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Referring to this thread as “typical pressure” is wild. I’ve seen a lot of anti-tankie bullshit but claiming the Allende perpetrated a genocide and is also the same person as Pinochet is a new one to me.

Yeah I think the ban was valid. They were clearly not being coherent

You are genuinely confused about something. I’m not sure where the mismatch happened but what you’re saying doesn’t make sense. They were defending Allende, the Chilean social democrat who was killed by Pinochet. And are you saying that by using a pretty common Captain America meme they’re doing genocide denial about the Native American genocide? Because that meme is common enough that I didn’t even know it was a Captain America screencap.

Are you like confusing historical figures here? Not even liberals accuse Allende of genocide. And I don’t understand the Captain America reference

Is this a reference to their comment about the treatment of the Uyghurs not having a consensus drawn as to whether or not it’s a genocide?

There’s been such incredible work to get things like this working over the past decade. I remember trying to build my own phone back then and the idea of running open software in the user space of your cellular modem was just not a thing.

I’m begging for another axis that doesn’t constitute a horseshoe

You take psych meds? I didn’t hear that. Just don’t write them down

A lot of the people doing it aren’t even rich anymore. It’s a Ponzi scheme of influencers vying for social capital that can’t actually be cashed in for anything

Do we have any actual documentation of anybody who might be called a ‘gimp’ actually being offended by the name?

You want documentation that gimp is offensive? Go call your boss a gimp. They’ll give you some documentation. Feel free to share it here.

Gimp does not refer to people with movement disabilities. It stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Pretending to not understand when an acronym spells a word is a new one to me. Maybe you should be writing bill names for congress.

Or is this just more performant bullshit?

I dunno about you, but last time I used it, gimp was pretty performant.

See? That’s me intentionally misunderstanding something obvious in order to ignore a point you’re making. See how transparent and ineffective it is?

I hope they really commit to this. Keep gimp as an option for the obstinate among us, but make wlbr the default. Gimp is, even to people who don’t recognize it as a slur, an informal and rude word and it makes it hard for people who already don’t care about open source to not just dismiss it out of hand when they hear that name.

I have been a staunch advocate of open source software at my company and I promise you the vast majority of people do not know what gimp is.

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The giant tube of pills feels relatable as I pick up meds for my wife and myself and there’s like a dozen bottles between us

Capitalists don’t exist. Capitalists can’t hurt… wait…

It’s always seemed like negative attention seeking to me. Pretty much bullying with the facade of “compliments”

“I’ll just have it make a Hello World to validate my workflow”

“Oh no”

They know they have to do something to make sure the rest of Europe doesn’t follow suit and heavy handed aggression is the only tool in their toolbox

1. The amount of money spent on NASA is negligible compared to the MIC
2. Human intuition about what STEM stuff is useful is very poor. The basis for your ability to securely do online banking is a quirky little number theory equation that was useless for centuries. Or think about the reactionary complaints about “they’re paying scientists to study cat urine” or whatever. Those studies typically have a practical reason for getting some and practical implications once they’re finished. Even the stuff that is practical looks impractical to the layperson. Space travel is very similar in that the technology it enables can have other uses.
3. Whoever figures out asteroid mining first is going to make a lot of fucking money