pity about that denuvo crapware.

The collective delusion of social power is being tested. I don’t see the current configuration passing.

For that, you will have to learn Mandarin.

And now let’s followup on the nuances of both of these positions. Go on… do a debate. As a treat.

It’s more or less a custom board design, but the CPU’s are IBM Power9 architecture.

I’d love me one of those Talos2 boards. $$$$ though.

Well, there was this thing a couple of weeks ago when international law as well as agreed upon nuclear safeguards and processes were well and truly shredded by a genocidal maniac, then he came out tutting against the guys that got attacked out of the blue just like every other G7 lapdog. So far, unimpressed.

“Mamdani’s defeat of…” not “Mamdani’s victory over…” - they really are reaching, aren’t they?

A “Sexual harassment scandal” ? Not falsifying records and deliberately killing a whole bunch of old people? Not shutting down 1/3 of NYC’s power input at the Indian Point NPP by caving to Secretary Brain Worms? Not generally being a corrupt quid-pro-quo creep?

The fact anyone voted for that mobbed up trash at all is concerning, especially given in private conversations all it’s boiled down to is pure and simple racism. It’s been made clear that there is now a critical and growing mass of people who are genuinely committed to working towards multiculturalism, who can respect their fellow human beings, and that there is a dwindling number of those who can’t get over themselves enough to do better. These people are going to get increasingly vicious as their grip on power loosens. It’s going to be difficult for those of us committed to doing better to keep ourselves clean, whilst we deal with mounting attacks from those who are of the mud, and will become more and more desperate in slinging it.

It’s now up to everyone who supported Mamdani in the primaries to sustain their exceptional efforts, and carry this through the general election. The DNC will now do everything in their power to throw the general election, because they don’t work for you, and they are cartoonishly petulant in the face of this perceived loss.

It’s become impossible to ignore over the past week that a large number of them work for foreign interests instead, and that intersection between the specters of the 20th century geopolitics and local politics is the unfortunate political singularity point we’re living through right now. The previous order is over - clintons, biden, cuomo and schumer got it badly wrong, resisted positive change, acted as despotic and irresponsible custodians of their duties to their constituents and are now paying the political price.

Expect to see similar themes playing out as democratic genocide apologists more focused on propping up a depraved, genocidal tottering international order vs. looking after their own taxpayers face deep public displeasure at their many and cavernous failures.

We need to get it right, and nobody is coming to help us - but for the first time in a while I feel like I got a breath of fresh air.

That guy has consistently been on the wrong side of nearly every issue for decades, and so thoroughly ineffective in his broken clock moments to warrant a round walloping in a primary.

At this point, I’d consider going just to get away from everybody else.

True, in NK you actually have to do something in order to get into trouble. Beyond that as I understand it, you’re largely chaperoned around.

Serbia sells arms to anyone. A lot of people are making bank now that conflicts are turning hot globally.

For instance…an israeli 747 was just loading up in Belgrade this morning…

The creeps are terrified of a major city having even the symbolic win of a genuinely Good Person for mayor.

This is a good development, against a very dark background.

I think you have misinterpreted my comment. I care because I think this would be orders of magnitude worse than the US invasion of Iraq.

It should be noted that this is occurring in the context of a genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, where people are being forced to queue for “aid”, and then get shelled by israeli tanks. Forty-eight people were killed yesterday in such a manner, I believe the death toll for today was around fifty. This is being done with the tacit blessing of the “West” to the point some of our more psychotic politicians have openly called for harms to be brought to people who as a matter of conscience are attempting to deliver aid on their own, or who are protesting against it on humanitarian grounds. I can’t wait to see the next round of protests - No Kings folks marching beside the MTG MAGA Anti-War crowd, who will shortly be further radicalized after their first true encounters with systematic police brutality.

In Iran’s case, they were hit with an unprovoked first strike, on civilian targets no less- including striking a nuclear facility that violates both the UN charter and IAEA regulations, as well as their academics who are by definition illegal targets regardless of any association with a nuclear program or not. This also violates basic decency and common sense. If radioactive material is released from these enrichment plants, it’s possible the land there could be poisoned for generations to come. No credible sources back a claim that Iran was even attempting to build a nuclear weapon, and their enrichment program was possibly the most closely monitored such example in the world. What we are going to see is endless and shameless lying, paranoia and conspiracy peddling to build public support for more military adventurism, just like the build up to the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Historically, the west has shown itself to be untrustworthy but in this case, a new low was well and truly reached. What use is the contraption of law if nobody abides by them? Civilization is primarily built on trust, and the deepest sin the West is committing is that we are in the process of well and truly shredding that trust, within and without.

Historically, they’ve been treated poorly by successive Western meddling throughout the 20th century. An engineered coup after their Socialist elected PM (Mohammad Mosaddegh) attempted to nationalize oil production in the context of the Cold War put an US vassal in charge. This “Shah” generated enough unrest to force a popular uprising in 1979 after committing the sin of modernizing too quickly. It seems this was a common issue as world+dog were attempting to suddenly match Western industrial outputs at any human cost. which has been in power ever since. Iran is a more complex and diverse society than most people realize, it’s over 90 million people and is not a poor or inconsequential nation. Even if the current government is overthrown, Iran itself isn’t going to go anywhere and they would be back within a few decades in some shape or form.

Furthermore, internal israeli politics play a part - the current government launched this attack on the day there was consideration to dissolve that government. Starting a war is a great way to shut down internal dissent.

It’s going to be interesting, and exceedingly revolting, to watch how the symphony of utter fools gear up to build support for yet another psychopathic war in the Middle East, after we’ve watched our supposed “moral” ally shamelessly slaughter civilians for over a year.

Just so I’m clear - the psychopaths are people like chuck schumer, lindsay graham, randy fine, meghan mccain, merz, starmer (who literally just said “israel is doing our dirty work for us” ???).

As for folks who watch too much cable news and just wind up parroting calls to war… we need to get better at opposing this sophisticated brainwashing.

As for my personal feelings? My heart’s broken. Despite the fact I probably have very little in common and wouldn’t do very well under an authoritarian religious government such as in the case of Iran, I don’t think they deserve what’s currently happening to them, and they definitely don’t deserve what our frothing-at-the-mouth psychotic insane war hawks want to happen next. None of us deserve this. Even those that don’t know any better, and I’m utterly sick of being dragged around and impoverished by this brand of stupidity.

And the coils grow ever tighter.

Anyone who doesn’t want to cause hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, untold suffering, destruction of world heritage sites and possible nuclear contamination of large areas of land?

In other words, anyone who isn’t a psychopath.

We need 3.5%.

I suppose the incoming anti-war rallies may be even bigger, especially given a significant portion of the MAGA base are thoroughly opposed to more useless wars in the M.E

They literally ruled “See you next Tuesday”. Lol.

actual LOL. Now I have water up my nose 😂

Judge Bayer didn’t seem too enthusiastic about backing that one up…