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  • Even now, my brain won't ever wrap its head around modern countries like Ireland and N. Ireland feeling the need for things like "peace walls" between neighbors.

    Your comment sums up a lot of my feelings: a true peace can't be forced from the outside. It's way too complicated and emotional for simplistic shit. And you can see it in the comments around here too. Everyone's wrapped up in intense anger, blame, and reciting the litany of past horrors as justification for new ones.

  • A public good? Like roads, firefighters, etc? You want the government to pay for your Youtube Premium subscription?

    Less snarky, if you're arguing that Youtube has earned a special legal status, a natural consequence is that Google gets to play by a different rulebook from all other competitors. That's quite a dangerous direction to take.

  • Does this mean brew install nvidia-drivers works for you?

    "Posix compliant"? I'm not sure you fully understand the gap here. Linux has containers, performant and feature rich virtualization, robust networking, user friendly GNU utils, case sensitive filesystems, etc. It's not stuff you can duct tape on by recompiling Linux tools and be all set. You're trying to keep up with a Ferrari using a Fiat.

  • There's more to "AI" than ChatGPT. Deepfakes, propaganda swarms, precise tracking of people online across pseudonyms/handles. The power available to malicious organizations and governments is absolutely terrifying. Any social media that doesn't also have AI-based countermeasures is vulnerable.

  • Eh, I have a MB from work and I'm still an unrepentant Mac hater. All the badass hardware in the world won't save you from crippled software. MacOS will never be keyboard friendly and "MacOS UNIX" will never hold a candle to real Linux.

  • There was no existing nation. Pre-47, it was British territory and before that, it was seized from the Ottoman Empire after WW1.

    Simplistic statements about historical claims to territory will never work here. Nor will "keeping score" about whose team is getting revenge for what previous massacre and who's killed the most children (what a fucking thing to have to spell out. holy shit.).

  • M1 Macbooks were also the first "Not Completely Shit" Macbooks after many years of awful problems so there was pent up demand from Apple users for something worth buying. Now that the demand is satisfied, sales will return to a baseline.

  • You're misrepresenting what happened and the documented differences in how China behaves vs other countries.

    It's hard to overstate how dangerous flying within 5 meters of another jet is.

    Russia frequently tests US readiness by flying towards North American airspace yet you don't hear about F-22 pilots colliding with other planes. But there's a long history of Chinese pilots absolutely fucking it up, resulting in death and damage.

  • A lot of people are trying to justify the killing of Israeli civilians however.

    If there's going to be an "open air prison", we should make one for the far right nationalists of every country so the rest of the world can live in peace.

  • I would be an asshole to show up to this.

    That's the part I really don't get. If you're cis male looking for a job, do you really think crashing this event is going to reflect favorably on you and that you'd be more likely to land a job? People are going to look at you and think that you have good judgment and won't be a problem at all? What the heck is the thought process that makes this a good plan?