quarrk [he/him] @ quarrk @hexbear.net

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It used to be as cheap as $290?! Wtf

M’yanmar

It’s the same wordplay as “made with 100% real cheese” where the 100% describes real, ie real cheese is involved somewhere in the process, but not all of the cheese in the product is real. But the average person will read it as meaning that there is no “fake” (non-dairy) cheese.

From what I can find, it’s based on the Chinese Dongfeng Nammi Box

Similar to how the Ford Explorer EV is based on Volkswagen’s MEB platform (same one as most of their EVs like the ID.3)

so calling it 100% indigenous is a bit of a stretch. However, while researching this, there was a lot of anti-AES nonsense and propaganda, so hard to say if the downplaying is more untrue than the claim of 100% indigenous. I can’t find any hard information on this vehicle at all. It’s either fluff pieces or racists saying that it’s not possible that Africans could do it on their own.

Regardless, progress for Burkina Faso is a very good thing to see

Looking into it

Competition

There’s no way lmao, either this was shopped or they updated the thumbnail

The 2D, solid and vibrant color motif of the past ~15 years was objectively a good design choice for accessibility and should not be treated as a trend that can go out of style

You might want to block out some things like the road sign. Would be not that hard for

Really? Wikipedia is usually at the top of Google searches for me

Reminder that half the country bravely fought the monarchist Whites only a century ago

NASA has been working with Lockheed Martin on the X-59 aircraft for several years, but we are still decades away from civilian supersonic flight.

I have no idea what the ideal strategy would have been.

One can always speculate, but seeing as the universe isn’t deterministic, it’s impossible to correlate failure with an incorrect strategy. Especially when the sample size is essentially 1 in this case.

Reality is, the Black Panthers were always the underdogs relative to the US Government. This is true generally for radical movements. It can fail many times because of this, maybe even just because of bad luck.

But that’s how it always is, isn’t it? A revolution doesn’t happen unless some group, usually starting from the smallest possible minority, decides to roll the dice because it only takes one success (out of many failures) to change history.

The movement would have been incorporated into mainstream liberal electoralism

Which kind of happened anyway, but alas

Good video. Do you mind putting the author’s handle in the video title or description?

The military and the police are definitely distinct with their own peculiar mentalities. It’s just not a good/bad distinction as being promoted on BS. And it’s not going to cause military personnel to disobey orders.

There are many people in the military who, although they are indoctrinated during their entire employment, don’t necessarily join specifically in order to do evil. We could debate how much that absolves them morally. But I think one has to hold a special kind of ideology before applying to join the police. On the other hand, people usually join the military for nationalistic reasons which are less compatible with turning guns on Americans. Of course with all the necessary caveats that it doesn’t take much to change that.

Overall it’s a bad idea to ever doubt the military’s ability to turn against its own people, regardless of how favorably they compare with police.

There was never a German invasion of Finland

because the Germans were welcomed in

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