Every accusation is a confession.

BI has a history of praising the various Nazi tactics used in this war.

The ghost of my lai strikes again.

EU politicians: we have to protect our legally heavily subsidized auto industry from illegally subsidized foreign auto industry!

The heavily subsidized EU auto industry: we have to close EV factories because nobody is buying our EVs.

What We Do In the Shadows (2014)

There just aren’t competing colonial or imperial powers anymore. WWII and the agreements between the western powers directly afterwards set the stage for one imperialist power and many vassals. While non-US western countries certainly have their neocolonies and partipate in empire, they have no means with which to stand on their own as imperialist powers.

I think we are already starting to see what a multipolar world looks like: cross border cooperation to improve everyone’s material conditions.

AFAIK Twitter started flagging every .cn link as “Chinese state media” a few years ago already. Could be the same with .ru and .ir.

Are we on the Call of Duty timeline?

Basically simultaneously to his cheating scandal which led to his resignation as CIA director, the 2012 CoD released which portrayed him as being the Secretary of Defense in 2025.

It seemed hilarious then but it’s not so crazy now.

Just need an aircraft carrier called the Obama and we’re set.

It’s only a problem in capitalist societies, where exponential growth for the altar of capital is a requirement.

I wonder what those measures are. The article only says that thirteen were announced, but not their substance.

I host my own with Pihole and Unbound (which I would recommend if you have the technical expertise). Adguard gives you similar functionality on a hosted service (ie. you don’t have to set it up yourself).

In terms of which public servers are good, or at least censorship free, I just checked Google, Cloudflare, and Quad9 and they all resolved RT and Sputnik, sites censored by the EU. I’m located in the EU.

They start at $500 and go up from there. Now that I actually calculate it and don’t just do sleepy mental math it’s closer to the cost of one meal a day for a year (ca. $650) rather than all three meals (ca. $2000). Either way, the prices are completely absurd.

Not sure where you are, but EU blocks are just at the DNS level. Change your DNS to one that doesn’t bother with following EU’s silly virtue signaling website bans and you’re set.

At $1.80 per meal you could either eat for an entire year, or buy one Balenciaga t-shirt.

Idk about you lot but I know what I’m choosing.

It would be one of those “this is a conspiracy theory spread by Russian and Iranian troll farms” pages.

I would recommend starting by figuring out why you personally would use a VPN. What specific threats are you facing? What can a VPN help you mitigate? The marketing (“makes you private online”) is mostly nonsense, you just move your implicit trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. For example, when you’re going things online your local government doesn’t like, a VPN may not mitigate that risk.

Soyuz first flew humans to space in 1967. It’s still doing so today, with some revisions in the meantime but fundamentally it’s the same system. It’s still the cheapest way to space.

Meanwhile the US had to end the space shuttle program for cost and safety reasons, and has only found a way back with SpaceCIA. The shuttle would have been a better system if the military hadn’t gotten involved, but capitalists can’t separate science from the interests of capital.

I like the term the Russians use, golden billion, for how clear and to the point it is, but I’m not going to argue that “global south” is incorrect just because of the DPRK.

Unfortunately westoids call it a “conspiracy theory,” because it’s apparently not clear that the west lives off the blood, sweat, and tears of the global south.

The golden billion (Russian: золотой миллиард, romanized: zolotoy milliard) theory is a conspiracy theory that a cabal of global elites are pulling strings to amass wealth for the world’s richest billion people at the expense of the rest of humanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_billion

The whole Wikipedia page on it is hilarious. They quote a neofascist economist to “prove” that resource scarcity isn’t an issue, and sourcelessly claim that colonialism/imperialism isn’t a thing.

To paraphrase, the Russians were dangerously close to being in, Germany was threateningly up, and the US needed to reestablish the post-war Atlanticist pecking order to make their position on top clear.

Ironically the US could learn half or more of what they need spies to find out if they just made scientific cooperation between the two countries legal and stopped witch-hunting scientists with Chinese and other Asian heritage.