[-] xerxes@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

No, it's not because of that. It's because he was legit a bad cto. No one at the company liked him.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 9 points 2 hours ago

Seems the attacker had family members recently killed by Israel https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2032204336244171027

Unfortunate we have to face local blowback for a war no one but Israel wanted in a region that has nothing to do with us.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago

Are you sure about that? I couldn't find any sources stating that the US has formally been reduced to tier 3.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 12 points 23 hours ago

Something definitely broken in Fetterman's brain https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2026748211914813850

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 12 points 23 hours ago

Crazy how much of the world suffers because of the desires of one tiny county of 9 million. Would we really be doing any of this if not for Israel?

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

It turns out "idiocracy" is actually a documentary.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago

I've lived in both and while the similarities are there, it's a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For those of you not old enough to remember, this ("finish the job") was famously the same mantra used for the Gulf War when George Bush Sr didn't go after Saddam Hussain.

Well, his son took it to heart and went after Saddam a decade later in what is now universally seen as one of the stupidest wars the US every carried out.

It's like these people learn nothing from history.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Except a lot less fun. That one at least had cool lights, cool buildings, and flying cars. We got rotting infrastructure and Teslas.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don't see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Nice, so Pete gonna put a bag on his head or what?

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 25 points 1 day ago

Death and destruction from the sky all day long

  • Pete Hegseth

Someone who uses such psychotic language would not have cared what the probe found, I assure you.

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