If I had to guess I’d assume that it’s cheaper than doing it in-house. And considering that Musk fired the vast majority of Twitter’s most talented staff when he took over it’s probably also more reliable, even with today’s outage on the record.

It’s not but it’s also kind of irrelevant to the situation in Europe right now because it’s history. The Soviet Union and it’s puppet regimes fell decades ago, and the Eastern Block sponsored communist terrorists (RAF, Red Brigades, etc.) went down along with it.

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And what has changed since? An individual murdering one single person doesn’t change anything in the grand scheme of things. You can’t lone wolf systemic change.

Almost like fighting fascists by copying them doesn’t fucking work and instead normalises fascism.

Except NATO could and would do the same, and even without the US the European members of the alliance have far greater manpower reserves than Russia. And better tech. And a larger manufacturing base. And more money. And better access to global markets. And navies to protect that access.

Attacking Ukraine was stupid. Attacking NATO would be nothing short of suicidal. Russia would lose a conventional war, and nobody wins a nuclear war.

[Taliban rule] being better than us occupation in many respects

Unless you happen to be a woman. So literally half of the population.

Fuck off dude.

It also makes Lemmy objectively less safe because it’s much less effective at limiting stalking and harassment. Especially since way blocks work on Lemmy isn’t clearly communicated to the user.

With the amount of alternatives it’s also very likely that you’ll find one that you genuinely prefer over Coca-Cola or Pepsi once you give them a try. I did not start buying Fritz Kola over Coca-Cola because of any “feature”, and not because it’s German either. I just tried it on a whim ages ago and preferred the taste, so that’s what I’ve been buying since.

That’s far from the only issue. Of course all of the things I’d name (systemic racism, horrible prison conditions, gaps in our “universal” healthcare, dismantling of the social state) are also things the current US administration would be in favour of.

Football.

The soundtrack is also amazing. But yeah, the movies did the characters dirty. And it’s not like the character building is particularly compelling in the books to begin with, it’s very much a “the good guys are good and triumph over the bad guys who are evil because they’re evil” kind of story.

Phone speakers these days are fairly decent. Will good headphones/speakers with a good DAC and AMP and a lossless audio file sound better? Well, duh. Are phone speakers adequate for the vast majority of people who aren’t audiosnobs, sorry, audiophiles? Also yes. Just don’t be that asshole using speakers in public spaces.

Doesn’t GeForce now have a free tier?

Milchstraße in German, which translates to milk road.

Usually the henchmen are actively attacking the protagonists, while the villain is already (seemingly) defeated by the time this line is uttered.

That’s a vast oversimplification of the thought process and emotions that’s going on there and an extremely uncharitable one at that (most people have their own lives to worry about, it’s usually less “I can’t drive where I want to” and more “I have to get to work”), but essentially yes. That’s the reality you have to work with.

Those do work better. Antagonising the people whose support you rely on to effect change is a horrible strategy, the more of a disturbance protests cause to the average person, the less likely said average person is to be supportive.

Let’s not beat around the bush here, he wants it to sprout fascist propaganda.

It’s really not much of a flex (all you need is a strong transmitter), and it’s almost certainly not intended as one. They’re doing it because the Israeli and American military use GPS for navigation and targeting.