Boko Haram itself is a former ally of Islamic State, but they had a split almost a decade ago

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It’s unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-launches-strikes-against-islamic-state-militants-northwest-nigeria-trump-says-2025-12-25/

Nigeria’s government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.

I rented one once for an hour, that was all the Tesla experience I needed tbh.

Wasn’t a P100D or anything, just a Y Long Range, but I no longer have any curiosity about it. Interior was bland af, ride quality was barely any better than a cheapo Hyundai… The only good things are the giant tablet not being slow as hell, and the powertrain being fun.

You get a lot more with European cars if you’re willing to pay Tesla level prices. Or you can get a completely OK car from Korea or Japan and pay less (as long as it isn’t a Lexus, those are expensive).

Guess udemy was too affordable and that needed to be changed. In a sane world this would be prevented by anti trust legislation.

Let’s just say some people I know lost their mother at a very early age and when one of them finally asked the father about it 30 years later, his explanation was “well person X was at work that night, ask him”. Person X being a business partner of his, somewhat of a low-end organized crime guy. Dead for like 10-15 years at that point.

When I say lost, I mean she hasn’t been found decades later. Not even a body.

Early 90s were a crazy ass time here in Estonia.

There’s more details I know, but honestly if I go too into detail and the story makes its way out of our tiny community here, people who know about the whole thing will instantly figure out who I am and who I’m talking about and I don’t want that. Not because I’m in any danger from anyone - just because I don’t want it to happen.

Some do.

Soldiers who killed enemy soldiers

Starting to get more likely in Eastern Europe now than the US I’d say. Never know when you might run into a former Russian or Ukrainan soldier.

People who killed in self defense

Probably less likely outside of the US since no guns, but assault is still a thing and you can kill an assailant without a gun.

Doctors and nurses who have made mistakes that accidentally killed patients

This is universal.

People who killed people in accidents such as driving accidents or hunting accidents

So is this.

Damn. That still going on in your extended family, or has it died down now?

It is quite likely that someone I knew either killed a person, or had them killed.

Said potential murderer is dead for a few years now and tbh I don’t think anyone wants to uncover this mystery anymore. Since the whole thing was very long ago, it’s easier to just ignore it instead of ruining everyone’s memory of a person. The other person who could’ve done it has been dead for a decade or 2 too.

lol. lmao even

How do you like Uruguay? Would you recommend it?

I don’t think I can move out of Estonia any time soon, but sometimes I would like to escape to a warmer, but not super hot place… and Montevideo looks beautiful

But it would still phone home though? It’s not like great firewall blocks all traffic, it blocks traffic the CCP doesn’t like.

Gotta have that emergency döner

It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans

Forbid anyone with political influence from using Twitter. Only allow funny remarks and shower thoughts.

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created.

Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there.

Does a director create the movie? They don’t usually edit it, they don’t have to act in it, nor do all directors write movies. Yet the person giving directions is seen as the author.

The idea is that vibe coding is like being a director or architect. I mean that’s the idea. In reality it seems it doesn’t really pan out.

I honestly can’t imagine where I’d want to go if EU turns further shit than it currently is trying to turn with Chat Control. Many beautiful countries in South America, but they have violent histories and you never know when there’s a dictatorship again, either with or without help from the US. South-East Asia maybe? Republic of China seemed nice a decade and a half ago when I was a teenager and didn’t know it would be endangered by People’s Republic of China. I just watched M13 ride his motorcycle on their roads on YouTube and it was beautiful.

I think currently the best bet for anyone looking to escape from EU if things go bad here (either corporations manage to take hold over too many EU politicians, or Putin attacks my tiny little border country) is Uruguay. I hear they have mostly sensible policies and are good for LGBTQ+ rights (not an issue for me personally, but still a positive because I’d still like my friends to feel safe visiting me if I move to another country and some of them may be affected)

Hungary is free to leave the EU if they want to and Medvedev gets exactly zero say in anything, tf he even opening his mouth for?

As far as I’m concerned, they can all go pound finely grained mineral particles.

Lol our far right praises everything Trumpler does. And there are also pedo suspicions about some members of the family running the far-right party in my country.

They haven’t been able to get enough power to go full Hitler, but all they really need is a few good crises. They want to get rid of all LGBT and POC too. Funnily enough they don’t want to ruin the welfare state though, unlike the liberals.

Uh we have our own far-right problem plus many people just don’t care about foreign politics.