Did they exclude the images for “legal reasons”, or to hide who was actively doing the torturing and murdering?

So many superhero-villain stories seem to follow this weird-ass pattern: the villain will show a sizable amount of class consciousness, but somewhere along the way will randomly break character and kill a humongous number of people for no fucking reason.

The Riddler from Batman 2023 is such a textbook example. He kills corrupt officials to reveal Gotham’s deep corruption and rot, which is objectively a good thing. However, once Batman starts going after him, he randomly floods all of Gotham, just so the writers can show he’s ‘insane’.

In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the Flag Smashers are practically communists at the start who wanted to preserve the unity and cooperation of the world after the Snap, instead of having everything revert to the capitalist hellhole it was before. Of course, during one of their raids to get medicine for refugees, they randomly decide to blow up a warehouse with workers still inside. They eventually all get arrested or killed for being ‘terrorists’. In the end, the problems they fought to solve simply get voiced by Falcon, who uses his status as an elite black soldier just to tell a senator to “do better”.

In Black Panther, Killmonger becomes king of Wakanda so he can provide vibranium weapons to Africans around the world. By doing so, he wants them to fight back against their oppression, doing exactly what the Soviet Union did. Of course, he’s considered crazy and has to be defeated. In the end, T’Challa decides to solve Africans’ oppression by building some shitty schools around the world.

In each of these, the villian’s cause is righteous, but they are either portrayed as crazy or are made by the writers to do something random and crazy. Every single one of these is perfectly formulated to show the proles that they can’t take matters into their own hands because ‘they’d go crazy’. Instead, we should wait for an enlightened Lord (Batman, Iron Man, etc.) to take pity on us.

How dare the devious Chinese use missiles to defend their coasts! That’s unfair to the US military’s expensive toys! /s

The author’s proposed solutions are to deploy hypersonic missiles (which China has more of while the US still doesn’t have any ready), drones (which China leads the world in), and long-range ballistic missiles (which China has more of, and also look too much like nukes).

Aren’t vampires immortal? If so, I see only bonuses by choosing the vampire GF.

If blood is needed to sustain your lifetime, animal blood is a widely-available and nutritious food (as it is basically liquid meat). If you need human blood at some point, you can always feed on capitalists during and after the revolution.

Germany’s coal lobby screwed them so hard. Germany’s fossil fuel lobby also promised to replace nuclear with a ‘hydrogen economy’ that still doesn’t exist, and won’t exist for at least the next decade.

Now Germany’s about to run out of electricity.

They were running tests, so some warnings were expected.

Accidents are kinda inevitable with new technologies, especially nuclear. The US actually had its main nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, in 1979, which was quite a bit earlier than the USSR’s Chernobyl in 1986. The human errors that caused both accidents were quite similar, the US just had a slightly better reactor design that prevented the same steam blowout that Chernobyl suffered.

Because of the backdrop of the Cold War, the US didn’t share anything it learned from its mistakes at Three Mile Island with the Soviet Union.

Notice that after their respective disasters, the USA and USSR/Russia have not had similar meltdowns again. Since the end of the Cold War, no accidents have been caused again by similar issues due to the sharing of reactor info.

The Fukushima meltdown was due to corporate incompetence and skimping on disaster preparedness by TEPCO, so isn’t comparable.

You can run multimodal models like LLaVA and LLaMA on Ollama as well.

The AI models are coded and used in a way that makes them basically platform-agnostic, so the specific platform (Ollama, LocalAI, vLLM, llama.cpp, etc.) you run them with ends up being irrelevant.

Because of that, the only reasons to use one platform over another are if it’s best for your specific use case (depends), it’s the best supported (Ollama by far), or if it has the best performance (vLLM seems to win right now).

Why should I use this instead of Ollama? Ollama is considered the local AI standard and is supported by a ton of other open-source software. For example, you can connect Ollama with the Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian, which lets you chat with and analyze your Obsidian notes.

For some reason libs think that the “rule of law” is a sentient being that should be obeyed by politics, and not that politics is what creates the rule of law.

Do you have a link to this interview? I’m interested in watching it.

How much of a principled socialist is Lukashenko? He seems to be doing his best to preserve Belarus’s state-owned economy, somewhat like North Korea.

Is he holding out until the rise of the multipolar world allows for snaller countries like Belarus to be out-and-about socialist?

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The person filing the suit, Deborah Howington, is a self-described American ‘Caucasian’. Racism doesn’t really exist for white Americans. Discrimination maybe, racism no.

The US wants this fab up and running fast, but they also want TSMC to waste a bunch of time translating all their operations over into English.

The more time they spend arguing over this stupid shit, the better.

Critical support for any and all these problems to keep popping up.

Among the allegations in the complaint are that TSMC’s HR team in Taiwan sends the U.S. arm of the company the resumes of candidates that have already been vetted and can work in the U.S., and then the U.S. team “simply hire these Asian/Taiwanese candidates without question, even if no open roles have been posted in the U.S.”

I don’t really see how this is a valid complaint, the Taiwanese workers are just easier and more efficient to train into their processes because there’s no language or culture gap.

The suit also claims that a desire for Mandarin or Chinese language skills have been listed

Just learn Mandarin, f**kers. IDK how y’all think learning some Mandarin isn’t necessary to work in a Taiwanese company.

First the Western press complained about how long TSMC construction was taking. Now they complain about the work culture, about TSMC not training English-only American workers, even though those two factors are the reasons why the fab is being built at a decent speed. These uncivilized Asians just can’t do anything right /s.

If the USA wants to make these inefficient requests of TSMC now, they should have made all these desires clear beforehand. If they did, TSMC may not have been as eager to go through with the US fab. Changing the deal afterwards is a classic American bullshittery.

Will this happen before or after Trump is in office? I feel like if the capitalists initiate the collapse during Biden’s admin, they could get away with a lot more stuff under Trump.

They could also be changing stocks into cash simply because they expect higher interest rates for it under Trump.

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Do not use privacytools. A bunch of controversy happened on its management team. The person who currently runs privacytools has turned it into a paid link farm. He takes money from NordVPN, Surfshark, and Incogni, among others.

The old, good management team with integrity moved to a new and better website, https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

Why the heck do these companies send your period data to their servers? Period trackers are just data entry apps that calculate the average durations of an entered database of period events. There are no ‘advanced functions’ that need to be done on offsite servers.

A good open-source option where period data stays on-device is drip. For those interested in syncing period data to a self-hosted server, this video is a nice guide.

Move to China I guess, or learn Chinese so you can use Chinese services for everything. IDK what other good ways there are without becoming a recluse.