circuscritic @ circuscritic @lemmy.ca

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I've never complimented, or defended Steve Jobs before, because he was a grade A piece of shit...but, Steve Jobs transformed technology precisely because he was a phenomenal salesman, with a great eye for technical talent.

Just because he wasn't an engineer, doesn't change the fact that he forged Apple into what it became, and that absolutely contributed to modern technology - for better, and worse.

Unless they invented time machines to pass those laws to just before McCarthy being ousted, they aren't relevant to this situation.

It's honestly embarrassing that their are so many downvotes to your simple objective statement.

I'm going to guess it's not because they think you're wrong, but because they actually find the idea that hate speech isn't a standalone crime dangerous, which is batshit crazy.

Do you realize how vast that geography is, and that civilians travel through it daily?

Also, they had just gunned down hundreds of civilians, their motivation to leave Russian controlled territory, including Belaruse, was probably pretty high on their hierarchy of needs. Escaping into a country that Russia is at war with, seems like a safer option that sticking around anywhere with an FSB or ICRF field office.

I said nothing about Ukrainian involvement, or complicity, as I haven't seen any evidence to support that, nor do I believe they would be.

So, take your own advice and don't be that dumb.

Absolutely. Everyone here is acting like PDF and JPEG exploits on Android don't exist.

I agree that OP shouldn't pay for one, and that most AV apps are, at best, garbage, but there are also reasons to have one, and reasonable ones to install - Hypatia being one of them.

That doesn't necessarily mean your IP isn't being exposed to YT.

If that is something you're concerned about, you should read the documentation of whichever pipe/front ends and services you use.

Assuming they (ISIS) have active members on the other side, and a corridor established, fleeing into Ukraine would be probably significantly safer - assuming Russian and Ukrainian internal security services aren't sharing intelligence and otherwise cooperating while they're engaged in a hot conflict.

You toss a better word salad, I'll give you that.

However, you probably should have read the conversation to understand the context behind my dismissive "mic drop".

OP said something kinda dumb.

I corrected them.

Instead of owning their mistake, or moving on, they try to explain away their dumb comment with a large block of tangentially related regional facts and observations, logical fallacies, and a bad metaphor/analogy about the meaning of a kiss.

Maybe their are situations when a rambling word salad is the right answer, but I haven't come across any, yet.

Do you think groups like radical Islamic organizations only attack targets when they're associated with American actions...?

Russia has a long history of conflict with these types of groups, both internally (Caucuses) and externally (Syria, Afghanistan, etc.).

A history I might add, that predates American influence in the Middle East, much less the War on Terror.

Those are two separate events...

The false flag apartment bombings were carried out by actual Russian security services - not Chechen assets, or militants.

On an related unrelated note, some of Russian agents who took part were comically stupid. If you aren't aware of the Sims vs SIM card mix-up, do yourself a favor and look it up.

Edit: as pointed out below, the Sims vs SIM card was not part of the 1999 false flag operation, but a more recent one (2022). My bad.

Yes, I agree. AI is magic and everyone should submit pictures of their genitals.

Hell, I've started converting my dick pics into ASCII art and having ChatGPT diagnose me for STI's.

AI BABY WOOOOOO HOOOOO

What part of AI don't you understand?

If you can't trust AI medical startups operating out of Silicon Valley with pictures of your genitals, well...THEN WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

I mean, to be fair, it also looks like they might be partially financially backed by a foreign authoritarian regime, and they usually have pretty good AI models....so...

"Democracy Dies in Darkness"

lol

Also, 10:1 odds that Bezos, or whichever puppet master he assigned to pull WaPo's strings, was already aware of this, and it was key factor for why they him hired.

Honestly, you're better off getting an Nvidia Shield TV, or another premium Google certified Android TV box.

But if you're deadset against that, then get a used Chromebox off eBay for like $20-40. Just make sure whatever model you get is firmware flashable and supports user installed Linux. Search "Chromebox Linux HTPC", there's plenty of resources available.

Relative valuations aren't the key differences, it's what the companies do, and what they support.

ARM technology powers the vast majority of mobile devices, and is estimated to have upwards of 30% of the PC CPU market share by 2026.

It's sale, or acquisition, is more than a pissing match between two great powers.

Uh...TikTok is not ARM, or anything close to resembling it.

The US justification for forcing the sale of TikTok may be horseshit political theater for dubious reasons, but that doesn't close the gap of making a TikTok sale anywhere close to resembling ARM.

Well, I know one location I can remove from my travel itinerary.

No way I'm buying a child bride from someplace that fucked up.

Australia's media market is controlled by just two corporate entities, of which, the least insane one is the Murdoch press. To be clear, that's an indictment of Nine Entrainment, not an endorsement of Murdoch.

It literally insane corrupt megacorp (News Corp) vs even more insane and more openly corrupt megacorp (Nine Entertainment).

Actually, GrapheneOS would be a significant step in a better direction, even before Gemini gets added to the iOS equation.