In close quarters situations the spread of buckshot would be negligible & a slug might not have enough penetration to punch through kevlar, so I would say it is feasible. That being said the energy would rearrange their insides pretty badly so possibly non-lethal but definetly would cause injury.

My desktop which is running a i7-6700k from 2015 out performs all of the <$400 laptops that I could find on every metric and had higher multi core but lower single core for the $400-$600 range. I was unable to find a desktop that was <$800 that was better, so I would surmize that the desktop market won’t have a meaningful price/performance % in comparison to the laptops. At the very least with the insanity of graphics & memory prices at the moment, the budget systems are getting smoked by a desktop from 2015, even while purposefully omitting the 2070 I have because that was a newer addition and pretty much all of the systems are running poor quality integrated graphics anyway.

Valuation can be manipulated, it should be gross income.

In general, bureaucracy, and a more specific lynch pin, the German government since they seem to be the most pro-israel out of all the EU countries.

I am not capable of understanding it myself, I heard the German version is less ambiguous, the English version had too many clauses that were up for interpretation. The general consensus in the threads that I saw on Lemmy when this happened was that the good faith interpretation is the correct one, but I am unsure if that is just cope.

I will admit that I am not overly familiar with Chinese politics, but I would say that the current CCP does seem to be run rather well. If you could point me in the direction of information on the succession process that would be appreciated.

I wont call them dictator for the same reason, the President doesnt hold supreme power either

You have landed on the only systemic issue that I have with Chinese internal politics, I do not doubt that the president doesn’t hold supreme power, but the party does since opposition parties are banned. This in my mind would mean that the actual most powerful position to hold is that of chairman of the CCP, this means that irregardless of how the nation is governed, effectively it is entirely run by a small group of autocrats. The Chinese system seems to be very similar to the constitutional monarchies of the early modern period with the biggest difference being that the ruling class is not necessarily hereditary. All this is to say that I think the system is great so long as you hold similar ideals, I do not, which is why I personally don’t like it, but I cannot deny that it works.

here you go

I think the point they are trying to make is that the far-right is generally considered the autocratic part of the spectrum, so you are being hypocritical by saying I want an autocratic government to come in and ban all autocrats.

The only part that I agree with is the same people in power point, although I think it is poorly phrased. I would restate it as “a country ruled by the same people for a long time tends to have drastic swings in quality of life when it becomes time for succession, or when those people loose their mental faculties”. This is not to say that I expect it to happen every time, but I am drawn to the dictators of the 1900s as examples since I am struggling to come up with one that survived to their third leader.

I feel like I’m going insane, I thought the EU just recently passed an initiative to directly ban age verification, and then I open my feed yesterday and there is nothing else other than news about this app & I can’t find the initiative I thought I saw.

Edit: I figured out what was confusing me, the MEP just recently enshrined E2EE, which I remembered as a big win on the same level of no age verification.

Oh I agree jerk can get out of hand really quickly. But the real fun comes when we get into snap crackle and pop.

For anyone who is unaware, I leave this here for your viewing pleasure.

Ostensibly knots per hour would be acceleration, which makes little sense in context

Iirc they just passed something that enforced the opposite to chat control to stop the constant reintroduction of the same over reaching law

The unfortunate major weakness of Democratic governments is that all major decisions must be deliberated upon, this stops responses from happening during crises in a timely manner. Granted I will say that the infighting in the EU definetly exasperated the issue tenfold.

I tend to think about Sanchez in the same light as macron, fairly respectable foreign policy but about the average level of internal policy. Where the average today is something that is just good enough for there is not prolonged massive resistance.

Have you considered the macbook neo, it’s not a Linux machine, but it is probably the cheapest machine that fits the glorified tablet footprint. I don’t understand the draw to something that basic and lightweight, but if it mattered to me I would probably go with that. Otherwise, as others have pointed out, some flavor of Linux will run on just about anything that isn’t ARM at this point, and I wouldn’t be surprised if an old netbook would just work for your use case with a lightweight distro.

It is slightly outside of the scope of the article, but it is interesting that the article doesn’t talk about the strait not being closed to China, unless it was just posturing, I have seen quite a few articles covering safe passage for vessels who are enemies of america & israel, including 2 Chinese tankers.

and the third has stated they will not implement age attestation methods.

Do you have a source l, I went looking earlier and couldn’t find anything

I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora