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These people are on record for threatening the pipeline. They had the motive and the means. So why should we disbelieve their threats? Sy Hersh is the most trusted living investigative reporter today. I'll take his word over some OSINTbro shill any day of the week. And to claim that Russians destroyed their own pipeline is ludicrous. Once they start cutting our undersea cables and destroying our pipelines, I guess they'll claim we're doing it to ourselves. Same "logic".

tptacek, you still haven't explained how Biden, Nuland, Sullivan and Blinken are all on video saying that NS pipelines will be destroyed. Why are you so heavily invested in this and why are you defending this insane criminal cabal that is pushing us into WW3?

Instead of getting lost in minutia, can you explain why Biden, Nuland, Blinken and the rest of the neocon and lib imperialist gang would go on record about getting rid of NS1 and NS2 and then deny they had anything to do with it?

It's unfortunate they removed it. Is there a public mirror/torrent of it by any chance?

Taiwanese local elections from 2022 [1] are an indications that there won't be any need for a full-scale Chinese invasion. China is patient and they'll keep on influencing politicians and citizens of Taiwan until they acquiesce to Chinese rule. America's hegemony is on its last legs and being a massive thorn in China's side will not that advantageous anymore to Taiwan. The odds are pretty high that Taiwan will avoid the faith of becoming another Ukraine.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-votes-loca...

>The Gray Lady Winked

Thank you. I've added it to my reading list.

The talk will be virtual... he'll ZOOM/Skype it in.

New York Times is _still_ providing SBF cover by allowing him to speak at DealBook Summit later this month [1]. He's joined by such luminaries as Zuckerberg, Affleck, Fink, Zelensky etc. They invited him to speak long before the FTX imploded and now call SBF "Founder, FTX" instead of "CEO, FTX". The conference is by invite-only and costs $2,499 per person.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/events/dealbook-summit#sessions

I guess we finally know what the price for "Fake it till you make it" is: 11 years.

If you're a current Twitter employee and you dislike Musk, do no quit. Job market is super-tight and recession is coming like a freight train. So many companies are doing mass layoffs and hiring freezes. You will have hard time finding another job paying similar salary. No matter how hard things get at Twitter, at least you'll be able to pay the rent and pay for your food.

It doesn't matter how good you are, even if you find another job in today's market, you will have to take a haircut.

NEVER AGAIN will I be a sharecropper on someone's land. I'm sick of all these oligarchs who promise the world to you and then they tell you what to think, how to behave and what you can say. Eventually they will take it away from you without an even a recourse.

Just join Mastodon. Start by using someone else's instance [1] and then learn how to run your own. It's not hard.

[1] https://instances.social/

> Why won't he be thrown in jail?

He's the second biggest donor to the Democratic Party. He has a lot of political cover.

There's actually an automated Twitter account [0] that tracks celebrity jets and occasionally calculates CO2 emissions of the rich [1]. The biggest culprit is the singer Taylor Swift [2]:

>Swift topped a list of celebrities, with 170 flights emitting 8,293 metric tons of greenhouse gases.

If you scroll through these tweets you will see celebs taking 10 min flights several times a day. Yet these people have no qualms telling others to curtail their CO2 emissions, eat less beef and host of other hypocritical nonsense.

[0] https://twitter.com/CelebJets

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/CelebJets/status/1522979709277335...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-rep-excuse-private-jet...

is it possible to save the composition?

Matthew, you don't give a damn about free speech. You've proven it numerous times. Quit pretending that you do.

DDG censors too much.

Dr Sabine Hossenfelder explained why this is all just an an illusion:

>What’s going to happen with this new solution? Most likely, someone’s going to find a problem with it, and everyone will continue working on their own solution. Indeed, there’s a good chance that by the time this video appears this has already happened. For me, the real paradox is why they keep doing it. I guess they do it because they have been told so often this is a big problem that they believe if they solve it they’ll be considered geniuses. But of course their colleagues will never agree that they solved the problem to begin with. So by all chances, half a year from now you’ll see another headline claiming that the problem has been solved.

>And that’s why I stopped working on the black hole information loss paradox. Not because it’s unsolvable. But because you can’t solve this problem with mathematics alone, and experiments are not possible, not now and probably not in the next 10000 years.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-stopped-working-o...

This is the biggest theft of taxpayer money since the inception of the US!

So, physics is a dead-end? Given that Scott is running his own research lab, a year is a very long time and him working out of his field is an indication that physics is in a big trouble.

I's literally the same thing but in monochrome.

>spam-control

Can you explain what was so spammy about this one? https://nypost.com/2022/04/23/wikipedia-deletes-entry-for-hu...

>I don't get why they would do this to so many topics.

It's a form of censorship, hence a form of thought control.

Interesting concept but I'd just like to add that the UI is a complete rip-off of Logic Pro's plugin UI. You can compare the two:

Logic Pro: https://i.imgur.com/A7el6vh.png

And Kia: https://i.imgur.com/bEhz7S2.jpg

>Quite good for finding torrents.

That's because there's no DMCA law there and they're not taking down thousands upon thousands of pages like Google is forced to do every day. [1]

[1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/

>folder thumbnails

Is that a Windows feature? I've only ever used macOS and GNU/Linux so never got used to that. I just did a quick search on their Github Issues page and didn't see it requested. You can file a request here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues

Please file any bugs you come across on their Github page! From my experience, they fix crashes quickly. I came across a similar issue a while back and they fixed it in the next release.

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues

Blog post mentions Cinnamon's nemo as not having the same issues as Nautilus and I have to agree. I've been distro-hopping for years (just to keep myself current) and Nemo is by far the best and most stable file manager for GNU/Linux. macOS' Finder is the only FM that's nicer but Nemo has few things that makes it even better than Finder. All in all, I'm super-happy with nemo! Kudos to Cinnamon team. And don't forget to donate to them! [1]

[1] https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php

My favorite part about Yandex is that there's no DMCA. The amount of DMCA notices against search engines like Google and Bing is absolutely astonishing. Thousands of them are filed every day and a massive amount of webpages are delisted because of these complaints. You can look up some of them in the LumenDatabase [1].

[1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/

>At least with a browser extension you can audit the source code yourself

Well, often this is not easy. I've tried to audit some extensions recently but a vast majority of non-open-source extensions are minified and heavily obfuscated. Unless you invest a lot of time, it's not easy to audit the code these days.

I'm reminded of this article from 2020 [1]:

>The United States printed more money in June than in the first two centuries after its founding. Last month the U.S. budget deficit — $864 billion — was larger than the total debt incurred from 1776 through the end of 1979.

and this is a good graph of our money supply (M1) [2]

The inflation is here to stay. And it will only get worse. Fed's recent 25-basis point rate hike won't do anything to curtail the inflation.

[1] https://blog.panteracapital.com/two-centuries-of-debt-in-one...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL