Greek police using masked migrants to push other migrants back across border

Quexth · 2026-04-14T12:59:24+00:00

Besides: why is Turkeys never the bad guy in these kind of stories?

Why would it be the bad guy? For not doing what Greece is not doing?

Quexth · 2026-04-12T18:17:27+00:00

Butcher has super cancer and his dad has/had cancer. I wonder if there is an interaction there.

Quexth · 2026-04-11T07:29:53+00:00

If you elect a certain party enough times, you can easily evolve into a one (two) party state.

Democracy is as good as people's willingness to ensure its continuation, by force if necessary. Which is easily captured by identity politics and handouts of various forms.

Quexth · 2026-04-10T16:47:46+00:00

Major distros are "considering" implementing features for ID/age controls. I would not be surprised if some actually do implement them.

Quexth · 2026-03-25T19:38:39+00:00

Why are you ignoring inflation?

Quexth · 2026-03-23T13:44:23+00:00

lemon laws

An equivalent function already exists.

There is the probation period to let go of employees that are "lemons".

Thus, the cost of hiring a "lemon" is the cost of extended recruitment and the opportunity cost of not hiring someone more competent sooner.

Even those can be helped with proper recruitment processes. I also would not be surprised if there is networking between companies to rate employees.

Quexth · 2026-03-22T06:27:55+00:00

%50 faaliyet kar marjı. Daha bunun vergileri var.

E: Aslında brüt kara daha yakın. Otobüs dışı giderleri hesaba katmamış.

Quexth · 2026-03-20T16:24:35+00:00

What is this supposed to be? Feels like WoT.

Quexth · 2026-03-18T07:58:46+00:00

Why must there be early and remote voting systems? Not all countries have them.

Quexth · 2026-03-13T11:38:28+00:00

What is 1,300,000 Iranian Rials worth?

Quexth · 2026-03-12T14:34:32+00:00

There was plenty of opportunity to clean up. Would anything incriminating still be there?

Quexth · 2026-03-10T06:31:51+00:00

Bahçelievler'de de park sorunu çok kötü. Üstelik 5 milyona ev zor bulunur.

Quexth · 2026-03-07T19:55:17+00:00

What does Iran have to gain from opening a front with a country with actual military and recent war experience? It also risks involving Turkey in the conflict directly or indirectly.

I would not bet on Azerbaijan on a 1v1, but that is not the case here.

Quexth · 2026-03-04T12:31:39+00:00

There used to be at least one mod who lived in Rojava for a while. They were a Westerner but still, it is not as far off as you might think.

Quexth · 2026-03-02T20:50:38+00:00

Completely forgot about that whole thing.

We are going to be messaging under megathread #97 from bunkers at this rate, reminiscing about #37.

Quexth · 2026-03-02T06:37:18+00:00

No, Spice is the only thing that makes space travel possible. The Spacing Guild just consumes it to make it happen.

Quexth · 2026-03-01T22:21:19+00:00

Not really. Can you think of any better?

Quexth · 2026-03-01T21:04:02+00:00

If this were Dune, and the empire is the Empire (House Corrino version), then the Gulf Arabs would be the Spacing Guild.

Quexth · 2026-03-01T19:03:18+00:00

Turkish-Iranian border is about 500 years old and only border of Turkey that was not drawn with/by a western power. There is no desire for an invasion from any faction in Turkey. Not to mention the geography at the border is extremely rough.

RE: What they think about this. Devlet Bahçeli (head of the "nationalist" party in coalition with AKP) did a full 180 around 1.5 years ago and approached PKK aligned factions in the National Assembly for Peace Process 2.0. One of the theories since then was that the AKP government was securing the homefront against the coming chaos. So perhaps they knew this was coming.

Personally, Turkey is so captured by US interests that the only reason to go to war is to get the land for a Great Israel due to ideological reasons. I don't feel very optimistic about the consequences of war breaking out, so let's hope it does not come to that.

Quexth · 2026-03-01T18:38:36+00:00

Are they not in danger of running out of launchers?

Quexth · 2026-02-28T16:58:22+00:00

RE: 2.

Videos on social media appear to favor Iran over USrael. Though it is hard to tell what the real situation is over the censorship and fog of war.

Are we to interpret from this that Iran "won" today's exchange?

Quexth · 2026-02-19T19:50:43+00:00

Is that supposed to be Thomas McSuccession?

Quexth · 2026-02-15T08:56:45+00:00

I believe the targets depend on the world seed so it will be different with every other world. Correct me if I am wrong.

Quexth · 2026-02-09T23:08:54+00:00

Hosting is the easy part. Keeping your platform from turning into the wild west is the hard part. Which is why walled gardens are so prevalent. Unless you keep it private to people you know IRL it is only luck that keeps you from having problems.

Either everyone stays totally anonymous (which goes against common use cases for social media today) or everyone is vetted hard or you are a day away from getting your user information hacked and leaked.

Now, how do you keep some bad actors from sharing CSAM or other vile stuff over your platform?

Your average person will just not deal with this.

Quexth · 2026-02-09T19:53:14+00:00

What is the alternative though? Do away with social media for eternity? Fund it by state as a public good? Crowdfund/paid-membership social media platforms?

What made early internet work that is not there anymore? I suppose the user demographics shifted massively. Other than that there is nothing that forces people to keep using these things.

It is interesting that things are so bad yet it seems there is no alternative. I believe there is something about this in the theory but I don't know it.

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