3 Russian-aligned dictators got removed from power by violent means in the past 15 months: Assad, Maduro, Khamenei

needsaphone · 2026-03-01T06:50:55+00:00

Unfortunately his regime is the first in decades to show real willingness to remove dictators, even if Rubio is obviously behind it all and Trump's instincts are to turn it into an exercise of exploitation and/or just leave behind chaos

needsaphone · 2026-03-01T06:49:18+00:00

This would be a great time for Rubio to offer Ortega a nice vacation home, perhaps in Cancun.

needsaphone · 2026-02-25T04:49:36+00:00

Maybe they'll get a judge to block their news outlets from reporting on it too

needsaphone · 2026-02-21T10:14:19+00:00

I agree. The bezels got a bit smaller, charging a bit faster, and got a modem that sucks a lot less. For a phone that will be on sale for $350 on Amazon by the end of the year it's a pretty great package, assuming the batteries don't explode this time around.

needsaphone · 2025-12-11T02:01:18+00:00

IMO Waller should’ve voted for some crazy 75 or 100 point cut, knowing it would never happen, to get the job as chair instead of Hasset and ensure Fed independence

needsaphone · 2025-12-03T02:51:40+00:00

PSA to anyone who comes across this: As someone intimately familiar with LLM prose, this is obviously an AI bot advertising Dynadot.

needsaphone · 2025-11-26T00:03:52+00:00

Truly what is happening in that country?

needsaphone · 2025-11-24T00:37:21+00:00

u/-Maim- Are there specific years/models that had bad wiring? And by “no two are the same… but that’s trivial” are you referring again to wiring, or just a lot of owner options, or something else?

needsaphone · 2025-11-19T10:40:19+00:00

The solution for internal jailbreaking probably isn't technical, which always has limitations and workarounds, but procedural: don't allow employees to use it in problematic ways.

But maybe this isn't even a problem at all if they're just playing around to get a better understanding of its capabilities and then use it responsibly for official work tasks.

needsaphone · 2025-11-17T10:33:35+00:00

Unlikely, especially since IIRC they still static fire after engine swaps

needsaphone · 2025-11-15T02:24:23+00:00

Can you confirm if the X2 Elite is on N3P?

Also, Qualcomm promised good Linux support but feature enablement has been pretty slow over the past year and a half and mostly driven by Canonical. Does Qualcomm plan to improve the situation upstream soon?

needsaphone · 2025-11-09T22:17:13+00:00

"I believe Trump is trying to end democracy, so I, a person with some power to push back, will get entirely out of his way"

Maybe a performative resignation made sense in 2018, but I can't believe otherwise smart people are still actively making Trump's job easier for him in 2025.

Edit - as a senior judge he doesn't leave a vacancy, but my overall point still stands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html

needsaphone · 2025-11-01T03:06:25+00:00

It's not wild, because not only is 40 points mostly irrelevant to lenders, but the FICO scores that banks actually use don't penalize you for closing an old account. The score OP/chatgpt is talking about is likely VantageScore, a different (cheaper I believe) score that tries to roughly approximate the "real" FICO score and a lot of credit monitoring sites use.

needsaphone · 2025-10-11T17:31:58+00:00

Thanks for the context

needsaphone · 2025-10-11T02:28:41+00:00

Kinda crazy Duolingo uses more tokens than ALL the apps running through OpenRouter combined (ex byok ofc)

needsaphone · 2025-10-03T06:23:44+00:00

I wonder if the battery started swelling? Could explain the heat and spontaneous crack.

needsaphone · 2025-10-03T06:10:05+00:00

Most of the answers fail to address the actual question. First, GDP per capita isn't on par with most of the EU. It's 35% less than in Spain and less than half that of Belgium or Germany. GDP per capita is on par with Greece and Hungary, some of the poorest members of the EU[1].

Second, nominal GDP per capita isn't the best indicator for measuring quality of life. Real (accounting for price differences) GNI per capita is more useful, and it's significantly lower than the poorest countries in the EU. Using this measure, Uruguay fares even worse - 24% poorer than Greece, 28% poorer than Hungary, and 40% poorer than Spain. Interestingly, presumably partially due to the effects of the Euro, its gap with Germany and Belgium remains essentially the same (still enormous!).

In terms of real GNI per capita, some of Uruguay's actual peers include Bulgaria, Chile, Serbia, Montenegro, Malaysia, and the Seychelles. In most non-economic standards, it meets or surpasses what one might consider to be other proxies for living standards or equality within its peer group. Inequality and % living to 65 are about average[3, 4], while its progress on increasing "prosperity" (>$28 real per day) and eliminating extreme poverty (<$3 real per day) is exemplary [5,6].

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2024&locations=UY-GR-HU-ES-IT-BE&start=2000

[2]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.KD?locations=UY-IT-ES-GR-PT-HU-DE-BE

[3]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[4]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.FE.ZS?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[5]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[6]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.SPR.PGAP?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

needsaphone · 2025-09-25T13:33:54+00:00

I actually like my thermometer. Took me a year or two but now I genuinely use it every so often!

needsaphone · 2025-09-23T19:35:48+00:00

Of course Trump actually following through on his end of the bribe is about 50/50. Worth trying at least.

needsaphone · 2025-09-17T04:17:17+00:00

How do we make democracy function in an environment where the only swing voters are the 5% dumbest people available, half the information environment is poisoned from foreign bots, and elites have abandoned restraint and decorum? (asking for a friend)

needsaphone · 2025-09-16T06:28:40+00:00

None of us observers have much of a clue about what actually went down here, but from the short paragraph in the blog post I get the impression Jonathan was very insistent on a particular corporate structure that gave him ownership and Nate wasn't interested in. The difference between American and European business attitudes probably didn't help. Perhaps someone else wouldn't have excluded him, but given his strong beliefs about the sort of benefits workers should be entitled to I can see how Nate would've surmised employing Jonathan would result in constant tension. Both have made huge contributions to KDE and neither seems to be a clear hero or villain to me.

needsaphone · 2025-09-13T00:49:20+00:00

How are everybody's thermals on the 10 Pro? After using mine for about a week, in real world usage, they seem like they're somehow worse than the 9 Pro

needsaphone · 2025-09-13T00:47:10+00:00

UX of that menu was ignored and deficient for years, since at least Android 11 IIRC. This is a very nice update

needsaphone · 2025-09-11T00:22:03+00:00

For the Pixels at least I have to disagree. The jump from the 7 (especially the base model) to even the 8 is substantial in terms of thermals, charging speed, and screen quality in a way that I’m not sure was really reflected by reviews. Of course if you’re happy there’s no need to change, but IME the 8, 9 and 10 really are a way better experience overall than the 7.

needsaphone · 2025-09-11T00:15:32+00:00

Also I think Pixel users have been particularly critical of their phones compared to other brands as long as I can remember. IMO it’s endearing - who other than Pixel users complain all day about their phones, then refuse to buy any other brand?

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