Alright, I’m done with your lying and moving goalposts. I’m gonna do what I always do with people who act in bad faith and block you.

But first, I’ll say, I cited the Mali civil war because it’s ongoing. They were also one of two parties in the Sino-Vietnamese war after Vietnam invaded Cambodia. This was in 1979, with ongoing smaller conflicts until the 90s.

They also took control of the Paracel Islands during the Vietnam War, 1974.

And while neither of these were started by China, your original stance didn’t include that little asterisk, you just moved the goalposts when you were proven wrong by the proud, public admission of Chinese officials.

While China may not have been involved in many conflicts, or started any of them themselves, neither of these classifiers were a part of your original position, and you only started shifting when people proved you wrong. You’re a petulant child who can’t stand to say “I was wrong.”

You included the Yemeni Civil War. Same situation.
Nice try #1.

You didn’t say “no war that they started,” you said “no wars, that’s a fact,” which I was responding to and proving false.
Nice try #2.

Nice try? WTF are you on about?

China, as a part of the U.N., has been taking part in the Mali war. Here is an article from 2016 in which officials address this fact.

China now has more than 2,400 peacekeepers in Mali and other African countries, she said, adding that the country would continue to positively contribute to U.N. peacekeeping missions to help ensure peace and stability in Africa.

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Maybe they wouldn’t have needed to diversify into such predatory markets if their execs weren’t pocketing all the money.

I feel like the fact he worked for Microsoft before starting Valve adds a whole new layer to the story, too.

Ah, right. Got my wires crossed I guess.

IIRC, he didn’t get sent it early, he got into Valve’s servers and snagged it.

The kicker, and this is the part I always remember: he guessed Gabe Newell’s password. It was gaben, same as his user name, same as his name name.

It’s laughable that Russian psyop has moved the needle much with the US electorate, never mind swung an election for Trump.

Not really. Not what I was talking about, but also, not really. All it would take is a couple hundred computers and access to malleable people. Most governments could manage the first, and Twitter and Facebook tend to consolidate the second. I’d say just about any country that isn’t considered third-world could move a large portion of the American populace if they wanted.

There’s no star. There’s a plus, but no star.

The Civil Protection are just conscripted humans, that much is confirmed, but…

Notice how the … dermis is stripped off, right up until about the area the faceplate of a CP/OW stops

When it comes to this image, I think that’s pretty much a coincidence, because ::: spoiler spoiler that’s based on a photo of an actual dead burn victim… :::

More like “the concrete sizzles as the milk eats through it.”

I mean, it had said something about pasteurization heat just before that, but I don’t think that’s right.

Don’t get philosophical on me.

I don’t think the liquid would survive at temperatures capable of melting concrete.

I had DeepSeek R1 tell me that milk could melt concrete.

My ass under Combine rule…

Hm, maybe I’m remembering a different browser when it comes to the extensions thing. I’m thinking of one that used an older version of Firefox’s addon system, so has all of three maintained ones.

Well, either way, is dark reader.actually any good? Every non-native solution for dark mode I’ve ever tried has been a complete piece of crap, just lazily inverting the page contents, images often included.

IIRC, it’s one of the few add-ons that does work with Librewolf.

That said, the main reason I don’t use is, if I’m remembering the right browser, it just goes way too far with the privacy protections. There’s literally a single thing that’s a deal breaker for me, and that’s the inability to use dark mode on websites. It’s absolutely blinding to the point of being essentially unusable for me.