It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now

oh I didn’t even consider the last bit

The whole premise behind private enterprise is that it was supposed to be more efficient than state planning. If we’re saying now that state planning works better, then maybe the west should think about abandoning the dogma of letting private businesses run wild. It’s also worth noting that the US also gives massive subsidies to their car companies. Tesla wouldn’t exist without decades of government grants for example.

Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.

it was like a movie explosion, I loved it

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.

that’s basically how we got modern day America after USSR dissolved

like moths to a flame

clearly not when the purpose is to merely indoctrinate people as opposed to actually teach them to think

That’s basically why anarchism only really exists within the imperial core as an ideology. It’s really just liberals being edgy and pretending to be on the left without actually wanting to make any systemic change. That said, I do think a lot of ideas from syndicalism are genuinely good and should be applied within a socialist society. However, building such a society in the first place requires Marxism.

https://dashthered.medium.com/where-do-tanks-come-from-8723ff77d83b

Timing attacks are tricky because a lot of the time people don’t even think of them as a vector.

oh not directly, but the code on the page can do a timing attack to see how long it takes to read and write a large file which can be used to fingerprint your ssd

From what I’ve read, there’s no way to restore shipments in the foreseeable future even if the war ended tomorrow. Just clearing the backlog of current tankers is going to take a whole year. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/dow-ceo-says-clearing-the-strait-of-hormuz-logjam-will-take-almost-a-year.html

very optimistic of you to think that the US will last more than a decade at this point

Exactly, it’s becoming impossible to hide the fact that the tech is simply not meeting the expectations here. It was basically sold as a way to replace a large chunk of the labor force, and now every report from a company that went all in on it is that it’s just not working as advertised. It’s also funny to watch how the situation is completely different in China where the goal was never to replace workers. And that allowed companies to find niches for LLMs where they actually do something useful and improve the workflow in a meaningful way.

I’ve already explained how this same argument was made about BYD, and that within a few years it leapfrogged the best western EVs. Exact same thing is happening with Huawei right now, except they literally just started doing this stuff only a few years ago when the heavy US export bans on chips started. Yet, within this very short period they already make phones that are functionally comparable to the best Android or iOS phones. While the hardware is a bit slower, it’s compensated for by a more lean software stack, and the end user experience is not actually all that different. That’s what I meant when I said you obviously have not used one. So, while Apple might have better specs on paper, it’s the entire stack and the end experience which actually matters. Now kindly gtfo with your own shit.

the simple truth is that you haven’t actually used a modern Huawei phone