Fops: Spotted! @Skylo

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Peasants, rural laborers, and tenant farmers in Europe in previous centuries were, of course, oppressed and exploited by nobles and owners of large farms alike.

But at least in the Catholic regions, they had an excuse for days off: "We must honor the feast day of this saint, or else terrible, terrible things will happen!"

These days, we no longer have such excuses - all we can do is to support strong unions who fight for us.

Desmond (he/him) gives soft warm cuddles :3

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For a long time it was only possible to recover teletext on Linux - now you can do it on your Windows laptop! Get more information and download VBI Recorder for nothing at https://teletextarchaeologist.org/software/ - but do remember to upload your recoveries to https://www.teletextarchive.com afterwards :-)

Boop!

Taken with a GL690 using a 150mm lens on Ilford Delta3200

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Who wins: int32 Unix timestamp or Putin?

Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.

Since this seems to be gaining some traction, here are a few peripheral nuggets of information which didn't really have a place to go in the above narrative, but are nevertheless interesting on their own.

Nugget #1) America doesn't need gas. America needs to SELL gas.

Everyone in the media seems to be framing this story in one way - as a story about a gas shortage crisis. That is not what is happening, at least not here. Twenty years ago, maybe. Forty years ago, definitely. Since the gas shortages of the 1970s, new mining techniques have opened up vast oil reserves in Alaska and other off-shore American drilling sites. America is now the #1 exporter of both crude oil and LNG. Yes, this shock will drive up the price of gas, because petroleum is a globally traded commodity not a local one. But what it is NOT going to do is cause gas shortages in this country. We have plenty of both liquid natural gas and crude oil. The shock felt here is and will continue to be asymmetric. America does still import heavy crude (about a half million barrels a day), to keep certain machinery running. But we don't really need to buy foreign fuel anymore. Those days are over.

Nugget #2) This will not destabilize China or the Asian area in the short term

China has been preparing for this for decades. Not only have they deepened and diversified trade relations across Asia (including trade with Russia), and increased their national oil reserves, but they have also sunk billions into reducing their dependency on petroleum products in the first place. Not only do they already have consumer grade electric vehicles on the market capable of recharging faster than you can fill a gas tank and that retail cheaper than your average Toyota Corolla, but the batteries they run on have a longer shelf life, and have an increased driving range well beyond anything available in the US. Your average Chinese/Japanese/S. Korean citizen is unlikely to feel the effects of this oil shock in the short term. In the medium term, they may have to dip into their reserves. And if this thing turns into a forever war, Asian nations will definitely need to rethink their long term energy strategy. What this is NOT going to do is destabilize the entire food chain, as some have predicted. This really is an "us" problem. We did this to us.

Nugget #3) There is no alternate route.

Despite what certain elected people who should really know better have posted on their social media, there is no other way through or around the Strait of Hormuz. In terms of liquified natural gas (LNG), I mean those words exactly. There literally is no pipeline or other means of circumventing the Strait. In terms of crude oil, there are *some* pipelines, but the volume they can handle is miniscule compared to global demand. And before you ask, no you can't just send it over land and I have to take a moment to explain why that idea is fucking hilarious. Your average VLCC carries about 2 million barrels of oil, with about 55 of those moving daily through the Strait. Your average oil tanker truck holds (generously) about 200 barrels of oil. That means that to circumvent the haul of JUST ONE VLCC over land, you'd need to send A FLEET OF 10,000 oil tankers carrying highly FLAMMABLE LIQUID through an ACTIVE WAR ZONE, crossing the borders of multiple nations that absolutely DO NOT WANT US THERE, on roads that DO NOT EXIST. Now just do that 55 more times and repeat every single day! Fucking lol.

Nugget #4) A military escort is not a solution.

First of all, we can neither confirm nor entirely rule out whether or not Iran has mined the Strait. If they have, escorting that many ships back and forth through the narrow urethra of the global oil economy is just a numbers game. Sooner or later, either a tanker or the US Navy itself will get hit by one, and fucking sink to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. And THAT WOULD, actually, destabilize global markets. Not to mention the fact that the route would take any deployed US Navy vessel extremely close to Iranian shores, allowing them to take as many pot shots at our military escort vessels as they like. Basically it's a PR nightmare waiting to happen. One wrong move and poof there goes global market stability.

Nugget #5) Packing up and going home isn't a solution either

Look at this from Iran's perspective for just a moment. Their entire military strategy here is to play for time. They know that the longer they can put pressure on global oil markets, the worse it is for us, and specifically for Trump. And they're not playing to win this war. They're playing to deter the NEXT one too. They want to make Trump suffer the consequences of his actions, and frankly, I love that for him. They also want the next President, whoever she might be, to never again consider using the United States military to invade and murder their civilians and religious leaders a viable strategy. Even if America packs up our ball, goes home, and declares victory TODAY, Iran still gets a vote in whether or not the war is actually over. They could (and probably would) continue to bomb everyone and everything in sight for months or years, if only to deter the next war.

ugh. I hate when I get an old thing and all the manuals I can find are for the boring modern version of it

This is a very interesting perspective on the tech collapse. Yes, high interest rates and the loss of tax writeoffs for R&D have contributed a lot, but the biggest abandon may just be because there's not a large need. Thats why tech pivoted so hard into try to find applications for LLMs and machine learning, there wasn't anything else to show growth in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759588

replacing passwords with biometrics is a terrible idea because when you get tf'd into your fursona then you get locked out of your accounts. And also for the normal reasons i guess

The best season has finally started here in Chile

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