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Cloudflare DNS?

I think I munged the link. Anyway, the answer is in a search result, with some discussion about whether it was a battleship or destroyer.

You should look into how often nuclear weapons are moved by truck.

You've probably driven past more than a few.


He's directly responsible for the deaths of several hundred thousand people via DOGE and their abrupt withdrawal and support of food aid.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...


Those estimates are highly disputed because they all come from modeled projections, not anything attributed on the ground.

If a death toll like that was real and attributable it would be the only thing in the news, 24/7, until the next election.

The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued. Significant insider pork was cut leading to a lot of very loud people complaining with hyperbole in their outrage.

Elon remains the most effective person in history at wielding wealth for the benefit of mankind. It is not particularly close and he has banked more credibility for moon-shot efforts (pun intended) than anyone on the planet.


> The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued.

Source?

All the recent data I can find shows a more than 80% decline in global food aid, education, and vaccinations, as of February 2026.

Education aid for 23 million children, 95 million lost access to basic healthcare, and from March 2025 to Feb 2026, an estimated ~3 million preventable deaths caused by this.

Sources: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/making-foreign-a...

https://firstfocus.org/resource/fact-sheet-usaid-cuts-total-...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-tol...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/04/africa-trump...

https://www.rescue.org/article/innovation-vs-cuts-humanitari...


Directly? I do not think it means what you think it means.

Hate the guy all you want, even for this, but don't try and juice it another 20% with emotional words that are ultimately incorrect.


Okay let me juice you with some "emotional words".

There is a direct line from his decisions to more than ten times the number of Americans KIA in the entirety of the Vietnam war.

Argue about how it happened all you want, the bodies are at his fucking feet. CEOs and leadership of organizations are accountable for their decisions.

"Emotional"

How about get a fucking working conscience.

Hundreds of thousands are dead, two thirds of which were kids. Children.


Flatpak gives me one package to install and a little bit of a minor security boundary around the application.

Out of Appimage, snap, and flatpak, flatpak has been the only one after years that seems sane.

It also works really well with atomic desktops tbf.

Fuck snap, fuck snap so hard.


Not just public data.

Remember Google’s book scanning project?

> hmm maybe aws should make datacenter locations secret?

Open source intelligence today rivals the best of any nation. That would be virtually impossible to hide for long.


Satellite -> satellite warfare already happens, and may have even been the the cause of a Starlink satellite "exploding" the other day.

Not enough damage.

Send two drones to firebomb the roof of the datacenter. Wouldn't trigger any fire suppression system that I am aware of.


You're barking up the wrong tree.

The gear to replace the power infra is more readily available than the thousands and thousands of miles of wire and fiber in a datacenter, plus all the equipment, batteries, inverter/chargers, maybe some diesel generators, etc.

If you want to do economic damage, you hit the datacenter.

If you want to turn the people of the country against you and mobilize them, then you hit the power infra.


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