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 China is an untested superpower without real-world wartime experience with modern weapons, modern... 
 The main reason for NATO's existence (at least in my side of the worls -- Eastern Europe) is to keep Russia's expansionist tendencies in check. Of course NATO rejected Russia's request! 

I've heard this argument in Tucker Carlson's interview by Lex Friedman: _"Russia requested NATO membership, therefore NATO is no longer needed"_, and was struck by sheer stupidity of its consequences.  
 > stm32/mk4-bootloader
>    128k of factory-set code that you cannot change for Mk4
>    however, you can inspect what code is on your coldcard and compare to this.

Hmmm, I'm not a big fan of this. 
 > TextEditor widget (or multi-line text input). 

Sweet! 
 
 I honestly don't understand why a revolution is proposed as a fix for the corruption of sociopathic ruling class. Won't the sociopaths also corrupt the revolution to reorganize society in a manner that's even more convenient for them? The communist revolution followed the same path to produce people like Stalin. 
 TLDR: a revolution is not a solution, but a failure mode 
 We are ruled by pedophiles. 
 Oh, is that why they keep urging us to "think of the children"? 
 I gave money to a charity once. Now I can't get rid of them!

Never give money to a charity unles... 
 Shouldn't we judge charities on a case-by-case basis, according to their actions? :) 
 Keep your pitchforks sharp everybody.  And stay frosty. 
 Oh, are there signs of witches? 
 What would be the best way to publish podcast episodes on Nostr directly and get rid of RSS/Atom ... 
 In my opinion the best way is to keeo rss/atom. Youtube majes it difficult to extract the rss feed. I assume that's because they want you to stay logged in, and present in their platform. That's a dark pattern, as far as I'm concerned. 
 ugh, so many typos...