• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I think it’s obvious that Putin has to be killed in the name of global political stability.

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      I’d rather have him tried and imprisoned at the Hague. He destroys institutions. Institutions must destroy him in the end, not guns.

      PS: and before the tankies rush in with their whataboutisms: Sinwar, Netanyahu and Dubbya should be made an example of too.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, you know what’s great for global political stability? Assassinating the heads of state of countries with massive nuclear arsenals.

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      3 months ago

      Also put Russian astroturfers on that list that have to be killed in the name of global political stability.

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    3 months ago

    Skull and crossbones patch?

    Are we sure they’re not just gravy seals who bought some military surplus and decked them out with pirate patches?

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        I mean if you’ve met some of the old boy shot callers who work with or for the CIA, yeah no they could totally pull the disguise with a wardrobe change and some fake sunburn makeup.

        Most of the actual work that goes on there is data analysis, and that means tech workers, and that means the saged guru tech workers who live out of a single family home that’s less expensive than their home lab, their backup servers, their backup backup servers in a compound in montana, the backup backup backup servers in a bunker in New Zealand, and the thoroughbred they got for their horse girl daughter because these guys are usually also complete suckers for their kids or even younger siblings if there’s a wide enough age gap, as I found out that one such guru was technically the half brother of this girl I had AP microeconomics with.

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            3 months ago

            Would you believe me if I told you my ability to tangent into subjects I know someone is interested in is part of how I got into it with my current SO?

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                3 months ago

                If you’re genuinely serious, a beginner’s server box and some CLI training will usually be enough for your average person’s storage needs, especially with a proper personal VPN connection.

                Only people who need entire racks are those aforementioned gurus because they’re working with whole computer images which can be hundreds if not thousands of gigs, and people who are trying to torrent all of known visual media in human history to create a personal free streaming service, which will almost definitely land you in a court room courtesy of your ISP ratting you out to the authorities.

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      Yeah. /s It’s the Russians…

      Wait. Is that current Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Machado meeting with war criminal George Bush in 2005, after the 2002 coup attempt ?

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        3 months ago

        Of course it’s the russians.

        сколько бы они вам ни платили, этого недостаточно.

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        3 months ago

        That literally happened before some people here were even born and before plenty were old enough to remember it.

        Maybe try an example that’s within their living memory too… if you have one?

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    One of the conspiracies around Prigozhin’s death suggested that he was alive in Margarita island in Venezuela… which makes no sense. But finding wagner’s mdrcenaries in Venezuela is kind of quaint.

    Edit: vzla to venezuela

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    Wagner Group? Weren’t they part of the anti-Putin Faction when the war with Ukraine started to go downhill?

    I would be surprised to learn they’re operating anywhere at all.