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Remind me again, it slipped my mind: How many of those holes are globally completed and in operation legally, explicitly rated for high-level radioactive waste and NOT explicitly labeled as an intermediate solution?

Asking for help moving will show you really how far some people will go for you.

That’s quite the drastic conclusion to draw from people telling you when they are available (and that not being literally always) to help you for something you most like presented as not critical or dramatic when you asked them. Do you seriously expect people to preemptively cancel all their existing plans based on a hunch you might judge their whole character and the sincerity of your friendship on the sole trigger of a seemingly innocent “hey, when would you be available to help me move?”?

If you want to at least give people a chance to adjust, don’t ask “when are you available?”, instead try “[date] is when I want to move, can you fit helping me then into your schedule?” at least a few weeks ahead of that date.

… doing them wrong falling for a scam.

No need to apologize, and sorry that I apparently made you think an apology was required.

I wanted to build on and expand your point, not contradict it.

A lot of people are still just not familiar with the terminology surrounding all things trans.

If you just say “trans man” many of them don’t go into a weird mental gymnastics session to justify their prejudice, they just go “which one was that again?”.

I’ve been there myself a few years ago and since I learned have explained it to several people who couldn’t be further from bigots, they were just not in much personal contact with trans people.

I am not sure it will actually end when he is dead. It’s not like he’s doing all this stuff alone, there are others behind him ready to pick up where he left things off when he finally dies.

The EU is also not a military force in its own right

The European Treaties contain a common defence clause. Some even argue the wording is stronger than NATO article 5.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/collective-defence.html

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_ATA(2022)739250

Of course that does not magically turn the EU into a single, efficient military organization; but it is certainly worth considering in the grand scheme of things.

The solution is pretty simple: Never, under any circumstances, post anything under your actual real identity online.

Doesn’t matter how good the fuzzy linking of disconnected accounts is if none of them tells the attacker anything actionable about the real person behind them.

https://matrix.org/ has been around for years and has had true self-hosting and federation from the start.

Many people do, but there are legitimate concerns about

1. if an invasion could even actually achieve this,
2. the humanitarian cost of it (aka A LOT of innocent people dying or losing everything),
3. the long term effects of destabilizing a whole region and
4. the damage to the rules based global order caused by yet another war of aggression from a side that is supposed to support and not undermine that order.

“Bad things existed before, so we should not criticize them still existing today” is not a very strong argument.

The design goal was to avoid people just leaving it plugged in because that is more convenient and that then showing up on photos. Can’t have something as trivial as real life day to day usability ruin your image of minimalism.

Cambridge Analytica was not enough of a reason to leave Facebook for me, because at that point I had already stopped actively using the site a long time ago and deleting my effectively inactive account seemed like a lot of effort for very little practical purpose.

This article (or just the headline to be honest) was finally enough to push me to actually go through with logging in one last time to finally get rid of it.

why can they just sue someone for refusing to buy something

From the article:

As part of the agreements, the Chinese fund granted the remaining minority shareholders an option to require it to purchase their remaining shares for about $9.5 million, now valued at roughly $11 million, by early December 2025.

especially when buying it would be illegal

Legality in country A is completely irrelevant for suing someone in country B.

Also, in many countries having a realistic chance of winning the case is not a prerequisite to suing anyone for anything.

If France was smart, they would have emigrated to JitsiMeet or Jami already.

And then they would force you to use one of those, so your original argument “State forced == bad” still does not make any sense.

Not saying you are wrong about JitsiMeet or Jami being better choices, but that just wasn’t part of your original argument even with a very generous interpretation.

It is unreasonable to expect a state to allow each and every citizen to pick and chose which program to use when communicating with them even if just a single person is involved. As soon as multiple people are supposed to all be in the same virtual room it is effectively impossible.

So what happened here is that the state changed which program(s) it “forces” you to use. Do you have a more specific point about why domestic options are supposed to be worse for that than the ones from U.S. Big Tech companies? Because if not, you don’t have a point at all.

Not who you originally asked, but I am aware of an example where Windows is still better than Linux for a specific game: Guild Wars 2. Not because of anything directly in the game, but there is an insanely useful overlay program called BlishHUD that runs as a separate process. On Windows it just works; on Linux it is a pain to get it to mostly work.

But overall things have clearly shifted from gaming on Linux being a joke, to being possible but a huge pain, to being ok-ish but a bit clumsy, to finally being sometimes even better and on average equal. There will always be differences, and Windows currently still has the benefit of being the default. Maybe that too will change one day.

Yes, it has. And Apple (mostly) won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple

In January 2024, the Supreme Court denied the full appeals of both Apple and Epic in the case, leaving the case primarily a victory for Apple in allowing them to continue restricting app distribution to their App Store and to continue restricting in-app purchases to Apple’s payment systems, but requiring Apple to allow developers to link to external websites offering alternate payment options (off-app purchases).

Fascist leaders are good at manipulating stupid people. That does not mean smart fascists do not exist. Intelligence and morality are largely independent qualities, and some fascists are smart assholes, not morons tricked into it.

Doesn’t apply in this specific case, but still: Assuming all fascists are stupid is dangerous; makes it easier for the smart ones to work against you.

some context and/or link would help for everyone who just learned about this project and knows nothing about the devs