Carlos Guerreiro

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net All your .org are belong to US

@vtrlx@mastodon.social On the other hand CSS...

https://www.portugalresident.com/portuguese-air-crew-transports-passenger-positive-for-hantavirus/

The airline also said that the protection given to the Portuguese crew: surgical masks and gloves, was sufficient – and that “all security measures were complied with”.

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Giving the crew only surgical masks for protection is criminally negligent.

@zeenix @Argyle13 @blackRAT @eriksandblom @Gargron As far as I can see there are at the very least serious doubts about the legitimacy of Maduro's government. My best guess would be he probably lost. And it's no doubt a terrible government for Venezuelans. However that's far from enough to justify the military intervention. It's illegal under international law, it's illegal under US law. It's a huge escalation in using the military without oversight. It's (yet another) terrible precedent for "might is right". It creates an extremely dangerous situation for Venezuelans. It's done unilaterally, under pretext. It appears to be a Panama style intervention where they depose Maduro by capturing him and removing him from the country. It creates a power vacuum the US will not take responsibility for. They will keep intervening through other means but I very much doubt they will own what they break providing assistance. Worst of all, there is a long history of US intervention in Latin America with disastrous results and the worst motivations. The biggest difference now is one of style - the bragging and bluster in how it is communicated and justified, the complete disdain for any restraining or oversight is particularly shocking to us in "allied" (if that's even still a thing) countries, but I suspect it looks a lot less novel when seen from Latin America.

@catsalad Ah... So that's where the fishy fishy fishy fish went! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJQKtV5aP4

@zeenix @Argyle13 @Gargron @blackRAT @eriksandblom The saddest thing for me is that we are so dependent on the US (security, financial infrastructure, information platforms, ...) in Europe that our governments feel they cannot take a public position against anything the US does, no matter how reckless or atrocious. We really need to get out of this hole.

@valkenberg@chaos.social nothing you can do about it. she has a Meowlti Pass

@cstross@wandering.shop @710J59@techhub.social Finland is going through a long bad period economically with self-imposed austerity and (surprise) EU-beating unemployment that keeps rising. There *is* awareness that the icebreakers the US has commissioned might end up being used against the best interests of Finland and proper allies, but I guess the government is very successfully not worrying about that ... yet.

@cstross@wandering.shop This is also true of code, maybe even more true?

@mac@jawns.club Very true. I've been freelancing for over 10 years and most of that has been from home. Before 2020 I was happy to mix in some onsite work for local customers. It really didn't do a lot for the work and the commute would take some time but it added some variety and socialisation to my life, and networking possibilities. And it made some customers happy. So why not? Right now, working onsite would come with a high risk of Covid infection, and that's not a reasonable ask for me. I don't want to be the only person in the office masking, making a big deal of ventilation/filtration, and so on, and still having substantial unmitigated risk. So I stick to WFH only even if that means missing on interesting local work.

@rlmcelreath Very much deserved. It is a fantastic resource. I would have loved statistics already as a CS undergrad if approached like you do.

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social 🎵Oh, I miss the kiss of treachery The shameless kiss of vanity The soft and the black and the velvety Up tight against the side of me And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed And run in thickening streams of greed As bit by bit it starts the need To just let go my party piece🎵