At a certain age, perhaps in my late twenties, I just gave up on politics. I haven’t voted in 10 years.
America first sounded good to a lot of impressionable young men but even they now understand that it’s just about global empire and wars for Zionists.
I don’t care what side people are on or whether they are completely deluded or not. I always like to hear what people think even if it’s stupid.
I’m not left-wing I’m just here for the anti-imperialist memes and some Linux and to complain about landlords. Lemmy is a good way to follow US politics too.
The free exchange of ideas doesn’t work on social media. Even on a 1st amendment guaranteed website like Gab you’ll get the same problems. Maybe a minority of people hate trump on there and view him as a zionist puppet, even then, it’s just right wing factions squabbling over the details.
The best way to get a contrast of views would be to pick a small handful of over-thinkers from different political factions, people who are passive and tired and who question how much activism can achieve. Then have those people discuss the day’s news.
Can’t you look in the mod log for this?
Hey everyone, when I plugged in my PC I didn’t get any motherboard lights, but I’m very lucky, because an ex-tenant who I’m still friends with, recently gifted me his old PC. I just put my old SSD into his old PC and used the power and SATA cable that were originally connected to the CD drive. Bingo!
Here, have some memes!
A result of a loss of manpower and eventual loss of political will to continue the war. The parts that Russia controls aren’t coming back to ukraine except maybe the last 30km where russia hasn’t set up proper defences.
Nobody is “good with computers” until they can install their own operating system and manage files and backups.
My 2 cents.
It’s about who has a reason to continue fighting, and as you’ve suggested, who has enough bodies to maintain a functional army.
Russia’s 9/11, that’s what I like to call it. Bombs in the buildings.
I hate to tell you this but it’ll probably end with putin alive and ukraine ceding territory.
I took a pic of this comment and I’ll get back to you if I plug in the pc. I can upload images on here right? I just don’t see many people posting images as replies.
I’ve got a better pic somewhere of uncle sam as a drug addict, slouched on the floor and injecting oil into his veins.
It won’t be surprising if zelensky gets killed in a missile strike next week.
What did the pandemic do to your brain and your sense of time 😆
Iran hasn’t even brought out the good stuff yet. They have only used old missiles so far.
I’ve been using Linux since high school (I dropped out in December 2006)
I recently got an old PC from a friend, it’s a 2018 PC and the hard drive is NVME. It’s at least 4 times faster than my “adata” brand SSD from my 2018 PC. I barely tinkered with Windows and gaming capabilities and pretty much installed Ubuntu within 24 hours of trying this PC. It can’t run Windows 11 and there’s no point in using Windows 10.
If you have $12 to spend then I can recommend a tutorial series for you which you can buy on itch io. It’s in ‘c’ but you can easily transfer the skills to Python and everything is much nicer. I only recommend c for foundation skills. I respect the old skool methods - it may open your mind.
If you’re still young then I want to convince you that it’s worth your time. You don’t need to be very smart to make simple programs but you can save yourself time and frustration by avoiding stupid mistakes. I know a guy in Australia who can motivate you on this, I sometimes voice call him on Signal.
I no longer prioritise software any more because I’m focused on simply surviving. I’m too old to care any more lol. That said, I do have plans to film interviews with people who work in this field. I’m thinking about doing code review videos and discussions about how to be a good programmer, but not from a heavily commercial pperspective (I hate those endlessly positive videos on youtube who want you to think that anyone can succeed in the industry and become wealthy). I don’t know how viable the industry is any more and I just want to make hobby videos and encourage people to find a path that works for them. I think gamedev is one of the best paths for learning software, unless you want to make web apps instead.
Just wait till the day when the average person wakes up to realise that it was never about fair play or international law. It’s about power and the use of force and it always has been.
I find it astounding that the U.S. went on to devastate Libya before they had concluded Afghanistan. Apparently I’m in the minority of people who understood that all of this was bad - even back in 2009-2011.
Good thing Putin didn’t sign a peace agreement with Ukraine. Now with Trump’s planned invasion of Iran, a future US administration will be able to install missiles near the Caspian to threaten Russia, even if NATO fails badly in Ukraine. At the very least the US will control the air space and fly through it, with Iran defeated. Let’s hope that Trump has to pay a price for this course of action.