He did this while kids are dying in trenches on the war front.

Musk is so full of shit, Ukraine doesn’t draft below the age of 25!!
Hey Musk maybe you should concentrate more on the people who are dying because your cars have shitty safety!!
It’s not just a little shitty either, Tesla has the worst accident statistic of ALL brands.
His cars should be illegal, but instead he receives enormous government subsidies. He is the biggest leech on society EVER!!

This is very bad, lung diseases is just about the ONLY thing the Pope could die of. Because it makes it impossible for him to pray!!!
Yes yes I know atheists say God usually responds with NO! anyway, but this is the Pope goddammit!! God wouldn’t say NO to the Pope…

Would he?

To be fair, in the last frame dad is not pretending.

They are a greedy nation and poor allies.

They were great help when Yugoslavia broke down.
They were also great help, although with some hold backs to help Ukraine, it’s absolutely nonsense to say otherwise.
The basis for the Europe-USA friendship is also that USA helped enormously way beyond any European country’s ability in WW2. And the Americans actually secured freedom for western Europe, very contrary to the part that Soviet Union occupied.
USA was also great aid for Europe when the Soviet collapsed, making for instance Poland one of the countries where USA was most popular after that.

Unfortunately cracks began to appear already with Bush Jr. and the false intelligence on Iraq. And obviously under Trump who threatened to not respect article 5. And obviously now where Trump behaves like a mafia boss.
But there is no doubt we’d prefer normal relations restored, where USA and allies cooperate on real issues around the world.
Unfortunately Trump makes normal relations impossible.

The US is only such a powerhouse, because they generally have the support of their allies. That makes it the unparalleled biggest economic block in the world.
But without their allies, USA isn’t that much stronger than China economically. And USA wouldn’t be nearly the powerhouse they’ve gotten used to be.

So China just has to look on and do nothing, while USA is losing their world dominance quickly.

heavily biased to the point that I think it’s natural for people to have a poor understanding of fascism.

There’s absolutely a tendency to gloss over things in American teachings in general history included.
So yes I agree, that could very well be part of the problem.

I learned through high school that the US had never lost a war.

Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan.
So I guess your point was easily mostly proven.

Very fitting analogy. 👍

I absolutely agree, American democracy seriously needs to be reformed, as it is it is at best a dysfunctional democracy. And I think the evidence should be very clear on that now.

Maybe I’m wrong, but as I read the article, Linus isn’t convinced this is a good idea either.
I’m not saying things can never change, but opening for a mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

That’s not true, lots of companies left, some even at great cost.
Some remained under local names, I think for instance Coco Cola.
We’ve seen recordings of shopping malls where many shops were gone, and many of the remaining shops sold obvious counterfeit western brands.
Also a lot of business is decidedly illegal to continue in Russia due to sanctions.

That seems brutal, will they ever recover?

That does NOT sound like a good idea.

We’ve turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel,

Exactly, and I’m pretty sure one of the reasons is that it’s remained on C, and NOT switched to C++, as has been often suggested.
The second they make it a mixed code base, that’s the same second quality will deteriorate. Mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Edit:

Torvalds eventually responded by defending the Linux kernel development process and scolding Martin for grandstanding on social media about the issue. Martin later quit as a Linux maintainer and resigned from the Asahi Linux project.

Seems like Linus isn’t onboard with this.

But I guess all the downvoters know better?

opening for a mixed code base is a recipe for disaster.

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers, dammit.

That’s special pleading, that lacks basis in reality. Still he admits it’s rough to mix codebases.

I’m not claiming Rust wouldn’t be brilliant in some situations, but the detraction of a mixed codebase is worse than the benefit.

They were slammed!!! Oh boy that’s rough. I hope they weren’t slammed too hard. /s

I think the word they were looking for may have been “criticized” or something like that?

hard for them to get time off of work/contend with suppression.

Part of having a working democracy, is that it’s easy to vote. That means it’s close to where you live, and that it can be done quickly. That you are automatically registered to vote is a given. Also that people in prisons can vote is a minimum requirement for a functioning democracy.

USA fails on so many counts, creating obstructions instead of facilitating voting, that many Americans don’t even know what a good democracy looks and feels like.

There will always be some that are prevented or don’t care, but that’s not normally a big problem for good democracies.
If the election is non controversial, it’s not as important, and if it is controversial, more people participate. Most functioning democracies have about 80% voter participation AFAIK. Here we usually in the high 80’s.

Russian politicians behaving like business and politics work the same way teenage relationships do.

Foreign firms are probably not rushing back to Russia either

It would be pretty stupid top go back, Russia is even more corrupt and lawless than it was before the war.
It’s an extremely poor environment for serious business.

This should be obvious, but poor people are just too stupid to figure out even the simplest things.
/s

Absolutely USA as a country has been a huge success, and I think you are right, that people think that proves the model is good.
But there are many other factors that have helped USA become a success. A huge population with a unified language is one, massive agricultural potential is another. Lot’s of natural resources, and oil to kick-start industrialization.
It will be hard to elevate public education much without social reforms. AFAIK USA spend more on public education than many European countries, but results are worse, maybe in part because of poverty.
It’s way harder for Children that live in poverty to pay attention to school to the same degree that better off children can. That’s been a well known fact for many decades, and USA is doing absolutely diddly about it.

Yes, but it can’t wait 4 years, because in 4 years Trump may have transformed USA government to a totalitarian regime.

You are right, the problem is very much a widespread attitude in USA.
They need to modernize their democracy, and they need to modernize their interpretation and regulation of what free speech is.
The 2 main reasons USA is as fucked up as it is now, is that the 2 party system undermines democracy, and way too much misinformation is allowed.
You can’t build democracy on lies.

I really really hope Americans will wake up soon, and realize this.

Only because the people allow it.
I know nobody can change that alone, but USA need to friggin get some graasroot movements going to get real democracy, and elect politicians that don’t prioritize only the 1%.
The 2 party system simply doesn’t work.