“Anarchist supply chains” makes it pretty clear that they think this model somehow replaces global supply chains. If they didn’t mean that, they wouldn’t have said it, and I think you’re at the point of basically ignoring the stated intent to invent a reason to feel outraged.

Yes, the dunk of “Well I’ll just come and kill you” is juvenile and silly, but so is the original post.

What did they prevent exactly? The tour is still happening, just without Macklemore. So I don’t know what you think you mean when you say “prevented the tour.”

What happened was the venue owner presented a set of terms, and Ed Sheeran, worth around $300 - $400 million, decided those terms were acceptable. Which means that when offered a choice between “Make slightly less money” and “Defend genocide”, Ed decided he was OK with genocide.

And by the way, Macklemore was offered those same terms. There is zero chance they went straight to kicking him off the tour. First thing they did, guaranteed, was tell him that he could either get kicked or cut the Free Palestine stuff. And clearly he told them to get fucked, because he has actual fucking integrity, something that is apparently too much to expect from your precious little sad boy pop star.

Nope. Just need to know an official language. English only is fine.

Most Canadians know fuck all French, just for the record. It’s only really spoken in two provinces.

Yeah, hi, um… Fuckface McParasite… You have literally zero fucking say over what people do in their home you fucking moron. If that means your precious fucking lightswitches wear out faster, too bad, so sad.

Out of curiosity, why develop your own instead of contributing to RenPy? Not saying there can’t be good reasons, just curious what they are in this case.

I guess I should specify that I’m selfhosting Notesnook, so the data never leaves my personal device ecosystem, and the central sync server is a big plus for me. No account required either (apart from the ones I create on the server I control).

If - hypothetically - you were trying to convince me that this is better than Notesnook, what would your pitch be?

“Imagine a terrible burger…”

Ahhhhhh she’s so pretty!

I have a BMC too, they’re such beautiful dogs.

But can that which was lost ever be saved?

I love the hell out of Cena’s Peacemaker performance, but if you forced me to pick between those two it’s gonna be Big Dave.

In the Canadian military they don’t say “Idiot proof”, they say “Yank proof.”

Your division between intent and capability is meaningless here. As is your quibbling over the specifics of imperialism. While there is, potentially, some room for argument over Iran, Russia fits your definition of Imperialism perfectly. Russia is a strong advocate for exactly the world of imperial spheres of influence that you describe, and it’s absolutely wild that you can’t see that. As for the question of intent vs capability, this is an irrelevant distinction because they are actively working towards the creation and reinforcement of imperialist power structures. As the strength of competing imperial powers in their respective sphere wane they will expand - or at least attempt to expand - to fill the gaps. That is imperialism.

The outcome of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is misery and oppression. They are not aiding the oppressed, they are oppressors. The Iranian regime engage in the oppression of their own people and if given the opportunity they would engage in the oppression of other people as well.

It’s frankly ludicrous that I even have to explain any of this. You - and just about everyone else here - are operating on a childish morality. You haven’t actually unpacked the propaganda you grew up with, you’ve just swapped out the heroes and villains in a global meta-narrative that still demands the existence of heroes and villains.

I’m aware that I’m trying to offer reason to a cult by even trying to convey any of this. I probably won’t bother replying further, there’s little value in trying to convince a wall not to be a wall.

Russia and Iran are totalitarian imperialist states (Iran’s imperialist ambitions are extremely constrained, but they would still gladly overrun their neighboring states if the opportunity existed). They’re not undermining imperialism, they’re perpetuating it. That’s like arguing that GameStop is undermining capitalism by trying to buy eBay. Competing within the bounds of a system isn’t undermining that system. Cancer isn’t good because it sometimes kills bad people.

Otaku has essentially become a loan-word in English. It’s somewhat derogatory and generally used to refer to people who are really into anime and manga.

You’re uh… Way off. Good try though.

Putting aside specific etymology, what it means in common parlance is basically “nerd” with a heavy implication of “really into anime and manga.”

Is this really an issue?

Technically, it’s always been possible to do this with human programmers. I could read the code to Jellyfin, write out a detailed spec, hand that to a software engineer and have them recreate it. Or I could just come up with the same app myself from first principles. In most cases it’s not really that big of a difference when you get down to it.

Arguably, that’s what Emby did to Plex, or what Kodi did to MythTV. How much was inspiration and how much was copying? And does anyone actually care?

At the end of the day, patches and updates to the original won’t work with your clean room implementation, so it’s now on you to maintain this new codebase. And you still have to test it, work the bugs out, solve all the problems, and you can’t just refer back to the original code for solutions because the whole point is that your code still needs to be meaningfully different. You haven’t really removed any of the work of creating a piece of software. If you ended up borrowing certain details of implementation - some clever solutions and novel ideas - from your access to the nuts and bolts details of the original, that’s just part of how open source works.

Clean room implementations are much more of a firmware issue than a software one.

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They didn’t, either time. But reality got in the way of the meme so OP ignored it.

The first Iraq war was an unqualified success. There’s really no way around that. Should they have gone the whole way and removed Saddam from power? Maybe. But the goal of the war was to protect Kuwait and that goal was accomplished.

The second Iraq war was stupid, unnecessary, messy, pointless, badly mismanaged, and came at a staggeringly high cost. But it was successful. They achieved the regime change they wanted and ultimately created a puppet state in the Middle East. They’re using Iraqi bases right now in their attacks on Iran, something that would not possible if that war had been a failure.

Doesn’t make it a good idea. Getting what you want isn’t great if you massively overpay for it.

Afghanistan, on the other hand, absolutely counts as a loss. The US got nothing that they wanted - it didn’t even lead to the death of Bin Laden since he was hiding out in Pakistan - and wasted a tonne of lives and resources to ultimately just put the country back in the hands of the Taliban and give them a whole bunch of military hardware.