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It’s not though. There are some situations where you shouldn’t ‘give’, and others where you shouldn’t ‘take’. This is one of the former cases he is correct.

I think it’s probably just framed that way because Russia never officially took responsibility for it, not because anyone believes Ukraine really did it

10… billion seconds ago?

I once solved Goldbach’s conjecture in only 7 lines. Mods absolutely deleted it. Reason given? Damn, if I could remember that I could remember the proof

Particularly egregious because any private replacement of a govt program is inherently a monopoly and therefore, by economic rules, almost certain to be wasteful and shite. And outcome metrics are financial rather than intentional. Yeah but ok let’s not go down this hole, we all know where we stand.

Why would you bother talking about them, I suppose. Bitching about dickheads - fun, wow, everyone loves a moan. Complimenting the capable? Dull, flat, uninteresting

Same way we always have - trust. Reputation has always been a thing, there was a brief window where photographic or video evidemce was enough but it didn’t last all that long and tbh it’s always had its flaws.

Don’t know what you mean, plot makes perfect sense. Hard boiled Kung Fu detective fights nazi robots with dinosaurs

He also has a savant’s knack for higher mathematics!

It could just be that you’re getting down votes because your tone makes you sound like an arsehole, rather than it being specific to the content of what you’re saying 🤷

As a friend of both a Hungarian and a Slovakian (and also a few people from a few other niched European nations) I gotta say: nobody deserves to get fucking bombed just because their leaders are twats. Even if they voted for them. Although it’s tempting sometimes to let yourself think it, innit.

Is this you, Ken M?

I think it’s one of those things which technically enables some stuff (embassies or some shit? The reframing of Israel as literally invading another country, rather than committing sins against ppl whose homeland exists but doesn’t exist?) but probably won’t have much on an impact and is more designed to say ‘hehm. Ackshually it is not totally super cool what you guys are doing’. But then we probably continue to sell them components and widgets that ultimately get used in war machines because dude have you seen the way predominantly-English-speaking nations act towards those that aren’t? But like I think it as at least something, and will likely have implications of technical legality that make some enablement of Israel more difficult or even impossible as the new setting takes hold. Maybe.

Of course by that time…

But let’s hold onto some tiny modicum of hope, because what else is there. Even a teaspoon of water in the desert is better than mouth of sand.

This is how you end up with a 99.7% completed gzip of bob Dylan’s entire catalog and have to restart on a new, uncompressed stream that’s 10x larger

Fortunately the significantly improved download speed from the 6 heroic always-online seeders mitigated your concerns somewhat. But where were they before?

Boudicca, queen of the Icenii, would like to remind you that it was more progressive before the Romans invaded

Where I live, they haven’t all been. I suspect many feel about guns and pot the same way as you feel about drugs that haven’t been legalised in your area.

Anyway, legalisation of drugs isn’t the hard bit, it’s the regulation that can be tricky to get right…

Sometimes people just take drugs because drugs are fun … Not all of them are despairing or desperate…

It was a glib joke that I wouldn’t have paid a creator to make $someRandomContentThatIWpuldntHaveSoughtOutAnyway. Honestly don’t care for AI art on aesthetic or ethical grounds tbqh, just a throwaway comment on the internet.

Yep very true. I actually intended my comment as an agreement but I guess something got lost in translation, lol