The most secure endpoint is one that is completely inaccessible because the underlying service isn’t running.

I know a lot of international adoptees and certainly have mixed feelings about it.

I think it is natural, as countries modernize and grow economically, that they begin to see diminishing value in outsourcing orphaned kids. It becomes something of a point of pride or pseudo nationalism.

It is also worth mentioning however that many Asian countries in particular have a cultural tradition emphasising the importance of blood heritage etc. That cuts against the viability of domestic adoption in those countries. It is an uncomfortable fact. Nations like China, Japan, and Korea, have work to do in reforming the cultural acceptance of domestic adoption.

As a general principle it seems that the preferred option on behalf of the child should always be adoption by close relative, followed by an adoptive family in their culture of origin, with international adoption as a last resort. Children deserve loving families and any of the above scenarios is better than an institutional orphange in any country.

EDIT: Obviously none of this is meant to downplay the seriousness of adoption fraud. We can all agree that practice is dispicable.

I realize this is Lemmy so it is a race to make the most edgelord anti-US comment. I would be remiss if I didn’t remind people of the shocking naivety of this mentality.

It seems many on this board believe that the US would get destroyed, western values would be undermined and some magic communist utopia would just naturally arise the world over in the aftermath. Wrong.

The conflict being described here would be a world war in which multiple large scale nuclear strikes would be deployed. Whatever country you are shitposting from wouldn’t be immune from first order effects, let alone follow-on effects of such a disasterous exchange. Millions would die. You would be better off perishing in the initial salvos than struggling to survive in whatever Mad Max scenario your country devolves into in the resulting hellscape of nuclear fallout, zero international deterrence, likely cessation of emergency services on a local level, and all non local supply chains and communication channels being broken.

So, be careful what you wish for, and don’t hasten the day.

In the 1950s in the Philippines the CIA was conducting operations against a militant group called the Huks. The CIA operatives spread rumors that manananggal (basically the local mythological equivalent of a vampire) was attacking people, particularly in the area of one mountain village. Then they located a Huk patrol, stealth-killed one guy, punctured his neck to create the appearance of “bite marks”, drained all his blood, and threw him back on the road where they had jumped him.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswang

Anyone remember that time the CIA faked a vampire attack as a psyop in the Philippines?

Yes. This is apparently so much of a problem that US and other nations include this in security training for military personnel and contractors. They literally teach you not to get in arguments online about weapons capabilities and whatnot because they know people are dumb enough to post classified info just so they can be like “ackshually…” on an internet forum.

“…well…anyway…”

You know it is pretty bad when a bunch of CNN commentators think he got smoked.

ROFL

OK sure, but my point was it would be a huge step up from this underbarrel bolt-action garbage they’re showing there.

Literally every country has pump action shotguns. The Russians have the Saiga as an issue shotgun already. Why not just deploy those as backup weapons. Or have 1 designated squad shotgunner.

“Joe Biden wants to stop the bleeding in his poll numbers in Michigan” would be a better headline.

I think “extremely ethnocentric” is a more fair description/criticism of Japan. Close to 98% of their population is ethnically homogeneous, so it kinda makes sense.

The L85… which not even an HK redesign could salvage

I phrased it poorly but I’m saying a lot of people on Lemmy are commenting “good, fuck Russia” about this situation while simultaneously holding the thought that civilian deaths are bad in Gaza. I’m saying both are bad.

Allow me to point to the cognitive dissonance that should be occurring among the Gaza ceasefire types -

Examine your logic of “Government X is bad, therefore it’s good when bad things happen to its civilians.”

I’d suggest this way of thinking is flawed in both situations.

Because a couple dudes with small arms can’t be effective by attacking the Russian military or police forces head-on. Instead they choose to attack soft targets and maximize the social disruption and impact by terrorizing citizens.

I would normally say it seems like a convenient false flag if they could pin it on Ukraine or something, but it sounds like several sources have confirmed ISIS is claiming responsibility.

Subaru also claims “Love” is what makes Subaru a Subaru. They also manufacture attack helicopters.

I mean we could actually elect congress people with courage who would handcuff the executives ability to take unilateral military action, requiring authorizing legislation for all such actions, but no Reps or Senators of either major party seem to want to push for that.

Agree with this. All the pro weed and pro other drug people need to realize they are making the opposite argument to support banning smoking. All substances carry some intrinsic risk and the externalities must be managed, but its up to consenting adults to make their own choices about what they will consume.