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  • Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov.

    It’s the world’s most popular assault rifle, a weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple nine pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood, it doesn’t break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it’s covered in mud or filled with sand.

    It’s so easy even a child can use it, and they do.

    The Soviets put the gun on a coin, Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people’s greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure; no one was lining up to buy their cars.

    ~ Lord of War





  • Rogue@feddit.uktoFediverse@lemmy.worldI said what I said
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    1 month ago

    From what I can see a wordpress plugin uses an icon you disagree with. You’d rather they use something else. Rather than approach them constructively you post your emotional response as an issue on their repo? What response are you expecting from the maintainers?

    feud

    frontline is shifting

    Why all the militaristic language?



  • Rogue@feddit.uktoFediverse@lemmy.worldI said what I said
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    1 month ago

    If you want to be taken seriously you should re-word your issue and the title.

    Be explicit about:

    • what icon you prefer,
    • include a graphical example
    • include examples where it’s used to back up your claim that it’s the "actual fediverse symbol "
    • highlight the issues with the current icon,
    • include an example of the icon you disagree with.

    The issue you’ve linked is literally just a complaint with zero context.



  • I guess I’m just legitimately confused about how to feel about it all.

    The freedom of Lemmy and the fediverse let’s people choose how to interact with it.

    If a user is looking for a free to use , open source, ad-free experience then that’s their choice.

    If others are happy to pay for an app because they prefer the experience that app provides them they can choose to do so.

    I also wouldn’t spend time in my day coming into defend organizations that want to monetize on open source community projects either.

    OP read that Boost may contain code used for tracking, then started spewing some conspiracy that “Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more!” without any proof or any actual research.

    This isn’t a case of defending some giant corporation, it’s just stopping tedious drama before it spreads.

    If you check OPs profile they’ve been spreading this for over a week. When I first saw this thread the masses were heavily upvoting the conspiracy and downvoting anyone disagreeing.