Skiluros

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[–] Skiluros 5 points 9 hours ago

I don't have any experience with Piefed, but it does seem they have a migrate community option, albeit historical posts are only viewable with a Piefed account.

[–] Skiluros 1 points 12 hours ago

Is there some truth to what Tesla responded with? Very likely.

Where is the proof? Why didn't Tesla sue Reuters if they are lying?

Factually speaking, it was considered not true, but he also didn’t fight it as they were threatening the existence of the company at a very difficult time so he settled with the SEC.

Conspiracy theory bullshit. Where is the proof?

I bring it up because it’s the same new manufacturing process as the 25k car. It’s a wholly new way to manufacture cars

Where is the proof other than corporate PR? Send me a BOM analysis based on current estimates (with details) and other relevant financial details. This is not a big ask, there are solid BOM analyses for many "leading edge" hardware products (I've done professional work on this, so I would know).

The point I am making is that I am not buying your "judicial roleplay" (pretending that this is a court of law with all the theatrics about the nature of proving something). Not to mention it's pretty sophomoric of you to assume that unless a (US!) court rules on something, then we have to immediately defer to corporate PR copytext and we cannot make any analysis beyond that.

I've lived in the US. I know how badly Americans reflexively react to someone not buying into their local assumptions. So in a sense I understand you.

But that doesn't mean I am going to buy into your bullshit.

[–] Skiluros 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks to the lemm.ee team.

Sad to see the instance go down. Lots of good communities go down.

[–] Skiluros 2 points 1 day ago

One other option beyond BDS (and not involving an invasion) would be countries removing diplomatic recognition of Israel and expelling all Israeli diplomats.

This is of course easier said than done, but it's far more viable than any other alternative courses of action.

[–] Skiluros 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The "muh MSM clickbait" is just American-style intellectual laziness on your part. Where is your proof for this?

Why doesn't Musk sue them if they are lying?

So do you have insider information or not? If not, why bring up the cybercab or whatever? Are you saying you are the only one who knows about it and you're claiming that Reuters ignored this info and just want to get clicks. Where is your proof for this?

Did Musk not lie about "deal accomplished". Wasn't this even proven in some US institution (SEC if I remember correctly?)?

[–] Skiluros 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would it raise concern in the Canadian Jewish and Israeli communities?

[–] Skiluros 17 points 1 day ago

Not that Microsoft is any better (they are a criminal oligarch organization), but they are not stupid!

[–] Skiluros 7 points 1 day ago

It seems that the Israelis were killing civilians, not US mercenaries.

[–] Skiluros 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think this is all bullshit for market manipulation. "Lars" can say he has three dicks, that doesn't make it so.

Musk is a known and confirmed liar ("deal secured"), it is reasonable to assume he has a level of commitment to dishonesty, especially considering he lives in the US, where criminality and dishonesty are broadly encouraged both at an institutional level and among wider society.

You bring all this cybercab and unboxed stuff, what makes you think you are more qualified to evaluate these points than Reuters?

Are you claiming you have insider info or are you just repeating various Tesla PR copytext?

[–] Skiluros 45 points 2 days ago (11 children)

It's really too bad that Lemmy MAUs are once again on a decline curve. I was really hoping we would stabilize above 50K MAU.

[–] Skiluros 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Since the full scale invasion, the russians have threatened nuclear retaliation hundreds of times.

While we've been directly targetted not only their strategic bombers, but also their over the horizon radars (and not only ones in Crimea) that are critical for their nuclear early warning system.

[–] Skiluros 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

As I am not a lawyer and I don't support "wiggle" room judicial approaches when it comes to oligarchs (especially ones that have been caught lying in similar cases before - e.g. "funding acquired [with Saudi sovereign fund").

What may happen in a few years is IMO irrelevant. We are discussing things as they stand now. It's either cancelled or not with respect to short/medium term introduction.

As the old saying goes, in the long term, we are all dead.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37536459

Exclusive: Ukraine considers shift from dollar to euro amid geopolitical realignments

Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the U.S. dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global trade and its growing ties to Europe, Central Bank Governor Andriy Pyshnyi told Reuters.

Potential accession to the European Union, a "strengthening of the EU's role in ensuring our defense capabilities, greater volatility in global markets, and the probability of global-trade fragmentation," are forcing the central bank to review whether the euro should be the reference currency for Ukraine's hryvnia instead of the dollar, Pyshnyi said in emailed remarks.

 

A senior Russian official reiterated Russian President Vladimir Putin's insistence that negotiations with Ukraine must be based on the same uncompromising demands he made before the full-scale invasion and at the moment of Russia's greatest territorial gains, despite the fact that Ukraine has liberated a significant amount of territory since then. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko stated on December 24 that Russia is open to compromise in negotiations with Ukraine, but that Russia will strictly adhere to the conditions that it laid out during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022, when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv and throughout eastern and southern Ukraine.[1] Matviyenko added that Russia would not deviate from these conditions by "one iota."[2] The partial agreement that emerged during the Ukraine-Russia negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022 stated that Ukraine would be a permanently neutral state that could not join NATO, and imposed limitations on the Ukrainian military similar to those imposed by the Treaty of Versailles on Germany after World War I, restricting Ukraine's Armed Forces to 85,000 soldiers.[3] Russia's demands at Istanbul were mainly more detailed versions of the demands that Putin made in the months before he launched the full-scale invasion in February 2022, including Ukraine's "demilitarization" and neutrality.[4] Matviyenko is reiterating Putin's demand from his annual Direct Line televised press conference on December 19, and more senior Russian officials are likely to make similar claims to domestic and foreign audiences in coming weeks.[5] ISW continues to assess that senior Russian officials' references to conditions Putin attempted to impose on Ukraine when he believed his full-scale invasion could succeed in a few days in 2022 reflects his projected confidence that he can completely defeat Ukraine militarily despite the tremendous setbacks Ukraine has inflicted on Russian forces since then.

 

The insurgents claimed on their Military Operations Department channel on the Telegram app Thursday that they have entered Hama and are marching toward its center.

“Our forces are taking positions inside the city of Hama,” the channel quoted a local commander identified as Maj. Hassan Abdul-Ghani as saying.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said gunmen have entered parts of the city, mainly the neighborhoods of Sawaaeq and Zahiriyeh to the northwest. It added that gunmen are also on the edge of the northwestern neighborhood of Kazo.

“If Hama falls, it means that the beginning of the regime’s fall has started,” the Observatory’s chief, Rami Abdurrahman, told The Associated Press.

Hama is a major intersection point in Syria that links that country’s center with the north as well the east and the west. It is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, Assad’s seat of power. Hama province also borders the coastal province of Latakia, a main base of popular support for Assad.

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