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amendegree··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
English is my first language but I don’t understand this use of “disarm”.
amendegree··on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
The op is being facetious
amendegree··on Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks
This is on a corporate PC, I don’t run into this issue with chrome (which I try to avoid using in general) whose update schedule is also managed by a corp IT policy.

Those settings don’t do anything bec even when I select “Check but don’t install” it still nags me and eventually installs even if corp IT policy is only to update monthly.

I wish there was a way to turn off the nagging too. Why can’t Firefox trust my corp IT to follow their process?

amendegree··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Yes, it’s pretty clear that MS is abusing the H1B program. Which is supposed to be used only when no local talent can be found… if you’re firing 1000s of local people I have a hard time believing they are truly less skilled than the H1Bs being hired.

Most engineers (H1Bs, and not) I’ve met aren’t exceptional. Saying that isn’t xenophobic.

amendegree··on Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks
The issue isn’t time, it’s that I’m in the middle of working, I have unsaved work that I can’t save now bec the browser decided to update in the background.
amendegree··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
There literally isn’t any video of GHF doing it.
amendegree··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
Is a journalist still a journalist if he’s launching rockets, carry a gun and grenades? Hamas and PIJ has filmed themselves wearing “press” vests while doing these things.

Many of the journalists in Gaza are Hamas operatives until they die. When suddenly their twitter or fb account is used to claim they’re a journalist.

You’re being lied to on a regular basis about nearly everything that comes out of Gaza. Aside from 3rd party medic accounts we have zero evidence of any of these supposed crimes. This is the most filmed war in history and yet after 3 weeks of claims by Hamas that GHF is shooting and booby trapping aid there is literally zero actual evidence to support that.

amendegree··on Firefox 120 to Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks
Firefox has the worst update process. Idk how they haven’t figured this out yet, but the fact that I regularly get “restart to finish update and continue browsing” when opening new tabs or links is totally unacceptable. Also the fact that it can’t just update in the background and still requires me to manually accept a UAC prompt is crazy. Especially bec sometimes if you don’t accept the prompt… you can’t open Firefox until you allow it to finish updating. So you don’t really have a choice but to update to the latest.
amendegree··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
The Kinect was super cool as a demo but totally failed to actually make compelling gameplay in the standard living room
amendegree··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Not to hate on immigrants… but shouldn’t H1B’s be the first on the chopping block of layoffs? Hard to imagine all those H1Bs are so unique that others already employed can’t replace them.
amendegree··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Same I think I denied the wallet app the ability to notify me after this ad. It’s so ingrained in me that I don’t think about it anymore… if I see an add in a notification I just immediately swipe, settings, turn off
amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Ah yes a Jew hater, won a noble peace prize. The “most prestigious” of noble prizes. Only handed out to those who really accomplish great things.

You do your argument no favors linked to a twitter account that openly spreads blood libels and invents lies.

amendegree··on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
I tried engaging this guy a few days ago, he’s very single minded in his opinions. He’s not interested in reason, only in hating a certain group of people who originate from a particular region in the Middle East. It’s good to see others are trying but you’re just gonna end up frustrated as he ties himself in knots to paint you as bigot while displaying many of those same traits.
amendegree··on Should we design for iffy internet?
Tbf, it’s $500 in equipment + $50-100 in recurring costs, which I’m sure is much higher than what they’re paying now. If they don’t feel they need internet they probably don’t want to pay significantly more for it.
amendegree··on Should we design for iffy internet?
The OP already had the music downloaded to his device. When apple switched to the streaming service they deleted all that… you still technically owned the music, but now it had to be streamed. I also don’t recall if they started with an offline feature.
amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
I haven’t personally attacked anyone. I pointed out some egregious behavior you engaged in and suggested that you refrain from doing that in the future. But it seems even in this comment you again engaged in that same bigoted behavior. It’s very disappointing. I’m really sorry that it’s so difficult for you to discuss a topic without showing extreme prejudice and in some cases outright hostility. Again this is not a personal attack, but rather me calling out inappropriate and offensive language.

I will engage one last time but I caution you to please reconsider your approach. If you continue to make such racist comments I will simply leave the conversation as I don’t like interacting with hateful people.

The article you shared is from a publication that ain’t known for fair and balanced coverage, but even there they admit that Iran pursuing nuclear power has pushed SA to do the same. Once again showing that it’s not about how many countries maintain nuclear capability but rather how stable their governments are. Belaying the fact that treaties are basically meaningless unless everyone else believes you will keep to them. And guess what, the majority of humanity believes Iran will not keep its word on anything. Even today they were shouting “Death To America, Death to Israel”. A people screaming for blood should be believed not coddled, especially when they openly act out those calls for mass murder. So far they’ve attacked multiple large apartment buildings and a school for mentally impaired children none of which were anywhere near any military targets.

amendegree··on Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
No, it named the cruiseline
amendegree··on Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170
You’re on the front page of hn… while they may not see it right away it’s possible some bored tech blogger picks up the story
amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Iran just withdrew from the NPT. So once again, your high minded ideas don’t have any basis in reality. This comes on the heels of the IAEA finally deciding to acknowledge the reality that Iran has not been in compliance for quite a while.

Meanwhile you felt your personal opinion should be what decides the fate of half the world’s Jews.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
> I have shown the specific claim that Iran does in fact not end up with more powerful weapons as a result of a nuclear deal.

No you haven’t at all.

The problem with your opinion is it’s false on its face with regards to Iran: part of the treaty is that Iran is allowed to build more powerful conventional weapons… and guess what: that’s exactly what they did, in addition to also pursuing nuclear arms. They just only had to hide the nuke development, while the more powerful conventional weapons they were able to develop out in the open. 15 years ago they didn’t have weapons capable of reaching France… now they do. All your other equivocation and high minded ideas about what a rogue colonial, genocidal theocracy might do if you offer enough appeasement are moot. Reality shows that’s not what happened.

Not to mention the other rogue destabilizing things Iran did in the ensuing years, such as supporting Syria in the genocidial war against their own people as well as supporting the Houthis in terrorizing Yemen into a civil war and using that base to also terrorize SA. The treaty completely failed long before trump pulled out. Any claim to the opposite is ignoring all of reality.

I’d also note: I’ve gone back through your comment history… it’s not pretty. You’re willing to give anyone who wants to kill zionists (aka semites aka Jews) as wide a latitude as possible and you make up justification after justification for why it’s ok and really they don’t intend that and really they mean something else, while specifically for one small seaside nation you think has no right to exist, and no matter what they do it’s not ok, and there’s no possible justification for literally anything they do. You also have a very problematic and honestly bigoted view of Jews, where you try to take control of their religion and dictate their core beliefs. It’s really a shame because I never thought of the Icelandic people as so prejudiced.

Hopefully this sort of behavior isn’t tolerated much longer here.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Lol k. So you opinion is that maybe if the rest of the world lets Iran build up a huge stockpile of weapons and enrich uranium 50% of the way to a nuke, they’ll not be as evil?

I guess that’s an opinion someone could have…

Regarding your sources, yes those are the naive experts I was talking about. The same ones who allowed Iran to build a secret facility right under their nose, the same one that finally admitted years too late that actually Iran is far out of compliance. They’re about as effective as UNIFIL.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Your own data shows expenditures rose for 2 years after the signing of the treaty… and once the US pulled out they dropped precipitously. That’s ignoring the context of what was happening at the time namely, Iran directly supporting the genocidal Syrian regime.

Those “experts” don’t at all support your claims that the 2015 deal was or could be successful. We’re not currently discussing the deal that might be made, as details are changing too rapidly for anything they said last week to be relevant anymore (e.g. many of the scientists who were pursuing a second jewish genocide are now dead). We’re discussing whether the 2015 deal was viable immediately after it was signed… based on your own data and idea (treaty = declining military spending) it appears it wasn’t.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
We’re not talking about relative to other countries. We’re talking in absolute terms of the country in question, Iran also isn’t party to many treaties, so really SA is a perfect example.

Seeing as you refuse to back up any of your claims with data, we’re not talking real science here but baseless accusations supported by biased bigotry vs anecdotal evidence, I don’t feel the need to disprove anything to a scientific degree, rather, the opposite is true, to prove the hypothesis you need to gather the data and show that it supports you. Until then your opinion is nothing more than that.

It’s truly the height of narcissism to make a completely unsupported claim with only your own feelings as the basis for your evidence and hold the fate of one of worlds old people/religions to it.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Iran’s military spending hasn’t decreased significantly since 2015. Which you would expect if your “hypothesis” had any legs. It has in fact increased. Thus again disproving your spurious claims.

Please point to these supposed experts, everything I saw from that time was that only those naive enough to believe a pack of lies claimed the nuclear deal would work, while everyone else was pointing out all the ways Iran was totally subverting it.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Sure add US to the list, makes your case even worse. The US is party to many more trade and arms treaties than any other country on earth and has the largest stockpile of weapons.

SA is Saudi Arabia.

Regardless I've soundly disproven your theory that treaties lower weapon stockpiles, No one disagrees that war will cause people to increase the arms spending, that’s a given. But it’s also pretty clear that treaties do not necessarily lead to less arms spending. Especially when one of the parties to the treaty is a theocratic dictatorship who has called for the total annihilation and destruction of all western society. Even while Iran was technically agreeing to follow the treaty it was still funding hezb, hamas and propping up Syria, none of those things speak to a country that is interested in peaceful coexistence with it’s regional neighbors. Additionally, SA (Saudi Arabia) expressed strong interest in developing a nuclear program simply because of Iran’s. So allowing Iran to have any sort of nuclear program directly contributes to more nuclear proliferation.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Iran’s “treaty” was they get to build a giant stockpile of conventional weapons in exchange for not building a nuclear weapon… but they get to continue enriching uranium at levels that would make it very easy to quickly ramp up to nukes if they choose. And the treaty expires in 10 years (guess how long ago the treaty was signed).

Not only did they immediately flout the rules and enrich uranium past the levels they were allowed to, the also in defiance of the treaty built secret nuclear reactors that weren’t monitored, and pursued building and stockpiling all the parts necessary to build a nuclear warhead.

Throughout this entire conversation you’ve made many claims that aren’t true at all. You’ve shown extreme bigotry against Jews and Israel.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Your hypothesis definitely fails the sniff test. China, Iran, Russia, SA, Pakistan, India… the list goes on. All have many bilateral agreements and yet were or are building up their arms.

Iran choose to insert itself where it didn’t belong and had no reason to be. If Iran (like 1930s Germany) had just focused on torturing its own people instead, none of this would’ve happened and Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel and yes even palestine (without Iran’s interference would already be a state) would all be much nicer places right now. Instead it introduced regional instability with its ambitions of annihilating and subjugating Jews, to which you are lending your full throated support.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
> “It worked kinda well”

So comforting, even you, an avowed Zionist hater (in your own words), (and imo terrorist apologist) couldn’t lie enough to claim that they were actually effective.

Would you get on a plane that “worked kinda well”. Would you trust a heart surgeon who said he was “kinda ok”.

Iran has continuously called for the total destruction and death of all Jews and all of western civilization for the last 40+ years as a religious mandate demanded by their god, what makes you think they would ever stop pursuing that?

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
What are you talking about? What methods were effective at denuclearizing Iran? They continued to pursue nuclear arms even during the Obama treaty.

Iran has been at war with Israel for the last 10 years, the fact that Israel held back until now, is 100% bec of the methods that proved totally ineffective.

amendegree··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
Right because if Russia and China didn’t have nuclear weapons they’d be in a war or gearing up for one…hmmm
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