What I’m saying is they swapped apartheid for a lot of racism and racially backed violence. Check out this Wikipedia article:

A Gauteng government official, Velaphi Khumalo, stated on Facebook “White people in South Africa deserve to be hacked and killed like Jews. [You] have the same venom. Look at Palestine. [You] must be [burnt] alive and skinned and your [offspring] used as garden fertiliser”. A complaint was lodged at the Human Rights Commission, and a charge of crimen injuria was laid at the Equality Court. In October 2018, he was found guilty of hate speech by the court, for which he was ordered to issue an apology.

And:

After 76-year-old white professor Cobus Naude was murdered in 2018, black senior SANDF officer Major M.V. Mohlala posted a comment on Facebook in reaction to Naude’s murder, stating “It is your turn now, white people… [he] should have had his eyes and tongue cut out so that the faces of his attackers would be the last thing he sees”

These are prominent community members calling for overt violence against the white minority, and they merely get a slap on the wrist.

It’s not just white minorities:

In 2015, Phumlani Mfeka, a KwaZulu-Natal businessman and the spokesman for the radical Mazibuye African Forum, tweeted “A good Indian is a dead Indian”. He published a letter in the city press claiming that South Africans of Indian origin have no right to citizenship or property in South Africa. Mfeka also claimed there is a “ticking time bomb of a deadly confrontation” between Africans and Indians in KwaZulu-Natal. The South African court barred him from making anti-Indian remarks in November 2015.

There’s also racism directly against Jewish people:

In 2009, South Africa’s deputy foreign minister, Fatima Hajaig, claimed that “Jewish money controls America and most Western countries.” Her comments prompted criticism by Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and a reported “dressing down” by President Kgalema Motlanthe.>She subsequently apologized on two occasions for her remarks.

In 2013, ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman claimed 98% of land and property owners in Cape Town are “white” and “Jewish.” The allegation turned out to be false.

So I really don’t trust a country’s statements on racism when there’s such systemic racism throughout the community and government. They are hardly an authority and certainly don’t have the moral high ground.

I’ll instead trust disinterested parties’ opinions on the matter, along with the relevant facts.

That’s incredibly dumb.

Either that or posturing. South Africa has its fair share of skeletons in its closet.

To be fair, we kind of beat ourselves. It turns out napalming huge swaths of a country and it’s neighbors doesn’t really sell the locals on the idea that you’re the good guys…

Well yeah, once you seize the means of production, you need to protect the stewards.

I never said he did. His motivations are his name being remembered. That’s it. So he needs to make a big impact, whether good or bad. That’s a legacy.

To some extent, sure. My point is that we all make decisions at some point where we become independent of our parents. We may reach similar conclusions, but we are responsible for the ideologies we choose to align ourselves with.

If Musk is a Nazi, it’s because of choices he made more than how he was raised. He bears that responsibility.

Yeah, he wants to be remembered. That’s pretty much what all narcissists want. Basically, he wants to be the one that made America even more wealthy or whatever.

Yeah, many people have asked, but nothing yet. Not sure why it hasn’t happened yet.

I don’t see one for my instance.

That’s not donating to my instance though, it’s just donating to the devs. Not quite the same thing.

Wish I could, but I haven’t found a way to do that. I guess the admin is working on it?

Yes, that’s the pain in the short-term. It’s still unclear how long it’ll take for the economy to recover, hence the uncertainty over the long-term.

This is amazing, thanks for your service in righting this wrong. You might consider selling those magnets for fixing HDD issues as well, since that’s where the nanobots will be going to first.

BTW, don’t worry about the username, this person’s legit.

? Honestly, most of the blue collar and “tech bros” in my area probably voted for Trump already, because I’m in a very red state. I’m not really sure what you were going for there.

Milei seems to at least be fixing inflation. It’s already down to 117% from nearly 300% in April. He has been in office just over a year and reversed a very troubling inflationary trend.

Time will tell if he’s a positive influence for Argentina long-term. The changes have certainly been painful in the short-term, but if lower inflation leads to higher investment and growth, it could fix some of the worst of the economic problems.

Currently 117%. It’s still terrible, but definitely on a steep downward trend, since it was almost 300% in April.

The most nefarious nano bots look like Cheeto dust. They work their way into the wires and replace the electrons, so cleaning them out won’t help. They can’t survive the DC to AC conversion (yet), so fortunately the problem is limited to your PC and any accessories, so just destroy those and you’re good.

To add to this, you should practice good security elsewhere as well:

• host everything in containers, and only let them access what they need
• manage TLS behind your firewall, so a vulnerability doesn’t expose packets for other services
• run your containers with minimal privileges (look into podman, for example), so they’ll be limited if they escape the container
• use a strong root password (or no root), and put passwords on any SSH keys you use there (e.g. for git repos, accessing other servers, etc)

Once you expose something inside your network, you need to ramp up security.

Where did you get bullying from?

I’m just saying people in “smart” fields think they’re smarter than they are, and other people don’t realize how smart they are. At the end of the day, I think most people who take time to excel in some craft are probably about the same level of intelligence, whether that’s writing code, fixing machines, or trading securities.

I do well in my field (I’m a sr. software engineer and lead a team), and I’m passionate about finance (can speak confidently with most finance types), but I’m no smarter than my mechanic. We just picked different fields where we juggle different balls in our 9-5.