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  • Depends on what your metrics are. If they are for longevity and long-term business health, sure.

    But I don't think that's how they're measuring success. They are maximizing shareholder value in the short term, and any medium to long-term problems will be concerns for another set of C-Suite vultures as the current ones will have already moved on, or retired with their golden parachutes.

  • Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law
  • This headline is incredibly misleading, and the post should be revised, or removed/ reposted.

    Pakistan’s top advisory body on religious affairs on Friday declared that using virtual private networks to access blocked content on the internet is against Shariah, or Islamic law.

  • Trump picks RFK Jr. , anti-vaccine activist, for Health and Human Services secretary
  • So just so we're clear here, you acknowledge that it is "corporate fuckheads" who run the DNC, but insist they aren't to blame for losing 14m votes.

    In fact, it's actually my fault, your neighbor's fault, and anyone of voting age who isn't employed by the DNC.

  • Trump picks RFK Jr. , anti-vaccine activist, for Health and Human Services secretary
  • It's quite pathetic how so many of these stories have top comments that all blame voters for the decades of compound failures by the Democratic party.

    You have it backwards my friend, voters cannot fail the party. It's the party's job to win voters, but instead, they shed 14 million voters over the last election.

    Remind me, how many users are on Lemmy?

  • Elon Musk's new 'department' seeks 'super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs
  • Can you think of any other types of people who might be financially able to volunteer their time here....?

    Maybe those who have a vested interest in any number of outcomes that may result from their work there...?

  • Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general
  • Maybe you don't remember Jeff Sessions.

    Matt Gaetz could bring another dozen or so, 17 year girls across state lines, and still not reach the scale of evil contained within Trump's former OG AG Keebler.

    That's my point. The best you can hope for is someone who also dipshit maxes, hard.

  • Trump taps Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general
  • Let's be real, he cleared the bar with this one.

    Don't forget, the bar was set at Jeff Sessions, and it was even lowered to the doofus who ran the patent protection scam company.

    Look, he's not going appoint anyone that isn't awful. The most you can hope for, the best outcome, is favourable funny > evil mix.

    I'm comfortable saying that Matt Gaetz, on the grading curve necessary for Trump appointments, clears that bar. He's has at worst a 51% funny to 49% evil ratio.

  • I’ll Issue Putin an Ultimatum—End the War In 24 Hours or I’ll Supply Ukraine With Taurus Missiles, Says German Chancellor Candidate Merz
  • Operational targets can't all just simply be moved further and further back from the front lines of a conflict, to say nothing of high value tactical targets.

    Supplying several hundred low observable air launched cruise missiles per month would absolutely make a significant difference on the battlefield, that's not even a question.

    But that doesn't mean I believe that would enough to cause Putin to reverse course, or to deliver a strategic defeat to the Russian army.

    Regardless, Germany doesn't have that manufacturing capacity to begin with, nor do I believe they have the political will to do that, even if it were possible, but again, it is not.

  • I’ll Issue Putin an Ultimatum—End the War In 24 Hours or I’ll Supply Ukraine With Taurus Missiles, Says German Chancellor Candidate Merz
  • Capability and capacity are two very different things.

    Yes, I understand the manufacturing capability exists, but it's capacity is limited i.e. existing facilities could not maintain a strategically significant production volume relative to Ukraine's needs, much less to deter Putin.

  • I’ll Issue Putin an Ultimatum—End the War In 24 Hours or I’ll Supply Ukraine With Taurus Missiles, Says German Chancellor Candidate Merz
  • Oh I'm sure the thought of two dozen cruise missiles will straighten Putin out ASAP.

    For starters, this would not be a new or unprecedented capability for the Ukrainians.

    If Germany had several hundred to part with immediately, and the capacity to regularly replenish those stocks, that would make a significant difference on the battlefield, but I doubt it would make Putin sue for peace.

    But of course, Germany does not have those kind of stockpiles or manufacturing capacity to maintain that.

    Still, it would be nice to see more European politicians picking up the banner of supplying Ukraine in the face of likely diminished, or eliminated, American transfers.

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