jjagaimo

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[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 72 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Having been on a jury,

People are dumb and have no empathy

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Its more of a powerpoint presentation than a show

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Great argument.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Certain TLD (e.g. .com, .net, .xyz) will cost a different amount per year to register. I use porkbun as well. A .com or .net may be $12.50+ per year. The cheapest domain is 9 numbers and .xyz from porkbun at 1.22/yr (e.g 123456789.xyz) but isnt as memorable. I use one of those just for external access otg with a cron script for updating the dns entries.

Also remember to hide the whois info because you will immediately start getting calls from scammers that scrape the phone number and call you telling you that you need to pay them to finish setting things up

Generic process is to register the domain, set up the DNS entries to point to your server IP, and if theres any dynamic DNS setup in your software, to enter the api key from your registrar and the domain so it can update it if your IP ever changes.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Its certainly not their direct intention, but Trump just follows along with what his billionaire donors and advisors say, which is to destroy the economy and scoop up failing businesses at a cheap price to own more when the economy recovers. Its just how republicans operate. The tariffs are just an tool for destroying the economy and putting businesses under.

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I wonder if this includes the promise of or absorption into political or military positions in exchange for disarmament / dissolution, especially if president Aoun wants to avoid conflict or civil war with a group that doesn't want to cede power

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's part of the plan to buy up farms and land for cheap when farmers go bankrupt

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

According to usnews.com (maybe not the most reputable source but),

64% of the voting-eligible population in the U.S. voted in the 2024 election.

Of those, who voted, 49.8% voted trump and 48.3% voted kamala.

That means 31.8% of eligible voters voted for trump, 30.912% voted for kamala, 0.012% voted other, and 36% didnt vote at all. That makes it ~~62-63%~~ 68% of eligible voters didnt vote against him.

Which isnt much better

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Guyana would disagree, given the US and CIA backed Burnham who became a dictator

Washington, DC, April 6, 2020 – Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive.

U.S. intelligence concluded that Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan, one of the main presidential candidates in the upcoming 1964 elections, was a communist, although not necessarily under the sway of Moscow.  Nevertheless, Kennedy decided Jagan would have to go and urged London to cooperate in the effort.  As early as mid-1962, JFK informed the British prime minister that the notion of an independent state led by Jagan “disturbs us seriously,” adding: “We must be entirely frank in saying that we simply cannot afford to see another Castro-type regime established in this Hemisphere. It follows that we should set as our objective an independent British Guiana under some other leader.”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2020-04-06/cia-covert-operations-overthrow-cheddi-jagan-british-guiana-1964

In the 80s they wanted to overthrow suriname and were training troops in French Guiana to invade suriname

https://archive.org/details/USAPlannedInvasionInSurinameToOverthrowBouterseCNNReport

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-01070r000200720003-6

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This ignores things like slave catchers who ventured across state borders into the north to catch free men (illegally) and the south by seceding was taking hostage those people and other Americans. West Virginia exists because the government of Virginia decided they wanted to secede but the people didn't

Also states don't get to vote on laws and just leave and get their way anyways if the vote doesn't go their way. That's the agreement they made, and the only basis they had for seceding was they feared a law that would make them unable to own slaves.

The confederacy also started the war with the north by attacking fort Sumter

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not all of south America is latin american and the US hasnt respected non latin american sovereignty either.

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