Only took them elon coming out of the closet as a proud neo-nazi…wasn’t obvious enough before.

Piracy is a response to various kinds of market failure, inequality.

Yea, but I guess Europe is in for a rough century squeezed between China and magaism, who are more likely to agree to dismember it than to let it be the halfway point.

It should take them at least as much effort to say what they want to say as it takes to debunk it, so they would have to “escalate” first before I put any effort into a reply and escalate my effort too.

Even if they are both honest, it only works when you agree on the aims each one is trying to reach (and ground rules, those are already in the sidebar). If one is trying to learn something and the other is trying to win the argument or pose for your potential readers…you get a shit debate where no progress is made.

Shame, innit? They could be the n1 Solar panel producers per capita and panel exporters…oh well. This is why the charge against fossil fuels has to be led by net consumers (in the name of defense against geopolitical risk) and the producers will inevitably reduce extraction for export…but local consumption of coal probably will never disappear completely unless locals complain about air pollution and lag in exportable tech.

For anyone who is interested in a detailed view of these stats worldwide in real time and cross-border with carbon intensities and individual breakdowns by electricity source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h

I’m not sure about beer (hah, I got it, the survey name), but vodka for sure: there are giant clouds of ethanol in space https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51271/there-are-giant-clouds-alcohol-floating-space

Discovered in 1995 near the constellation Aquila, the cloud is 1000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. It contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. To down that much alcohol, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day—for one billion years.

Sadly, for those of you planning an interstellar pub crawl, the cloud is 58 quadrillion miles away. It’s also a cocktail of 32 compounds, some of them as nasty as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and ammonia.

Ok, so this vodka smells like old pish and bitter almonds :D

1573rd time elon the unelected oligarch calls a democratically elected leader representative a dictator and remains obediently silent on russia, China, etc. Traitorous moron. He wants to enslave everyone to his ketamine-addled pet projects.

Democracies need to regrow some balls and some teeth to put these dipshits in their place and at the very least tax the shit out of them before they turn every country into a cryptobro fascist wasteland.

hahahaha toldya x50

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I can’t see how it couldn’t make worse the pre-civil war situation the country is in.

“robbed” as in the IMF went in there and did a harsher and obviously larger scale version of what they demanded in Greece and Portugal. They were expecting a Marshall plan and got shock therapy from disaster capitalists instead. This is not a tankie fantasy, because you see the same type of disaster capitalist vultures constantly flying over Western countries’ heads (and developing countries too) trying to privatize everything and cut back in social assurances

What they gloss over is that this is not western countries “attacking” russia, this is global ultraneoliberals preying on anyone who puts themselves in a dire position of need, like the USSR did after decades of mismanagement, but also like Argentina or the “PIIGS”. Gorby had the right idea, but it was too little too late to avoid putting yourself in the hands of the international banksters.

Without rule of law, you get neither markets nor democracy.

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I’d pretend to be driving an invisible car.

Are there social media hazmat suits to distribute among current allies?

hah, the governor of the US oblast is such a funny guy

I understand, but you have to be extremely specific about how you frame foreign/domestic distinction, because these guys are prying from every angle to turn an open society’s vulnerabilities and contradictions against itself. We need a broad-spectrum solution to this (one is cognitive vaccination through education, but it is too late for adults) and until we do, democracies are going to be on their back foot against the global oligarchy, because offense is much more effective than defense against this.

The specific case you seem to be making is if state actors deliberately aim a campaign at your voters. But what if it is only their multinationals, oligarchs, corruption and dirty money, what if it is interest groups, or what if it is “NGOs”, or “the markets” and hedge funds, or cultural products, or what if it is simply large groups of netizens of a friendly state who talk up a specific candidate?

Maybe it is clear when russia does it, but they fumbled it this time with Romania, because they were so effective that it became obvious. In most cases it will not be this obvious and they will use multiple of the methods described above. All I am saying is that once they get inside voters’ heads, it’s hard to go and say that it is illegitimate because the people were influenced by effective propaganda.

PS: I still am not sure what happened here, there seem to also have been cyberattacks and leaking of credentials to make the election insecure, but the messaging is mixed because in the middle of this there are references to tiktok. I assume it is something similar to voter register data being leaked, which helps laser-target disinformation. I just hope this doesn’t turn against us when we want to vote out someone and can’t because foreign interference made the voters do it.

I haven’t read enough about this, but if this was 1000 accounts convincing a million people to vote for a guy, how is that different from anyone else campaigning? Except if it violates public campaign financing law and you had an unfair advantage from a foreign adversary in what should otherwise be a transparent level playing field…and even then things are never completely level and transparent.