But man, it really is starting to look like WW3

It looks more like Crimean War II to me.

Russia gets malnourished and untrained Korean conscripts.

Just offer them all plane tickets to South Korea. Problem solved.

Not a solution. Much of the modern web is reliant on JavaScript to function.

And much of it works better and faster without JavaScript. Some sites don’t work in Noscript, but most sites run faster and work well enough.

or find someone for a pair programming session with you.

Then you would make it take longer.

Personal finance: !personalfinance@lemmy.ml

This is a big one for me.

Thanks for calling this out. I will stop posting content to lemmy.ml. What is the next best alternative to lemmy.world? I have nothing against lemmy.world, but would like to spread out content to different sites.

I still can’t figure out what captcha wants. When it tells me to select all squares with a bus, I can never get it right unless every square is a separate picture.

Here is my current playlist. Using the “modern” (blue background) skin.

1981-Time\09 - Lights Go Down.mp3
1974-Eldorado\03 - Boy Blue.mp3
1975-Face The Music\06 - Strange Magic.mp3
1979-Discovery\02 - Confusion.mp3
1981-Time\08 - From The End Of The World.mp3
1976-A New World Record\02 - Telephone Line.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\03 - Sweet Talkin Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\05 - Last Train To London.mp3
1974-Eldorado\02 - Can’t Get It Out Of My Head.mp3
1981-Time\05 - The Way Life’s Meant To Be.mp3
1980-Xanadu\09 - All Over The World.mp3
1981-Time\10 - Here Is The News.mp3
1976-A New World Record\05 - So Fine.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\10 - Standin In The Rain.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\11 - Big Wheels.mp3
1981-Time\03 - Yours Truly 2095.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\12 - Summer And Lightning.mp3
1979-Discovery\07 - On The Run.mp3
1976-A New World Record\08 - Do Ya.mp3
1981-Time\04 - Ticket To The Moon.mp3
1979-Discovery\04 - The Diary Of Horace Wimp.mp3
1975-Face The Music\03 - Evil Woman.mp3
1979-Discovery\03 - Need Her Love.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\13 - Mr. Blue Sky.mp3
1980-Xanadu\08 - Dont Walk Away.mp3
1977-Out Of The Blue\01 - Turn To Stone.mp3

To play music.

I’m using winamp 5.666 for windows.

There is finally a decent winamp for Android, but I use the Samsung music player instead.

Would love a Winamp for Linux

Even in that last election, 57% of the voting age population voted

That was actually better than most countries.

The big picture is that the Vietnamese dictatorship did exactly the wrong thing. Creating a billionaire class proves that they ditched socialism. But they kept the dictatorship. They should have instead entrenched socialism and become a democracy. That would have been a very interesting thing to see. That they did exactly the wrong thing proves that North Vietnam’s entire reason for fighting the war was a farce.

That isn’t how they saw the situation

“They” == North Vietnamese propaganda. The actual facts are that colonialism ended 10 full years before the US sent troops to protect South Vietnam. This was a civil war, not a colonial war. It doesn’t matter what North Vietnamese propaganda wants you to think. It matters what reality is. If all your information is coming from youtube you are definitely getting your information from the wrong sources.

Colonial powers drawing lines on maps has famously been a way to make people happy with outcomes

Doesn’t apply at all here. The only ‘border’ they were fighting over was the border between North and South Vietnam. And that border was created by North Vietnam, not by any colonialists.

The freedom to run their own country whether that’s into the ground or into prosperity its the right of the vietnamese to self govern.

Huh? Both North and South Vietnam gained independence in 1954. The South Vietnamese had an elected government by 1968. North Vietnam had a dictatorship so the people couldn’t run their own country. Then North Vietnam robbed South Vietnam of the ability to run their own country.

North Vietnam was literally fighting to deny the people to run their own country. To this very day nobody in Vietnam gets to choose their own leaders. The people are not allowed to govern themselves. But South Vietnam got to elect their own leader in 1968.

How you don’t know that French colonialism ended 10 years before Americans arrived is bizarre.

They were not fighting against capitalism, they were fighting for independence.

Both North Vietnam and South Vietnam gained their independence in 1954. So whatever they were fighting for in the 1960’s, it was definitely not “independence”.

The history is fascinating

Yeah, but I was talking about the Vietnam War against north and south of the 1960’s. Not the separate colonial war against France in the 1950’s.

So much of that was wrong. The last one was not, thanks to the USA. It was democratically elected. North Vietnam was 100x more repressive than South Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam

Under pressure from the US, they held elections for president and the legislature in 1967. The Senate election took place on 2 September 1967. The Presidential election took place on 3 September 1967

“Highly socialist” systems do not have billionaires.

If Vietnam has billionaires then why the f*ck were they fighting against capitalism in the Vietnam War? North Vietnam might as well have just asked to join South Vietnam and they could have skipped 20 years of wars. Looks like all they were really fighting against was democracy.

If the ads allow me to comment and say “your product sucks” then I don’t mind.

How does that work? Which server banned you?

[ the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.” ]

It doesn’t say that at all. Current theory says there was definitely no singularity and the big bang was set up and preceded by an earlier phase known as “cosmic inflation”.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/27/there-was-no-big-bang-singularity/