Leftists are like "I have no idea what's the difference between Mujahideen and the Taliban, and fighting against an imperialist invasion is bad"
Damn, lefties supporting US invasion of Vietnam wasn't on my bingo card. Literally the same situation.
Replying to @radioFreeMI
The Soviets were invited by the Afghan government at the time to fight the western backed jihaddis.
The Western backed Mudjahideen (read on Operation Cyclone) began attacks in mid1978 the Afghanistan government requested aid from the Soviets over a year later in Dec 1979.
Leftists by and large believe this weird conspiracy theory that we are already a sci-fi post scarcity society, but "Elites" keep it secret.
It's very silly.
This is cope. Libraries throw books out because no one is interested. They're not donated (to whom, lol), and "people pick them up" is 0.00001% of all trashed books.
Bro heard "rare books" and thought ancient knowledge. Instead it's books which no one cares to reprint or store.
Replying to @marusarumaia @PonuryAbsurd
And usually when libraries discard their books, it doesn't mean they go straight to the trash, many end up being donated. And even if they do end up in the trash, some people tend to pick them up.
People seem to not realize that most of these "Books that survived fires" are trash. Like "101 Ways to open a beer bottle, 2002", "Guide to skiing in New Zaeland, 2019", or "Fun pizza recepies, 2023".
If it wasn't trash, it would be reprinted and it wouldn't be rare.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
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This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
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Equador: Uses russian MRLS to flush out violent drug gangs
Online lefties: 😡😡😡 Damn USA!
Same about these two, for any game that has solid foundations but also some controversy - be it rough experience on launch (Victoria 3), occasional bad design (Silksong), or gamers being whiny little kids (Helldivers 2)
Top gun intensifies
Replying to @TomasDoupa39474
sutiny odstraněny. První letiště, o kterém vím, že by ho mohly zastavit dvě přesné střely s plochou dráhou letu.
Ale to není všechno. Úplně nechráněný přívod vzduchu, plus výstup výfukových plynů.
Starship má dodnes nosnost 0t na LEO. Na 8. testě nemá co kurva vybuchnout.
Jo a proč vůbec potřebují více než 8 testů před tím než vůbec cílí na splnění mise? Proč plánují selhání od začátku?
Replying to @PonuryAbsurd
Ty rakety jsou totalne rozdilny. Nosnosti,koncepci,velikosti. New Glenn ma znovupouzitelny jen prvni stupen, kdezto Super heavy i starship jsou znovupouzitelny obe. NG nosnost 45t na LEO, Starship 100+t. Space X ma stejnou raketu jako je NG od 2018, Falcon heavy 63t na LEO.
I've been seeing these "Europe gets another wake up call and does nothing!" takes. What would you like to see?
Drastic increase in defense spending? Underway.
Investment in local munitions production? Ramping up.
Should we do more? Sure. But we're not idle either.
































