That first link is dead.

Murdering civilians is what Russia does.

Which side made a post stamp out of blowing up a family car with kids onboard >_>

You’re adding a zero to the total number dead, and also conflating those killed by Iran with those killed by Daesh and Israel. The larger portion is those killed by Israel/USA/Allies since they’re the ones using terrorism tactics.

You’re definitely the one being rude, come on.

Weren’t you big on freedom of navigation™, USA? Wasn’t that you?

So if Israel just said “Oh yeah no we’re totes not gonna assassinate them. Pinky promise” they would’ve handed over the list?

So the only source is billionaires in the USA and their security firm. I’d like to remind you that they are Epstein’s primary customers, and therefore have motivation to deflect from themselves.

These are the only sources

Citing intelligence sources,

Sources within US and allied intelligence communities.

This is the only corroborating evidence

documents in the Epstein case contain 1,056 references to Russia and Vladimir Putin, and 9,629 references to Moscow.

But you can look through those references and they’re largely of the variety of “Hey it’s me, your friend, USA billionaire, let’s try to deflect all our criticism onto Russia.”

Meanwhile if you instead look for references to USA billionaires, they are both more numerous by orders of magnitude and consistently incriminating. The story should be about the complicity of billionaires in the USA.

https://nitter.net/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659

It’s so obviously and unashamedly driven by the empire, so why do you give the empire’s news reporting any weight at all?

No worries at all. I absolutely don’t expect most people to pick up on it. (That’s why it’s a good dog-whistle). Even in Iran they’d just think you’re outdated. But it’s a very common thing in the diaspora who long for the monarchy when there was a hierarchy of peoples and theirs was at the top. VOA/RFA operated Iranian-language media has been very good at pushing this narrative of going ‘back to tradition’, to a time when minorities ‘weren’t stealing resources from the majority’, or ‘demanding affirmative action’, etc.

If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.

In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.

If you see someone insist on Persian, don’t listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.

I don’t think you are a Nazi, but I’m convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you’ve heard someone say “Persian, Iranian, it doesn’t matter, they mean the same thing”, and that’s at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It’s like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.

The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It’s trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.

“Farsi” is technically Iranian for “Persian”, so when translated it might seem like that’s already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that’s an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn’t use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.

You can’t even criticise the USA government while in other countries without risking being whisked off to heaven.

Can you explain how it actually works on a technical level?

The article talks a lot about changes that will encourage import from the EU, while saying India’s motivation is their reduced export volume. But it doesn’t explain how India’s exports will be bolstered. I’d go as far as to say it’s a bad article, because now I have to go find another to actually learn what the implications are.

This was designed in The Sims.

Why has it survived this long?

So how are you doing routing and names without a centralised authority?

UK and Netherlands being on that list is crazy. Did Trump forget ASML has a China-export ban? What would happen to the USA’s stock exchanges if it was swapped for a USA ban tomorrow?

Lemmy has limited federation with Bluesky and Threads. Lemmy itself isn’t being given with a non-commercial license so if any Lemmy instance grows large it’ll likely monetise and become a corporation.

I’d sooner think a distraction from Venezuela. If everyone is outraged about something that might (and then doesn’t) happen, then there’s less discourse around real crimes.

if you have any specific suggestions for better images I would be happy to replace them.

Okay. I will give this some thought.

(tags) dont exist in Lemmy itself, and the ones defined on joinlemmy are practically unmaintained.

It’s unmaintained but at least it exists. I’m sure you’d go through the effort of updating them if an instance owner asked, right? So they’re probably still close enough. You do have data to present and it’s better than nothing.

For a normal user it shouldnt be necessary to understand federation before signing up.

But then what decision are they making? Both what decision are they actually making and what decision do they think they’re making? Knowing that they can interact with all* the instances is hugely transformative to your heuristics.

Number of linked/blocked instances

Number linked is good, but blocked has the problem of confusing narrow scope and being vigilant against spam. An instance might federate with everyone* but because it’s more maintained they also block more.

Is there any other information you would like

Cloudflare is useful to know for our privacy-consonous userbase. It might be kinda technical but if there is one or two stats visible the user cares about or at least understands then I don’t think having one they don’t understand matters. They essentially don’t understand “users” and that’s the main thing presented right now.