Zedstrian

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"I wouldn't call it a war. Right now, there is no active shooting," Vance told a White House briefing when asked if the war would be over by US midterm elections in November.

An entirely disingenuous answer given that the U.S. in modern conflicts largely employs missile strikes as its preferred weapon, not ground assault troops.

Different users have different things they don't want to see; one person might not want to see anything that mentions 'Trump', another anything that mentions the U.S. altogether. Someone else might want to minimize the amount of violence in their feed and filter out mentions of 'war'. Yet another person might add a regex filter to block a series of URLs, such as:

(cbs|fox)news.com

That level of specificity—beyond the level of mere rule enforcement—is what such filters would enable. Piefed allows for keyword and domain filtering, so the ideal would be for regex support to be added to this, Lemmy and Mbin to adopt the same system, and for apps and frontends to support it.

"All we're doing is taking an idle, underground asset that isn't doing anything for Venezuelan people and bringing the money, the technology to develop it."

Not that Trump and his cronies give a shit about global warming, but keeping Venezuelan oil reserves idle would encourage the adoption of alternative energy sources instead.

Cementing Venezuela as a petro state harms the Venezuelan people by propping up a U.S.-backed government that operates on oil revenue instead of tax revenues from a populace to which it is beholden.