The US has been the biggest long term enemy to the working populations of the world since the end of the WWII, including its own. Throw a pin on the map, and you’re likely to hit a place that’s been affected by a war started or fought by the US, or a place where the US has had a hand in destroying worker power in order to for American business to extract resources and labour for cheap, or a sanctioned place where working people are made to suffer in order to overthrow their government, or a combination thereof.

If this information is true and the Chinese officials weren’t bullshitting, then leaking this doesn’t sound like a good move on the European official end.

Doesn’t their economy have a way bigger production capacity than Russia’s? Why would they want to replicate Russia’s? China seems much more successful at manufacturing at scale.

Use low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.

No issues with Debian / Ubuntu on many laptops since early 2010s, mostly with Intel graphics. I had a Vostro 1400 with Nvidia and it also resumed fine, but that was 2009-11 so the experience with the Nvidia driver from that time is likely irrelevant.

At this point all the arguments about what nefarious could they possibly do with the data are busted. They answer is - our imagination and access to information is not rich enough to figure out today and it’s probably worse than what we can think of.

Faraday cage or bust.

Issuing recalls - a sign of how big Anker has gotten.

A tragic story that should be added to piles of child tragedy in Palestine as well as the other affected countries from these conflicts. Speaking of Palestine, I can’t see it mentioned at all on the front page of rferl.org.

Perhaps they don’t really want a regime change, or at least not an orderly, prosperous one. Perhaps getting the Islamic Republic to dig its heels would prevent improvement of relationships with the world, lifting of sanctions and economic growth that would create more resources for military strengthening. Perhaps having the ambiguous big bad Muslims in power makes it easy to manufacture consent both in Israel and abroad, for arbitrary bombings. Perhaps keeping this enemy keeps people in Israel motivated to comply with the right wing policies of some factions.

We’re cooked

This is the material explanation. They expect increased productivity and therefore higher output and therefore higher profits from the same workforce. Not necessarily to downsize. Downsizing or upsizing would be dictated by a combination of the realized productivity gains and the uptake of their products by the market.

Why would they do that? If they’re making better quarterly results by listening to Wall St, that’s what the system tells them to do.

Seeking profit above all else isn’t human nature. Humans have lived and still live in societies that don’t do this. The socioeconomic system that we find ourselves in currently in a large part of the world does put profit above all else. But this system is just one iteration of how we live. And even it has changed over time where it has gotten worse over the last 50 years. It too would change and likely be replaced by another in the long run. Many believe that would be some form of socialism. Or we could go largely extinct before we abandon it. A better world is possible though.

Qobuz

I doubt it. They’ve gone hard nationalist and seem to be ready to sacrifice for the things they imagine they have to do.

My first thought.

That this worked when I did it in 2006:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Warcraft\ III/Frozen\ Throne.exe -opengl

Interesting. This does make some sense. I think Israel claimed they destroyed a significant number of Iran’s missile arsenal but I don’t know how true that was and how much Iran had remaining. One thing is clear though, if the air defences run out of fodder, then cheaper missiles, perhaps even drones become effective.

Yeah that makes sense.