The biggest non-tech problem, is just the overwhelming amount of notifications.

Is there anything users could do to help mitigate this? I think the recommendation for reporting bugs is to use the GitHub page. But for other issues?

Maybe a numbering system would help: so if a user tagged a dev, they start with a 1 for urgent, 2 for neutral(?), or 3 for ‘ignore if you’re busy’. There will be a problem of some users overemohasising their issue but it still might save time/attention overall as most users will likely respect such a system.

Or maybe a novel use of a dev community, which would allow the user base to help determine which issues are noteworthy?

Now the front page of Lemmygrad, maybe.

True that!

It needs thinking about. To be able to respond to whatever is coming next. There are just so many variables so a big part of it will always sound like a fantasy! The best we can hope for is working out a range of scenarios and hoping for the best.

At this rate, climate change might do for the western world before a revolution. The temperature on land and in the ocean, fires everywhere. Ice caps are melting so fast this year that the last time we saw this little ice was over 7 million years ago, according to Xitter (I believe the X is pronounced in the Chinese way, like the X in Xi).

Whatever the imperialists have up their sleeves better not involve logistics because their chances of pulling it off are dwindling by the day. Not that this is anything to be pleased about in general.

Maybe in a negative sense? Like not nuking anywhere. I can’t see acceptance being much more than that. I’m hoping that with the time and space that BRICS provides by dedollarising, the western left gets it’s act together and prevents the imperialists from causing too much damage. Got to remain optimistic, however dire it looks.

The thing with the US is that we know the people behind the scenes don’t gaf who wins or how long it takes so long as they can sell as many arms as possible in this war and the next one.

But if the generals agreed, that wars don’t need to be won, there are better ways of wasting weapons shooting at nothing. And if the politicians agreed, they would still have to try to or give the appearance of winning if they want to be voted in again. (Of course, voter-gullibility is reliable to some extent.) If the public agreed, they wouldn’t get so emotional about Darth Potter and the Infinity Avenger.

There are glaring contradictions in the west’s war plans. The public, the arms dealers, the military, the politicians, the fossil execs, etc, all have different interests (some slightly different, some very different). But nobody doesn’t want victory/almost everyone would be happy with victory.

They might laugh when they lose and still make a killing in profit. But I wouldn’t say they set out to lose. At the same time, the exceptionalism runs deep and they massively overestimate their abilities. Every time, even when they have the advantage.

I’m rambling now and no longer sure what I was trying to say. Maybe just that the western military model is riddled with contradictions, which they’ve managed to keep at bay for a long time. But facing Russia in Ukraine may be too much to deal with.

If this plays out, it will be interesting to see how reactionaries talk about NATO annexation after reducing Russia’s motive to a land grab. I say interesting. What I mean is, it’ll never come up unless an anti-Imperialist brings it up. And then they’ll misuse a logical fallacy to avoid admitting that NATO is a fuck.

Friendly-fire ratio’d

Let’s hope the solution isn’t Kissingerian.

I saw that post about Algeria offering $1.5bn to underpin the BRICS bank and couldn’t help but think what they could’ve done with Qaddafi’s support, too. Murdered just before his dream would come true? Or will the US put a stop to this latest effort?

I don’t see how it’s possible, this time. It’s easy to isolate e.g. Nkrumah or Qaddafi, but when 30%+ of global GDP has a public end united plan to de-dollarise…

I think we’re not far off finding out just how delusional are the US imperialists. It’s now or never for them. Are they willing to gamble all life on earth for a chance at a few more decades of capitalism? Or will they accept that this is the start of their undoing and there’s no coming back?

:chef’s kiss:

A new study links anonymous posts on “4chan for economists” to IP addresses at Harvard, Yale, and other top schools.

Imagine that. The people who get into these top schools aren’t bright enough to realise that things you say on the internet can be traced back to you even if you call yourself whitebob4694227.

Bidet sovereignty. Don’t go to economic war unless you can be sure your people can still clean their bottoms.

It’s the same with everything. Look at this: China built more 5G base stations in 3 months than US did in 2 years. Staggering. The PRC puts it’s mind to something and there’s nothing that will get in it’s way. The may be delays. There may be hiccups. But the progress gets made.

We can’t even provide 3G in some places in my country and it’s supposed to be a ‘developed’ one.

The sheer arrogance it takes to call anyone else aggressive after starting a brutal war that lasted for two decades is just… why do we even bother using words any more?

And you know you can actually develop a partnership with China.

The arrogance didn’t stop the, apparently:

While the 27-nation EU wanted the summit to foocus on new economic initiatives and closer cooperation to stave off surging Chinese influence in the region, several leaders of the 33-nation Community of Latin American and Caribbean States brought century-old recriminations over colonialism and slavery to the table.

It wouldn’t have led to a massively destructive war, for a start.

but Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it.

I can’t go into a Pizza Hut without being upsold garlic bread. Of course Russia pressured Ukraine to accept deals in it’s favour.

Do you think Russia was the only one putting pressure on Ukraine to sign an agreement? Forget about all the rest of it for a minute: do you really think the US and EU abstain from making any attempts to ‘encourage’ others to sign their agreements?

The NATO alliance turned prosperous Libya to rubble for the mere suggestion that it would start trading in is own currency.

(PS Don’t worry everyone, I don’t really go to pizza hut! The local pizza place has compromising photos of me and the one that pizza hut has of me shitting on a certain famous portrait just doesn’t scare me as much. Release it, I tell them, you can’t scare me into buying a salad bowl.)

It’s a teaser for the fans.

That would do the trick.