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The "rules-based international order" was a fiction popularized by US policy makers who wanted to quietly substitute it for international law, so they could violate said laws, whil…

I'm not sure that per capita is a very useful rubric to measure over time. Like I'm not saying there's no relation to population size, if you compare a tiny country to a large one,…

Some benefited handsomely. Most others, not so much.

The military jet was just a stunt, to reinforce the false pretext that there was a bomb aboard. There was no reported military aggression against the plane, and IIRC, the RyanAir p…

I haven't seen evidence that it was merely a stunt. But in any case, the sovereign head of state was effectively detained for 12 hours, based on lies and coercion. That itself is o…

The methods used are somewhat apples to oranges, but they're comparable in that both the United States and Belarus used pretty brazen measures to go after the political crime of un…

The Morales incident wasn't simply one country choosing to deny airspace. It was a hegemonic superpower using it's leverage to create a wall of un-passable countries, and then havi…

For the historically curious, state-sponsored skyjacking is not without precedent. Israel appears to have pioneered it: [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/13/archives/syrian-airli…

Trouser cuffs do have a function. The extra weight helps the cloth drape better.

All I really want is Fireworks. Never found a true replacement for it.

True, but I've been using GIMP a long time - more than a decade. Used it for years longer and years before I used Adobe CS. Taken a number of tutorials on it. Will always be super …

I want to like it, but GIMP is almost unusable for me. Really hard to do even basics, and have to spend a lot of time googling how to do what I want to do.

Here's a similar script I wrote. Would be glad for feedback. https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup

I believe they might go after the publisher in this case, and that Snowden already got a good advance they presumably can't get to while he's in Russia.

> "(and safe)" Want to make sure this part of the comment is also highlighted because big homeless shelters can be really difficult, scary, and even dangerous places, even when the…

Arguably the judgement against the book by the Navy Seal in the Bin Laden raid was a non-politicized example. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/matt-bissonnet...

It doesn't really matter, they can still use pre-publication review to jack you up by redacting even what is otherwise publicly available information and delay publication until th…

It's not just the free fare - it's the abysmal lack of shelter options and the attempts by cities to criminalize encampments and force people to find somewhere indoors to avoid arr…

My understanding is that one of the main hurdles is the physical limits of actually catching the carbon to sequester it. Even though it is historically high, it is still relatively…

Not dumb at all. I'm doing this on a $5 droplet and it's faster than any of the commercial VPN's I'm currently paying for. It's a little less privacy protective than many VPN provi…

http://mentalfloss.com/article/18991/chomskybot-almost-intel...

Does that work for imported documents also, or only Amazon-purchased books?

Sure! I barely know what I'm doing, but this worked for me: https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup Suggestions welcome!

Yes, but only for the books you purchase through Amazon. If you import DRM free books (or presumably re-import DRM free versions of Amazon purchases) or personal docs, the notes on…

Don't forget to backup your marks and highlights also. I made that mistake once, and then lost my Kindle. Lost years worth of highlights and notes, so now I set up a bash script to…