If Trump nationalized it out of petty vindictiveness I wouldn’t criticize him for that. I’d still criticize literally everything else, but even a broken clock can be right twice a day and maybe this could be Trump’s moment to be right by accident.
Between Agent Krasnov and Agent Muskovite I’m sure they already have full access, this is just their way of getting a dig in at everyone who already knows this is the case. The Kremlin is basically rubbing it in our faces to tell us they own all these guys and they know there’s nothing we can do about it.
Yeah a good analogy is refloating the Costa Concordia. They patched the hole and emptied the water and it certainly floated, fixing the hole in the hull wasn’t the problem. Refloating it didn’t return it to passenger service, it was just step one of being scrapped, because that’s all you can do with a ship like that short of completely rebuilding it from scratch. Repairing it would be vastly more complex, risky, and expensive than simply replacing it. It’s salvage and scrap, that’s all. You get it out of the way so its not blocking your route as a hazard to navigation, anything you can salvage you salvage, then you scrap it.
Now, on the other hand, if you wanted to do some theatrical performance of how you are the greatest and most resourceful country on Earth, you could certainly refloat it and jury rig it piecemeal until it looks like a perfectly functional ship again, as long as nobody has to go inside and it never has to perform any significant functions. If you want to use it as a floating barge to launch missiles from (like the first of its class, which is rumoured to have no engines as it has never been seen moving under its own power) then absolutely you can refloat it and use it for that no problem. That might be a good way to save face if you’re a recently-embarrassed despotic banana republic with nuclear weapons and no functioning economy, and plausibly that is what will happen here.
We are reinventing our way back to Web 1.0, pretty soon we will be teaching people that they can design their own sites using simple tools or even just by typing in plain text and that they can use “links” to connect to other people’s content anywhere else on the web.
And because this probably sounds like a facetious criticism, I need to clarify: it’s really not a criticism at all. This is how the web is supposed to work. Companies broke it in order to entrap you and make profit from you.
Normally I would say the truth is probably somewhere in between, but given these two are so far off in la-la-land I think in this case the truth is probably on a different planet.
I think it is still pretty painful to acknowledge for a lot of people, honestly, so it’s not surprising. At least they’re only downvoting and not jumping into the usual rounds of whataboutism. The goal is to learn from history, not to justify anything that is done or make anyone feel bad, but I’m also not going to apologize for it if it does make people feel bad. To those downvoters: If it makes you feel bad, you know what will make you feel better about it? Do something to make things better. I’m not saying you have to, I’m just saying it might make you feel better about acknowledging the history. Your call.
Doing a racism is the well-known cultural tradition of the white people and our ancestors.
Like a magician, Ukraine continues to pull ace after ace out of their sleeve. It turns out they have so many cards! I can’t wait to see them all.
Specifically, the parts of the federal government with any power over any of his interests. He pretty transparently removed any government oversight of his finances and SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, etc, and by amazing magical coincidence that was the very moment all the “inefficiency” had been purged and so now he is free to go back to all his hobbies unbothered by those pesky regulators that were giving him grief.
The whole point of federation and open protocols is that you aren’t tied to any specific piece of software, or any single provider, or any single set of features. People can experiment and innovate and collaborate and expand to build new things on top without losing access or interfering with people who prefer the old methods. People or software that abuses the system on the other hand, can be blocked or defederated.
A healthy software ecosystem should have many different pieces of software all written by different people with different goals, but all implementing most of the same things. Some will be more popular than others, and the popular ones might not agree with your own personal tastes, but that’s just life. The point is that we (and software developers) all have the freedom to choose how we interact with this system without any formal rules or maintainer group deciding what is allowed and what isn’t (except within their own software and/or instance).
and they will be cross compatible enough that it won’t be much of a deal what project is running underneath?
They are already cross-compatible enough, they are as cross-compatible as they need to be. It’s not clear what more you could ask for. If you want them to all look and work exactly the same then what’s the point of having different software at all? You’re acting like the different features and choices are a downside when it is in fact a benefit. Pick the one you like the most and use it. If you like Piefed’s hashtags, then use Piefed, it’s great! There’s nothing “locked away” in Piefed, everything in it is available to everybody, as it should be!
That’s the fun part. No due process means no answers to those questions or any other details are needed anymore. Detention is now arbitrary, deportation is arbitrary, and crime is arbitrary. If you’re not either appalled or terrified or both, you’re not paying attention.
Really nice that they’re doing a sunset period with advance warning instead of just randomly going dark. As Lemmy’s first major “shutdown” we need to accept that this sort of thing seems inevitable from time to time, maybe this can set an example and open a conversation on how to handle this sort of situation in the future. I’d hope this creates some pressure to Fediverse developers to improve portability for users (and communities!) moving between instances, maybe even some kind of immigration/emigration mode for people or communities who want to apply to transfer their account and history rather than simply sign up a new account while posting a link from their old account. Federation should be able to do better than that.
The only ways to have peace with a tyrant that denies your right to exist, are to surrender, or to soundly and overwhelmingly beat them. Anything else is just going to prolong the conflict and the suffering.
We did this with Nazi Germany, then we did it with Imperial Japan too, if we have to do it again with Soviet Russia it’s only because we didn’t do it thoroughly enough in 1991, because we keep trying to imagine there’s a nicer, easier, smarter, gentler way to do it using economics and politics maneuvering, by being patient and subtle and sneaky. There isn’t, it just delays the inevitable conflict while giving your enemies more time to prepare. Regimes like Putin’s do not acknowledge anything other than force, and anything less than force is a weakness to take advantage of, which they inevitably do.
We need to stop acting like oppression, despotism and dictatorship are valid ideologies and forms of government. They are not. We cannot tolerate them because they are simply intolerable. They are a violation of basic, fundamental human rights, they are not merely an “alternative to democracy” or “countries going their own way”. We must fight them not because we are trying to be the “world police”, nor because we alone are responsible for making the world a better place. We must fight them because it is absolutely required for self-preservation, because they deny and make a mockery of the very existence of the human rights and dignity that we consider non-negotiable, including our own. We are obligated to fight them not because of treaties and organizations like the UN or some international laws, those are all things we developed to codify the fact that we are obligated to fight them because it is in our own self interest and our own survival depends on it. Making the world a better place for everyone in the end is just a side benefit.
It’s my “opinion” that a device running a slightly modified Linux 2.6 kernel is literally running Linux, yes. Maybe you’re making the point that it’s not a full GNU/Linux distribution that most people imagine when they hear Linux, and that’s a valid and valuable clarification which I thank you for providing, but you don’t need to imply I’m wrong to provide that clarification.
Kobos are pretty nice. They’re not cheap, as you pointed out, but you can get an older or used one for quite a bit cheaper and it’s just as good. They run Linux. It’s almost completely open, and anything that isn’t might as well be. That said you really don’t need to open it up much, just enough to install something like koreader which basically completely replaces the OS on the thing. It does everything I would ever want to use my ereader for … granted that’s pretty much just “read ebooks”.
Deeds, not words.
The good news is, we have already come up with so many interesting ways to almost perfectly self-exterminate, precisely because we can’t constructively coexist. We are the problem, and the problem solves itself! … for the rest of the universe, anyway. This also probably conveniently answers the Fermi paradox, presuming that we have indeed reached one of the great filters and may be about to find out that our species won’t get to pass it due to our persistent inability to peacefully coexist.
So far, this seems to be exactly what I’m looking for. Thanks so much!
I don’t want to have to dig through 100 communities all spread out to find things.
So don’t. Hang out on Lemmy.world. You’ll be fine here. It’s as centralized as you can get. All you’re really asking for is to deny others the ability to choose or run their own instance and still be able to talk to you, like I’m doing right now.
The problem honestly isn’t even the seawater, necessarily. Even that is technically fixable.
Where it gets potentially unfixable is that most naval architects seem to think that the ship probably twisted her keel lying in that position. Non-naval-architects might not appreciate what a catastrophic problem that is, to put it roughly in automotive terms that’s like having a twisted frame on a car (it’s actually significantly worse, but that’s the closest layperson analogy you’re likely to get). There’s nothing you can do to to a twisted frame to exactly straighten it, and it will never drive “properly” again, in fact it can be extremely unstable and unsafe. Cars that this happens to are basically without exception considered “totaled” and for good reason.
Ships, in general, and warships, in particular, can be put under pretty extreme forces by the water they are in, especially at high speeds or heavy seas, and even small imperfections in the shape of the hull can cause very serious hydrodynamic drag and forces. These effects can be even stronger and more dramatic than aerodynamic effects on cars or airplanes since the water itself is so much thicker and heavier as a fluid. A ship with a twisted hull is almost certainly a write-off, and if you stubbornly refuse to accept that and do everything you can to mitigate it, even if you are lucky it will still likely be a poor, dangerous sailer that can never safely approach anything near the sort of speeds it was originally designed to achieve. A warship that can only go half the speed, and half the range it was designed to, with a non-negligible chance that it may be so poorly handling that it is at least uncomfortable and hard to crew, if not actually dangerous or even doomed in heavy weather, is not a very useful warship, no matter how hard you are committed to putting it into service despite the damage.
Yeah, maybe it still floats, but that’s only a small part of what a ship is actually expected to be able to do in the real world, and “modern warship” is a pretty unforgiving role that needs every bit of performance the ship is supposed to be able to provide. It’s not a situation where you can accept having a scratch-and-dent salvage title if you want it to actually be good at its job. That’s why people are considering this a total loss (and it still will be no matter how much work they put into it).