i worked for starbucks in the late 90’s and the trauma from its popularity at the time still leaves me w nightmares from time to time 30 years later. lol

President Castro has also faced a divided congress and hostile mayors in many municipalities. The highly militarized police forces and the army have strong ties to the US. Further, a corrupt legal system and the abiding influence of Honduras’s oligarchic, very wealthy families who control much of the country’s industry, commerce and agriculture challenge popular rule. That Castro has secured her many achievements under all these constraints is remarkable.

it’s remarkable that any leader in latin america is capable of doing this and these conditions make me skeptical that the us empire will ever lose ground to brics.

i sometimes wonder if holding anyone in the media to any kind of journalistic integrity is realistic anymore

surprised to learn that he was never aligned with isis; i saw him as osama bin laden 2.0.

yes and that’s why i said europe and not the eu

… just get the next body in

this is the overwhelming majority in my anecdotal experience for the last 23 years professionally so now i don’t try so hard.

try saying that you support palestine action publicly in the uk. lol

i got to jump back in recently w a new laptop that came w windows.

i’ve been buying linux first hardware for the last decade and going through this exercise has been eye opening for; i wasn’t aware of much the landscape has changed.

logflip sounds more fun. lol

very true and cryptic codebases w/o documentation was the only reason why i was employed for the last 20 years. lol

interviewing & working w the young people hired at my last 2 places who used ai to get work done MUCH faster than i could showed me how much of a dinosaur i was and it was the biggest contributing factor to leaving the field. my experience in the last 10 of those 20 years makes me aware that only software engineers with a prestigious pedigrees (eg well regarded universities and/or well known names in their resume) are given a chance today.

people trying to take a path similar to mine to become a software engineer – poorly regarded state university degree and accepting shitty contract gigs at the beginning of their career in roles that are barely software related – are fucked unless they’re lucky or well connected.

i was SUPER LUCKY to get contract gigs at faang and old-silicon shops to put on my resume and i learned retroactively (and in writing) that, that was the only reason i got interviewed at all.

We dont even know their names.

that’s surprising to learn since the likes of farage, le pen have & hocke heavily influencing politics in the uk, france & germinay and meloni winning her election in italy.

it’s not that they’re ignoring it; is that the legistlation doesn’t address buying it from non-government agencies and probably on purpose.

our billionaires are also funding the protests again them; one of the walmart heirs is entire responsible for the noking protests.

that’s fair. lol

I’m surprised that they kept the “Steam Machine” name. I thought they would choose a different name to avoid any negative connotations. It is a very cool name though.

what negative connotations exsit for “steam machine”

the europeans on lemmy continue to insist that americans are ahead of the fascism game; but we still don’t have chat control and have only elected one fascist so far. lol

now that i think of it, i’m technically one of them since i still play age of empires 2

that looks more like journalctl -r lol

what does logrotate look like? lol

aka hide your fortune from taxes in a charity bill