LeFantome

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Keir Starmer will also host European heads of government and the leaders of Canada and Turkey at a special defence summit aimed at presenting a united front on the Ukraine crisis.”

So….a defence meeting with Great Britain, Europe, Turkey, and Canada without the US. This sounds an awful lot like a NATO meeting without the US.

Trump may not have to worry about leaving NATO. They may do it for him.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

They should meet a day in advance without telling him and come up with a joint strategy. Then, when he arrives, let him have it.

Also, at least once, have a junior staffer tell him that it is “disrespectful to come here and litigate this in front of the Canadian media”.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bad news. Trump is buying Potash from Belarus and energy from Russia. Canada is moving away from the US but the US is moving away from Canada.

Trump is busy assembling the new Axis of Evil.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I think you are at least partially correct. There was Russian media in the room (“unapproved” and escorted out when they were “discovered” — after already live streaming the juicy bits back home ). Trump turned to reporters at one point saying “you see how much hate he has for Putin. It makes it very hard for me to negotiate” (from memory).

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fedora for PPC (I kid)

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I honestly do not remember if I used SLS or Yggdrasil first. I know that I used SLS longest. I think I tried Yggdrasil in second and then went back.

I was all in on Red Hat when they came along but did move to Mandrake for quite a while (sweet i586 packages). It is all a bit of a blur after that but a fairly long Fedora stint. The only thing I never used much was Ubuntu.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Yes. Food is not great in Cuba. Unless you stay with a local and have the amazing fresh fruit for breakfast. And the coffee / dairy is amazing!

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

It may have been an example of both.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

It is not paranoia of you your risk assessment is accurate. It is just awareness.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why start a pitch for wealth equality by talking about racism? Pragmatically, it seems like a good way to double the number of reasons for people to disagree with you. Which issue are you trying to combat?

And while I do not debate the historical backdrop of your thesis, is racism really an explanation for wealth concentration at the top of our society today?

For starters, the richest person in Canada by far is Asian, as are many other Canadian billionaires. Racism does not explain who is or is not on the list of tech or pharma titans. Not everybody is named Thomson.

Is the problem you are trying to solve that most indigenous Canadians are less well off than a typical Canadian of European descent? Or that both groups find themselves close together at the bottom of the graph—far below the one percent?

Anyway, I am not trying to dissuade you from fighting racism. Please do. My question is simply if you feel that combining the two issues is the best way to make progress on either one of them.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 67 points 11 months ago (4 children)

More than weakness, it stinks of incompetence. Vance was obviously there to start a fight to make Zelensky look bad so they could leverage him.

Except they were so obvious about it that he came off as the winner. They cannot even set a proper trap (thank God).

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Sort of. The person that made the initial commit is not the one that quit (Rust side).

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