulk of how power is exercised - those boundaries are more like minor obstacles than defining features. I say “U.S. empire”, the U.S. is the seat, but states like the UK, Germany, and so on ad infinitum, are just under the same command structure. One “country”, the government and related machinery, undermining another, that looks more like a power struggle inside a corporation.

I’d also point out that Russia doesn’t have this kind of influence compared to the West. At all. The U.S. has over ten times the GDP of Russia. You factor in the other OECD countries, we’re talking 20-30 times as much. That’s one economic bloc. You throw in the other BRIC countries on the other side, it starts looking a little more balanced, but still not even close.

^ Beware of confirmation bias.

He’s “actively hostile” to the U.S. empire? Show me where he decreased its budget:

It’s ridiculous to just start throwing around “propaganda” accusations at any random user you disagree with. Evidence first, smears later.

What “extensive investigation”? What is the specific evidence that was shown to the public, and what does it establish?

Trump is a war criminal and a fascist, focus on what you can actually prove that he’s done wrong, so you’re not chasing red herrings that validate him to his supporters when you can’t prove them.

Honestly I think the “Trump as an agent of Russia” take is an extremely uninformed take on geopolitics. Trump is an agent of the U.S. empire. That’s why he supports all the U.S. fascist militarism, xenophobia, giveaways to arms manufacturers, oil/gas/etc. companies, giveaways to Wall Street, all of that. Russia is a whole separate power structure whose interests are largely opposed to those of the U.S. empire. So where does that leave you? It seems this is meant more for Democrat ingestion and boogeymanism/scapegoating to detract attention away from the actual workings of the system here.

Bad usability, binary logs, crummy architecture.

It sort of is, the whole elogind thing.

Doesn’t really seem to help when it still shows their username…

I didn’t vote for Harris because she’s one of them. I also don’t use food delivery. Enjoying your feeling of superiority from pointing out the hypocrisy of random group intersections?

It’s tricky to make those distinctions when you have people who are born there to immigrants, whose parents are 1 immigrant 1 not, whose grandparents are some mix of the two statuses, etc., when you’re really trying to describe demographic shifts over time built on top of migration.

You catch the full picture just looking at broad demographic data 1800 to today. Roughly 3-4% of the population in the Palestine area is Jewish at the beginning of the 19th century - ranges from 5 to 14% Jewish by 1914 based on which source you check, by 1948 it’s up to about a third, today about 50/50 (encompassing the same area). There’s about 6 million Palestinians in diaspora now (from something like 1.5-2M fleeing in 1948, 1956, 1967, and other times). 5.7M registered with UNRWA. And we know that there were roughly 4 million Jewish immigrants since 1800 as well (primarily 1880 to today), with the large majority of those post-1948. The 1990s “post-Soviet aliyah” (migration) being the largest in the last few decades.

There are political cartoons from over a century ago where they’re talking about how much of an oligarchy it is. Look at this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg/1920px-The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg

That should have come across as critical of the commodification.

People still love cult movies and other classics from 100 to 50 years ago, with handcrafted or minimal budget special effects, no CGI. It’s because it’s an entire art form and it can’t just be reduced solely to aesthetic appeal. That kind of approach is just a result of the commodification of art. You want to reduce a successful work of art to some quantifiable metric besides popularity/sales, so that you can create repeatable processes around producing it and selling it, and optimize them for cost, but art defies quantification. Even just basic “enjoyable gameplay” defies that.

IDK if you’re allowed to link to lemmy.ml here or what, but the post ID is 24032724. The response to “You can’t prove that there isn’t one somewhere” - “You can, it’s literally the way the number is defined.” - is +8/-1. Plus the original guy pointing out the 10100[…] sequence is +21/-1. What are you saying is the issue? If it’s “they’ll just upvote anything that sounds right”, I think you’re gonna find that’s true on reddit, and true here, as well.

Meanwhile, at .ml:

Since Pi is infinite and non-repeating, would that mean any finite sequence of non-repeating numbers should appear somewhere in Pi?

Even better, ~/.local/share/