madcaesar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick googling returned all of this. Again, it’s similar to Sadam, W started an illegal war and should have been tried for war crimes, that does NOT mean I’m not happy Saddam is dead.

  Two things can be true at the same time, and pretty much any oil rich country inevitably ends up enriching a few and oppressing its populace. There’s been books written on the subject, sadly Venezuela is no different. I’m fairly certain the average Venezuela citizen gives no shits about Maduro if anything they are afraid things will get even worse since Trump is even a bigger piece of shit than him.

  Crimes against humanity allegationsInternational bodies and human rights organizations describe a pattern of state policy involving widespread attacks on civilians, which can constitute crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute.���� Key alleged acts include:Systematic persecution of political opponents and perceived critics, including arbitrary detention, torture, and enforced disappearance.����Extrajudicial killings by security forces and pro‑government armed groups (“colectivos”) during protests and security operations.�����The UN Independent International Fact‑Finding Mission on Venezuela and the ICC Prosecutor both state there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes against humanity (e.g., murder, imprisonment, torture, persecution, sexual violence) have been committed by state agents or groups acting with state authorization or support.�����Specific illegal acts reportedReports by NGOs, the UN, and foreign governments describe concrete categories of unlawful conduct attributed to Maduro‑aligned forces and institutions:�����Arbitrary or unlawful killings of protesters and bystanders during post‑election crackdowns and security operations.�����Mass arbitrary detentions, including of minors, often without warrants or due process, on vague “terrorism” or “national security” charges.����Enforced disappearances, where detainees’ whereabouts are concealed for days or longer from families and lawyers.����Torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of detainees (beatings, asphyxiation, sexual violence, food and water deprivation).�����Politically motivated prosecutions in courts lacking independence, with prolonged pre‑trial detention and denial of fair trial guarantees.�����These acts violate Venezuela’s own constitution and criminal code, as well as international human rights treaties to which Venezuela is a party (e.g., ICCPR, Convention against Torture).����Electoral and political repressionInternational and regional organizations have described the electoral environment and repression of opposition as unlawful or unconstitutional in various respects.���� Reported acts include:Disqualification, arrest, or intimidation of opposition candidates and activists to prevent effective participation in elections.���Violent repression of post‑election protests, including lethal force against demonstrators and collective punishment in low‑income areas.�����Severe restrictions on freedom of expression and the press, including harassment, prosecution, and closure or seizure of independent media outlets.����Regional human rights bodies (like the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights) characterize these practices as violations of the American Convention on Human Rights and other binding norms.��ICC investigation and international proceedingsThe International Criminal Court has opened a formal investigation (often called “Venezuela I”) into alleged crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela, focusing on repression of political opponents since at least 2014.��� Points to note:Multiple states referred Venezuela to the ICC in 2018; the Prosecutor concluded there is a reasonable basis to believe crimes against humanity occurred.���The ICC’s Pre‑Trial Chamber has authorized the continuation of the investigation, finding that domestic proceedings in Venezuela are insufficient.���Analysts now consider sealed arrest warrants against high‑level officials, potentially including Maduro, a real possibility, though any such warrants would not initially be public.���Separately, courts in other countries have pursued cases under universal jurisdiction principles, including an Argentine judge issuing warrants to secure testimony from Maduro and others regarding alleged crimes against humanity.�Narcotics trafficking conspiracy chargesIn addition to human‑rights‑related allegations, US prosecutors have charged Maduro and close associates with participating in a transnational cocaine‑trafficking conspiracy.� According to public indictments:Maduro, family members, and senior officials are accused of working with designated terrorist cartels to move large quantities of cocaine toward the United States.�The charges claim they used state power and public office to protect and facilitate trafficking, corrupting Venezuelan institutions for these purposes.�These are criminal indictments in US courts; Maduro denies the accusations and characterizes them as politically motivated, and the cases have not yet resulted in a US conviction of Maduro personally as of early 2026.���

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok buddy take it easy.

  Let’s not equivalate an innocent woman getting shot by thugs to a corrupt president getting arrested.

  The Venezuela thing is fucked up for many reasons, but that corrupt president getting fucked isn’t one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep totally fair. Again, I don’t know if behind the scenes people are just like “he’s done this shit already, nothing we can do about it, so just appease the child with some comments”

  A lot of leaders seem to be taking this route publicly while they work behind the scenes to shed themselves of Trump

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a separate issue and yes I agree, liberals aren’t saints and need to be checked, I’m just focusing on the whole Trump part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Carney is in a tough spot… Canada heavily relies on the US and just giving them the middle finger is not an option.

  I know instinctively it would feel great if he just told Trump to eat a bag of dicks, but that would be irresponsible and could spiral Canada into a depression.

  People don’t seem to understand that there are different forms of appeasement of lunatics.

  The Conservatives wanted to enthusiastically gargle Trump’s balls and move us closer to fascism.

  The liberals understand they have to be still play politics to not crash the country but are working behind the scenes to reduce dependencies.

  To the uneducated both positions look identical from the outside because neither is telling Trump to fuck off, but there are nuances here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers figured out how to run a 120-billion parameter model across four regular desktop PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what do you get with a home run LLM? How capable is it what can you use it for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA and AMD GPU Prices Projected to Surge in Q1 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Adobe is sadly the only thing that still requires windows.

  Fuck Adobe and everyone there, they were the OGs that started the subscription bullshit for software and they had such dominance no business could say no, thus no schools could say no.

  And they’ve just been buying up competition since, so no one can challenge them.

  Adobe and Oracle are the software equivalent of cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you count debunking videos as stealing, because I don’t. Some of the best videos is people debunking misinformation posted by assholes like Rogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to champion AA because every car just had that shitty apple connection.

  Now at least we have AA. But it took so long, that google went from a good company to just as evil as Apple, so we have two asshole giants to chose from.

  We need a Linux open source alternative for phones… But I’ve been told it’ll never happen because the hardware is locked down and too different to be able to run custom roms…

  I don’t know what the solution is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never pay for youtube while the downvote count is gone. Absolute anti consumer bullshit.

  I do use the add-on to bring them back, but fuck those assholes for doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you play with friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Burr was the biggest disappointment. He went from based to a total piece of shit, gas lightning his fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to use it and switched away because it’s not maintained and I had errors with recent docker cli

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many people use it makes no difference if there is no devs fixing security bugs.

  I switched to DIUN, but it doesn’t do updates only notifications. That’s why I’m excited to look at OP’s library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stopped working for me with a recent docker cli update. That’s how I even found out it’s totally abandoned.

  I’m not a big fan of running software that has access to the internet once it’s abandoned like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨selfh.st - dockcheck: A CLI Tool for Updating Container Images⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watchtower hadn’t been updated in like 3 years or something. It’s a dead project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you using n8n for?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here hoping to read some cool use cases, but so far it’s people doing notifications for services that already provide notifications…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are both psychopaths, you’d be hard pressed to find a difference.

  They both see workers as a numbers and expendable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, great result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed my point was a larger issue obviously os age verification is nonsense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I get it, but regulations are sometimes necessary.

  Banning smoking indoors for example, you might say “Just don’t go where they smoke indoors!” well yea… Except that shit was everywhere where people were congregating and all you’d do is isolate yourself…

  A lot of regulation might sound like “just don’t” but if every kid around your kid has a tablet, and there is no rule against tablets, it’s only your kid who will be an outcast.

  I’m in general against too much regulation, but like vaccines, sometimes you have to target a whole group to fight a disease. You alone staying away is not viable.

  And all of this comes before we even talk about the MASSIVE disadvantage patents have against the mega corps, from the CONSTANT ads, to the targeted manipulation, it’s not a fair fighting field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe OP’s kink is blue balls

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR The USA is the most powerful country in the world, and the world never prepared for a time when the USA would be led by a fascist asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use restic too, just said zip since more people might understand it easier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use backblaze it’s like $3 a month or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

  The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

  I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, purchased myself 2 days ago. Absolutely deserve all of the support!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood why SMS is insecure, are you saying it’s easy to intercept someone’s number? How would that even work without the SIM?