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There are many differences between the two cases, and also some similarities. I don't really understand the purpose of your question, or why it's useful to compare?

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They didn't ignore it. The show was suspended for several days. Over some really tame remarks. The warning is pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.

At this point his political views are still not clear. You can be pro-trans and pro-Trump at the same time. See: Caitlyn Jenner, who supported Trump in the 2024 election.

Even more so given that all of this pinning on extreme-left groups started before they even found Tyler Robinson and that they did the same in Minnesota a few months ago. I think it's basically accurate: they are desperately trying to characterise it on anyone but their own, and have no regards for any facts. Even if Robinson really is far-left in every way (certainly a realistic possibility), they will be "correct" merely by accident in hindsight.

If you want to ban saying something false then you need to start with arresting everyone who loudly and aggressively claimed that the murdered of the Democratic politicians in Minnesota was a far-left extremist and all of that. People are still claiming this, I believe.

Or maybe start with all the people who kept on claiming that migrants are eating people's cats and dogs.

etc. etc. etc. I can go on and on.

Applying the most strictest of strictest interpretation of the law for your enemies while being exceedingly lax with the law for your friends is one if the key hallmarks of authoritarianism.

That's not how law works in most places. Even in most European countries with more expansive defamation laws merely saying false things as such is not against the law. And it wasn't really defaming anyone, so none of that applies in the first place.

And the endless recriminations continue. I can point out that Gaza was engineered to fail, and that every movement towards peace that Hamas has made since 2005 has been ignored, and things like that. But I'm fairly sure that would fall on deaf ears because those arguments have been made a million times by now, so I'll save both of us some time.

Both Palestinians and Israeli Jews have a long list of legitimate grievances, no doubt. The insistence that no, we are the ONLY ones with legitimate grievances is a major roadblock towards coming together. The refusal to recognise these grievances amounts to a refusal to recognise basic humanity and dignity of people, and is a catastrophic failure of empathy.

And yes, there are people on the Palestinian side who do this also, but they did not respond to my comment and you did.

So you're fine with people being obnoxious assholes bullying people off the site with aggressive attacks as long as they're using nice language. Got it.

(and if your response to that is an annoyed "oh please, that's not what I said" – yes, that's my point)

All of these are very minor incidents that have been hugely exaggerated by the right-wing outrage media. And you're bringing up this unrelated minor years old drama in a "Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK" story, as if its somehow related.

There are real limits to what life can be supported due to basic chemistry/laws of physics. e.g. "Venus is so hot — hot enough to melt lead — that the acid rain evaporates as it’s falling." That life evolved on Earth and not Venus is not an accident.

Merely "because humans evolved on Earth and not on Venus" is just a dismissive contrarian take that says absolutely nothing of any value what-so-ever.

In addition to that, you don't need to ban criminals from wearing masks because you can already arrest them for the crime they're doing. And also pretty sure you can identify them after that one way or the other. It's a dumb take throughout.

There have always been the occasional silly "Monty Python type moments" throughout the history of humanity, even in the best of institutions. We just didn't have the right-wing outrage media to jump on every tiny incident to stoke up anger among the base.

If you had said in 1988 that The Troubles in Northern Ireland would have a peace accord ten years later no one would have believed you. Everything seemed at a complete stalemate, and there is a history going back hundreds of years. Yet in 1998 the Good Friday accords were signed. And now, almost 30 years later, I think we can safely say it's been a huge success.

There are a few things that made this possible. One important factor is the change of prime minister. Whereas Thatcher saw things only in terms of terrorists who need to be fought, John Major had more holistic view and recognised that in spite of the terrorism, there were some real structural problems that needed addressing. Even Ian Paisley admitted as much later in life, which would be roughly equivalent to Ben-Gvir admitting there is something to the Palestinian complaints.

I guess my point is there can be happy endings to these types of conflicts. No one wins with the current situation, certainly not Israel. Punching everyone around you in the face as a defensive strategy works fantastically well right up until the point you take a nap, at which point everyone will stomp on your head like it's a right watermelon.

You don't think it's obnoxious to aggressively put words in people's mouths and becoming even more aggressive and accusatory when getting some gentle "that's not what I said" pushback on that? Practically no one has an interaction like that and walks away with a positive experience. You can say "your comment would have been better without that remark, don't respond to a bad comment by making a bad comment". Okay, fine. I wouldn't even have responded. But it's really not the "obnoxious to the highest degree"-remark that's the core problem here, it's the "obnoxious to the highest degree"-behaviour. This is exactly how good (non-obnoxious) people stop coming back.

I once had an Apple fanboy explain to me at excruciating length that my preference was actually factually and objectively wrong, and that everyone should use the macOS scrolling and that anyone who doesn't is just stupid. I do not miss the Apple fanboys.

I'm not namecalling anyone Dan, I said their behaviour is bad. Which it is for any reasonable standard.

The metric you would need for this is "fatalities and crashes caused because someone was struggling to deal with their bloody touchscreen", which can be both motorists and non-motorists. I don't think anyone is tracking that.

It's not my impression that if you make a knife very very sharp it turns in to a lightsaber.

> in Dune there is an aversion to technology

Just computers, no? IIRC they use knives because the shields stop fast-moving objects like bullets, so you need a slow-moving object like a knife.

In the video he says he spent a lot of time making prototypes and perfecting the design.

Is he lying? He shows images of the prototypes. Did he create fake prototypes?

> if this version of the knife doesn't connect to the cloud, the next one will.

That's just ugly cynicism. And I'm willing to bet a good amount of money the "next one" from this company won't. But it doesn't matter because this one doesn't and we're talking about this one, not some hypothetical that may never arrive.

I watched the video and this seems pretty neat. Don't want to knock it or be negative. He's definitely right that most people's knives are dull – when I use knives in other people's homes I often just want to cry at how dull they are (also: pans – how the hell do so many people have dented damaged pans?) But you really don't need to splurge out €329 to have reasonably sharp knives.

All you need is a sharpening steel and use it once or twice after every usage. Even a cheap knife will last for years while remaining reasonable sharp. Mine was €6 or thereabouts at Tesco two years ago and is more than sharp enough.

Of course more expensive knifes (ultrasonic or not) are better and can hold an edge longer. You can spend more time, effort, and money on making them sharper than just a quick use of a cheap sharpening steel. If you want to spend the extra money: go for it! But for a normal home cook: you can go a long way with consistent use of a €10 sharpening steel.

You're comparing a full-time salaried employee with a "few months" to spare vs. a bunch of people spending their spare time. Obviously not the same at all. There is a difference between "able to do the task, given enough time" vs. "wanting to invest the time". In a volunteer context "I don't have the (time|skill)" usually means "I don't want to invest the time".

In addition, making a WM in libX11 is surprisingly easy, almost trivial. With Wayland: not so much. Maybe the protocol is simpler for some meaning of "simpler", but actually doing stuff with it is often more complex, certainly if you want to write a WM (or compositor in Wayland-speak). I managed to write my own X11 WM without any real experience doing this sort of thing that has served me quite well for the last ten years. I also tried duplicating that in Wayland because I've been told that's the future, but I found that a lot harder to the point where I kind of just gave up. While I'm sure I could figure it out given enough time, I also don't really want to as I have other stuff to do, and also have a perfectly working X11 WM already.

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It's not that people like Ghadaffi or Sadam were known for their good taste haha. Trump's affinity for dictator chic is not entirely out of step.

No, he wasn't quite this bad before. I spent some time reading up on what he was saying around ~2021 and there was racism, but not "these low IQ savages need to be segregated" levels of racism.

There are some people really obsessed with Antifa.

A week or two ago I browsed Eric S. Raymond's Twitter/X, and he keeps banging about it as some organisation that ruins everything. He also still keeps banging on about BLM in a similar fashion. Curious people. (also: don't do this; it's not good for your blood pressure – the guy is literally calling for segregation of "low IQ savages" now; he's gone full KKK).

You don't just destroy foundational democratic principles just because it's convenient in the moment.

> its not clear why, say, Chrome or Firefox wouldn't want to take over XSLT/libxml2 development

Very few people actually like XSLT, presumably including the Chrome and Firefox devs. I know XSLT has its share of supporters and that's fine. I'm not here to argue to merits of XSLT – or lack thereof – but we need to be honest about this. They are the proverbial Black Metal fans; everyone else just thinks it's bloody noise.

In addition, many people have grown towards the idea that importing these large C libraries for little used features is just not a good idea in the first place. And that makes libxml and libxslt a dead end. The entire business with XSLT was kicked off by a bunch of security bugs.

Finally, I think a decent case can be made to slim down the "web platform" a bit. If you want XSLT you can still "bring it yourself", but does every browser need to implement it to be "standards compliant"? Seems like a bad trade-off to me. It's a win for newer browsers like Servo or Ladybird if they don't need to worry about XSLT.

So in short, it's not just a problem of "adding some more people to libxml", although obviously that is a problem.

I see this "high-ranking elected officials" vs. "A few anonymous nobodies on Reddit and Twitter (now Bluesky I guess)" type of false equivalence all the time.