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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

That's why for once, the press' nuke metaphors are apt.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Everyone has the US by the balls, that's what the USD being reserve currency means.

Everyone owns a lot of USD, both cash and securities, so when the US prints money, inflation hits all the world.

Dumping basically means saying "hey, I've got the entire US GDP here in cash USD, I'm selling it for 100 EUR", and watching the US go hyperinflating.

The catch is that it would crash the world economy.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

This article contains a shitton of falsehoods and omissions. The tankies were wrong.

Király was not a fascist. He served in the Royal Hungarian Army as a career soldier, joining after his father before the rise of fascism.

He did indeed serve in the invasion army of the fascistic Horthy regime as a captain, and he was indeed put in command of Jewish slave labourers, for which he received the Righteous Among the Nations accolades, as he treated them as humanely as the situation allowed, defying his orders, risking execution.

He was kept on with the Hungarian People's Army, promoted by the communist leadership multiple times. He married Gömbös' niece under Communist rule, way after it would have been politically advatageous. Despite that, he was put in command of the Hungarian participation of Stalin's planned invasion of Yugoslavia.

He fell out of favour after the invasion was cancelled and was caught up in one of Rákosi's purges, and he spent the three years after in abysmal conditions until the 56 revolution. He got out a month before because of the buildup to the revolution had some political prisoners released. He spent the next month until the revolution in hospital.

The Nagy provisional government asked him to organise the defense against the Soviet invasion, which he tried and understandably failed. He then left for the US along with hundreds of thousands, and got a job as a CIA trainer for Cuban anti-communist insurgents, which got him in the JFK files.

Then the Putin government put those files out and started a coordinated propaganda campaign to whitewash the genocide and rape the USSR committed.

BTW I'm a leftist and think the CIA is the scum of the earth on par with the SS, but let's stick to the facts.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

That should make you doubt your assessment of who the losers and winners are.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Collaboration and empathy raised us and made us dominant.

Sociopathy is a disease.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

That's what I love about my native Hungarian, even pronouns are ungendered.

Everything else is stupid complicated though. We have tonal harmony to worry about instead.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah but it seems they are being rented by people in plain clothes, as apparently several companies are already trying to refuse.

In particular one truck rental place was named that they were complaining that their trucks are not for transporting people in the cargo space.

In any case, if I rent a car where I live, and run a red light, commit a speeding offence, park illegally and get it towed, what usually happens is that the car gets treated the same way as any other car, the owning rental company gets charged and fined, and then they put on massive fees and forward the problem to me.

Why can't they just pull over the vehicle, impound it, and have everything happen like it would with anyone else?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 weeks ago

Apart from the comments being insane, I just want to mention that most countries outside the US had their exports grow in general, but the exports to the US fall.

Point is, the world is fine without the US.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The PC-12 is a turboprop, not a jet, though.

It's a leech hauler alright, but not a jet.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago

Only a handful of countries manage to produce more stuff per hour of work.

Only a handful of countries manage to produce more money per hour of work.

That's an important distinction IMO.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unsurprisingly, the site has nothing on who owns it either

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.

 

So since Google and Meta banned political ads, the Hungarian government is trying different ways to get election ads to the people, since at this point they are going to lose and very possibly prosecuted for various crimes like embezzlement and child rape.

The booming disembodied voice is saying (my comments in parentheses):

Twenty years ago at Röszke (southern border town of Hungary), something happened that we can never forget. Hordes of migrants appeared on the border, not with good intentions, not with papers, not with requests, but with stones, sticks and violence. They didn't ask for admission, they tried to break through the fence. The defenders of our country opposed them, stopped those that didn't respect our laws, borders or our homeland. We didn't retreat, we defended Hungary, but the fight has not ended. Brussels is fining us 400 million forints daily because we don't want to let aliens in. But there are those that would give in to Brussels and would let migrants in. We see where this led in Western Europe...

The recording cuts away here.

We now live in security. But only one bad choice/election (the word means both in Hungarian), and there goes our peace, and our security as well. One bad choice/election, and we will also become and immigrant country. Get to know what we could lose on "rosszvalasztas.hu" (badchoice/election.hu).

 

Leaders such as Trump and Orbán could only be effectively opposed, she said, by ditching a “legalistic, technical, technocratic approach” in favor of “something for the electorate to be excited about”.

 

Length: 1:39:20

Immigrants, populism, border fences, electoral autocracy.

If you are interested about how and why Hungary is as it is, this is a documentary just released by Partizán, the most viewed Hungarian news outlet independent from the Hungarian government.

The subtitles are not autogenerated but hand-made by the news outlet.

The outlet has a decidedly leftist slant even by European standards, but are considered mainstream in Hungary.

 

So creating a new repo on GitHub, you get a set of getting started steps. They changed the default branchname to "main" from "master" due to its connotations with slavery.

When I create a new repo now, the initial getting started steps recommend creating a branch named "master" as opposed to "main" as it was a while ago.

It's especially weird since the line git branch -M master is completely unnecessary, since git init still sets you up with a "master" branch.

Disclaimer: I have a bunch of private repos, and my default branchnames are pretty much all "master".

Is this a recent change?

Edit: Mystery solved, my default branchname is "master". Thanks bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

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