futatorius

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

In other words, he'll purge anyone who doesn't repeat his idiotic yapping.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody with a functioning brain thinks Russian army is beat to hell.

I have heard Western military people say this, in person. It doesn't mean Russia is not still a threat, but their capabilities have been degraded during the two years of the "easy 2-week war."

If they're doing so well, why haven't they been able to defeat a country with a population a tenth that of Russia?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even more, if they're expected to engage in another sustained campaign, who's going to be fighting it? They can barely keep their conscription pipeline full now. Who's going to sign up to sacrifice themselves in Meat Grinder round 2?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like the Russian Baltic fleet has been battle-hardened by its contact with the ocean floor.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is more about the Saudis' genocidal war against the Houthis.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Iran and Israel are held to entirely different standards.

By body count, there's no comparison.

I will, however, add an obligatory Fuck the Mullahs-- the Iranian people deserve much better than that.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Interoperability is a big job, but the extent to which it matters varies widely according to the use case. There are layers of standards atop other standards, some new, some near deprecation. There are some extremely large and complex datasets that need a shit-ton of metadata to decipher or even extract. Some more modern dataset standards have that metadata baked into the file, but even then there are corner cases. And the standards for zero-trust security enclaves, discoverability, non-repudiation, attribution, multidimensional queries, notification and alerting, pub/sub are all relatively new, so we occasionally encounter operational situations that the standards authors didn't anticipate.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

TripAdvisor has better content. Too many Google reviews give a business 1 star because the review author was too stupid to check working hours, or has some incredibly rare digestive condition that they didn't bother to communicate to the eatery before ordering. Or they expect their Basque waiter to speak fluent Latvian, or to accommodate a walk-in party of 20.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Isn’t yelp a pretty easily replaceable thing?

Yelp is at this stage a completely worthless thing. The only thing they were originally was an aggregator of semi-literate reviews, and a shakedown racket against businesses that pissed off some Karen

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump loves a large-scale crime against humanity.

The Israelis are unlikely to enter a full-scale war with Iran. They'll instead try to get the US to commit war crimes on their behalf.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, goalpost-moving. I should have known.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

And after that, we need a revolution. Everyone appointed by Trump will be given the option of resigning office or being relocated to Gitmo. This has not been politics as normal. This has been an attempt to resurrect the late 19th-century spoils system.

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