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04/27/2022 12:25 Comments ||
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What's the word?
Thunderbird.
What's the price?
A dollar twice.
Who drinks the most?
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Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/27/2022 12:29 Comments ||
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#6
I believe even Elon's harshest critics admit he was no fan of apartheid era South Africa and left as soon as he was old enough. Reid's just saying stuff.
'What do these countries have in common? Some of the toughest Covid regimes of the last two years.'@MarkSteynOnline reacts to The Daily Mail's map on rising hepatitis cases in children.
Here’s an idea for @elonmusk. Open the books on who Twitter has shadow banned, who Twitter has suspended, who they’ve throttled, and who was responsible for the egregious censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop reporting. Make it all public pic.twitter.com/gbLaaUXuR4
One request for @elonmusk — Please expose what was done to censor people over the past few years. Make the algorithms public, expose the search bans, the shadowbans, etc. We want to see EVERYTHING these people did to tip the balance of power toward their political preferences.
"Mr. Musk: the free elections are wonderful, voting for someone I disapprove of is unacceptable . . ." Thanks for wokesplaining, Professor Progressive. https://t.co/FOw7r9caQxpic.twitter.com/BbAsj3V4KR
I imagine Twitter HQ is 'shredding and burning documents' the way countries do when they have to quickly shut down their embassy in what's become enemy territory.
This is the beauty of free speech! It gives you a false sense of security. You will inadvertently show everyone how ignorant, racist & delusional your opinions are. https://t.co/klRtbbGYPk
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) April 26, 2022
Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan's podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover pic.twitter.com/WCYmzNEMNt
#2
Pretty much no legislation is going to move from now to the mid-terms. Cocaine Mitch will go into dems are lame ducks mode and wait them out.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/27/2022 8:32 Comments ||
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A lot of formerly banned or shadow banned conservatives of various stripes are reporting huge increases of followers following the first day after Musk's purchase.
It appears their charges of shadow banner were true, and if so, those on the staff of Twitter should answer.
#4
The actual sale isn't supposed to close for over 6 months. If these miraculous changes are occurring already, it means some people at Twitter are running very scared and emptying the lists that drive the banning / suppressing / censoring code.
I'm somewhat skeptical anything actually happened that fast.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/27/2022 9:19 Comments ||
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#5
They put a moratorium on new software changes, but no mention of configuration changes...
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/27/2022 9:45 Comments ||
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#6
What does that mean in less technical language, Rob?
#7
Most software that's useful puts user-adjustable parameters in humanly understandable tables or databases that can be edited. That way, the underlying software does not need to be edited and re-compiled every time you just want to tweak the behavior.
The software would be your car radio and the configuration files would be the station selector, volume, bass, treble and so on. You would not want to have to change out the entire radio just to change the volume or station.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/27/2022 10:49 Comments ||
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What Murcek said -- there are typically settings that can be changed outside the software. Depending on the development strategy, whole features can be turned off and on -- and in some cases that can be done on a per-user basis.
The honest use is so you can test a feature in a limited way, remove it if it doesn't work as expected, etc.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/27/2022 11:49 Comments ||
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I forgot to mention, TW, as a mod, you touch some of that all the time..
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/27/2022 11:53 Comments ||
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#10
From the Democrat dictionary...
Hate speech: Speech with which Democrats disagree.
Racist: Anyone who engages in hate speech as defined by Democrats.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/27/2022 12:15 Comments ||
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[LIBYAREVIEW] Russia’s war in Ukraine has finally turned the fate of chaotic Libya into a critical question for the United States, and its allies La Belle France, and Italia. If Washington, Gay Paree, and Rome act decisively, they can stabilise Libya,
Riiiight. Because the West is all-powerful.
but hesitation could see the country deteriorate further, according to a report published by National Interest.org
...an American bimonthly international relations magazine founded by Irving Kristol and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom...
The emergence of a potential consensus-building Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha offers Libya its best chance at stability since security deteriorated eight years ago. The critical task for the West is to give Bashagha a chance to govern by salvaging the latest United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -guided international grinding of the peace processor.
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04/27/2022 00:00 ||
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[The Conversation] Faced with the prospect of sending Russian troops into subterranean combat, Vladimir Putin demurred. "There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground," he told his defense minister on April 21, 2022, ordering him to cancel a planned storming of a steel plant in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
While Putin’s back-up plan — to form a seal around trapped Ukrainian forces and wait it out — is no less brutal and there are reports that Russians may still have mounted an offensive on the site, Putin’s hesitancy to send his forces into a sprawling network of tunnels under the complex hints at a truth in warfare: Tunnels can be an effective tool in resisting an oppressor.
Explaining why all sorts of jihadis love them — Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah...
Indeed since the war began in February, reports have emerged of Ukrainian defenders using underground tunnel networks in efforts to deny Russian invaders control of major cities, as well as to provide sanctuary for civilians.
As an expert in military history and theory, I know there is sound thinking behind using tunnels as both a defensive and offensive tactic. Such networks allow small units to move undetected by aerial sensors and emerge in unexpected locations to launch surprise attacks and then essentially disappear. For an invader who does not possess a thorough map of the subterranean passages, this can present a nightmare scenario, leading to massive personnel losses, plummeting morale and an inability to finish the conquest of their urban objective — all factors that may have factored in Putin’s decision not to send troops underground in Mariupol.
#1
Soviets used the tunnel network under Kiev to frustrate the Germans in WWII
Germany never defeated the literally underground fighters and there is a museum in Kiev to the underground war.
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[REGNUM] The Soviet leadership at the end of 1917 proceeded from the position of Karl Marx, which was explicitly stated back in 1875 in the "Critique of the Gotha Programme":
[Dawn] A NEW wave of terrorism has been unleashed in the country. While the attacks are mostly aimed at our border regions by religiously motivated terrorist groups based in Afghanistan, there are frequent reminders that Baloch militancy, too, is on the rise.
Yesterday’s shocking suicide kaboom that targeted a van carrying Chinese academics near the Confucius Institute in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University was not the first time Baloch forces of Evil have attacked Chinese interests in the city.
In 2018, Karachi police foiled an attack by faceless myrmidons of the outlawed Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army on the Chinese consulate. Another attack, also claimed by the BLA, was similarly stymied in 2020 at the Pakistain Stock Exchange where the Chinese have major investments.
Both the attacks indicated that the bad boys’ strategy was evolving as the attackers appeared ready to adopt fidayeen tactics. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... with the deployment of a woman jacket wallah, the BLA attack on the university premises has added yet another dimension. It was from the terrorists’ point of view a far more effective attack than the previous two had been, as it killed at least three Chinese nationals.
As the clouds of terrorist violence in Karachi start to gather once more, it is time for law enforcement to assess their own capabilities — even if they had managed to thwart the two earlier attacks.
The Chinese are no stranger to attacks in other parts of the country either, where the development projects they have initiated are viewed with suspicion by many of the locals as well as bad boys. Because of this, security has been provided to them as it had been to those at the university yesterday.
The Chinese faculty were being escorted by Rangers personnel. The university itself has been under the paramilitary force’s vigilance for decades now, on account of student violence. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... over time, the security system has become lax — otherwise, how could the suicide bomber, with her bag of explosives, have entered the university?
For years, the Baloch insurgency had been regarded as a low-intensity conflict. But this is no longer the case. The attacks are growing more audacious — as seen earlier this year when 10 soldiers bit the dust in an attack on an FC post in Kech. The bad boys’ reach is also growing as an earlier attack in Lahore demonstrated.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... disparate Baloch bad boy groups are coming together in a bid to restructure the insurgency and beef up their numbers and fine-tune their tactics.
While issues such as the underdevelopment of Balochistan, the Baloch missing persons, and the military footprint stamped on large parts of the province must be addressed, these should not provide a pretext to whitewash such violence. Indeed, the nexus between poverty and violence runs deep. But that should not stop the mainstream Baloch nationalist parties from coming forward to roundly condemn such attacks, even as they continue to put pressure on the centre to ensure Balochistan’s welfare.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
