Well, I'm with you on Putin can go get fucked. But I think you're misinformed on the "petrodollar empowering Putin".

The dominance of the US dollar as the currency for settlement of international crude oil contracts advantages predominantly the US and secondarily countries with strong currencies in open exchange with the USD. It disadvantages weaker currencies and those with poorer trade terms with the US such as Venezuela and Russia now the latter has been cut off from the western banking system.

Putin being forced to trade his crude in non dollar denominated contracts is one of the (several) reasons the sale price of muscovy crude is now significantly lower than the equivalent from other countries. (TL;DR the sanctions are working).

China has long been lobbying unsuccessfully to break the petrodollar/USD as world reserve currency and failed so far.

The major US banks are just agents of a (very successful) US foreign policy post WW2. They are indeed evil, but not for this reason

Well I came to say "takes one to know one" but bigger threat than Russia and NK is a big call.

This post crashes me if I scroll down

Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. "You did what ?"

Article 7 suspends their voting rights. Requires unanimity of all other EU members.

It's the closest EU charter allows to evicting a member state. It effectively suspends the state's membership.

Quite frankly the should have. Orban is a blatantly corrupt Putin lapdog who has been siphoning EU funds for years into his own pocket and that of his cronies.

[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 27 points 10 months ago

So just like android ?

[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 22 points 10 months ago

Clearly states in article owners can't delete data collected

[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 27 points 11 months ago

You mean the same guy who has already been sued by Trump in the US over this dossier and won ? That "clout chaser" ? The former head of MI6 russian desk who is widely respected ?

If he says trump had a golden shower in russia then he probably has proof. Might want to check that he actually said that though (as opposed to speculation by third parties)

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn't grabbed a red rag and isn't off to foment revolution

[-] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unlikely. Car manufacturers don't particularly care how you're going to charge it. That's a you problem not a them problem.

They're resisting because Oz has been a place they can dump polluting cars that are cheap to make. The big markets like EU and California have mandated EVs, if they can delay the cutoff here it buys them time to do the ramp ups they should have been doing for a decade.

Toyota in particular is the worst culprit, they spent a lot of money in the US trying to prevent ICE being banned, because they bet on hydrogen and lost, now they're doing exactly the same delay tactics here.

Not everyone on the internet lives in western countries with 1gb fibre connections, hell remote parts of the US are still stuck on very slow ADSL if they don't have access to starlink.

Your seeder may be in ButtFucke WY or could be in a little village in Phillipines or Nigeria

I installed both Jerboa and Liftoff and ended up on Sync.

I run Linux and 99% foss software on PC and same on phone.

Sync was the only android client I tried that was usable. The keyboard bug in jerboa was maddening

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