Four months later, “Tehran doesn’t have any cards!”
Four years later, “Tehran is willing to permit, for humanitarian purposes outlined during negotiations with the European Union, the holding of the Independence Day ceremonies in the USA on July 4th, 2030…”
It’s a safety feature. You’re actually safer once the wheels fall off, because it can no longer go anywhere.
I just want to say: I appreciate all these comments so much, I regret that I only have a single upvote to give each of them. You all give me hope that at least there will be fellow humans standing by my side through… wherever this goes.
I’m not dismissing anything I just think it’s hilarious, hence the sarcasm and /s. Minecraft with enough shaders can destroy any PC too, I get it.
it must be awfully hard to render such high-poly lego models. /s
I think I’ll just go to a local store and pay in cash instead. I’m starting to think the Amish have the right idea, anyone know where I can rent a horse and buggy?
If they were unable to independently verify actual torture took place, proper journalism would not allow that to be reported as a fact (without quotes), instead they must rely on the report of a third party who alleges that “torture” took place, by quoting said third party. It is your job as the reader to decide if the third party is a trustworthy source for this information, not the journalist’s. This is how proper journalism works. It is not intended to imply negative judgement of the use of the term “torture”. It is intended to distinguish solely between what the journalist was able to establish as fact, versus what was reported by a potentially biased or potentially unreliable third party and let you know which part is the part you are responsible for evaluating critically. For people with critical thinking skills and knowledge of the journalistic process, this is valuable and important information to distinguish at a glance, sadly many people have spent their entire lives being pummeled with the relentless firehoses of sensationalist news media and social media which explicitly tell you what to think in the most biased ways possible and have nothing to do with journalism, so people no longer have the necessary experience and skills to understand how journalism is supposed to work.
They’re not wrong but they are inaccurate and unreliable. Clocks, on the other hand, are pretty accurate and reliable, and atomic clocks even moreso, and most digital clocks are now synchronized to the atomic clock standards in some form using the internet or wireless. The definition of time is quite accurately standardized to an extremely high level of precision and has been for a very long time. The human brain is not standardized like this and hopefully will never be because that’s a gross and scary idea.
The definition of a length of time has been maintained with levels of precision that have increased dramatically since ancient times, but at no point in the last, oh, say, at least 1000 years, has the measurement of time changed by anywhere close to 25%.
The antikythera mechanism is believed to be at least 2,000 years old and was able to calculate the passage of time and the motion of the planets far more accurately than Mississippis ever could hope to. The passage of time has not changed the accuracy of that device, only our understanding of the motion of the planets has, and again that’s a human brain problem not a time or motion of the planets problem.
I wouldn’t personally go as far as saying you should use it. Using it, and it deserving love (and support) are all related but fundamentally different questions. I agree that Mercurial deserves love, I’m not sure if it actually deserves support (but because it deserves love, I am willing to entertain the possibility, and support the idea of supporting it). I don’t think anyone should use it as a primary tool, but it might be worth using out of love, and if people still love it, maybe that’s worth some support. I don’t know, I’m not anybody’s boss, I’m not telling anybody what to do, I’m just making suggestions.
Mercurial is frankly a lot nicer and more comfortable to actually work with, it has much better UX overall that fits into a much cleaner mental model with fewer exposed sharp edges you can cut yourself on, and can work pretty much transparently with git and can even use git as a backend in almost all cases. The downside is that like VHS vs. Beta, it is such a distant second place in popularity and adoption that it really has no realistic path forward, no matter how much better designed one could argue it is. Like @Holla@feddit.org suggested, the only thing better than being the actual best option, is being standardized, and git is basically completely and universally standardized at this point. And there are genuine benefits to that standardization, and there are genuine benefits to git itself too.
If you want to paper over git with some nice UX, Mercurial might be worth a shot, you might not like it at all… or you might love it, and it does deserve some love. But realistically, in a world where git is the standard, that isn’t going to reduce your cognitive load, it’s only going to add another layer of cognitive load. You have to love it to want that. And maybe you would love it. But git is not going away, even for those of us who love Mercurial, I think we have mostly all come to terms with the fact that git won the DVCS wars and that’s just the reality we live in now. Even having accepted that, I can still cheerfully sing Mercurial’s praises and wear my rose colored glasses when I look at it, despite not even using it anymore myself.
I gave up and converted all my personal hg repos to git and gitea (now forgejo) a couple years ago. It’s fine. I’m fluent in git now, I have to be for work, I can do powerful (sometimes dangerous and exciting) things with git and I wouldn’t give that up. I realistically probably speak git better than I speak hg nowadays, but like anyone who learned English as a second language and now uses it primarily, it is always a delight and a comfort to have any opportunity to return to the old mother tongue, no matter how briefly or simplistically, and hg still represents that delightful experience for me. Even when I start to forget native words and have to mix git phrases in that I can’t think of an hg equivalent for.
Just like the Fediverse, it’s actually better and healthier if more people/groups/nations host their own (whether public or private). More diversity, less centralization.
The lack of clean and transparent federation between them is certainly inconvenient but is not a permanent roadblock, it is simply a known and well-understood technical problem that work is ongoing to solve. git itself already has very mature support for complete decentralization and decentralized workflows, it’s all of Github’s feature layers like user accounts, PR management, issue tracking, CI/CD and the various other workflow and project management layers that may need to be connected and federated across the different Forgejo-based platforms (and hopefully other platforms too in the future). Users and permissions and PRs and issue reporting are among the most critical parts, and I think they are looking at Fediverse’s ActivityPub as a method for enabling much of that.
The more large organizations that choose to build their own viable, permanent and financially stable Forgejo platforms, the more attractive and necessary proper federation between them becomes, and the more assured it will become the first-class feature it needs to be.
We are not building a mere Github replacement that drops into its centralized place, wears its shoes and follows its same path to inevitable corporate capture and enshittification. We are building a decentralized standard to be the democratic foundation for future software development and collaboration that no one can, should, or will be able to exclusively control. It’s not done yet, but this the right way for it to start so that something like SourceForge (for those old enough to remember that trainwreck) or Github never becomes a problem again.
It was probably just stress. /s
Apparently, yes, they have recently begun to use and abuse a loophole by which they can. It’s as awesome as it sounds. /s
Absolutely agreed, my only point is that people treat it like it’s a victory and celebrate like they’ve won the superbowl, when it’s just death by a thousand cuts. People need to understand that strategic voting is not a victory even when it’s successful, it’s a “we haven’t lost yet”. The fighting doesn’t stop there. There is so much more work to do and the people you voted into office are not going to do it no matter what party they are. The corruption is on both sides of the aisle. The corruption doesn’t care what your personal politics are.
That’s nonsense, you need to keep your militant revolution shit to yourself. Protests and civil disobedience are extremely powerful motivators that can affect real change, yes, but they are not a militant revolution, and there are grassroots and progressive options for democratic change. No, the US may never lose the two-party system, but voting is not just something you do for a president, and it does not always mean simply walking into a voting booth, casting your vote and going home and shrugging if the result isn’t the one you voted for.
Desegregation and women’s suffrage were both accomplished with great effort by accepting neither party’s position on the issues and actively forcing a third option onto the table. This was not accomplished by simply “voting for the democratic party a bunch of times”.
And some are almost exactly the same but painted with two different colors of evil. Strategic voting forces you to choose one. If you think strategic voting is the answer, then that certainly is the hill you are going to die on because the false dichotomy of Kang and Kodos is absolutely going to kill you.
Good news, maybe this means people will finally stop trusting polls so those of us who still have some semblance of democracy can go vote for the things we actually want to see changed instead of having our choices prejudiced by polls that tell us we must “strategically vote” so we can’t have nice things.
Voting for the lesser evil is still evil.
If you could magically teleport oil from one side of the country to the other for free, you might as well just teleport it straight to its buyer and not bother with ships at all. And Iraq and Kuwait, which are major oil producers you might remember from past hits like Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2, don’t even have another side of the country to send it to.
It’s not Russia and American interests. It’s Trump and Putin interests. Countries and nations no longer really matter to the billionaire class. Just because we’re stuck viewing things through the lens of left-wing/right-wing governments and geopolitics doesn’t mean it’s actually relevant to what they’re doing and what they have planned for us. They’re going to replace us with AI and robots while they kill us all off, so they can have a sparsely populated tech-utopia ecological paradise all to themselves. The attacks on democracy and the dismantling of the US government is not an accident, the chaos and conflict is all part of the plan.
The only option when getting the shit kicked out of you on one front, is to open a second front so you can get the shit kicked out of you there too. I’m sure Ukraine would be happy for Russia’s attention to be focused elsewhere for awhile and I’m sure they would not do anything to keep the pressure up or support Armenia and vice versa.