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by farss 8mo ago
The "rules-based international order" was a fiction popularized by US policy makers who wanted to quietly substitute it for international law, so they could violate said laws, while still vaguely gesturing at moral authority.
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by farss 5y ago
I'm not sure that per capita is a very useful rubric to measure over time. Like I'm not saying there's no relation to population size, if you compare a tiny country to a large one, but it's not clear to me that there&#
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by farss 5y ago
Some benefited handsomely. Most others, not so much.
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by farss 5y ago
The military jet was just a stunt, to reinforce the false pretext that there was a bomb aboard. There was no reported military aggression against the plane, and IIRC, the RyanAir pilot said he didn't see it as a threat, but as a form o
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by farss 5y ago
I haven't seen evidence that it was merely a stunt. But in any case, the sovereign head of state was effectively detained for 12 hours, based on lies and coercion. That itself is outrageous. Belarus used a fighter jet pilot to deliver
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by farss 5y ago
The methods used are somewhat apples to oranges, but they're comparable in that both the United States and Belarus used pretty brazen measures to go after the political crime of unwanted journalism. Faking a bomb threat and interceptin
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by farss 5y ago
The Morales incident wasn't simply one country choosing to deny airspace. It was a hegemonic superpower using it's leverage to create a wall of un-passable countries, and then having the plane boarded and searched before it was al
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by farss 5y ago
For the historically curious, state-sponsored skyjacking is not without precedent. Israel appears to have pioneered it: [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/13/archives/syrian-airliner-... [2] https:&#x2
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by farss 6y ago
Trouser cuffs do have a function. The extra weight helps the cloth drape better.
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by farss 6y ago
All I really want is Fireworks. Never found a true replacement for it.
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by farss 6y ago
True, but I've been using GIMP a long time - more than a decade. Used it for years longer and years before I used Adobe CS. Taken a number of tutorials on it. Will always be super clunky.
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by farss 6y ago
I want to like it, but GIMP is almost unusable for me. Really hard to do even basics, and have to spend a lot of time googling how to do what I want to do.
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by farss 6y ago
Here's a similar script I wrote. Would be glad for feedback. https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup
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by farss 7y ago
I believe they might go after the publisher in this case, and that Snowden already got a good advance they presumably can't get to while he's in Russia.
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by farss 7y ago
> "(and safe)" Want to make sure this part of the comment is also highlighted because big homeless shelters can be really difficult, scary, and even dangerous places, even when there are beds available, and so unhoused people h
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by farss 7y ago
Arguably the judgement against the book by the Navy Seal in the Bin Laden raid was a non-politicized example. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/matt-bissonnet...
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by farss 7y ago
It doesn't really matter, they can still use pre-publication review to jack you up by redacting even what is otherwise publicly available information and delay publication until the news cycle has moved on. The process is arbitrary and
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by farss 7y ago
It's not just the free fare - it's the abysmal lack of shelter options and the attempts by cities to criminalize encampments and force people to find somewhere indoors to avoid arrest.
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by farss 7y ago
My understanding is that one of the main hurdles is the physical limits of actually catching the carbon to sequester it. Even though it is historically high, it is still relatively dispersed (a few hundred parts per million). Plants are ext
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by farss 7y ago
Not dumb at all. I'm doing this on a $5 droplet and it's faster than any of the commercial VPN's I'm currently paying for. It's a little less privacy protective than many VPN providers however - Digital Ocean will f
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by farss 7y ago
http://mentalfloss.com/article/18991/chomskybot-almost-intel...
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by farss 7y ago
Does that work for imported documents also, or only Amazon-purchased books?
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by farss 7y ago
Sure! I barely know what I'm doing, but this worked for me: https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup Suggestions welcome!
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by farss 7y ago
Yes, but only for the books you purchase through Amazon. If you import DRM free books (or presumably re-import DRM free versions of Amazon purchases) or personal docs, the notes on those won't be saved.
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by farss 7y ago
Don't forget to backup your marks and highlights also. I made that mistake once, and then lost my Kindle. Lost years worth of highlights and notes, so now I set up a bash script to automatically sync them to a Git repo when my Kindle i
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by farss 7y ago
"(Corollary: pissing off someone important is a good way to find out whether you have broken the law)." ^this^
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Former intelligence analyst charged with leaking drone details to news outlet(washingtonpost.com)
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by farss 8y ago
They may have meant the word 'hit' as a noun.
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by farss 8y ago
This drives me nuts. Why is it so difficult to maintain?
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by farss 8y ago
I was at one of the baths in Budapest recently where I saw another solution to this problem. The locker room is mixed gender, and the changing stalls have two doors that open to opposite sides of the aisle. But the doors open inward, and th

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