I mean when you put it that way, it’s still morally dubious. Not saying that the culture is great or anything, but who are we to say that it is so inferior that it must be eliminated and replaced with our superior ones? It’s cultural genocide.

In their defense the previous government was a puppet government installed and propped up by the US. It wasn’t particularly popular and could never sustain itself without direct foreign military support.

Not gonna lie, I’m impressed that some region-specific company in India figured it was worth their time and effort to try posting an advertisement on Lemmy.

In the branding, but the name of the installed applications in the UI do not contain “gnome”.

Is gnome that bad? They seem to have been moving away from weird names for many years now.

Yep. On kbin I think any user can too.

I know the area has been populated by Jews, Christians, and Muslims for as long as there have been Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Everybody doesn’t always get along but it wasn’t until the late 40s that countries began expelling large amounts of people based on religion or ethnicity.

It only means genocide to Israelis because they can only fathom Israel as a mono-ethnic state with all others genocided. Anyone supporting a free and united Palestine supports the multicultural community that has been in the area for millennia.

I think you mean street runoff

20k for 791k, about a 2.5% fee

It’s pretty hypocritical that the US gets mad about Chinese overseas bases when the US has bases in every corner of the earth, including an entire ring around China.

The problem I have with that kind of argument is that the US has historically been rather authoritarian, and has supported and installed extremely authoritarian governments in other countries. The US also has a history of state terrorism, invading countries and committing g war crimes to enforce their political wills onto foreign populations. That doesn’t excuse Russia or China, but the notion that the US isn’t also a major authoritarian power or is otherwise categorically different is nonsense.

Your argument is that the US has supported genocide for many years so why bother stopping, which is pointlessly defeatist and amoral.

The US funds and arms Israel, which they use to enforce their apartheid, a kind of segregation, as well as carry out the genocide of Palestinians. Biden enthusiastically supplies these weapons knowing they are used to kill innocent civilians every single day.

China is the renewable energy capital of the world, the speed they’re building this all with is insane. Meanwhile the US is just banning Chinese imports because domestic alternatives are uncompetitive.

continuously fighting against awful software

Arguably this is why some people don’t bother with a VM and use the web apps instead.

Most streaming services don’t do comment sections. That’s mostly a YouTube and TikTok thing where the sites depend on user submitted content and also function as a social network. Despite this, people talk about shows on those services, just elsewhere.

At this point I hear “antisemetic” and just have to assume that the speaker is pro-genocide and assume little about the person they are talking about.

Genocider acts in bad faith and won’t willingly stop genocide. More at 11.

VSCode’s vim plugin is pretty great for full-color graphical terminal users