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Weaponization of the monetary system.
But the US dollar has always been weaponized
Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
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Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
#62A friend of mine who works in a startup in Bangladesh tells me that critical infrastructure is being set on fire indiscriminately. Buildings such as data centers. He shared videos of many such burning buildings. The country doesn’t yet have resilient infrastructure. For example, internet and telecommunication go through a single point of failure. Last year, that building was accidentally set on fire and it led to 2 w…
The protest WAS peaceful until one protester was killed by the Police for no reason.
Not sure how you are blaming the massive countrywide internet outage on the protesters. It was literally announced by the government that they were shutting everything down to control the movement.
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They've always been around, and I think the trend is still towards more democracy and freedom cross the world.
That doesn't make the news though.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. In Romania, a lot of public sector jobs (the easy, influential or well paying ones) are given out only via nepotism and political connections, usually to descendants and connections of the former communist party high-ups and former members of the military/intelligence services who now own and run lucrative businesses (monopolies for the state) and their kids are usually in charge of the business or in politics…
Not to be that guy but Romania isn't "first world" (yet). It's still very much developing imo.
IIRC, a couple of years ago it passed into the developed nations club.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ideally protests should be peaceful. Other people in the thread are saying that Bangladesh is a dictatorship, and security forces are killing people for protesting. Just to be clear, if that's the case, violence against the state is entirely justified. There is nothing morally wrong about rebelling against autocracy, in fact, it's quite a good thing.
It’s easy to encourage this when there’s nothing at stake. I personally have friends and family who are trapped and fear violent protestors as much as violent police. And when the protests die down in a few days or weeks, there will be even fewer jobs. And the attacks aren’t against the state but against the people as well.
Well obviously violence against random civilians is not justified, the target should be the state, especially leaders and security forces.
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#66Is this how an Ai take over or state sponsored cyber attack would look like?
It is a state sponsored cyber attack. It doesn't just look like one
Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
#67Maybe they just had Crowdstrike installed at some of their Internet exchange control machines? :-\
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to be that guy but Romania isn't "first world" (yet). It's still very much developing imo.
IIRC, a couple of years ago it passed into the developed nations club.
It's HDI is still well below those of other "developed" countries (0.900 and above), and despite the GDP per Capita increase, average household (EDIT: individual, not household) income is still below $6,000/yr [0] so comparable to Mexico, Thailand, and Turkiye (edit: comparable to Mexico and Turkiye, not Thailand which is at $6,000 still)
In 10-15 it will become a developed country but right now it isn't.
I am a big Romania booster though so I'm not trying to put it down
[0] - https://insse.ro/cms/en/content/household-income-and-expendi...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you name a first world country that gives out 40% of the public sector jobs to veterans or their children?
The UK House of Lords has a quota of 92 hereditary peers, descendants of Norman conquerors.
The House of Lords isn't that powerful, but it's still an embarrassment to have this sort of hereditary system.
Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests
#70I think it's worth noting why this is happening. The country has been giving out degrees and jobs to people who instead of working and studying hard, to descendants of veterans in the country's war against pakistan, and this level of nepotism has been going on since the 70s which as you can easily imagine is not great for those who see the value in getting these "basic livelihood for hard work" things. So when people…
Degrees as well as jobs? Are Bangladeshi universities diploma mills?