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16 days agoThat’s a lot of words to say ExxonMobil wants access to their oil production
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1·16 days agoHTC! Don’t call it a comeback
4·16 days agoI’d argue that at least one of the organizers of the J6 insurrection experienced permanent consequences.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/charlie-kirk-january-6-bus-transportation-f71523
A general strike that lasts a month will stop all of this nonsense.
2·1 month agoIt’s already been pulled. All 4 major networks in my area have had the flags enabled on their 4k streams for months now.
2·1 month agoYou’re looking for a moral and just solution against an opponent who respects neither morality nor justice.
Best case in my opinion is massive, prolonged national strikes. The Solidarity movement in Poland is a good model for this. But it’s going to require 3-5% of the population to be very desperate and some organizational leadership to arise.
The fascists know this, which is why they’re moving to criminalize opposition, starting with the designation of ‘antifa’ as a terrorist organization. I assume that the definition of who is a terrorist expands, probably quickly, so that participation in peaceful protest is criminalized.
Removing the right of peaceful change tends to lead towards violence, historically speaking.
Sorry, I didn’t realize there was going to be an audit.
What you’re looking for doesn’t have much backing in the historical record: After Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, Spain transitioned from a fascist-style dictatorship to a parliamentary democracy. Franco had to die (natural causes) before democracy returned.
Same for Tito, but that didn’t last, unfortunately.
Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship (1933–1974) ended with the Carnation Revolution, a nearly bloodless military coup. But still, a coup. Not exactly by writing strongly worded letters.
In Greece, he military junta (1967–1974) collapsed after the Cyprus crisis.
General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990) ended after he lost a national plebiscite in 1988. However, ridiculous amounts of violence predated that on the course of his authoritarianism.
After decades of authoritarian military rule, mass protests in 1987 pressured the regime into accepting constitutional reforms. By my reading “mass protests”==elites fearing for their lives, or at least their standard of living.
How about the list of the opposite? Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist dictatorship collapsed in the Romanian Revolution: Protests escalated into armed clashes; over 1,000 people were killed.
Ceaușescu and his wife were captured, tried in a show trial, and executed on Christmas Day.
Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule ended in the Libyan Civil War.
Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime in Syria faced mass protests in 2011. The regime’s violent crackdown triggered a full-scale civil war.
Russia, 2017 The Tsarist autocracy collapsed in the Russian Revolution.
Aftermath of USSR: Baltics (1991): Soviet troops tried to suppress independence movements in Lithuania and Latvia. In Vilnius, 14 civilians were killed when tanks stormed the TV tower.
Caucasus: Ethnic clashes in Georgia (1989) and Azerbaijan (1990) left dozens dead.
Post-Soviet conflicts: After independence, wars erupted in places like Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and later Chechnya, costing tens of thousands of lives.
Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot (1975–1979) ended not by reform but by foreign invasion.
I’m not advocating violence. I’m observing that history suggests it’s not unlikely.
In a society with a strong commitment to democracy and honoring the social contract, tolerance, even of ideas you don’t approve of, is an excellent ideal
In a society with rapidly eroding civil liberties and authoritarian disregard for the social contract, tolerance of authoritarianism is a luxury ill afforded.
Given that Kirk was demonstrably intolerant, and happy to leverage authoritarianism to accomplish his goals, he egregiously violated the social contract.
Given the rapidly dawning realization that nothing will meaningfully improve for the lower and middle classes until the elites fear for their lives, a lurch towards violence is expected.
The great depression and the progressice policies that arise from ir were somewhat driven by violence and the resulting fear in the elites.
Examples:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike Leasing to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act_of_1935
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_sit-down_strike
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_Movement
4·1 month agoNow that was a wild ride to read
Well, they’re also raising the minimum amount that the h1b workers can be paid (yes, that’s a thing, it’s called “prevailing wage”), so the goal of this is to make hiring h1b more expensive overall.
In practice, what I think will happen is a combination of more offshoring of junior by big tech, an increase in the number of h1b positions that big tech will take out of the lottery pool for senior positions. If big tech is already paying a senior, well qualified, h1b position with total comp of $300k or more, a 30% increase in total costs probably won’t make an impact.
For other fields working on smaller profit margins, they’ll likely stop bidding in the h1b lottery.
If the administration were serious about their goals of increasing stem capacity in the country they’d be partnering with higher education to drive more talent into those fields. But the admin is openly hostile to education, so that’s clearly not the goal.
Currently, there’s an oversupply of comp sci recent graduates trying to find jobs.
My guess is that this change by itself won’t do much to increase domestic demand for early in career comp sci graduates, but will increase it intentionally. The us government is doing other things that will marginally increase domestic demand, like only allowing people physically located in the us to work on the datacenters that AWS, Azure, etc run for the FedGov exclusive use. But that’s not going to create enough positions to really make a impact on the overall industry.
2·2 months agoI saw Blues Traveler live a couple of weeks ago.
Nobody in that band works harder than the harmonica tech. John had her fiddling with the settings on his harmonica amp (yes, really, he has a harmonica amp) for about half the show.
Whatever she kept changing, I couldn’t tell the difference. Eventually John was either satisfied or gave up.
Correct. And it’s not strange.
2·2 months agoMerci pour ce post.
J’apprends le Français avec Duolingo, j’attendrai d’autres de vos messages!
This comment appears to have aged well.
Hunted a bit growing up. My guess is, if you hit a human pretty much anywhere above the thighs with .30-06, they’re not going to live through it. The hydrostatic shock is devastating and the exit wound is significant.
If the round was armor piercing, .30-06 has enough force to go through a car engine block.
I just retired a 20ish year old brother multifunction black and white laser for a new Brother color LED multifunction.
Very happy with both, the one I just retired still worked great, but I got tired of jumping through hoops to get the network scanner drivers working on current OSes.