The Biden administration increased ICE funding and promoted its expansion: https://immigrantjustice.org/p...

Truman was proud, even though most impartial historians say it was unnecessary to win the war against Japan(it was already won). He wanted to send a signal to the USSR, which was our ally at the time. The US as a whole, and in its official statements has never condemned the action.

Russia isn't saying they're doing this. This is Western countries conjecturing that Russia might do it, so the West better do it first.

I also think Russia would avoid nuking half the world. Only one nation has used nuclear weapons against human targets and they are completely unrepentant.

While I seriously doubt Russia will use a doomsday device in space(eg a device that ruins space access for decades or centuries), the militarization of space is underway. SpaceX is actively working on Starshield and that will likely piggyback on Starlink satellites, thus making them legitimate military targets in a conflict. In contrast, Starlink by itself is more like how trains and railways can be used by the military, but have primarily civilian purposes.

I'm pretty sure that's how the current AI CEOs view the general public already

My guess is that they will attempt to take over Rust, turning it from a community run project to a Microsoft run project.

You can hand off the references. It's annoying, but once you have the hang of it it's not too terrible. I haven't written any rust for about a year, but if I recall correctly there have been some fixes to the borrow checker to improve passing ownership within the same block.

I like C++, C, Zig, Python, Fortran, Erlang, Lua, TypeScript, and honestly anything except Java. I really don't care.

In this case, the language did exactly as designed, because sometimes you really prefer speed or simplicity of the code more than safety. With this particular line of code, perhaps the function that was called can be made safe. And, for the kernel, I think this implies unsafe sections should be scrutinized more closely, even if they're a single line.

The real problem I see is the assumption that Rust code will be bug free. A train doesn't require constant steering, but a conductor can run it off the tracks or ram it into another train. Rust is similar in how it drastically limits the degrees of freedom, but it doesn't stop a dedicated developer from writing bugs.

We need to move back to self hosted and distributed social networks. But, I think it's doomed to failure. I couldn't even convince my wife to try a new app or platform. Unless it's very popular and there's makeup influencers she likes on it. I don't think the population at large cares enough to make a change.

Israel controls all imports into as well as all immigration at the Rafah Crossing since 2007. Your argument of "nobody wants them" is exactly what Germans would say about Jews back in WW2.

What happens if I loan you $100 with the expectation that you'll give me $110 in a year, but you spend it on beer instead and at the end of the year you give me $0?

What we saw was a military blockade, Israel controlling ever aspect of Palestinian's lives, their coming and going from Palestine, periodic "mowing the lawn," and the list goes on. For those who think Palestinians didn't try peaceful means, please look up "The Great March of Return."

Israel never left Gaza. They turned it into an open air prison camp.

From the Hamas Charter:

Kind of. It's also eating itself. If you draw out the trajectory to its logical conclusion, where a handful of people have almost all the money, we will reach a point at which people reject the resource allocation system we call money. AI isn't replacing human workers anytime soon. Someone has to build, operate and maintain the drone armies to keep the masses in check. Someone has to keep the power stations, and power distribution systems running. Someone has to farm and collect garbage. So, at some point, the system will fall apart. Up until now, in the last 100 years, they really relied on the US military to keep the poor around the world in line. That power structure is falling apart. US adventurism is failing to achieve its goals as it becomes increasingly expensive. So something will have to change. The system will have to reinvent itself and get some significant part of the working class to buy in by paying them enough to survive, or it will collapse.