are hungary/slovakian still exporting electricity to ukraine, or did they cut that off as previously threatened?

If they decide to license pac3 technology to Ukrainians they might as well just email the plans directly to Russia

Canada’s Carney government released a new defence industrial strategy yesterday. Lots of focus on building things domestically. I’m most curious how engagement with northern Indigenous communities will pan out, as tons of arctic/subarctic dual-use infrastructure as well as resource projects for critical minerals are/would be in parts of the country that are much more Indigenous than the more urban areas in southern Canada.

In other news, I haven’t been very engaged on the news lately. Work/family/real life things have gotten busier. No real drama or problems, just shifting priorities. I’m not sure it’ll change anytime soon so don’t hold your breath for posts of the week returning. On the plus side, lower odds of mod tyranny.

There was a thinking man’s bitcoin bull case from 5-10 years ago that was basically “yeah this is all monopoly money but wait til China does real things with block chain stuff”. I suppose not.

Props to earthsea, the first one in particular is very accessible.

they’re saying he’s the most nimble with words of all time, folks

Those retail investors were the ones driving up the price of gold due to their critical mass, not the central banks, not China and not industry.

I’m not sure that’s the case. The retail goldbug has existed for a long time, at least 20 years through the GFC. I’m sure they’ve piled on in larger volume, but there has also been a fair amount of central bank buying in the last few years, especially China and Poland.

they call short influencers minfluencers

Decriminalization isn’t working because it isn’t wedded to other forms of social support to help people quit? Better recriminalize everything and dehumanize users, that’ll do it.

Booo

Naturalizing bamboo is like trying to tame a hurricane. The shit is too powerful in places where there are no pandas.

What’s the video? Please link when you refer to a specific article/video/whatever in the newscomm, or if not, post in other threads/subthreads about this. There are a few about this topic in the current thread.

I agree that the top post of this subthread is not very high effort and I certainly encourage them and others to post harder/better/faster/longer.

However, stricter moderation is not the path to get there.

1 it is not sustainable for the mod team. It’s easy to say “oh this is low effort, it should be removed”, but the act of reading everyone’s posts, evaluating whether they are high enough effort, seeing if any subthread responses are worth saving, deleting or banning as appropriate, and then eating a bunch of shit from whatever fraction of the community thinks the mod team chose wrong in the above judgements, is too much effort for a small group of volunteers.

2 I think carrot is better than the stick here. That’s why I started highlighting good effort posts in each weekly, and why we revised the code of conduct to encourage effort posting.

We absolutely encourage and support anyone to do effort posts, and even without truly putting in effort, we encourage community members to look at their shitposts as a karmic debt, to be paid back with effort in the future. In my opinion, the best way to build this culture into the community is not through mod action, it’s when community members set a good example.

This isn’t stripping copper, this is doing buyouts of projects elsewhere. The US can print a lot of $1.6B injections.

Repeated use of unprovoked is how the corporate media signals that supporting the empire on this topic is non-negotiable

Kallas in the audience, reading rigorous notes while nodding