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My Lord. Type “Halliburton oil Ukraine” into Google maps and look at the god-damned oil field that’s owned by a US company. Or look at how the US has has record natural gas exports every year since 2014.

Or look up how the US weapons weren’t given to Ukraine. They were sold and those loans must be paid back. Britain and Russia didn’t pay back their WW2 lend-lease debts until 2006.

The US is making a killing on this conflict. Ukrainians are also dying for their nation, but two things can be true at the same time. Anyone who isn’t a moron can see that.

must be your client. the link works fine for me. If you see the timeline, locals mostly weren’t involved and lots of local anti fascists organized and fought back. This island was nominated for the Nobel prize when the crisis started, but there’s only so much people can take when the refugees kept coming, the island couldn’t support thousands of extra people, and refugees were forced to cut down centuries old olive trees for cooking fuel. Greece is not a wealthy country and they felt betrayed by places like Sweden and Germany that have robust economies and a much smaller proportion of the refugee crisis.

Something had to give. Moria camp is essentially an open air prison without running water or showers. Most people who arrive are children, or were before they walked to Turkey from the Congo or Afghanistan or whatever and boarded boats for a chance at a better life.

I heard stories from teenagers who had escaped slavery or been forced to work in fast fashion factories in Turkey without pay or had their passports stolen in Iran or picked up by a militia in the Syrian civil war and handed a weapon. And the EU just leaves them there. They get like €200 a month, if and when their legal case ever concludes, but that’s not enough to actually live and they’re not allowed to work. Not like Greece has extra work anyway.

Maybe the countries that make a fortune by selling arms to conflict zones (France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Italy) should step up and take care of the crises they manufactured for profit. But nah, they just elect far right parties because brown people are scary.

ah. I apologize. As this Quora post explains, it does appear on the keyboard, but it’s just awkward to press.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Russians-use-as-a-smiley-instead-of

here’s another link verifying the claim that )) is more common than :) for Russian speakers.

https://news.itmo.ru/en/features/life_in_russia/news/13133/

but I’m gonna mute you, because you’re clearly just a moron.

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Naftogaz held talks with US oil companies about energy projects in Ukraine, Financial Times reports - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/naftogaz-held-talks-with-big-us-oil-companies-about-ukraine-energy-projects-ft-2023-04-21/

you mean the photo you shared? I’m confused. There are Qwerty letters on the left side of each key cap and Cyrillic on the right, or were you under the impression that Cyrillic uses both alphabets?

https://dm-aegean.bordermonitoring.eu/2020/05/14/lesvos-2020-timeline-violence-oppression-resistance/

well, the German Neo Nazi who came to town maaaaaay have gotten assaulted by somebody using a big ass bicycle lot and escorted off the island.

https://www.stonisi.gr/post/7411/eftasan-kai-oi-germanoi-neonazi-pics

yes, yes violence is bad, but literal Nazis are worse.

Unless you think Russia is capable of hacking google maps…

Here’s an oil field owned by Halliburton in Ukraine. https://g.co/kgs/F7e761g

For those of us not old enough to remember, Halliburton got famous for being deeply connected to George W. Bush’s Vice President, Dick Cheney, and profited massively from the Iraq war.

also, I think most of their competent hackers leave. I work with a three Iranian systems dudes (not in Iran, despite the suggestion of another user here). If your choice is between working for the IRGC (becoming the target of western sanctions and security agencies) or a $250k/year job at Google, the choice is usually pretty easy.

Lol. you should check out that keyboard again. It’s a Qwerty AND Cyrillic keyboard which clearly shows the the Cyrillic letter ж uses the same key as the ;/: button on qwerty.

In before this person uses the fact that I know how to type a Unicode character as “proof” of my bot-ness.

I think you’ll find my post history about Linux, volunteering with refugees, and pictures of museums to be consistent with my anti-war stance and offer a hint as to why I know a bunch of historical facts.

lol. nah, homey. it’s a 7 month old account from the reddit exodus. Ukraine discovered natural gas in Crimea in 2014, threatening to box out Russia from the EU energy market, which is why it’s an existential threat for Russia if Ukraine pivots west. Consequently, Russia invaded. Here is a Wikipedia article that discusses the Shell-backed exploration of the gas field off the coast of Crimea.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skifska_gas_field

Who the fuck said anything about supporting Russia? Genocidal regimes focused on the extraction of fossile fuels are fucked-- whether you’re talking Saudi Arabia, The US, or Russia. For the love of god, please educate yourself about the hypocrisy of US foreign policy. I’m really sorry that you can’t see beyond the binary worldview you’ve hinted to here.

If I was a pro-Russia bot, why would I post this on an article, I posted, mocking Iranian hackers?

Do you not realize that Iran is selling drones to Russia to bomb Ukraine?

Do you not realize that Iran only has said drone technology because they captured a US drone flying over Pakistan and reverse engineered it? Seems like if the ill-informed war of terror never happened, Iran wouldn’t have drones and Russia wouldnt be using them in Ukraine to murder civilians. The world is way more complicated than the black and white worldview you’ve alluded to.

Fuck Putin, fuck the us department of defense and fuck the police (just for good measure). Is that clear enough for you?

adding to this list:

Oil companies are definitely known for their altruism and opposition to dictators.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2023/04/24/us-energy-companies-could-help--ukraine-win-energy-freedom-and-neuter-russia/

Yeah. Agreed. I just thought the Iraq war would be a great example because it is now pretty universally recognized as a major fuck up in US policy that lead to the deaths of around a million people and the eventual rise of the Islamic State. I mean, if you look up civilian casualty numbers in Ukraine vs Iraq and account for the shorter timeline (at least, since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine), the US is worse than Russia by a wide margin. And let’s not talk about Gaza or how to the US funnelled arms and funds to right wing nationalist groups in the former Yugoslavia before bombing civilian infrastructure in Belgrade in the name of preventing the genocide that the US helped to inflame and escalate. Hell, the shells that were dropped on Sarajevo in 1996 by the Serbian militias were given/sold to them by the US (during the cold war) and then they also sold arms to National separatist groups that are themselves accused of acts of genocide.

Oh. Yeah. I work as a systems guy on AI related tasks, but I have a strong mathematical background (my degrees are all in math), so I understand the AI stuff well. I just find the management of clusters and reliability engineering to be far more interesting than getting a computer to hallucinate nonsense. Anyway, the systems people are always dunking on the AI people for not knowing the basics of software like using ssh, setting up a firewall, or using version control software. We say things like, “yeah, but remember that the AI guys are the users, so we have to make it idiot proof” and “what’s the difference between malware and a neural network? Not much, but one only runs on Nvidia”

Previously, I was the platform engineer for a self driving car project owned by a very large vehicle OEM. I would never get in a Tesla using “full self driving” and neither would any of my colleagues then or now. By the way, that self driving project collapsed because a very capable car manufacturer that produces more vehicles in a day than Tesla produces in a year realized it would never work at the consumer level and we had the benefit of a half a million dollars worth of military grade localization equipment, while Tesla is trying to get by on webcams and magic.

Hell, you can pull up countless, peer reviewed papers in the AI field that don’t have error bars or any statistical hypothesis testing at all, authored by labs at MIT or Facebook. It’s terrifyingly bad.

tl;dr AI people are generally the least competent people I’ve met in my field-- which is AI.

well, for other security research, they often rely on things like timestamps (even state sponsored hackers have nights and weekends), typos that only make sense with certain keyboards, and who is targeted. For example, Russian keyboarss don’t have the : symbol, so the :) emoji is usually typed as “))”, which can be a dead giveaway that the hacker uses a a Slavic language keyboard.

However, let’s not pretend for a second that disinformation and propaganda are only pushed by the listed countries. I’m old enough to remember when lies pushed by the Bush administration to the New York Times that were used to manufacturer public consent for the Iraq war.

Or how NATO promises they’re supporting Ukraine out of the goodness of their hearts and that it has absolutely nothing to do with their abundant natural gas supplies that are currently being sold off to oil companies based in NATO countries. (Slava Ukraini, for the record, but fuck the oil companies).

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/naftogaz-held-talks-with-big-us-oil-companies-about-ukraine-energy-projects-ft-2023-04-21/

OpenAI (like many other tech monopolies) dissolved their trust and safety team months ago:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/17/openai-superalignment-sutskever-leike.html

Be 18. Get scholarship. Study literature. Drop out. Run away. Join a protest movement. Be homeless at MIT for a while. Find job. Get hurt at said job. Get workers injury insurance payment after 2 years of recocery. Go back to school for math. Be good at math. Found tech related non profit. Spend 6 months in Kurdistan, setting up wifi. Finish math school. Fuck it, get masters because good at math. Get hired by foreign company oversees to work on self driving cars. Doesn’t work. Won’t work. Quit. Go to Greece, teach refugee kids how to us MS office. Watch neo Nazis burn down refugee school and computer lab. Suddenly it’s March of 2020 (COVID) and nothing to do because Nazis and no more computer lab. Oh fuck. Find PhD program in “trustworthy ai” to figure out why car not work. Prove car never work. Get PhD. Get paid to critique AI and play on super computers while working from home and having zero day to day oversight. Get paid to travel the world. Get paid to shit on Google, Facebook , Openai, and Tesla.

I went from homeless to visiting my 40th country in 10 years, while having a PhD.

No regrets.

I appreciate that you curate the RSS feed. I get very little time for social media these days and I’m glad there’s someone here populating feeds with content.

I’m not a huge fan of cynicism and non-contributory comments when this space is meant to be better than the toxic sites we all fled. There’s a plethora of options for tailoring your feed to exclude unwanted content, none of which require attacking other users acting in good faith.

Thanks to your profile, I found several new communities I will happily follow now. Keep up the good work!