Great video and also thanks for sharing your thoughts

And the head of the world’s top financial regulator, Pablo Hernández de Cos, chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, said last week “The only way to entirely prevent a bank run would be to require them to keep all of their deposits in highly liquid assets, but then you wouldn’t have banks any more”. What he means is that you would not have any banks that aim to make profits and speculate; but you could still have non-profit banks providing a public service. But, of course, that’s not on the agenda.

:biblically-accurate-west: where each of the eyes is a different burning flag

Mount Eerie/the Microphones are one of my faves.

Reposting my question from another thread: Is it even feasible to make a copy of it? It’s a ton of petabytes… but with enough organization can it be done?

Is it even feasible to make a copy of it? It's a ton of petabytes.. but with enough organization can it be done?

Huge relief, the only downside is I still have to pay taxes on all earned income unless I give up citizenship 🤔 but that complicates seeing family

Happy day for me because today I gained permanent residency outside the US, never moving back :chicken-bop:

Honestly my job is a dead end for improving programming skills, I seriously wonder if I won't be competitive when I want to switch jobs because this job gave me no nonproprietary experience

Depending how far down the rabbit hole you wanna go, you could use an ad blocking DNS server like Adguard or NextDNS

I'm attempting to follow along in the book to keep up with Radhika's series, but let's see how long I last. One thing I noticed when reading the introduction is that the book is dedicated to Alan:

For Alan, my partner in love and politics and to new generations of socialists and communists worldwide, who face tasks made immense by the failures and mistakes of the past

Specifically Alan Freeman. I think it's the same Alan Freeman whose name shows up on Andrew Kliman's temporal single system interpretation of Marx.. small world among Marx scholars!

The fastest bank run since SVB :kelly:

These are high speed trains too, which I have no idea if Ukraine's rail is even equipped for. Plus I think these trains are jointly owned by Finnish and Russian private companies, from back when Russia and Finland were more friendly and trying to integrate around the mid 2000's.

Ukraine asked Finland's state rail company if they can have the 4 Allegro trains that used to run service between Helsinki and St. Petersburg. It'd be darkly funny if this was agreed and then the trains were destroyed the moment they land in Ukraine

So if neoliberalism does not win in Russia and they move their economy more towards a Soviet command economy. Is this a win because the material conditions will be ripe for a transition to socialism? Or will it be a farce because the Russian state is not a dictatorship of the proletariat?

:stuff:

Living abroad, sometimes I wonder if important letters like jury summons just show up at my last address and I never know about them. Oh well.

Another software engineer/consultant (these seem to be overrepresented on Hexbear), but I also ended up in a position where I'm busting my ass all the time too. It's relative of course because I can still find time to post. The work comes in waves, basically I'm just given a mountain of huge deadlines 5-10 months out, and every moment I spend not doing it is shooting myself in the foot. If I work harder then I get more work as a reward. But again it's relative, my days are usually 9-10 hours 5-6 days a week.

Does my job help people? I'm not sure, I guess so, a few million people would start to be affected by various services going down if I didn't help build/maintain them. But it's very indirect. I don't ever see who I've helped, except for early in my career when I got to visit a location and talk to end users.

In the Bryansk region, several people were taken hostage in a store - RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti. In the Bryansk region, several local residents were taken hostage, a spokesman for emergency services told RIA Novosti. "Preliminarily, several people were captured in a store in the village of Lyubechan," the source said.

The Center for Public Relations of the FSB confirmed that in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region "measures are being taken to destroy armed Ukrainian nationalists who have violated the state border." The operation is being carried out jointly with the forces of the Ministry of Defense.

Earlier today, the governor of the region, Oleksandr Bogomaz , said that Ukrainian saboteurs had infiltrated the village of Lubechane . They fired at the car, killing a local resident and wounding a child. In addition, in the village of Sushany, which is also located in the Klimovsky district, a residential building caught fire from a shell dropped from a Ukrainian drone. On February 3, the authorities of the Bryansk region extended the yellow level of terrorist danger until further notice. It implies an enhanced mode of operation of the special services, citizens are advised to be vigilant and assist the security forces.

Software development. I went to school for computer science but my actual job is not that much programming, more consulting. I wish it was programming only because I don't really enjoy the consulting aspect. And yet the programming I do is dead simple and non transferrable, so that's going to be fun when I want to change jobs to something more technical. I've fallen very behind on current technologies or even sharpening my skills.