i think often about that GM and Volvo paid Virginia Tech a lot of money to help them design a safe touchscreen infotainment center and after years of research the researchers basically reached the conclusion “there’s no safe way to put a touchscreen in a car” and now we all have touchscreens in our cars

the comment you’re replying to is saying python, the old less shiny language, is more well known and more widely used by a larger number of developers than rust, the original stinger of the meme. that’s not the goalposts moving. that’s the goalposts being planted firmly at the 100 yard line like how they are in Canadian football

that can only be true for one instance, not for an activitypub software as a whole

• https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/04/14/7339618/
• https://news.err.ee/1608571816/estonia-on-russia-s-actions-in-ukraine-this-is-genocide
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuanian-lawmakers-brand-russian-actions-ukraine-genocide-terrorism-2022-05-10/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-lawmakers-vote-unanimously-label-russias-acts-ukraine-genocide-2022-04-27/
• https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/parliamentaryBusiness/orderPaper/seanad/2022/2022-06-01_seanad-order-paper-wed_en.pdf
• https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/sejm-okreslil-dzialania-rosji-w-ukrainie-mianem-ludobojstwa-i-zbrodni-wojennych/820t6sw
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220421105255/http://www.leta.lv/eng/home/important/9DC82F52-52F6-485F-BF87-E7A5BAD5B75F/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230502075740/https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/apr/27/russia-ukraine-war-live-russia-pounds-bakhmut-us-and-eu-welcome-chinas-call-with-zelenskiy
• https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/10/17/council-of-europe-declares-russian-destruction-of-ukrainian-cultural-heritage-genocide
• https://united24media.com/latest-news/osce-assembly-labels-russias-agression-as-genocide-against-ukrainians-980
• https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/05/22/nato-parliamentary-assembly-recognizes-russias-war-crimes-in-ukraine-as-genocide-cherniev-says/?swcfpc=1
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250329194700/https://kyivindependent.com/destroy-in-whole-or-in-part/
• https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2024/10/15/7479783/
• https://cepa.org/article/morality-shouldnt-get-in-the-way-russias-genocidal-state-media/

Top level summary is that Russia’s killings are indiscriminate of who’s who in Eastern Ukraine, and they are abducting children for the purposes of russification, which are both internationally recognized as acts of genocide.

What is happening in Palestine is genocide on a larger scale with Israel having far less resistance stopping them from indiscriminate killings. We do not need to use one genocide’s scale to de-legitimize claims that another genocide is also a genocide. Genocide in Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine also do not make the United States actions throughout Latin America over the course of the last 50 years not genocide.

What is happening in the world is happening everywhere. Our best chance at bringing these things to an end is to act against our oppressors everywhere we are and to not try to create false dichotomies. The more acts of oppression you tolerate, the more tolerant you become of oppression until eventually there is no hope of freedom anywhere. We will not be free until every genocide everywhere is brought to a stop and every authority held accountable for its role in this global system of atrocity.

Yup. And look at the warehouses all these cars are going from these bullshit suburbs to get to. If you find joy in the architecture of a Home Depot you are a profoundly odd person

when you choose the side of non-intervention you take the position of the oppressor. russia is committing a genocide in Ukraine. sure, they’re both capitalist regimes, but one is clearly the imperial colonizer. call me “the liberal” again if you must, but your understanding of political theory is incomplete if you don’t see Ukraine’s self defense as a war of resistance.

standing aside and letting russia win does not bring anyone closer to The Revolution. what brings us closer to liberation is supporting groups like Destroy the Lines and Sibir Corps (which the US refuses to support for being leftist russian groups) that are coordinating with Ukrainian military forces

Japan

bah dum tiss

yeah i upvoted despite that piece of infommation and was going to come back later because the core truth remains: they only ever do the right thing for customers when forced

that’s not what anywhere is reporting, where are you seeing that?

right now for android i recommend ironfox

reminds me of in 2017 and 2022 when reddit did a big prune of identified russian bot accounts and people on r/conservative were ponderous about why it had gotten so quiet

also, if you live in the states, go look at some car oriented developments. they are just as brutalist, just as same-y, just as sad

to me the real problem is that most of us rely on really old protocols that would require standardization to be able to use these new, better, fomats. i can’t send my friends webps and avifs if my friends are reliant on mms to recieve what i send them. so it’s less a problem with oses and viewers and more a problem of needing to support the least technological protocol in frequent use

the history of the world is the history of three classes in imbalance in three empires in balance

Sure, but you and I live by a different code of ethics than the characters who are shown mowing down goons without regard and then letting the head bad guy who manipulated all those goons live. That’s the part I’m saying is a problem. You either have to have a character enact a wholly non-violent solution to the problem, or you have to have the character murder their way up the org chart and confront the top bad guy with the same violence they confronted everyone else they encountered with. What we most often see in movies is a confirmation that those with power have power because they are supposed to, which is a fundamentally fascist world view

there exists within media a CIA promoted ideal that the working people of a villainous organization don’t matter but the head of said organization is a rational and moral actor. when spider-man pummels 100 guards to get to kingpin and then has a conversation about ethics with kingpin and ultimately captures kingpin instead of breaking his spine the way he did those random goons it creates within the mind a pro-hierarchy understanding of the world that those goons were there to be pummeled but that kingpin has access to agency they don’t. a truly moral hero would enter the building, create a false dilemma for the guards to solve with their best solution being to leave the building for their own safety, and then beat up the guy with the most agency

hey take it up with Karl Marx, i’m not who came up with the metaphor

vampires

• dragons
• fuckheads
• shitheels
• oligarchs
• problems

yeah. i’m fully willing to believe a bunch of these tech ceos are neurodivergent as they claim. HOWEVER. we all know neurodivergent people who don’t weaponize their neurodivergence to justify eugenics, mass surveillance, or just plain being shitty to people. we don’t have to respect your autism excuse when you do something shitty and then ask you why you did that.