laurentiu.bsky.social
DevOps architect by day, avid reader by night.
Listening to history, economics and D&D.
CET Standard Tribe.
M/he/him.
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Respectfully, no. I've lived behind the iron curtain long enough to know how easy it is for this power to be abused. Even with the best of intentions, sooner or later there's going to be the wrong person making use of it.
Just imagine Trump with access to this kind of power.
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At this point The Laundry Files feels practically solarpunk.
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Assistant to the regional manager?
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That certain megacorp would be much better served by adding actual live acting to the Gentleman Bastards and turning the whole thing into a TV series.
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Once you're past the border and on a trusted network, connect to your home VPN and restore your data - overnight should be fine.
Setting up the infrastructure for the above is widely documented, if you're non technical, ask a techie friend to help. You'd be safer for it.
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"Recite the pledge of allegiance to continue."
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Because whatever moral high ground the US was standing upon - real or imagined - it has now crumbled into dust. And I don't see it coming back in my lifetime.
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I don't know what kind of benefits outweigh the US loss of allies, prestige and honour, let alone the sacrifice of a whole country. But it better be gods damned worth it. When US was attacked in 2001, a coalition of the willing stood with it. Now the best it can hope for is a cohort of the coerced.
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The fact that it does not means that there is a benefit for this administration in withholding aid to Ukraine. And it's not rare earth minerals, as exploiting those effectively would require logistics and infrastructure in place that cannot realistically be there before Trump's end of term.
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Why do I say this? Withholding military aid is one thing. Withholding critical intelligence is quite another. US would be able to effectively whittle down Russia's military capability just by uploading HIMARS target data to Ukraine, at no cost to itself.
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What's even sadder is that the fate of nations is being decided by two angry "businessmen" and their hurt feelings over one brave man's refusal to kowtow, kiss the little ring and sell out his country.
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Only if you inherit from it.
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Homeopa-tea.
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I know Cory's opinion on BSky, but maybe you'll change his mind? His voice would be more than welcome here.
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"Yes, I do speak like the writers on whose works ChatGPT was illegally trained on, so nice of you to notice."
Maybe we should normalize the casual use of expletives instead, Samuel L. Jackson style. There's no way this motherfucking paragraph was generated by AI.
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Voting in elections is literally the very least you can do, politically speaking. It speaks volumes that a significant part of the population can't be bothered to even to that. And I'm under no illusions that the ones that vote do so in an informed manner. The informed votes are probably a minority.
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The people also want vengeance visited upon health insurance CEOs, apparently, yet vance made no mention of it in his speech. Curious.
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Yeah, we heard this one before... where oh where in history?
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Why do you ask?
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My commiserations, and may I introduce you to the wonderful world of noise cancelling headphones?
Don't worry, they either grow out of it or they become Moby.
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... unless you want to, you know, break things.
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I swear, this is part of some weird cocoon / nesting instinct. Most, if not all adults, seem to block any memory of having done such a thing at that age, and are really surprised when the kids pick up the habit.
Anyway, here's my collection of matchbox cutouts I used to trade with my peers, age 11.
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Yes. They're called "teens". They should hatch any day now.
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Hey, not getting a divorce, just getting more agile in the dating market.
Language. Humanity's greatest invention, and we're using it for this.
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I've just started a "bot follower" list yesterday, it would actually be nice we could have lists of lists around, so that everyone could contribute in their own limited way.
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If that means wearing cowboy boots while deploying, I'm in.
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As it happens, I quite like the letter X. I liked writing it as a child, I like seeing it in print. The xe/xyr pronouns in Becky Chambers Wayfarers series are adorable. And some of my favourite people on this planet have X in their name.
So no, Elon can't have it. He's stil a nazi though.
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Your attempt at distracting us from the brand new novel you're holding up have failed miserably. Good effort though.
... and congrats :)
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Je suis CatGPT!
// hi elsie *scritches*!