They were always stupid. They are just more able to write out their stupidity.

https://youtube.com/shorts/i4TICZ67Ws4

I like this video from a London historian who goes through what common people knew before compulsory education.

It isn’t considered to be in the public interest to make medical confidentiality the equivalent of legal confidentiality.

Nah. AAA game development is going to die. The smaller games won’t need the great specs.

Until recently, the major cost to growth is getting new customers, not retaining existing ones. Unless there was a mass exodus of fans if a streaming service cancelled a show, streamers are more likely to use the money to make a new show which will attract a new audience than continue an existing series that won’t lead to growth.

I don’t think they the whole Internet has been abandoned yet, but bots keep growing as a percentage of traffic for various reasons. There is also a vested interest in more people to have bots than not.

Snapchat isn’t owned by Meta?

are there also pronunciation differences for words that are spelled the same?

Through through tough thought, I can’t think of any.

I get the problem of people on Lemmy asking for an explanation on why something exists or why people see something a certain way and take being able to explain it as agreeing to it.

Why do you keep taking people talking about how something is working as them saying it is good and just?

What do people mean by saying the US does whatever Israel wants? Sending them weapons to kill brown kids in Palestine, Lebanon, etc?

That Israel has invested in American politicians and American public opinion for decades. It doesn’t absolve the US of its moral failing, but it provides an explanation.

Likely not. However, if Trump is being blackmailed, it would explain why Vance is leading the Iranian peace negotiations.

The only thing is that the US hasn’t really used Israel as a staging area for expeditionary action in the Middle East.

Both the Gulf and Iraq Wars used Saudi Arabia as a staging ground. Afghanistan was too far away for the US to use Israel. If anything, the US usually excludes Israel from any overt military action given the political blowback from using Israel in the region.

In the context of “what did the military action physically do?” it is important to recognize the difference between direct action and additional effects caused by the reaction from the affected government.

The attack on Venezuela was orders of magnitude less than the attack/war with Iran. Yet, Venezuela gave up financial control of its oil supply while Iran might be getting unprecedented control over a strategic waterway. If a government is going to resist American imperialism, it needs both the means and the will to resist. Iran has it, Venezuela didn’t have it, and early indications seem like Cuba is more like Venezuela than Iran.

Control of the gold and oil wealth was given by the remaining government and its release wasn’t enough to topple the Venezuelan government.

I don’t want the USA to invade Cuba, but I don’t think that Cuba could credibly resist an occupation.

Cuba is isolated from any ally who could offer military supplies, including drones. It is also fairly close to the US mainland, allowing for easy supply from the US.

What I expect would happen is that the US would force some minor restoration of capital to pre-revolution owners and install a government filled with a mix of government collaborators and Cuban-Americans with a mandate to transform the Cuban economy.

Unless the new government is wildly incompetent and corrupt, I expect that there would be enough stateside support to ensure that the new government is successful for the first few years. Keeping enough collaborators, which is something likely to happen with Trump, would likely prevent the whole government from engaging in an organized resistance. The likely dropping off the embargo will also allow an increase in economic conditions on the island, muting resistance of the rest of the citizenry.

Yeah. The USA engaged in one raid to take the current head of state but left the rest of the country mostly intact.

I’ve heard some companies still post to monster.com

God, they are the worst who do this.

Yeah. I feel like Japan has the best solution, which is to use specialty incineration plants with massive outlet filters to scrub the exhaust of toxic chemicals.

It depends on the consequences of being wrong. If it is going to kill people, keep fighting.