If you believe there are better arguments to be made, go ahead.

Well, you just did that. I was pointing out that your use of those images is misleading, and as critics, we should take the moral high ground.

So much for your communist China.

Not sure what you think about me. As an anarchist, I don’t have socially positive views of China.

commercialised, mass-produced

No. Albeit with a completely misguided target of technical skill, the admissions test is not a factory. And food and drink are, of course, allowed.

then you are the ‘worse kid,’ which is an ideology in China where there is always a better child—Failure is not an option.

Honestly, it’s just involution: Everyone always looks up to the better children and apply to the best school, whose exam is what we see here. However, failure is, in fact, an executable option. Just as there is always a better place, there is also always a worse place: a worse school to apply to instead of the one with a 2% acceptance rate, a worse place to live with a much better upkeep, a worse job where you can still apply your skills with the same comfort… The aforementioned streamers can always choose to pull up stakes and find other types of less gruelling careers, yet they’re not comfortable enough with the low-key: Unfortunately, investments in mental health education are way too low to counter the ingrained Chinese culture of overachievement, and that is a very big problem. Such involution is also a problem in the United States, especially in higher education, but we have much better access to online support.

Top: Streamers going to rich neighborhoods to attract local viewers and donations after China implements policy of forcing all Internet content to show their approximate location

Bottom: largest art school examination in the world, where ~14,000 applicants invited to the exam must compete for ~800 spots

Most jobs are normal and like the western world. While there are tons of valid criticisms like the protest one you mentioned, “strict homogeneity” is not one of them and just gives tankies more ammunition. There are way better arguments you can make from these images.

ackshually it’s endeavour

999’s DS version—the original—had superb dialogue. Sadly they made it absorb all the narration way more rigmarolously than VLR’s.

(Fun fact: Makoto Naegi has a specific pattern on his hoodie.)

I agree with the legal state part, but it was not the energy use of the MRI; it was BS’d from the following:

“Franco conducted surveillance on multiple dates in 2023, reporting the ‘distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked,’ tinted windows–which he attributed to efforts to conceal cannabis cultivation, security cameras– which he associated with locations where cannabis is grown to prevent theft, and two individuals in similar attire at the premises – whom he concluded were performing maintenance or expanding the cultivation operation,” the lawsuit alleges.

One LAPD officer, “dangling a rifle in his right hand, with an unsecured strap, approached the MRI Office” and glanced at the large warning sign on the door that read: ‘Warning. Magnetic Field. High Frequency Yield. Metal Parts and Medical Instruments of All Types prohibited.’" He then walked into the MRI Office, according to the lawsuit.

I’m not an expert on this topic, and the following is my impression from the information I’ve seen.

1&3: A nuclear repository needs to be sealed to prevent radiation. A chemical landfill does not. People can see the waste inside landfills from afar and realize that it’s nothing of value. Meanwhile, nuclear repositories will have their waste far far away from what people can see. Future beings will not see the glowy warm metal quickly, and just breaking the concrete to see it will cause significant disruption.

1b: There are parts of spent fuel that are completely spent and unreusable; in fact, reprocessed uranium costs way more than just dumping the spent fuel and buying new uranium.

2: You are assuming that the future beings will only discover and somehow manage to breach the place before recivilizing. If such an apocalypse occurs, there 78% will be a point in time where they at least reach 19th-century levels of technology. Even if they didn’t, having the place breached before the future figures out how to seal radioactive things/use concrete will choke out their development and despair us all for eternity until evolution manages to make a resistant species, which will take a long time.

Sauce? It’s not even on TVTropes

Theoretically, the browser executes the Mv3 blocking rules, so it could be optimized and more efficient than js ever could.

No, they only said they were stopping work on HoloLens 3 last time.

Yes, in the weirdest way possible: the military, somehow.

Agreed, but to play devil’s advocate, the support wasn’t branded as such and customers could’ve not reported out of shame, which wouldn’t happen if they knew they could do that at the beginning before it became anything substantial.

“The men came over to the car again and stood in front of it for a few minutes. Finally when they left, the car was still stalled but I clicked the ‘in car support’ on the screen and they seemed to be aware of the issue,” Amina said. “They asked if I was OK and the car began to drive towards my location. They asked if I needed police support and I said no.”

When she was almost to her destination, Waymo support called her again to ask if she was ok, she said. “I assured him that I was fine and he told me I would be given a free ride after,” she said. “After many hours I was called one last time by their support team. They asked if I was OK and told me that they have 24/7 support available. They also said I would get the next ride or next two rides (uncertain) free.”

“In an instance like this, our riders have 24/7 access to Rider Support agents who will help them navigate the situation in real time and coordinate closely with law enforcement officers to provide further assistance as needed,” a spokesperson for Waymo told 404 Media in an email. “While these sorts of events are exceedingly rare among the 100,000 trips we serve a week across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, we take them very seriously. We continuously look for ways to improve rider experience and remain committed to improving road safety and mobility in the cities where we operate.”

Wikipedia

That’s only one of its bold claims. It’s meant to help reading for whomever finds it helpful

Garuda can definitely get Steam working for you quickly, though it abstracts the system more so you may or may not find it harder to fix problems due to not understanding the jargon

Since it’s not been brought to market, I’ll assume there isn’t a way with its money’s worth. At most you have the Microsoft thing with a thin hinge.

And where does that call for death? It’s stupid, sure, but take some time off and you’ll see you were far more uncivil.

And given that experience I of course did not follow up with another thread, just to experience the same thing.

If they had commented in the new thread, suspension would be definite. IMO, locking it would be a good choice, since if that user commented on the new thread, they’s very likely to be stalking you and have a concrete reason to get punished. I’m sure the only disruptive user got a formal warning.

As for being unable to report, that’s because of default policies by Discourse, the forum software used by EOS: You can only flag posts after reading 30 posts across 5 topics for 10 minutes. The Manjaro forums use the same forums and configuration. (Not as in exactly the same, just the same on this front.)

It lists a bunch of inconsequential things when it comes to the distro.

You seem to have skipped over the part about shipping the M1 kernel 3 days after its first demo with bugs. They then PR’d a commit they obviously did not understand to archlinuxarm, a much smaller project unaffilated with ARM, causing breakage. This was in October 2022.

The SSL certificates of their websites I really don’t give a damn about but people then keep saying “yeah but if they are sloppy there then…”, without being able to provide examples where the distro was ever affected by it.

The SSL certificate expiring means you are not able to connect to Manjaro servers to update anything. No Manjaro packages at all can be upgraded or installed while the SSL certificate’s expired. That’s pretty big.

And if you’re super paranoid, just update the AUR when Manjaro updates.

But when Manjaro gives you updates from two weeks prior, AUR gives you new updates from today.

They do have a different testing system now—with a good justification of being quite a different system from Arch—where all updates are pushed to a test branch and errors are caught, supposedly. I say supposedly because that did not stop the AUR being DDOS’d for the 2nd time under the same exact system in 2021.

This is all on top on the fact that Manjaro has officially said that they are not Arch, albeit based on Arch. Though at the end of the day, anyone is of course free to use whatever they wants. Manjaro has done some wonderful work for everyone. It’s just I need to wait until at least 2028 to trust it.