After the War of 1812, the UK started to recognize the USA as a local power it had to deal with diplomaticly instead of with war. This gets shown in the negotiation of the 49th parallel and its maintaining of the Monroe Doctrine. Hell, the USA almost declared war against France after the Civil War to liberate Mexico.
Post World War I, the UK seemed to be the better ally. The UK was more willing to let the USA expand into core imperial territories during and after World War II. The USA didn’t have to fight a post British imperial war like it did for France in Vietnam. You also had the UK fall in line in NATO while France didn’t.
France would have been the better natural ally, but things change over time.
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
One part of the problem is that Congress has a rural bias, so there are a lot of rural Congresspersons who don’t see the benefit of better rail service so they won’t vote for it.
From what I can gather this conflict as been going on a long time and the Hamas group has existed for a while too. Why are all the news cycles suddenly focusing on this the past few weeks?
Valve’s strategy is to maintain dominance of their software platform, Steam.
It has been pushing Linux as a viable computer platform as a counter to if/when Microsoft wanted to monetize PC gaming in direct competition to Steam, which seems to be a wise decision.
Valve runs the DRM that runs Steam. They are making the platform desktop agnostic, but that may not be sustainable.
Also what the hell do you mean by consumer linux is steam¿?
After the release of the Steam Deck, Linux on Steam has seen an increase so large that it now beats Apple for the #2. Steam may push users to Linux, but still run the Steam walled garden.
There’s a huge difference between GPS which is effectively a rootkit, and Steam which is a userland application however.
For now. But also, phone companies can use Android without GPS, but they have to rebuild a lot of functionally to get it to work, and this was done as a design decision by Google to maintain control over Android. I can easily see Valve doing this in the future. Hell, imagine Valve buying Unity and integrating it to Steam while keeping developer costs low.
However, Android is quite a bit different from what is broadly understood as Linux.
I would argue that the difference has a lot to do with whether the user is typically a consumer or participant. Valve seems to be making a a form of Linux for consumers, even if participants can use the system.
After all, why buy the Steam Deck to delete Steam from it?
Or third, Israel has invested a lot in American politics after Eisenhower used American economic power against Israeli allies in the Suez Crisis, seeing that it needed to be on good terms with at least one super power and the USA seemed like the more natural fit. This includes going as far as supporting any primary challenger that pledges Israeli support.
It was either that or go the way of its apartheid nuclear buddy, South Africa.
Really? I usually find the autistic people have a hard time treating an inanimate object as if it has sentience, since they can barely do it to people.
Thailand has been the largest market in the world by far for US-made semiautomatic firearms. From 2005 to 2022, the investigation showed, 795,000 such weapons were exported to Thailand from the United…...
As much as people are pointing to bribes, I think it is more that no one in Asia or Oceana wants to host an event like the World Cup.
Most of North America is hosting 2026, pulling the continent out of being considered for 2038.
Three continents are hosting 2030 for some reason, with games in Europe, Africa, and South America, so no one from those continents are going to compete in 2034.
So all you have now is Asia or Oceana. China doesn’t seem willing to have international tourists running around its country. India doesn’t play the game and generally doesn’t do much much in terms of international sports. Japan and South Korea already hosted and don’t seem eager to host again. They aren’t going to let Iran host. If Turkey tried to host, it would be admitting it is an Asian country.
So all you have is a Middle East Kingdom trying to sportswash itself or Australia, and Australia is already getting an Olympics, so why go for both?
There might have been bribes, but I think we are getting to the point where the current World Cup is a logistical nightmare that few places want to deal with.
Except that the flow from poor countries to rich ones isn’t constant.
In the USA, internal migrations have gone to relatively poor states for various reasons, including better economic opportunity. It wouldn’t be hard to see that shift occurring in a less developed EU nation.
So the San Francisco Bay Area has a higher income disparity compared to Greater New Orleans than Frankfurt has to Bucharest. Maybe there is an absolute number that people target, but the relative difference is much worse in the USA.
And I went with the metro area comparison instead of country/nation due to three reasons. First, if someone in Romania is going to move for a higher paying job, they are likely going to live in a city instead of the countryside. It doesn’t make sense to move from farm to farm unless you are getting the new farmland for free. Second, California has a far larger agricultural sector than the other states/nations, depressing its average. Third, part of Germany was also a communist country, and I don’t have a good way to remove that affect from national data.
So there may be other factors beyond the economy in general driving migrations.
And I’m highlighting that while a drawback might have existed, it may not be as relevant today. I can see why a Romanian would move to Paris after Romania entered the EU, but the advantage today seems fuzzier.
The areas of large population growth in the USA, mainly driven by internal migration, aren’t the rich cities. Instead, they are cities that offer cheaper quality of life, attracting people who can effectively see their material wealth increase even if they don’t earn as high a wage.
It depends. I find a lot of Japan will burn plastic that isn’t economically viable to be recycled, with a lot of effort spent on scrubbing the smoke of harmful chemicals. That seems to be better than other alternatives.
Iraq was a war that Bush had to sell, but Americans were out for blood after 9/11 and the Taliban was hosting the group that planned the attack at that time. The international community agreed that 9/11 was effectively an act of war and didn’t really complain about the invasion of Afghanistan.
The Bush administration fucked up the war and occupation of Afghanistan, but the only way to stop that way would be to stop 9/11.
The Taliban didn’t. They offered to give bin Laden to another Islamic nation to give to the USA. Even if you were to look at 9/11 as a crime instead of an act of war, the Taliban weren’t interacting with established norms of handing over suspects of a crime across international borders.
And some people were critical of the invasion at the time, but no decision is going to be unanimous across an entire nation. Also, a lot of the criticism wasn’t really based on the Taliban being in the right, but more in regards of dealing with the country after deposing the only political group capable of some type of national organization.
If 9/11 happened to any other major country at the time, including Russia and China, I doubt the outcome would have been something less than a war. Maybe the war might not have a stated goal of toppling the Taliban outright, but there would have been military action in Afghanistan to address al-Qaeda.
The Taliban were negotiating on behalf of some who launched such a large attack that it could have been considered to be an act of war, and even then were proposing methods that would allow bin Laden to escape and were outside international norms for handling criminals.
And the attempted capture of bin Laden was a failure, but we are looking back on what happened. The actual successful capture of bin Laden involved the breaching of sovereignty of a nuclear power to attack him in a night operation. Pakistan wasn’t even given the option to negotiate.
Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now
As others said, with as w/ was around as part of secretarial shorthand, which got taught to most people keeping corporate documentation and it stuck.
There are a lot of abbreviations like that in the English language that came from abbreviations in written form due to the media in was written in, whether it was newspapers, telegraph, handwritten shorthand, or computer based. It may not make sense because English isn’t a language designed to make sense; it isn’t even designed.
If domes are built, I don’t see then being built like those we typically see on Earth. Instead, I expect there to be layers of pressure sealing to prevent the escape of air. If you are going to put in several layers anyway, why not make the dome structure habitable.
Kind of. The problem with Chinese terms is that they are very long term. There is also no form of technology transfer as is typical in Western contracts.
The Chinese model has some pluses to it, but there are some minuses to it as well which don’t really show themselves immediately.
And yet it is usually a condition in a lot of IMF contracts that local labor be used in the construction of local works, including being taught how to.
In contrast, China sells turn-key systems mostly designed and built by Chinese labor save for some low skill items like earthwork.
Alliance with benefits (startrek.website)
'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
Imagine if the movie "Her" (2013) was real and people could fall in love with an AI, would you be weirded out by someone if they did that and especially if it was someone you knew?
with the way AI is getting by the week,it just might be a reality
What are your favourite communities on Lemmy so far?
Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video (www.rollingstone.com)
It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.
Title (iusearchlinux.fyi)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
TIL that Geordi directed some episodes (pxscdn.com)
Better place for discussion I suppose
why is the world suddenly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group?
From what I can gather this conflict as been going on a long time and the Hamas group has existed for a while too. Why are all the news cycles suddenly focusing on this the past few weeks?
This is why Valve supports and actively pushes Linux Gaming. (youtu.be)
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Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)
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anon's roommate is autistic (sh.itjust.works)
Cedar Fair and Six Flags ARE merging (www.cleveland.com)
Richard Zimmerman becomes CEO and the majority of the company will be half and half. The new company will use FUN but will retain the Six Flags name.
Israel-Palestine war: Settler attacks on the rise in West Bank villages (www.middleeasteye.net)
(...) Ben Gvir and Smotrich leading the charge...
Disney is about to own all of Hulu (www.theverge.com)
Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu.
US freezes gun exports to Thailand and others (www.bangkokpost.com)
Thailand has been the largest market in the world by far for US-made semiautomatic firearms. From 2005 to 2022, the investigation showed, 795,000 such weapons were exported to Thailand from the United…...
Saudi Arabia set to host 2034 World Cup (bbc.in)
Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
Kenya to scrap visas for all African nationals (www.theguardian.com)
President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across continent
The true Personality of Thomas the Tank Engine (feddit.de)
https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/d6960ee4-4dac-4e90-943e-9d618349454e.png...
Disposing of a mattress is ridiculously hard. So is the wider struggle for waste sustainability (www.cbc.ca)
what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?
Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.
Who was worse, George W. Bush or Donald Trump?
Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.
Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now
On a low gravity planet, would it make more sense to build habitat domes or habitat sky-scrapers?
How the International Monetary Fund Continues to Shrink the Poorer Nations (thetricontinental.org)
What's a fact that sounds totally made up, yet is completely true? (kbin.social)
I'll start: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are 3 years older than Guns N' Roses.