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From someone with a passing interest, Krita seems on a similar trajectory to Blender - gathering momentum and going from strength to strength, whereas Gimp seems rather stuck.

Ideally you need a double-blind checking mechanism definitionally impervious to social engineering.

That may be possible in larger projects but I doubt you can do much in where you have very few maintainers.

I bet the lesson here for future attackers is: do not affect start-up time.

From what I read it was this observation that led him to investigate the cause. But this is the first time I read that he's employed by Microsoft.

A few years ago I would have said the courts would impose sanity over these extremes but that no longer applies.

Murder on the dance floor

And it's pretty good - you can add text and images but you can't yet move pages around or manipulate existing elements.

You are right, "proposal" was overstating it, and a strawman.

Let's see here:

It's just pretty obvious that you don't make a real effort to prevent a state completing it's genocide before you stop supplying them with arms.

Up to now what you put forward twice was a purity test.

I thought the test was tantamount to a specific proposal: to stop the arms supply - but apparently you say it's not, and you want to play the definition game now, or just a frustrated "no you".

So far my position has been that the US should be doing more to apply pressure to Israel.

Maybe that's your underlying motivation, which I agree with.

How do you disagree with that WITHOUT taking the stance that any other action would lead to a worse outcome?

I didn't disagree with doing more.

And I didn't say that any other action will lead to a worse outcome.

You keep on performing the same fallacy and ascribing me motivations I don't have.

I disagreed with the non-proposal of stopping the arms right now as a minimum first step.

Again, what is this hypothetical cutting of the nose?

It's clearly the minimum action you mentioned in the litmus test.

If you say that doing anything more than what the US is currently doing

At this point I'm not sure we understand language the same way.

I'm out.

literally saying there's no solution that isn't worse than doing what the current administration is doing

That's the strawman - at no point did I make that argument.

I didn't say all possible actions are pointless, nor that I agree with how the US is handling it - which is increasingly poorly for a very long time.

I merely disagreed with your proposal in detail and asked you to defend it if you were so convinced of it.

Pointing out that cutting our nose to spite our face is a bad policy, and will do worse than fuck all to help anyone, does not equal agreement with the administration, the US or Israel or anyone or doing nothing.

You're right there's absolutely no solution remotely possible, and that justifies the complete lack of even trying anything spicier than "Bibi pls"

Come on, that's a bit weak - is strawmanning the best you can do?

Great, but, after that - is there a realistic next day scenario that doesn't hurt Palestinians more? If so, what is it?

Look, I'll put it this way: there is no upside to the US in any of this.

Ok, let's run the scenario: the US administration without approval from congress pulls some kind of magic trick and blocks weapon sales to Israel tonight.

What series of events do you think would unfold?

How would local politics unfold in the US, in Israel, in Palestine and in each of the surrounding countries?

Is peace now nearer? A two state solution closer?

Or would Israel, now that the bandaid has been pulled and no further threat remains, would decide that nothing will stop them, that they are on their own and they might as well just finish the job thoroughly?

Would Hamas declare that victory is near without the US involvement and redouble their efforts? Would Israel decide they need to find more reliable partners and turn to China? Or Russia? What would China do? Russia? Iran? Jordan? Egypt? Saudi Arabia?

Do you not think the US would have been much better off geopolitically for this thing to have gone away 6 decades ago? Why have they been trying with summit after summit?

This conflict has been sustained over the decades from different political actors for different reasons, some of them petty and pathetic, some religious and some geopolitical.

There are plenty of hungry sharks around ready to take their pound of flesh and it's not to help the Palestinians - we know the neighbours don't give a shit about them (except rhetorically) by the way they treat refugees within their own borders

There's no magic button to press to solve it.

This is like the 3 body problem, but really it's 20 moving celestial bodies.

you think the U.S government can't mobilize when enough motivations appear

Can you point to the part where I put forward that argument?

All they needed to do is tell Israel

The feds can't force Texas to stop shooting migrants you think they can force Israel to stop doing anything they're set on?

No, there are plenty of independent private game developers (Stardew Valley, Baldur's gate etc come to mind) I was just taking Phil Spencer's perspective, which I imagine is a platform level one.

Yes, but can you roll a platform of the distribution, breadth, depth and persistence over good and bad cycles of the scale of Xbox or PlayStation while being a private company? A few have tried.

The numbers are pretty meaningless without total numbers.

E.g. if it's 70 out 1,000,000 it's a different scenario than 70 out of 100.

And also some context would be nice: historical context - were coup attempts a continuous theme before us or this new? Any other nations getting involved in training in their facilities, and their outcomes?

Of course Pentagon's silence is deafening but it's probably to be expected if no good (for them) would come out of it.

There was already huge degree inflation before LLMs. They'll just make degrees given after a certain year worthless unless the only thing that counts is in-person exams with strict oversight.

Not if you don't have hands

Oh shit.. here comes the subscription service.

Thanks for putting some numbers down. At what resolution does it take 30 mins?