I want to be clear here, I am simply answering your question about why people think Maduro was a dictator. I'm sure there are counterpoints. Though ruling by decree is a notable feature of dictatorships, and knowing no more about it, it seems odd that a decree was needed if he was already ruling.
On a side note as my comments may come across as supportive of the actions of the US, if we were going to have a world police there is no way I'd want the US involved.
Yeah but even in the US, polls had Trump getting more than 16% of the vote.
And there were watchers polling people about who they voted for as they left voting booths, and the results showed the main opposition candidate winning by a landslide. Plus the whole thing where the Manduro government said he won by a close margin but didn't release tabulated results so it was just "trust me, I won".
Just reading though the Wikipedia page, he ruled by decree for a while, then ran elections that had results very different from the results of polls prior to the election.
You are right that elections were watched internationally but the conclusion was that the 2024 result was almost certainly won by the opposition. Manduro's government announced he had won without even providing any tallys.
Academics, news outlets and the opposition provided strong evidence showing that González won the election by a wide margin[391][392][393] with the opposition releasing copies of official tally sheets collected by poll watchers from a majority of polling centers showing a landslide victory for González.[387][394][395] The government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) announced[396] possibly falsified[397][398] results claiming a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July; vote tallies were not provided.[399] The Carter Center was unable to verify the CNE's results, asserting the election failed to meet international democratic election standards.[400] The CNE's results were rejected by the OAS,[387] and the United Nations declared that there was "no precedent in contemporary democratic elections" for announcing a winner without providing tabulated results.[401] Analyses by media sources found the CNE results statistically improbable and lacking in credibility.[402][403][397] Parallel vote tabulation confirmed the win by González.[404][405][406] Political scientist Steven Levitsky called the official results "one of the most egregious electoral frauds in modern Latin American history".[407]
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Hat was attacked maliciously and unprovoked by a gang of babies in Westown Park. When that many babies get together, they can be like piranha!
Oh I've never got close to needing a tourniquet, but it seems like there is a line somewhere in the middle that looks like it's probably ok but should actually be seen by a professional.
I’ve done multiple first aid courses over my life. There was nothing (that I remember) about how deep of a cut requires a visit to the emergency room. Every course started with the assumption that someone was in need of immediate assistance, but comments here imply an emergency room visit is needed for bad cuts even if it's not immediately life threatening.
I've done multiple first aid courses over my life. I've learnt CPR, abdominal thrusts, and even did an outdoor first aid course where they taught us how to keep people alive when help was 24 hours away. I've been taught how to dress wounds, but the assumption for all of these was that someone is in imminent need of help. There was nothing (that I remember) about how deep of a cut requires a visit to the emergency room.
Though you raise a good point, the last course I did was 15 years ago, I should probably do a refresher.
Going to the ER is free for me in terms of money, but I have better ways to spend my time.
I'm not in the US, but I'm also not sure when in my life I should have been taught when to seek help.
In her defence, I have no idea when I should go to the ER. I am pretty clumsy and do a lot of cooking, so am forever stabbing myself.
I often wonder to myself at what point I would need assistance.
So far no one has mentioned this, but typically images or other uploads only exist on the original server. When lemm.ee went down, all the content those users uploaded was lost.
The text content of posts and comments is copied across all the linked servers, but the images aren't. Some instances will proxy images from a short term cache, but it's far too expensive to store the images permanently.
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I also don't understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.
This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to "Turn off the computers in this house".
I heard it, thought well that's a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.
Me a little while later, "why is shit broken? What's happening!"
Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.
I've since revoked that access.
I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.
I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.
Was it in NZ or is this really common? Here's the one I know: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531909/himatjit-kahlon-convicted-of-manslaughter-after-giving-meth-laced-beer-to-employee-aiden-sagala