Escalation with China, which is not what the US currently wants, hence why they keep military support in check but nothing more. However it is the USA, so they likely have a ton of direct influence in Taiwan’s government, so it could be just as well considered a vassal or “shill” state, or at the very least decently under control.

Currently though, they are cutting off China from Taiwan’s chip supply which is forcing China to kick start their lithography fabs at home, and is also the reason why a ton if the RISC-V software is coming out of Chinese universities (open ISA unlike ARM and Intel x86).

The USA likes to keep a resemblance of global leader, so they’ll never actually annex any country even with popular support, just control it with the easiest method available, which is usually just espionage and a crap ton of bribes.

It would only happen in a military conflict, which is also unlikely despite China trying to hype up their military all the time. They don’t currently have the resources to take on Taiwan even alone (in a prolonged fight) just due to the sheer logistics of transporting a ton of troops onto the rather heavily defended Island.

They want the fabs, but they can also just as easily play the long game and eventually make them at home in probably less thana decade.

Also not to mention Taiwan probably has actual social care and proper facilities for its citizens, so I don’t think anyone would want to join exploit heavy USA.

You ever notice how most docker images are usually based from Ubuntu, the arguably worse distro to use for dependency management.

The other core issue is people using docker as a configuration solution with stuff like compose.

If I want containers, I usually just use LXC.

Only docker project I liked was docker-osx which made spinning up OSX VMs easy, but again it was basically 80% configuration for libvirt.

Why is every secretary of state trying their hardest to beat Kissinger’s high score record of crimes against humanity.

“Yeah we need to figure out how to split a foreign nation up before they become a threat to our expansion. Can’t have sovereignty on our ever expanding borders. Let’s assassinate the HTS leadership so we can throw Syria back into anarchy.”

Yeah that crashed for me across several versions too lol.

Latest works, but I have like 5 different ones saved because I think 1.16-1.18 wouldn’t complete writing to disk.

I think VSCode is the only stable electron application and even then it took them like 5 years to reach passable stability lol.

Used to crash and combust all the time when I first tried it.

Hey at least it’s not JavaScript which is perpetually high on crack with Object object

Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to work for the CIA division that sets up these activities.

Gotta be next level lame for controlling the media in your favor because public opinion of the government is definitely worth sending MIC funding after.

At least in the NSA, you get to do cool stuff for crappy purposes.

The CIA is always stuck halfway between a bad joke and an international usurper.

The problem is it’s usually a mix of both.

“Pro western” candidates are almost exclusively less democratic but installed by foreign backing.

The goto strat is usually to bribe the military to install the candidate so it doesn’t look like a coup.

Ex: Sisi in Egypt.

“Accidentally”

Because people definitely can miss the big bold NEATGEAR logo and the clearly not a console shaped box with 16 Ej45 ports slapped on the front lol.

Happens all the time.

I like how the broke the India-Pakistan ceasfire violations of a year in only a few days.

Wasn’t Forbes also the one who made a recent article about dealing with crappy wages and inflation by skipping breakfast/lunch to cut costs?

Or maybe that was Bloomberg

Pretty neat application!

Top film executive was probably involved with the time Youtube had a massive lawsuit for allowing people to upload 144p 15 second clips online of their favorite media.

It depends. Physical borders may only photograph traffic for security purposes, no dedicated exit gate. Usually its the entry country that records your crossing, which they may or may not share with the other country.

I’m pretty sure TSA does record people exiting internationally though because people have been caught leaving after an arrest warrant has been issued, even if they made it past TSA onto the flight and into the air. TSA will know immediately if you checked in or boarded your flight.

goto post history and see that they are making posting comments/replies every 60 seconds.

even before ChatGPT, reddit was basically a practice site for bot account farming because it had basically zero restrictions and defenses against bots.

the problem is reddit is also filled with braindead karma hoarders and they also tend to act in similar ways. However they usually go for the bigger bang per buck types posts like picture bait and crossposting, and don’t interact with threads/comments as much.

From the telegraph article:

Imran Khan has been granted bail by a Pakistani court for one of the cases against him but the ex-prime minister is likely to remain in jail because of a host of other charges.

On Wednesday, Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, of the Islamabad High Court, accepted the former cricketer’s bail plea in a trial relating to alleged illegal sale of state gifts.

But there was “no chance” of his release because of at least eight other charges against him, Pakistan’s information minister said.

“Release for him is not possible; there are many other cases he needs to secure bail in,” Attaullah Tarar told Pakistani media.

Mr Tarar added that the eight other charges related to the “mayhem” of May 9 2023, when Khan’s supporters rioted and stormed the Pakistani army’s headquarters in response to his arrest.

Seems like something brewing behind the scenes after the US election considering they were stalling all these cases since August last year.

Dunno how but it seems to be some autoimage that matched for “bail” lol

Jokes on you I read the summary which is totally enough to cover the actual content of the article with no lack of detailed information whatsoever.

Yes, read history or take a serious gov class.

This was almost a 1:1 repeat of 2016 and yet lemmy is still getting spammed with denialism posts with hundreds of upvotes.

Trump is representative of the systemic issues America has left unresolved, not a cause, and the writing has been on the wall for decades; so much so that people think old media (ex: simpsons) was very cunningly predicting the future when in reality it was parodying the same issues at the time.

The one key difference has been the rather recent introduction of the internet. You can often find both much more reliable and higher quality information in less than a minute that what you could get from something like 10 newspapers combined 30 years ago. Especially for the younger generation, not everyone is falling for the same stupid tricks anymore.

Great example is Washington Post. People think it dropped in quality after it was bought by Bezos, but ask any international academic and they’ll probably tell you WaPo was always hot trash.

All this stuff you see being “worse” has been predicted for years on end, so while you can technically say it is “new”, it’s nothing unexpected. Even the next level filthy mouth ramblings of Trump are just something the previous guy did off camera (cough bush).