Cuban participation in the war appears primarily driven by its severe economic crisis

That is from the US Department of State.

Judge the Cubans if you must, but most are likely enlisted by russian recruiters under false pretenses, or because getting shot tomorrow in someone else’s war is still better than dying of starvation today.

Ukraine is a hostage because they can’t live without US support.

Cuba is a hostage because it can’t live without outside (Russia, China, or others) assistance with the embargo in place.

It’s a big dog’s world.

In known recent ⁠corruption cases, the death sentence has been applied when sums exceeding 1 billion yuan ($147.24 million) were involved. In 2024, Li Jianping, an official in the Inner Mongolia region, was executed ⁠after being found guilty in a case involving more than 3 billion yuan.

(From Reuters, Bloomberg is paywalled).

America, any billionaires around?

I love going to the boo! Usually so peaceful and relaxing, highly recommended.

If you’re able to form healthy habits before you eventually break them, you’re not doing too bad, I’d take that as a great sign!

For me, medication helps me be more focused and keep up with things for longer.

That sounds a lot like walking a tightrope there buddy. You need someone who’ll catch you if you fall.

I was only ever addicted to nicotine, haven’t smoked in 10 years, but I know it in my gut that if I pick up a single cigarette I’ll be right back to 1 pack a day in less than a week.

Everyone’s different and some people can walk that fine line without crossing it, but the safest is to just stop, my friend.

Officer I have no idea, I was stopped waiting for the green light and the next thing I know this guy was ramming into me again and again

Tipping is not normal.

Tipping is an exception that follows exceptional service, and bringing plates to a table isn’t exceptional, it’s part of the job.

I get it that servers aren’t being paid enough to live, but look at your boss making bank with your work,.not at me, I’m not Social Security.

It’s been years now, and I still haven’t found the exit.

No sorry, we just lost old Tommy, and nobody knows if Violet survived last Friday night.

They fear the mob. We are many, they are few.

If those onlookers step out to the street and march along with them, they’ll shit their pants, because they’ve probably seen the footage, and they know what they did - and if that mob sees it, god help them.

With how popular huge SUVs seem to be, that would be a very unpopular measure. Then you also have the car manufacturer lobbies squeezing your balls if you try to pass something like that.

I’d like a middle ground where these cars have much higher insurance premiums and are heavily taxed in proportion to their space usage.

Want to drive around in a car that weighs 3x my city car, then you need to pay 3x as more.

You’d have to pick one up from a comrade that, uh, embraced pacifism? That’s grim AF.

What am I gonna cook for dinner now?!

Also, is that D4vd? Jail has been harsh on him…

Lovely conversation between you and @MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone!

I’ll add a point that maybe LLMs don’t have a “personality” or sense of self by design, and not by any inherent limitation other than that it would cause us even more ethical problems that they already do…

Sort of like a child that we’re educating, but instead of encouraging them to develop their own personality and sense of self, we’re in fact working actively to prevent that…

This is a purely theoretical exercise, from what I could understand:

[They] considered what would happen if a single photon passed through an optical shutter—essentially a very fast mirror that can be switched on and off to block part of a pulse of light. If the shutter was fast enough, it could intercept the photon mid-pulse, snipping off part of this extended wave.

They then did a bunch of calculations to simulate what would happen, but I’m wondering if such a shutter wouldn’t have to travel at the speed of light to catch the photon, and if this doesn’t make the experiment meaningless…

In the same way that the US is an independent country. For now.

What is this h t m l you speak of? Is it like tsx?

That turd has been floating on the bowl for the last quarter of a century…

Samsung will begin a special performance bonus system that would reward workers in the semiconductor division based on profitability

Now that sounds like a big fucking deal.