

Trump seems to practicing a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship
Not sure if purposefully or just accidentally.
Trump seems to practicing a classic example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship
Not sure if purposefully or just accidentally.
I think this is something else – I mean, he’s gonna need slaves to implement all this.
My Lenovo Thinkpad just broke… again.
Daym, I though those things are tanks. Which model?
I used it for a while with an m2 macbook perhaps half a year ago, but ended up getting a PC so I wouldn’t have to deal with so much jank.
That just means that buying it spreads the money to slightly more people. They’re practically just as easy to acquire.
Also known as free market capitalism 100% working as it should.
Good guy Steam.
These are slightly different things, of course. Xinjiang’s population is 45% Uyghur, 40% Han roughly. Gaza is almost entirely Palestinian Arabs, and 99% Sunni Islam. And most importantly, China already 100% controls the area whereas Israel does not.
Therefore, even if Xinjiang executed every Uyghur in the area (and I’m not implying they did so, are doing so, or are planning to do so), it wouldn’t cause the same kind of material destruction that has happened in Gaza, because it would be an entirely different kind of an operation.
Yeah, that seemed like a big deal a few months ago. Now it just starts to look like they were ahead of the curve.
I’m amazed how quickly my personal negative feelings about China are getting diluted right now.
I wonder if he’s gonna give Alaska to the Russians.
Not to disrespect the amazing achievements of the Finn’s in that war, but they lost, and lost half their country.
In actual reality, we lost 9% of our territory to USSR due to WW2. One city, two towns. By official sources, about 400 000 Finns evacuated the conquered territory, and about 20 people remained and became Soviet citizens.
The times when a single developer was important to Linux were in the 90s.
I don’t want to pretend that this (this being how and why people think the way they think about trans rights et al) is a simple issue, which is why what I say on two different comments might be slightly incongruent. I think I was mostly answering your specific question in my second comment without so much trying to address or bolster my first comment.
Are you saying most people are anti-trans?
No, I think it’s more nuanced than just black-or-white allies and anti-trans people. The level of pro- or anti-transness within individuals falls on a spectrum that’s shaped like a bell curve, and the majority in the middle are usually amenable to trans rights if they bump into the issue in a way that resonates with them. Like for instance in their personal life with friends or family.
But less amenable if they mostly face the issue on TV, social media or via angry activists. You might then recognize these people as anti-trans, especially if the issue is deeply personal to you.
And that people who aren’t anti-trans are somehow not of sane mind?
No, that’s not what I was trying to say. In fact, I’d say that genuinely anti-trans people (the other end of the bell curve) are the insane ones. Socio- and/or psychopathic. My claim (possibly a bit extraordinary claim in this day and age) is that most people are not at that end.
Most people agree with the ultrarich on this issue (at least initially, before social media insanity), but only the ultrarich can afford making arbitrary people hate them without any good reason. That’s why it looks like only the billionaires are doing it.
Then they go to Twitter with these opinions and go insane and the whole thing enters a neverending tailspin.
Elon is slightly different insofar that one of his own kids is trans. So that’s not entirely due to Twitter, but there’s also some lived experience at the bottom of it all (I assume here that he spent time with said child).
I’d kinda like to get a VW, but jeez they are boring as cars. Boring is sometimes good in traffic of course, but a difficult thing when trying to make up your mind at the dealership.
Bad title, because
Their dataset is 100% from Twitter.
So the actual result of this study could be that there are more far-right populists in Twitter. A highly improbable conclusion, I know.