first two paragraphs should be enough to convince anyone that it’s not news, just a highly biased opinion piece

it seems like one of the key defining principals of the fediverse is platform evolution - mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history.

could still play out that way - but Nigeria isnt the most stable place, a hard shove or two would easily topple their house of cards

Rwanda is blameless then?

perhaps Brazil or whomever should stop burning it down?

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Biden’s mouthpiece

did you not even look at the trade deficit numbers in the link you posted?

rofl the pics in that article. never change, Africa

looks like China has vastly more to lose.

so what? the media is stored/hosted elsewhere. the domains are just an access method. this is just as effective as nailing the front door shut and ignoring the windows/back door.

russia’s space program is sort of shit these days though?

never heard of supervised consumption before. was picturing a bunch of guards staring down at a buffet restaurant until I read the article.

why would Israel care about what China wants?

not that open - I tried to run rm -rf in the terminal and it did nothing.

“sources” eh? more like lies manufactured wholesale

not really how produce sales work

bunches of refurbished t-series thinkpads out there - t480, t430, etc. apparently the 490 is one to avoid. I got a t470 some months back for $150 - put mint on it and have been very happy with the performance.

just north of waterton park, eh? perfect place for a coal mine /s

lol good luck tracking down someone who releases software into the wild.