kittin [he/him]

Might have something to do with Putin very openly saying that would be an act of war

I wasn’t earning enough money so I decided to cut costs by not going to the office anymore and now they’ve fired me

It’s not yet clear QC is even really possible.

There exist toys that prove it works in concept but it’s proving extremely difficult to scale these up to actually meaningful systems.

My understanding is that the core of the issue is the collapse of the wave function. QC works by exploiting quantum uncertainty and if the state collapses then the computation is over (or something like this, I’m not a physicist or QC expert.)

And the problem they’re facing is how to make systems that are much larger and therefore capable of computing more, but the larger a system is the sooner it will collapse.

It could be that it’s simply impossible or uneconomically difficult to make systems large enough to actually be of use and value.

Maybe this is a solveable problem, maybe it’s actually not. But QC is in the same bucket as cold fusion as a technology that would be extremely useful and we have reasons to believe it might be possible to actually do based on theory but it’s proving impossible to implement in practice.

Aww it’s no longer possible to create Reddit accounts without an email via old

Petition to change the country of the week to Saudi Arabia in honor of the festivities

Everything under the sun is connected

Huh weird this happens just after Iran gets angry at Russia for not respecting their interests.

Nothing like a mutually beneficial oil pipeline to settle regional differences.

Some of you are alright don’t come to earth tomorrow

Doing my part for white replacement by not reproducing

Churchill once said in a choice between the devil and Hitler, he’d back the devil and the libs finally got their chance when Cheney came out in support of Kamala Harris.

I have read that Ukraine has pulled the HIMARS back, giving up on the battle over those pontoon bridges, as a result of losing so many systems for no meaningful gain.

Office block down

I think Biden was planning for the Ukraine war and knew the US couldn’t support both the occupation of Afghanistan and Ukraine simultaneously, and it would provide Russia the opportunity to use the Taliban as a proxy to target US forces.

That’s what happens when you shock therapy your own economy

The Bizarre State of Western Democracy

Picking out the key thesis argued by Prabhat Patnaik.

Democracy is supposed to mean the pursuit of policies that are in conformity with the wishes of the electorate. True, it is not that the governments first ascertain popular wishes, and then decide on policy; the conformity between the two is typically ensured under bourgeois rule by the government deciding on policies in accordance with ruling class interests, and then having a propaganda machinery that persuades the people about the wisdom of these policies The conformity between public opinion and what the ruling class wants is thus achieved in a complex manner whose essence lies in the manipulation of public opinion.

What is currently happening however is altogether different: public opinion, notwithstanding all the propaganda directed at it, wants policies that are altogether different from those being systematically pursued by the ruling class. The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

Such riding roughshod over public opinion is typically sought to be achieved by keeping these burning issues of peace and war off political discussion altogether. In the coming US presidential elections, for instance, since both the contenders, Donald Trump and Kamla Harris, are agreed on supplying arms to Israel, this issue itself will not figure in any presidential debate or in the presidential campaign.

In the metropolis there has thus been a transition from “manipulation of dissent” through propaganda, to the total ignoring of dissent, even dissent by a majority, that has proved to be immune to propaganda. This represents a new stage in the attenuation of democracy, a stage characterised by an unprecedented moral bankruptcy of the political establishment.

My take is that it’s a trial balloon to see how the US reacts

Google’s lucrative ad tech business goes on trial

Google is expected to lose this case which would be their third significant anti-trust loss this year across the Alphabet empire.

The UK is also giving Google side eye (decades late).

It’s ironic that the US seems to be ahead of the EU when it comes to fighting google. Probably because the vassals are unwilling to take on the giant before the emperor gives his assent and designs a restructuring rather than breaking it up.

German Chancellor says any future Ukraine peace conference must include Russia

Include Russia in peace talks? Is that treason?

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in an interview that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Scholz is facing more political discontent at home over his government’s support, including money and weapons for Ukraine after populist parties that oppose arming Kyiv did well in state elections on 1 September at the expense of parties in his three-party governing coalition.

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to strip 10 million pensioners of winter fuel payments could KILL nearly 4,000 people… says LABOUR’S own research

Saudi Arabia ‘open’ to petroyuan, closer China ties, minister says

A top official from Saudi Arabia said the country is “open to new ideas” – including use of the yuan in crude settlements

“The Petroyuan is not substantial to [the ministry], we believe Saudi Arabia will do what’s in its best interest … but I think Saudi Arabia will always try new things, and is open to new ideas, and we try not to mix politics with commerce,” Khorayef said in an interview on Saturday in Hong Kong.