cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49821416

Hello. I am personally not decided on how I think a government should handle a recession. I was wondering what you people think, preferably with historical presedence or other sources (if I wanted to know who screams the loudest I would just have asked Facebook :)

For this discussion, let's take Finland. The Finnish economy is not doing too good, and haven't really recovered since covid. The states income are about 80B€ while expenses are closer to 90B€ (rough numbers). The primary reason for this is because Finns are being fiscally conservative, with low confidence in the economy. There are two opinions on how to handle this:

• Wait out the recession. Europe is recovering as well, and Finland is bound to catch up, even if they're falling behind. Cuts to the budget will just worsen the purchasing force of the workers and lower faith in the economy
• Make cuts in the budget, trim fat where possible to avoid a debt spiral. It's important to make the budget break even, to not continue downwards. Paying of the debt will allow us to recover quicker.

What are you guys' opinions? Are you able to back them up more than "The violent revolution will solve this"?

Russia fired more than 600 drones and missiles at targets across Ukraine in the early hours of Sunday morning - one of the largest barrages of the war.

At least four people were killed in Kyiv during the overnight attacks, according to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky. Local officials said 42 people were injured in the capital and surrounding region, and 31 in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine. Drones were still being shot down over the Ukrainian capital on Sunday morning.

The barrage was the third largest reported by the Ukrainian air force since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, underlining Kyiv’s challenge even after this week getting stronger signs of support from the US.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/34666161

Chimps on a Blimp

Putin and Trump are both agents of the Clintons. Bill Clinton oversaw the looting of post Soviet Russia and made sure his compradors took and held power there. Since then, Russia has served as a stick the US uses to cow Europe and keep them subservient and loyal to the empire.

Trump is a longtime friend and ally of the Clintons, whom they enlisted in 2008 to spread racist conspiracy theories about Obama, and again in 2016 both to give Hillary a weak enough opponent in the general and to ensure that no matter who won, the Clintons either got back in personally or got their loyal friend and ally in instead.

All the public bickering and supposed geopolitical conflicts between them are just kayfabe that just happens to get lots of innocent people killed in the crossfire."

This bit engineered in a lab to drive both chuds and libs into a spluttering, indignant frenzy as their wriggly cognitive dissonance worms get drenched in mind salt and trigger all of their psychic defense mechanisms at once.

Largely freed of competition, Golden Dome task orders can go to favored Trump contractors, including high-tech billionaires who are his close allies.

The evidence accumulates that Golden Dome is going to be an enormously costly and extremely wasteful system. And, the contracting for high-tech work seems sure to go to Palantir. Palantir’s board chairman, the extremely well connected billionaire Peter Thiel, longtime Trump-backer and mentor of Vice President J.D. Vance.

In July, a letter by Senator Edward J. Markey and nine other Senators said:

“President Trump has said that Golden Dome would cost $175 billion and be ‘fully operational’ by 2029. But the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that it could cost as much as $542 billion to deploy a constellation of space-based interceptors (SBIs) designed to defeat one or two intercontinental ballistic missiles launched in a limited attack, such as by North Korea. Countering a possible Russian or Chinese attack involving hundreds of warheads would require a much larger, more technologically advanced, and more costly system. . . . Despite what could amount to a trillion dollar investment, Golden Dome would be all-too-easy to defeat.”

Earlier in September, the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), more cheerleader than critic of Trump’s, issued a report that the cost of Golden Dome could range as high as $3.6 trillion. AEI gave a range of possibilities, from that high figure for a system doing what President Trump asserts he wants Golden Dome to do, down to lower figures that while still far above Trump’s $175 billion, would have much more limited capabilities what he claims.

So now that the Administration is launched on procuring Golden Dome, the natural question is, who benefits? Some of the contracting may go to traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin. But, the new hallmark of the Trump administration has been the mutually beneficial cultivating of Silicon Valley billionaires. The beauty of Golden Dome is that it involves not just hardware from traditional contractors, but tech products from the Trump Administration’s closest new friends.

Awkward title probably, but lemme explain:

The question is "This piece of French architecture was finished on January 26, 1887." You know this is the Eiffel Tower. But when you buzz in and give the response, you say:

"Who is the Eiffel Tower?"

Would you be awarded the points for being correct, or docked the points for being incorrect since you didn't say "WHAT is the Eiffel Tower?"

https://archive.li/2025.09.26-115638/https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

A lot of the laws of physics I've studied, like Boyle's Law and Charles' Law, describe the behavior of "An ideal confined gas."

I've had to tell several flight students to unlearn what they've learned about that in the meteorology chapter, because, for example, in a confined gas, increasing the temperature causes an increase in pressure while the density stays the same. In the Earth's atmosphere, increasing temperature does nothing to the pressure and decreases the density. Because the Earth's atmosphere isn't "confined," there's no lid, the air is relatively free to change volume. Heat the entire planet up and the atmosphere will just get a little taller.

But, I think, even if we put a magical vacuum tight shell around the planet 200 miles up, making the volume finite, I think the atmosphere would still act like an unconfined gas, because 1. it's so vast that it never homogenizes, parcels of different temperatures, pressures and moisture content take days to slosh across the available space, and 2. the Earth's gravity will cause a pressure gradient; most of the air is at the bottom and if you heat it up, it may not change volume but the pressure at the top will increase.

So I guess there has to be an upper limit to the volume and/or mass of air that can be "confined" and it's somewhere below planetary scale.

https://archive.is/snwm5

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Just remembered a true Web 1.0 time capsule Stinkymeat.net. Mahlon Smith’s legendary “research” into what happens when you leave meat outside and document the decay.

I can’t believe the site is still up in 2025. Gross, hilarious and pure early-internet charm.

Makes me wonder… could someone repeat the “experiment” today with the same cuts of meat, same daily photos and compare the data? For science, of course.

Hey y'all. I've been testing a bunch of Note taking solutions and nothing seems to check off what I want and need.

I want a simple interface (both for list view and note editor/view), preferably similar to Google Keep, but a regular list is fine as well.

Key features:

A. being able to drag and drop re-order checkbox lists.

e.g.

• [ ] item 1
• [ ] item 2
• [x] item 4
• [x] item 3

I'd like to be able to just drag and drop the above to sort things correctly.

B. E2EE at rest.

C. CTRL+F inside the note view/edit!!

Honestly, the only functionality I truly want is A. But most of the solutions I found are either proprietary or can't do it.

Self hosted options I've tried:

• Joplin (can't do A; UX is not great)
• Standard notes (A + C is gated by their self hosted premium subscription; I don't mind paying for my apps, but the prices are ridiculous)
• Silverbullet.md (can't do A)
• Quillpad (very similar to Google Keep and can do A, but has terrible file syncing, not E2EE)

Notesnook looks almost as insane as Standard Notes to self host (mimicing AWS stack locally is nuts). Has anyone tried Notesnook yet? I don't want to spend another afternoon setting something heavy up only to find that the feature I want is gated by a heavy $.

Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Woops! I am looking to use the notes app on both Android and Web/Desktop Linux. Preferably an open source solution.

They're recession indicators