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  • No, I'd say my biggest issue is with the US becoming an unreliable ally just because the conservative party wants to score some stupid political points. See my original comment.

  • Read the above. I'm having issues with them winning at all, given the implications for the future security of Europe.

  • And what, pray tell, is the alternative here? A surrender to Russia is tantamount a full on capitalisation of the west and a defacto encouragement for Putin to keep pushing aggressive expansionist agendas. Ukraine will have an ongoing border dispute that can turn violent at any time with an adversary that's been emboldened by a proven lack of support by Ukraine's allies.

    There is no winner in war, but this would be about as close to winning as Russia could possibly get.

  • For all intents and purposes the conservative party is in power. Sure, they aren't in the White House, but they own a majority in congress and the supreme court.

    As for complicity in genocide: I never said I liked the Biden administration's wholesale carte blanche sorry of Israel's genocide in Gaza, but two wrongs don't make a right. The US doesn't need to also support the genocide of Ukrainians by Russia through political inaction. One current genocide involving a US ally is bad enough, we don't need two thank you very much.

    Sure, I'd love for the US to stop supporting Israel. But I'm not going to suggest they do it over the dead bodies of Ukrainians.

  • I get your point about the balkanization of US politics, but frankly it's called for in this particular instance (as well as the Jan 6 coup attempt I am referring to) as it's quite literally the conservative party's representatives blocking the effort to give aid to Ukraine in congress. No ifs, buts, or both sides-isms about that.

  • And once again the conservatives are showing that they are truly America's enemy at home. Not just through fomenting domestic terrorism and a coup, but also by throwing whatever remains of the US' reputation and reliability for it's allies under the fucking bus.

    They have so much blood on their hands by this point I wonder if they simply enjoy being the villains of this story.

  • Why does every mention or discussion of any annoyance in Windows immediately turn into a "install Linux" thread on here?

    Sure, Linux might solve the immediate problem for the affected individual (and probably introduce a bunch of new ones as Linux isn't always as easy to use as advocates try to convince people it is) but it doesn't solve the larger issue - Microsoft needs to be held accountable for horrible design decisions and anti-consumerist practices.

    Not everyone can, or will, switch to Linux. No matter how hard people champion that cause. And even if they do, it's a process that will take time. In the immediate, lots of people stand to benefit from Microsoft not pulling this sort of bs, and it's entirely justified to complain about it to make them walk back this decision.

  • I love how all Germanic languages can pull that stunt. Be it German, Swedish, Dutch, they all have this magic "turn a sentence into a single word" ability.

  • I know it's a joke, but with the level of scrutiny Germany has attracted for its dark history there's litle chance people wouldn't have heard of it by now ;-)

  • What on earth kind of fever dream did I just read? This looks like it was written with the power of hindsight to be able to present the exact inverse of everything that happened, yet somehow wasn't.

    Seriously, this reads like a time traveler trolling us on the long con.

  • Yeah, that's what made me get premium. Even before the adblocker crackdown, the prospect of supporting creators and being able to ditch Spotify's horrible artist compensation model made it a simple choice.

  • Yeah, totally unrelated. Just like the large amount of people falling out of windows in Russia. And all the people that got poisoned or got to drink Polonium tea. All completely unrelated accidents.

  • We don't know for sure, but that's what this meme is playing on.

  • Prigozhin marched on Moscow despite Putin's warning to retaliate against any rebellion, then stopped his advance after talking to Lukashenko and getting offered amnesty in Belarus.

  • I'd much rather they implement the right to deletion. I know they will get their hands on a ton of data, regardless of how we write the clause. But at least let me delete that data when I want it gone.

  • Back before music piracy was a thing; because who's going to download a 3-4MB file on a 14k4 modem? By the time you grab one song you'd have racked up such an internet bill you might as well have bought the single.