I've been using LosslessCut for a few years now. It's really easy and smooth. It does exactly what I want and what the name says, and I couldn't ask for more.
The uncensored video is here as well: https://theworldwatch.com/videos/1616102/shock-us-air-force-airman-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-israeli-palestine-war/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia/cia-fbi-computers-used-for-wikipedia-edits-idUSN1642896020070816
There are many other stories affirming the same, if you search for wikipedia cia edits, for instance.
I stopped using Reddit regularly after the APIcalypse, even though I had never used any Reddit apps (I only used it on a web browser on a desktop). I still have an account that's active there where I've only been using it to help and encourage people to move from Reddit to Lemmy and from Xitter to Mastodon.
I thought it was going to be harder than it actually was to abandon the many niche subreddits I was subscribed to there, but I just found other things to read. I will still occasionally visit Reddit, especially when it turns up on a search result with info I'm looking for, but to use it like that I don't have to even have an account.
I plan to eventually delete or scramble all my posting history from there on all my accounts, but just haven't had time to do it yet. I also haven't found a way to do what I really want, which is to replace my comments with different random text for each message, to mess as much as possible with any LLMs. In no way will I contribute any more of my comments to Reddit, except for what I said in the beginning, to help people move here, and even that I will probably delete/scramble.
Sabra hummus tasted nasty to me! If you have to buy it from the store, the best brand I've found so far is Hope. If you don't find that, my way of telling if a hummus is in any way decent is to look at the ingredients. If it doesn't have olive oil or if it includes any other oil aside from olive oil, it's no good.
I generally make my own now - like others have said, it's very easy to make. It's also much, much cheaper than store bought, like a quarter to half as much.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN made a speech to the UN General Assembly today calling Hamas Nazis. Only 1 minute 45 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tmepPKIJE
Thank you! I had had the same issue forever and this fixed it!
Sorry to hear. I prefer natural fibers, so it doesn't affect me that much.
This reminds me of these wise words:
"A person who runs in front of a car gets tired. A person who runs behind a car gets exhausted."
:)
The other source aside from tires and those beads is all the other plastics that we use. Especially when exposed to the elements, all(?) plastics eventually break down into tiny particles. This includes all synthetic fibers, by the way. I've seen studies that show how much synthetic clothes release microplastics each time we wash them.
Only if they catch you!
Haha, sounds good, but I hope not. I wouldn't quote myself. :)
You're welcome! I should caveat that I'm not well-read on theory either. :)
As for Trump, my view is that he relies heavily on instinct in most areas of his life, and his anti-war position seems to be based on a few instinctive positions he holds: he seems to dislike death and blood (ex: his Syria comments), he seems to dislike the destruction of buildings (perhaps because of his real estate background?), and he probably sees no personal profit (even though he has a business background, I don't believe he's involved in the military industrial complex) or national economic gain to be made from most wars the US has been involved in (he seems much more oriented toward national economic interest rather than geopolitical power games - see again his Syria comments).
As for inter-class conflict, I don't think that is too simple of an explanation. US foreign policy since World War II has been an ongoing battle of ideas, with push and pull between interventionists and non-interventionists. Neoconservatism is an ideology that sees the role of the US as the principal promoter of "freedom" and "democracy" around the world, making domestic economic conditions secondary to that goal. That ideology is opposed by many people across the political spectrum, so the influence of neocons on US foreign policy grows and shrinks with different administrations. If you read the wikipedia article on neoconservatism it says that many neoconservatives opposed Trump in 2016 "due to his criticism of interventionist foreign policies".
First, let me start by saying that, similar to you, I would never vote for Trump, didn't and won't vote for Biden, and am also in a state that always goes one way.
Having said all that, some things about Trump's prior actions and statements make me believe that, if the war hasn't ended by the time of the election, he would be much more likely to end the war much sooner than Biden.
Why do I say this? First, like @HarryLime said, Biden is completely bound to this war, so he's likely to drag it out as long as possible and try to maintain the illusion that Russia is losing. I suppose that there's some chance that he cuts his losses after the election.
Second, I think Trump has demonstrated multiple times that he's not into war. As far as I know, he did not start any new wars or invasions while he was in office, and in fact ended a couple of them. He withdrew from Syria and initiated the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan. On Syria, he said that there was nothing there for the US aside from "sand and death".
On Ukraine, he has specifically stated that he would end the war within 24 hours. Regardless of how ridiculous that sounds, he elaborated on what he would say to both Zelensky and Putin, and you can just tell that he doesn't like this war either.
Most of his statements about most wars that we've been involved in seem to indicate that he instinctively dislikes war and all its negative impacts. Whether he would actually be able to end it or not is another question, considering what @footfaults mentioned about the generals sabotaging his efforts to leave Afghanistan.
Finally, here's an analysis from the BBC on how a Trump presidency might change the Ukraine war.
Edit: another factor is that remember that Biden pretty much loaded his entire national security and foreign policy apparatus with neocons. In contrast, Trump had maybe a couple, with a prominent example being John Bolton, who was like a cartoon neocon. He seemed to be used more for barking than for biting. Here's what seems like a good article about this. I only skimmed it, but this caught my eye:
Far from the textbook ideal of National Security Advisor as an honest broker, Bolton acted as a policy advocate. His strong convictions and history as an arch-neoconservative who believes in America’s role to police the world and engage in military action to effect regime change in states perceived as a threat has been well-documented. A proponent of the “axis of evil” view of the world, he advocated for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well forceful regime change in Iran and North Korea.
However, such war-happiness has run antithetical to Trump’s apparent view of the scope and purpose of US foreign policy. Trump’s proclivity to transactionalism and dismissal of the notion that the US is a force for good involved in a Manichean struggle against evil. Trump has been unequivocal in the view that acting as a global policeman has been detrimental for the state coffers and has given allies and partners a free ride. While Trump has done nothing to reduce US military spending – he has actually increased it – his threshold for the use of force has been much higher than Bolton’s (albeit less consistent, as seen in the case of Syria in 2017 and 2018, in response to Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians). It should be little wonder, then, that Trump remained resistant to Bolton’s sabre-rattling.
Here's one of their explanation posts about the situation: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
All their explanations for why they're constantly down basically go back to them letting it grow much bigger than they could handle, because they decided to be the "savior" of Lemmy. Contrast that with what the largest Mastodon instances did when the Twitter migration happened, which was to close registrations and refer people back to join-mastodon to find another instance. This included the largest instance, mastodon.social, which is run by the creator of Mastodon.
Incompetence is understandable given that it's new software, the sudden influx from Reddit, plus everyone makes mistakes. The bigger problem that I see is the hubris that made them decide that they could absorb all the new Lemmy users and then not ever changing that decision even after it became clear that they had major stability problems. In their effort to "save" Lemmy, they've actually given a lot of people a terrible first impression of it. I've seen countless people complain on r/RedditAlternatives about how Lemmy sucks when the details they provide make clear that it's lemmy.world that they're complaining about.
They're pretty incompetent admins too. It seems that their instance is down more than it's up. In fact, it was down right now when I tried to open that link. I don't know why anyone stays there. Maybe they don't and those user numbers they have are nowhere near their true active numbers. In a way this sucks for Lemmy because it's the largest instance and people seem to be attracted to that kind of thing, so they get a bad first impression of Lemmy.
Awesome, you're welcome! I don't know, maybe they don't have very good search engine optimization on their site. I didn't find it through a search. I just happened to know that they carried Gateron switches, having bought a keyboard from them before.
Great game too, especially multiplayer with friends.