It seems US is backing china's stake in Iran and houthis at the moment

For what it's worth:

* Engineering, marketing, and most of sales are still Red Hat (different employer, different benefits etc.)

* IT and some smaller sales teams are moving to IBM

* Over the years some teams were exchanged between the companies, for example AI went from IBM to Red Hat and middleware went the other way round.

You may say this is simply boiling the frog, but Red Hat is still employing thousands of people.

Now the IBM has the majority on FreeDesktop, like they own it. They can "extinguish" everything they ever want to.

Many, many people are still in a state of denial.

IBM did this correctly.

IBM develops and sells Storage Products, so we are going to take the engineering teams that development and maintain those storage products because, you know, it just makes sense.

We maintain and develop Power, etc. so it only makes sense that we move all development for RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible, Satellite, etc on Power, etc to IBM because, you know, it makes sense.

Why do we have two HR, Legal, etc teams? Those teams are joining Red Hat Jan 1, because, you know, it makes sense.

And so on and so on, and many Red Hatters just said, "Yea that does make sense".

Suddenly, someone pointed out that in a year and half span, 1/4th of the company will move to Red Hat leaving Engineering, Sales, and Support and 1/3rd of Sales is moving as well and, only then, did the rest of Red Hat say, "Holy Shit!"

Orbital is becoming less reliable due to escalating threats

English media failed to pick up those stories.

English media also routinely violates house-style by using the passive voice when reporting actions by Israel: "50 civilians killed in Gaza" vs "Hamas/Syria kills 50 civilians". Boo English media

English media also does this for crimes in their own countries, depending on the narrative they want to spin. Im sure other countries do too, but i dont watch news in foreign languages.

I don't know about you guys but I'm feeling it

Was subfloor burial common in Neolithic?

Currently, while not a majority of cultures buried people under their homes, it was common enough.

Çatalhöyük

Non-royal Sumer and Babylon

Poorer Mayans (from what can be found, there's much of the ancient Maya unexplored)

The LoWiili culture and some other West African cultures

The Tikopia until the arrival of Christianity

Some neolithic sites in Europe, but not believed to have been too common there

Also in Neolithic Yellow River it was pretty common to bury infants in jars/pots underneath the floor from what I remember.

Seems like you'd quickly run out of floor and/or end up with a lot of bodies in one place. And are you chipping up your plaster floor every time someone dies? I'm pretty skeptical that this makes sense as a practice. Seems far more likely that a building was built over a forgotten grave.

We know of many, many cultures that have buried remains under house floors as ritual practice. Sometimes our "common sense" isn't a reliable guide to distant cultures.

Including many Christian churches. Though there it is limited to people of particular importance to the church, faith or public community because of the practical concerns mentioned above. A lot of churches are many centuries old, and having a couple bodies buried under the floor over that time seems not that uncommon (at least in Europe)

We don't bury everyone under churches, however as we would quickly run out of room.

The floor of most houses for most of history was made of dirt.

Estimating "common" is quite difficult, but given that there are pre-colonial aboriginal australian burial sites, we can estimate that it either can be traced to Africa or is sufficiently common to not be surprising. There is even evidence (not proof) of neanderthal burial rituals, fwiw.

I suspect it has to do with our advanced capacity for emotion. The death of a loved one is so difficult to bear, having their body sitting out in the open in a rotting state would be horrific. Burying serves the dual purpose of hiding their decomposition and keeping them close to the community.

Also, disposing of corpses means less diseases around. It's possible that communities that carelessly left the dead around unwittingly opted out of the genetic pool.

Unless you're going to eat your loved (or hated) one you need to get rid of the body before it starts rotting, for health reasons.

Burial is the standard way for very good practical reasons. Having somewhere to put a flower is also nice.

> Burial is the standard way

(Assuming you mean the obvious and immediate semantics of digging a hole and placing the corpse within it...)

It may be now, but there are many ways to provide corpse disposal without risking health. Sky and tree burials are clear evidence of other corpse disposal methods. I imagine cremation is pretty obvious to humans too.

Some people even exhume the bodies and perform rituals with it. I find this nauseous but it wouldn't be a thing if societies were being eliminated from its effects.

You're of course right, but note that I said "standard", not "only".

What the "alternate" methods all have in common is they don't leave a rotting corpse around. I imagine populations who did this did not tend to survive :)

I looked it up, and sky burial is/was done in places like Tibet, where the ground is either rock or frozen, so you often physically can't dig a grave.

I think it's likely associated with desert cultures since vegetation nucleates around burial sites due to access to organic material.

Fun fact: forensic teams locate buried bodies by looking for vegetation that grows above them. There's a lot of fertilizer there.

Expect nothing less from BRIICS supported DOGE.

They still exist and are still causing havoc by ineptitude.

> BRIICS supported DOGE

Huh? Could you elaborate on this?

Putin is backing and helping bankroll cryptocurrency as an alternative to current banking systems setup in Europe regarding national currency. This is also on line with china and Brazil thought (moreover largely what BRIICS is trying to accomplish). BRIICS is trying to setup what is called a 'multipolar world' something putin has extensively talked about.

Elon Musk was one of the first people to help create an electronic banking system that allowed bank to bank transfers. This eventually evolved into online only banking and then proof of concept for crypto currencies.

Elon musk has publicly supported his grandfather's plan of creating an American sphere from Venezuela to Canada and is pushing that to he the boundaries of a multipolar world that fits very nicely into putins vision for the world.

Elons father and him have a somewhat warm relationship to putin. Elon is helping AfD gain support in Germany and they're almost exclusively using Russian talking points.

It is well reasoned and proven beyond a doubt DOGE has taken over and fired heads of US agencies illegally or not.

It is also beyond a doubt that Elon Thiel Vance Trump and Johnson are enforcing putins worldview on Americans and in direct opposition to their interests.

Trump is destroying the US military, global positioning, US dollar in order to enact putins world view.