How will NATO react when general unrest kicks off? Some folks are already speculating the senator in El Salvador might not come back.

Smart TVs should never be connected to a network.

MSTVDDA: Make Smart TVs Dumb Displays Again

really wish this submission was added, but never got included so far

e: https://hexbear.net/post/215969

or if/when your neighbors pollen blows onto your crops and you grow from those seeds, and then they sue you for being a pirate of their IP

Diamond also has a very high refractive index and a relatively high optical dispersion.

‘Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and Spongebob?’ Iranian cleric mocks US and says Tehran can’t strike back at targets of Soleimani’s stature because America only has fictional heroes

the more you know, the more you know how little anyone knows anything

The region lock of my game in the UK was clearly due to political reasons. I do not blame Valve nor Steam, the blame is on the UK government and authorities that are pissed off by a video game.

On their flawed logic, the most recent Call of Duty Black Ops 6 should be banned as well. As you play as an American soldier and go to Iraq to kill Iraqi people. What I can say is that we see clearly the double standards.

a reference to Marx and Engels’s assertion that the goal of communism is to eventually reconcile the division between town and country

Capitalism has been the world-devouring AI the whole time.

Awesome work comrade

I heard once that old smoke detectors have some radioactive isotopes in them. Not sure how true or dangerous but sounds bad.

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing about 1,200 people, kidnapping about 250 more and spurring a war with Israel. The ensuing fighting left more than 42,000 Palestinians dead, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory, who don’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

The closing paragraph really gives the game away, but can’t expect any better from The Economist:

In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards.

So in the process of being spooked by China, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, having some influence on standards, the West refers to letting the biggest pile of capital set standards for profit as a ‘bottom-up approach’.

“We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.

China now being more capable at playing the same game they been playing for decades is framed as a terrible injustice. They are crying that they used to be able to set standards that relied on privately owned intellectual property that generated easy profits for years or even decades.

I hope the Chinese told them they could just stop enabling a genocide. That is the correct answer to this situation.

The zionist prez that said being the strategic leader of this escalation is really something.