capitalism with a very short leash can be useful; what matters is who holds the leash.

maybe no hablo ingles. lol

at some later date, when the united states is barely a regional power, the venezuelans will forget why there was any animus in the first place and i don’t know how to feel about that.

MUCH better news that yesterday’s

it’s wild to see the united states use the same playbook they used to regime change so many other places.

carney will cave to trump like starmer did because he doesn’t like china.

at this point, netanyahu and co. should just grow out their mustaches so that they curl them as they laugh maniacally like the living embodiment of cartoonishy evil villains that they’ve become and both the UK & US leaders can starting calling themselves quislings.

it sounds like the monroe doctrine is alive and well.

that’s for leverage and the us empire already has more than enough when it comes to venezuela.

it comes from the american playbook (that the nazis duplicated); it’s wounded knee all over again and for the 3rd time.

Originally proposed in 2021 to give the E.U. a powerful set of tools to counter potential Chinese economic coercion, the trade bazooka has never been deployed before.

the bazooka is pointed in the wrong direction and will never be utilized against the united states.

don’t worry; you can only be embarrased if you’re paying enough attention and american proved that they hate paying attention to “politics” at any cost.

is that a pinebook?

my /boot is also 2 gigs and i’m glad you shared this; thank you!

they’ll kill whomever happens to be in the way atm they decide to strike and renee good proves that you have to be the right kind of american for americans to give a shit about it.

and long overdue; this has always been the truth of our existence, but too many are too easily deceived into believing otherwise.

probably at first; but not so much after a few generations.

after all, the people of the united states, canada, australia, new zealand did the same thing to native americans; first nations; aboriginals; and the maori (respectively) and the people who are still benefiting from the same monstrous institutions, that the isrealis are currently building for themselves, genuinely believe that they they’re the world’s “good guys” and have the money & clout to get an overwhelming majority of the world to agree with them.

you should also know that it’s a double edged sword if you go with linux first vendors because you’ll likely never learn from resolving your own technical difficulties that arise as a result of hardware that is not 100% linux compatible.

i learned so much from putting linux on my windows & mac hardware; that it enabled me tow work on linux professionally for the last 21 years. switching to linux first hardware 5-ish years ago made my knowledge of people facing issues atrophy, so i bought windows first hardware to re-acquaint myself.

as a mac & linux user since 2002 and i had a time machine to do it all over again but correctly this time; i would go with a linux first vendor like system76 or tuxedo or any other vendor that uses 100% open source hard/software. (ie coreboot/libreboot).

linux can work on almost all hardware (including mac) but you’re mileage is going to vary a lot and only the linux first vendors can give you an experience that rivals mac and windows.

every time i’ve heard a decider state the reason why they won’t embrace linux, it’s always because they don’t believe that linux is capable at handling the same scale that microsoft can and that’s despite the fact that significantly larger institutions realy on linux.

the excuse feels rehearsed since it’s always the same.