If you’re going for it, why only go half way?

The Proud Boys should be renamed “Storm troopers”, and be dressed in brown shirts and knee-high leather boots, whilst immigrants should be mandated by law to wear yellow David Stars in a highly visible place on their chest.

Fair enough: as per one of its dictionary definitions “Evidence” is “The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects” so that photo can be said to be “evidence”, just like the woman’s words can be said to be “evidence”, just like anything at all no matter how flimsy which any side claims or implies that “may prove the allegation”.

My bad, “evidence” is not “proof” (which was how I read it) and you never claimed it was “proof”, so my mistake.

So strictly speaking your statement was correct, even whilst not actually countering the point of the poster you were responding to: they claimed that there was no “credible evidence” whilst you pointed out (correctly as you just showed me) that there was “evidence”, which is not the same as “credible evidence”.

I’ll try henceforth to keep in mind that saying that “there is evidence” means absolutelly nothing at all about a case beyond somebody having claimed that something they provided may prove an allegation on that case (in other words, claiming something is “evidence” is an allegation about an allegation, so that by itself doesn’t prove or disprove anything further than the initial allegation by itself).

I would say that our discussing here shows that at the original point to which you replied to still stands: the US Administration has shown no credible evidence. They’ve provided what they claim is “evidence”, but then again a Trump recording saying “it’s true” could also be claimed to be “evidence” per the dictionary definition of the word.

They’re your fucking elected representatives, not the fucking king - they’re supposed to work for you not “act in their own best interests” and you sure as hell have a fucking D U T Y to blame them for breaking their legal, ethical and moral duty to use the power entrusted to them by Americans in the interest of Americans, not for themselves.

God damn, fucking American bootlicking brainwashed muppets looking up to “their betters” even harder than the equivalent sort on this side of the Atlantic. At least we Europeans have a fucking good excuse for all those “looking up to your betters” muppets, having had Monarchies for most of the last 2 thousand years which only ended in the late 19th and early 20th century, whilst Americans have had a supposedly “of the people for the people” democracy since the 18th century.

No wonder the US is even more fucked up than Europe with all the instinctive pulling down of their pants and shouting “give it to me more, big daddy” (and not even in a good, kinky way) whenever some POLITICAL CELEBRITY who is supposed to be an elected representative does whatever is in their own best interest.

No, no, no.

The “evidence” for the “crimes” committed by those on the boat having been either incinerated or blown into a million tiny pieces and sunken to the bottom of the ocean is just an “unfortunate” side-effect.

In some situation shader pre-caching makes things worse rather than better: for example in my machine Borderlands 2 would take 10 minutes to update shaders at pretty much every game start even though I have a Gbps Internet connection.

Eventually it turned out that you really shouldn’t be running “Latest Proton” with it as any update to Proton would trigger a full update of the shader chache (or worse, local generation, which in my machine took hours). Of course, information about that shit was nowhere to be found, nor was the default configuration of that game under Linux setup to just run the game with a specific Proton version.

Switching shader pre-caching off also solved the problem, but to avoid the situation as you described of “shader translation at the time the shader is first used” causing unexpected slowdowns at bad time, when I figured out the that it was using “Latest proton” that was triggering full shader cache downloads I switched it all to use shader pre-chaching with a specific, fixed proton version.

All this to say that the was Steam does shader pre-caching isn’t a silver bullet - for some games it makes them near unplayable by default until you figure out the specific configuration changes needed (and, with at best many minutes before each game start actually succeeds, trial and error is a very slow and frustrating way to figure out what’s going on and how to fix it).

In all fairness - opening a fucking text editor in Linux is way more performant than doing it in Windows 11 because the OS and standard service applications overhead is so much lower in Linux than Windows 11.

One of the great elements in the achievement of everybody involved in working on all those compatibility tools is not having slacked at all in making them as highly performant as possible even though the lower overhead of OS itself would likely deliver them a win even if they did slack a bit.

The rephrase it as a short(ish) metaphor:

• It would be like you’re marooned at sea in a sinking ship and choose to address the risk of not having a good place to anchor when you get to the harbour instead of repairing the hull.

Came here to say pretty much the same - the two digital cameras I had before the “half-way decent cameras in your smartphone” age (including one which wasn’t that specific model but a similar one from the same generation) both had a DCIM directory.

The only surprise I had around DCIM was at some point finding out that there was a directory with that name inside my Android phone since I expected everything would end up under Photos.

Well, as some pointed out, U.S. provided a picture of the boat, which was not a fishing boat, but an expensive speedboat. So there is some evidence against the wife’s claim. On the other hand, a speedboat shouldn’t have enough fuel to reach the U.S. So both stories seem suspicious.

The part of your post I emphasized is literally false. Not half-truth as you’re now implying by calling it “weak evidence”, literally it is a false statement.

A falsehood is not a counter-argument to whatever you were arguing against, even if it’s not done maliciously but simply because you yourself were decieved by one side using more showmanship for their claims and likely your own subconscious bias favoring the statements of “authorities” over those of “random poor-looking south american person”

When the US Administration says that the specific “expensive speedboat” in the photo they showed was the boat in that event, they are verbally making a claim with no backing proof whatsoever and without any proof linking it to the actual event that photo has no evidenciary characteristics AT ALL - it’s literally a random picture of an “expensive speedboat” plus somebody’s “trust me this was the boat involved”, no stronger or weaker than the wife’s “trust me my husband was out fishing” unless you have a bias that predisposes you to trust the US Administration more than a colombian woman.

“He says” is not “some evidence against” a “she says” claim.

The US provided a picture claiming to be of the boat in this specific event.

The standard of evidence for whatever imagery the US Administration provides to the Press is well, well, below what a Court would consider admissable as “evidence”, so there is no evidence against the wife’s claim - that could be any speedboat at any time: no trail of evidence links that picture of a speedboat to this specific event.

There is also no evidence for the wife’s claim - she said stuff, which can just as easilly be true as it can false.

The unbiased take on this is that two sides are making claims which are not backed by anything that qualifies as evidence: she could easilly be lying, whilst the picture of a boat provided by the US Administration can have been taken anywhere and at any time and be totally unrelated to their murder of this guy (“murder” because this was a purposeful killing which was not a Lawful Execution following a Court Judgement nor was it done in self defense, so it fits the legal definition).

And this is without even going into the detail that it’s the side which has murdered somebody who has at least the moral duty (this being the US, the Rule Of Law for purposeful extra-judicial extra-territorial killings is literally non-existent) of backing it up with actual evidence (real, proper stuff, not “picture of random speedboat with no evidenciary trail linking it to the actual event”)

This makes absolute sense: Trump always goes for options he can walk back on and which have direct effects he can boast about.

Sending Tomahawks would be far more effective, but can’t be fully walked back (you can’t just “unexplode” whatever they were used to explode) and their effects are indirect so Trump can’t just gloat that “I did this”.

Trump is a dumb person’s idea of what a smart person looks like, driven by nothing more complex than wanting to look like he’s winning, and if you try and find any more complex motivations for him than “what will make me look good today” it will be an impossible task because he’s far more shallow than the average person: he doesn’t play 5D chess, he plays 1D chess.

They would start giving Ukraine Tomahawk Missiles if they genuinelly wanted to pressure Putin.

After the EU Commission capitulated like a house of cards, faster than their own shadow, to Trumps’ big-tariff-stick backed demands that extremelly dangerous and highly poluting American trucks were allowed in the EU, obviously more and more demands to “screw the safety, quality of life and health of EU citizens for the profit of American companie” would follow.

Trump’s behaviour in just about everything exactly follows the bully pattern (he’s not even subtle or sophisticated about it) so him making further and ever more damaging demands, backed by exactly the same threath as worked for him last time around, was not just predictable but pretty much guaranteed.

I also suspect Americans have a lot of blackmail material on members of the EU Commission, most of whom were hardly competent and honest politicians to begin with.

I have no doubt that China are the ones who will come out ahead in all this shit if only because they have an actual spine and American blackmail material doesn’t work anywhere as well against the crooks in power there as it does against the crooks we have in power in the EU.

Oh man, this really warms my hearth.

I lived in Britain as an immigrant for over a decade and eventually became a Green Party member (this was back even before Corbyn becoming Labour leader), but ended up leaving the party when I left Britain following the Brexit vote.

Having continental Europe political standards (both Northern and Southern Europe), I always thought the only trully national left-of-center party in Britain were the Greens.

Anyways, really nice people (I actually got to campaign with them in a Council by-election), though me being quite jaded after having worked years in the Finance Industry (which is pretty much Sociopath Central, IMHO) thought they were quite naive.

Good to see the Greens rising and I hope New Labour - which is getting ever more Fascist - burns badly.

Well, it’s tradition you see.

Just ask their Native Indians…

It’s the core element of Israel’s strategy of Holocausting the Palestinians by Starvation.

You see, Manmade Starvation is cheaper than purposefully building gas chambers and buying Zyklon-B plus there’s just enough (if only a tiny sliver of) “plausible” deniability that the Western politicians they bought our control via blackmail material (no doubt lots of it involving child diddling) can support Israel whilst they execute what they themselves call “the final solution for the Palestinian problem”.

Both things make sense together - people care more about not making a mess were they live than were they don’t and left-wingers also think about others rather than just themselves - “do to others what you would like them to do to you” - which in this case means don’t leave your trash behind to dirty up the place were others live, whilst rightwingers are all about what’s best for themselves and in a place were they don’t live simply dropping their trash on the ground and leaving it to dirty up somebody else’s streets is less hassle for them personally than carrying their trash to the nearest trash bin.

Thank you for your service!

Gold is going up in other currencies too, so it’s not just the USD going down and mathematically making the Gold price in USD go up.

It’s actually the Atlantic Ocean arm of the Oceanic Conveyor Belt bringing to Europe warm waters from Africa.

The only relation with the Gulf Of Mexico is that the western side of that current (which goes in the opposite direction, so North -> South, along the Eastern Northern and Southern America) passes alongside it.