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.world really is the Reddit of lemmy smdh my damn head.

Good to know we agree that the jcos and congress should be summarily executed.

A gallon throughout the course of a day will not harm an adult.

The joint chiefs operate in an advisory role to the executive and are outside the chain of command.

But let’s assume for a second that what you say is true:

If the highest military leaders in the country were following the orders of one person, and those orders came directly from them, would they somehow be innocent of the wholesale slaughter they perpetrated because they were following orders?

Congress hasnt declared war since 1942.

To boil down the relationship between the joint chiefs and the chief executive down to “they follow his orders” is more than a little naive. It’s not a good resource but even Wikipedia has a more nuanced take than that.

Are you trying to say that it’s not the joint chiefs who are responsible for American crimes, but congress?

It certainly is culpable, but I’m surprised to find someone who would say a body of civilian government officials bear more responsibility for war crimes than the military leaders who directly oversee them.

But I’m with you. Congress should be put to death too.

I’m not clear on the point you’re trying to make.

Are you trying to suggest that the joint chiefs are just blown hither and thither by tragically flawed intelligence and tempted to sin by donations from the corporate arm of the military industrial complex or that presidents before 2001 aren’t responsible for the actions of the us military?

That explains why it stops whenever a good president is in office.

Do you genuinely think all the generals are free of blame? Perhaps that all the orders came fully formed from the forehead of the chief executive and they were just following them?

the jcos is Americas military leadership at the highest level.

who do you think is responsible for ordering and overseeing the last century of imperial violence and bloodshed?

even a stopped clock…

see if he’ll extend it to the rest of em.

Ur-fascism is about semiotics, not history.

There’s a bunch of great stuff in there, but you gotta read the twenty pages before and after any quote to get what’s being said and why.

Mullvad was always the most straightforward privacy centric vpn with a very long and uneventful history.

They used to offer port forwarding on top of all that. People use port forwarding to do torrents, run internet facing services from home, and share csam.

The authorities could never go through mullvad to get the identities of csam users because of mullvads infrastructure (according to them it’s not stored so it’s impossible for a raid to turn up identifying data).

The authorities switched tactics and convinced a bunch of websites, dns services and other stuff to block mullvads public facing IPs. For a while there in march or so you couldn’t browse shit from a mullvad ip.

The goal was to force csam people on to other services that are softer targets for law enforcement.

It worked. Mullvad dropped port forwarding and all the torrenters, selfhosters and csam traders left.

Mullvad has been working to be a better vpn provider ever since because the raids themselves scare users off, the dropped services lost them some users and the awareness of international law enforcement cooperation scared some users off using vpn services in fourteen eyes countries (mullvad is in Sweden).

At the time all this went down I only had mullvad but now I use another vpn for port forwarding and mullvad for everything that doesn’t need that.

Just use cash.

Be ye here warned: break that sucker out on libs and they recoil like demons from a cross, but it’s not a fetish in that regard and eventually you’ll find one who needs more exorcism than that meager phrase can provide.

Damn, it’s almost like you either have to find a morally unassailable position or accept that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism and all that sentiment carries with it.

What the other person said. Eventually we’ll have a word for it that isn’t five syllables or an inaccurate name for the first gen processor.

M1: it’s the best laptop you can buy. Not for the money, not in a category. Best. I say this only having used one for work and owning non m1 laptops myself. If you get a chance to try one out sometime give it a shot. We’re all moving toward risc and it’s a taste of what can be. To get an idea how good it is, industries with specific needs like gpus for cad/cam are implementing software and hardware solutions to get onboard. It’s wild. The air is passively cooled too.

Macs: have been fantastic, durable, long lasting laptops for at least fifteen years. The support windows are predictable (and extended when very popular hardware comes by like the 2012 mbp 12”), the parts are widely available, there’s usually service nearby, they offer a good warranty, the touchpads are top notch and they retain resale value like nothing else.

Lest people who think this is a contest jump in here: I own, maintain and use many pcs in both desktop and laptop form. There are valid reasons to choose a pc over a mac. The post I’m replying to asked why people choose macs.

I have only once encountered that problem. I don’t usually charge stuff outside home/work/car.

If I did, I’d keep my own cable because even before the advent of malicious cables people often had messed up stuff that only worked half the time.

Think “hey can I borrow that guitar cable?” “Sure!” “What the hell, this things buzzing all over the place!” “Oh, you gotta loop it around the strap peg and it doesn’t work with angled jacks.”

The idea of proprietary hardware nowadays is interesting. It used to be, especially in industrial and commercial uses, that proprietary meant you had to have something that could only be bought from one place and wasn’t publicly documented. An interface for a rohm drive for example. Those weird one-off parts and dongles were expensive and not well understood, so they definitely fit the definition and spirit of being proprietary.

It’s a little disingenuous to me to call a cable you can buy at any gas station for five bucks “proprietary”. Especially when searching “lightning pinout” gets immediate results.

Is it technically proprietary? Maybe. Is it proprietary in practice? Not in the slightest.

That’s true, but at least one a week for a few years now versus four ever? Nah. The ports too delicate for what users put it through.

Plus I get more apple stuff in general than the marketshare numbers would dictate. It gets repaired and resold longer. Massive amounts of usbc devices are throwaway and gimmies from institutions and carriers and are just disposed of when they break.

Some of that effect is the expense of apple stuff, some of it is the emotional attachment people build with a computer after they’ve used it for ten years, some of it is just plum retained value. People aren’t gonna chuck a laptop they can resell for $400 when it needs a $100 repair.

Just go to the website and scroll down. It’s real easy.