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16th August 2021, 13:06 | #42761 |
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And it's Trump's fault apparently...
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16th August 2021, 13:36 | #42762 | |
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First result. BBC story about US and Taliban sign deal to end 18 year war. "The US and Nato allies have agreed to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal." Sure Biden could have reversed things but was probably in a catch 22. Not end it, and Trump will look better because he was able to create peace. End it and... well we can all see what happens [quote]He said US troops had been killing terrorists in Afghanistan "by the thousands" and now it was "time for someone else to do that work and it will be the Taliban and it could be surrounding countries". "I really believe the Taliban wants to do something to show we're not all wasting time," Mr Trump added. "If bad things happen, we'll go back with a force like no-one's ever seen." [\quote] But the Taliban are good and want to help. So does Jun Un, so does Putin... It rather an interesting article to read in hindsight |
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16th August 2021, 16:14 | #42764 |
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I don't think Biden gets a lot of say in the decisions he gets to make.
And really, it's the inevitable outcome. It's not by accident the Taliban have re-established themselves virtually overnight. They were already well entrenched in the civil service and armed forces. The US had a chance for meaningful change and they didn't take it. It's not like Afghanistan is the only place in the world it's horrifying for vulnerable people to live. Given the spotlight on the region, it may even be comparatively benign. It's Pakistan, not the Taliban that are going to be filling the real power vacuum in the region, assuming no one else steps in.
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16th August 2021, 16:17 | #42765 |
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Ab - any chance of these political posts being moved (even if to their own thread if not the Random Politics one) into the Politics forum?
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16th August 2021, 19:01 | #42766 |
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Needs a new thread.
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16th August 2021, 21:16 | #42767 |
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Yeah, will do.
In other news, this is some handmaid‘s tale season one shit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ing-i-achieved |
16th August 2021, 22:56 | #42768 |
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Desperate scenes at Kabul Airport now. Perimeter security has totally collapsed and people are swarming over the runway. Apache helicopters being used to try and clear people away with their rotor downwash. Going to be difficult to get many more planes in or out.
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19th August 2021, 17:35 | #42769 | |
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Not that I need to, gotta get around to making my own sausages.
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20th August 2021, 11:54 | #42770 |
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Onlyfans is banning nudity and sexual content, which won’t affect the service at all
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20th August 2021, 13:47 | #42771 |
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Huh. I thought that WAS their service.
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20th August 2021, 15:15 | #42772 |
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Way to screw with people's income during a pandemic.
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20th August 2021, 16:11 | #42773 |
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Count me into the group that assumed they were basically Patreon for xxx content.
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20th August 2021, 16:52 | #42774 |
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Another bulletpoint in the essay "if your service and business model depend on a bank in Jesusland, you could get shut down at any moment because morality".
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20th August 2021, 18:33 | #42775 |
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OF is basically saying it's a soft porn platform now, right? Which I guess means many are scrambling to fill the hard porn niche OF has opened.
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20th August 2021, 20:16 | #42776 |
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OF has always been super dodgy, founder in trouble for money laundering, tax evasion, all the usuals.
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21st August 2021, 16:15 | #42777 | |
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Matt Zeller, April 2021:
United States of Al: a comedy that brings home the deadly dilemma faced by Afghan interpreters Quote:
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22nd August 2021, 21:56 | #42778 |
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https://twitter.com/malangkhostay/st...733660672?s=21
What's this? just a Taliban soldier posting memes and vids on twitter.
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23rd August 2021, 17:39 | #42779 |
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24th August 2021, 20:55 | #42780 |
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Teslabot: Elon has gone full evil overlord, only needs a white cat.
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25th August 2021, 06:41 | #42781 |
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He put on a fucking suit and punched Jagger.
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25th August 2021, 10:38 | #42782 |
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RIP Charlie.
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25th August 2021, 15:44 | #42783 |
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RIP Chalie.
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Widespread internet outages affect users across NZ
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7th September 2021, 01:37 | #42785 |
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When a ddos triggers an accidental internet kill switch?
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7th September 2021, 12:38 | #42786 |
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7th September 2021, 16:15 | #42787 |
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Hopefully the boss of the poor bugger that did goes easy. I mean it’s a ddos attack and they stopped it right?
I know if im messing with firewall rules I’ll add a dummy entry first to make sure it doesn’t apply to all traffic (eg log to null and watch its counters) but that’d be no good if the ddos is random data without a way to compare real to bogus
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9th September 2021, 16:40 | #42788 |
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14th September 2021, 13:17 | #42789 |
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Isnt it disappointing when you go digging around the net to try and find out the names of the people who have had name suppression.
Only to find out you've never heard of them and its really not interesting. Is it against name suppression to try and look to see who it was? or only to mention who it was? |
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14th September 2021, 18:02 | #42791 |
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The revolution will be soft-scripted
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15th September 2021, 10:03 | #42792 |
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Huge problems unfolding in the Chinese property sector with one of its largest developers, Evergrande, now unable to meet its US$300 billion debt obligations and effectively insolvent. Depending on the government's appetite for a bailout, it could be a nothingburger or the catalyst for another financial crisis.
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15th September 2021, 11:29 | #42793 |
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Is this one of those "When you owe $3 million, you have a problem. When you owe $300 Billion, the world's economy has a problem" sort of things?
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15th September 2021, 11:53 | #42794 |
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It’s definitely a big deal for China. Whether it has a destabilising effect on the economies of other countries remains to be seen.
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15th September 2021, 14:44 | #42796 |
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RIP Norm Macdonald. Loved that guy.
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15th September 2021, 19:13 | #42797 |
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China is fckd
https://youtu.be/RpwtZLzDM_o No, China won’t lead the world https://youtube.com/c/serpentza - more on the subject.
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15th September 2021, 21:40 | #42798 |
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Well, maybe "fucked" like the world was during the GFC. You'll note we're all still here doing our thing.
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15th September 2021, 22:42 | #42799 | |
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18th September 2021, 14:03 | #42800 |
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Told someone over the phone yesterday that I splashed out and got some BurgerFuel for lunch. I was quickly reminded that the person I was speaking with was from Auckland and still in lock down after I justified the $20 cost of burger+chips+drink with how good a burger it was.
Oops
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