Goddamn, Taiwan is the second last with 17% increase in the same 30-year period. 😵

Meanwhile GDP per capita PPP has gone up 370%.

Are there any a|ternatives to n8n?

Time for Takaichi to say something about war with China.

Irony was KIA long ago.

Or maybe she’s just incompetent. But maybe you’re right.

Interesting. Thanks!

Is there actual science to predict IQ based on genes?

Right, cause the US wants to grab it instead and then “invest it.” At this point either the EU takes or the US will.

That’s just them going back to their historical norms.

Specifically US corporate interests.

Given my interactions with zionist friends and family, they’re completely out of touch. They’ve shoehorned themselves into a hasbara bubble and consider anything not pro-Israel to be “Qatari propaganda” one way or another. That closes any channel that could possibly inform them of the way they appear and lets them lean into their victimhood, raging against anyone and anything that isn’t aligned.

That’s important context for what happened in 2020.

Broadly, if one believes that elections are a tool that should be leveraged, it’s crucial to understand that elections are not enough, Never have been. Elections are but a small part of the democratic system. All the other cogs - campaigns, fundraising, at all levels of government, for this or that office, within parties, all of that matters immensely. The people you mention who acted as a bulwark against the fascists were a product of that system. Who the choices are come election time is the product of that. Whether it’s a Turd Sandwich v. Giant Douche. Or whether it’s Mamdani v. Cuomo.

I think the leftist point being made isn’t that any particular election has no effect. Of course elections have effects. At the very least they provide legitimacy. I think the point is that even though it worked to unseat Trump in 2020, the election did not halt the long term processes leading us towards fascism. It slowed them down a bit but didn’t reverse trend. Reason being that the owner class kept expanding their wealth and therefore control over the entire system. I think leftist memes about elections are often poorly communicated or understood, which isn’t ideal, but then it’s …memes.

If the US takes control of Venezuela’s oil prod, the OPEC and therefore Saudi control over the oil price diminishes. Therefore Saudi revenues are likely to fall. While I don’t expect Saudi to do anything, there would be logic in them doing so. Perhaps MBS could use the backchannel to tell Trump not to invade.

Grant it. Make it bluntly obvious for anyone still believing “The only democrcy in the Middle East” slogan.

This is cool but for self-hosting you probably want a more robust monitoring system capable of alerting at all times. Prometheus is what I use. It also gathers data over time and can monitor many machines.

This won’t end well for the US long term but American capitalism can’t see that far.

That’s odd because the clients are just web apps I think. That should work without crashing on a stable OS. I use them on Android mobile and Android TV with extensive subtitle usage and haven’t seen instability.

A funny thing I noticed is that the client distributed in F-Droid is extremely old even though it says it’s updated recently.

I think there’s research to that effect.

I switched from a heavily used Plex server with about 10 users to Jellyfin with the samw usage patterns abour half a year ago. So far it’s been pretty smooth sailing. A better world is possible!