Well wait a second, they found out what caused the pharaohs curse? That’s awesome!

Well I guess I’m one of the lucky 10.000 then.

a coordinated, State-funded program began in earnest in the latter half of the 1990s. Today, with drought a pending, if not ever-present, threat to the economy and well-being of Texans, rain enhancement projects flourish within large areas of Northwest, West, and South Texas. In fact, the seven cloud seeding projects today cover about 31 million acres

… I don’t understand what your angle is? This is a genuinely useful list.

For example: there seem to be types of revolution.

Type 1: (the one I mentioned) where leadership goes “well we tried slaughter, they still coming, we should give up” Type 2: “we will not slaughter people, we’d rather give up” (eg the Mongolian revolution) Type 3: “they have the combined forces of police and military behind them, we better give up” (the lybian coup that brought Gaddafi to power, for example.)

I was looking at the list by era. First one, 1918, Egyptian Revolution.

clicks link

The revolution was successfully countered by British forces… Victims 800-1600.

That was very insightful! Thanks, I did not know this list existed. May need it for future reference.

Archive.org has you covered.

Nothing really interesting just a user stating it has happened to them.

Well I dimly remember after the 30 year war (? It was a long time ago I learned about this, could have been the restoration after the Napoleonic wars) the church gave up vast swathes of Land in exchange for a set amount of dividends from the state.

But given that was after a drawn out tumultuous war, so I see your point.

Just last week I was re-patching some nasty piece of business logic at a client for a day and remembered the application “Filter Top” from the nineties, where I solved a similar (but slightly simpler) problem on a far inferior less advanced platform in a few minutes with a GUI even.

Return to monke. I’m with you.

Well like all lunatic right wing theories this has a kernel of truth. He just needs to strike Jewish, and the purpose is even more money.

From personal experience the "you’re overthinking it, its just class warfare nothing else and that is bad enough " was to me the more effective way of pulling well meaning generally liberal/left leaning people back from the edge of the lunatic to fascism pipeline. I once made the mistake of doing “yes and (the Jesuits and the Medici)” in an ill advised attempt at humor. That person is not in my life anymore. It was far too comfortable being a hateful lunatic around me.

Wouldn’t the shareholders, who profit far more off any company than any CEO be a better target? Of taxation and eventual deposition (taxing them out of existence), of course, I do not care about violence.

Not understanding your hate, I looked at their list of movies.

Must have been incredibly lucky, but I’ve seen only a few a24 movies and liked all of them.

Here are the movies for reference:

• under the skin (2013)
• the rover (2014)
• amy (2015)
• the hole in the ground (2019)
• midsommar (2019)
• the elephant queen (2019 apple tv release)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
• the whale (2022)
• priscilla (2023)
• civil war (2024)

Now I get that psychological horror is not for everyone, but I mean if something like priscilla does not get under your skin, I don’t know…

The ability of Nazis to cosplay as “normal” conservatives never ceases to amaze me. The utter lack of empathy. The pure joy in making “the others” suffer. Nothing seems to alert conservatives. Even when they position themselves as “just revanchists” they are believed. Breathtaking.

Rabbit hole alert: The Non-aligned Movement.

Well I guess absorbing enormous amounts of Nazi scientists, agents and soldiers into it’s service did not help much either.

To anyone as confused as I was: This is an alteration of an image of senator Josh where he supports the treasonous mob on Jan. 6th, 2021

I personally think the unaltered image should be powerful enough.

That looks like he is practicing some comedy skit.

Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.

Well, a legalized coca plant will give you coca leaves. Chew them and you get the effect of a good toothbrush and a morning coffee. Combined.

Cocaine on the other hand… I’m not so sure. But I’m also more in the camp of forbidding alcohol, so…

In typical MS fashion this might be very hard to debug with the hundreds of interacting components./s

In all seriousness they reviewed their internal docs not even the code (likely because it’s extremely complex) and said fixing this would brake existing functionality. I think “some cases” is doing heavy lifting for “we know many cases, but won’t tell the bad guys out there”.

“We originally looked at a code change for this issue, but after further review of design documentation, changes to code could break compatibility with functionality used by many applications.”

Year of the Linux (Server|Desktop). Seriously. If you are in IT pls look into this (and hide your RDP server behind some VPN. No not MS RDP Gateway.)

yeah, that is going really well /s – same in Germany - when the established parties started integrating fascist rhetoric/actions into theirs, the fascist party went from 10 to 20 percent in elections.

You cannot sway the dumb voters who fall for fascist rhetoric, by going “yes, the fascists are right, but …” because if the fascists are right, why change? Anything after “but” will be discarded by voters. All they heard was you agreeing with them.

Instead say “The fascists are wrong, because …” and then list one of the many, many reasons, ideally you also list ones applicable to the situation at hand.