It’s because the USA floods countries with cheap goods all the time and then cries foul when someone else does it. It’s pure hypocrisy.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-scholz-repeats-support-for-israel-at-eu-congress/a-67376036

If you’re going to stop Russia from invading Ukraine why aren’t you putting German troops in Ukraine? You’re not helping your partner your killing Ukranians to weaken America’s enemy. Tell me what the difference between Israel and Russia is and what they’re doing to their smaller neighbours is. And then tell me why Germany condemns one atrocity but supports the other. It’s not about supporting a partner and I think you’re being naive or disingeneous if you think so.

Germany is now running deficits to support a war that’s already been decided. Ukraine is a corrupt country where many weapons given to it find their way onto the international black market. The standard of living in Germany is getting worse. Using deficit spending on a non-productive good like weapons to a foreign country that is corrupt will accelerate Germany’s decline.

Germany is on a steady decline, decisions like this increase the pace.

Guess what the Americans and Brits did to the Italians after WW2? You might be surprised at the answer.

You’re confused with the country bombing hospitals right now.

Yes continue.

Would have been amazing if they federated with Forgejo and supported federated git like they’re doing with mastodon.

I’m using it and it’s pretty good. It’s arguably too feature rich though. I mean that in every right click you have like 20 options. It’s overwhelming.

Also I use the cloud sync and every few days something doesn’t sync properly when you’re typing and it asks you to re-sync. And so you have to wait a minute while it re-builds the entire index. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s annoying.

You should check out Affine.pro then. It’s FOSS and you can draw anywhere, it’s one of their selling points.

Siyuan is probably the most advanced note taking app out there right now. Affine.pro is also a good one Appflowy is also good. All are FOSS.

It’s hard to argue that the escalations of harassment, settler expansion, and killings of Palestinians in 2023 wouldn’t lead to some sort of retribution attack by Palestinians. I think the Israelis were shocked by the success of the attack and the failure of their security system to minimize the damage. I don’t think they were oblivious when many analysts and even the Egyptian government suggested a few days earlier that things were getting hot (they didn’t warn of an imminent attack like was reported in some media, but that there was an increasing threat of some sort of violent resistance to Israel’s violation of international law).

Israel knows they’re violating the 1967 borders, they also know how bullying works. Every few months, bulldoze some houses and claim that area as your own. Keep squeezing and poking until your victim lashes out violently and then use that violence as justification to be more violent. It’s a classic bully tactic.

Feel like mainstream Israel society has been pretty dogmatized if they elected that fascist into power again. Agree with the rest of your analysis that they’re going to annex as much of Gaza as possible. Israel’s goal is to get Palestinians into the Sinai peninsula, with USA support they might do it in the next decade. I’m curious what will happen after the complete annexation of Palestine. Does US weapons aid stop? Does Israel become more of an apartheid state?

I don’t think there are any sustainable fully open source software out there that are used for consumers besides the ones that reach a critical mass of support. And even then as a software gets more complex the more there are sacrifices to the FOSS model. You should read the boad discuss forum for TDF/Libreoffice. Collabora is trying to nerf the free version of TDF and the board reps are in this toxic battle with Collabora board reps. Eventually FOSS software needs a stable revenue stream besides donations.

15 years ago I thought the Germans were the smartest people in the world because they understood the importance of investing in public services and had a central european style of capitalism that focused on fundamentals over financialization. since then they’ve slowly been adopting more neoliberal policies and making really stupid foreign policy decisions. I’ve lost a lot of respect for them as a world leader.

Linux Mint

I got radicalized by Slashdot. But I don’t regret it.

Have you tried JetBrains Fleet yet?

You’re definitely from reddit if your being pedantic about what a military Commander is saying to rally his cause. “Actshually there are other occupations going on”. Also are you really trying to make this about Ukraine??