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ASE was great, I think it was possible to filter servers by country, and I think I used to find new servers and players from my country to play with.

And are also the leading countries promoting cleaner alternatives to all human activites.

What you're missing is that if underdeveloped countries were even capable of reaching the same stage of development we and East Asian countries enjoy, they would contribute as much, and that is actually their goal.

What would 1.2 billion refugees do? Stay in their countries and improve them just like Westerners do?

There are lots of components of "non-war stuff" that originated from military R&D, and probably would appear much later if it wasn't for the Defense Budget.

yes, it's full of BPA.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...

Le Corbusier's legacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

This week there was the annual European Lisp Symposium [0], in Porto, Portugal, and it's sponsored by companies who use Lisp in their products.

If you have ever taken a train or subway in Europe, you depended on Lisp.

[0] https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2022/index.html

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. [0]

Neither the Clojure page, nor its users seem to agree with you.

[0] https://clojure.org/

but hate speech (in the form of blatant transphobia)

I really hope you Red Army wannabes one day get what you deserve. You think you are the defender of the weak but you openly threaten someone's livelihood because one doesn't follow the new liberal gospel.

It's a shame ESR can't say whatever he wants because he's genuinely afraid.

And regarding "transphobia" lol. lmao.

and are overtly hostile to Judaism, as prescribed by their religion.

What does the Talmud say about the Goyim?

is it really so wrong for a nation to implement laws to preserve its culture, particularly when it's people constitute a tiny fraction of the global population

It's ok, natural and healthy for Israel, but not for the rest of the world, where that is nationalism and equates to ideologies of the 1930s.

You don't even have to look at old maps that much, when as in this case a great part of the population didn't migrate elsewhere.

Just look at the ethnic/linguistic distributions in the area.

This would not work that well for example, German population in territories lost during WW I, afaik.

They view Ukraine as part of Russia

And it is. So is Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Oblast) part of Hungary, and other parts or Ukraine that should belong to Romania and even some to Poland.

Their current borders are an accident that should have long been solved diplomatically, but alas here we are.

Danger is, if Putin can portray this as west vs Russia, he could start enlisting people from far-left and far-right.

The danger was these maneuvers that even in the Bush era, people recognized they would be deemed unacceptable by Russia.

And the whole handling of the relations with Ukraine since the events of 2014.

This situation is far more complex than "Kremlin man bad".

Unfortunately the people who will pay for these are not diplomats or the big interests that played this situation as a game, it will be the average Ukrainian who see their country torn apart, and in a lesser extent the average Russian, severely affected by sanctions.

Hispanic is just a bad name for the category as it is not a race as a descendent of portuguese or spanish, or any other european people, with no intermixture with native americans, or vice-versa, are both hispanics.

Hence why Americans have to distinguish between white or non-white hispanics.

given what this country has done on social media to control foreign elections

What has Russian done that

a) Directly affects the results, such as hacking any system where electronic vote is possible.

b) Any kind of propaganda or lobbying that any other country such as the USA, England or Israel don't also engage to make public opinion more sympathetic to them.

Even if you don't use F# directly, you might apply something you learned when reasoning about any problem, or coming up with more elegant solutions.

Also, having the discipline to study to improve your skills, will most definitely be beneficial in other spheres of your life.

Are the legacies of dead white men the only possible way to organize all knowledge?

The evil dead white men. If only anything prevented non-white living (wo)men to make something of their own without impacting the legacy of these "dead white men".

No surprise the article mentions lots of white women, who can't go a day about trying to change what white men built without coming up with something demonstrably better.

I am sure in those "scientific sexism" section they mention, there are a couple of books on how the affluent white female liberal is the vehicle of societal decay.

I only used Citrix once and it was just horrible.

I have no idea what hardware was supporting it, but I just couldn't work with it. Too slow and lots of graphical issues.

As if their opponents didn't practice exactly what I said too

Today, as a (Catholic) Christian, and also a big David Graeber fanboi (these are not as radically incompatible as they may seem)

How is a left wing anarchist with Communist sympathies [0] in any way compatible with what any Pope or Doctor of the Church [1] has ever written?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_the_Church

Hobbes gets a bad rap because it sounds pretty horrible sitting in the peace and comfort of the 21st century. But we have to remember that the general attitude of "I better kill him before he kills me" (a kind of fear) has been the dominant cause of violence for most of human history.

Only naive Europeans, mostly western and the Anglophone countries, still believe this. The rest of the world laugh at us and our political leaders who don't have a backbone. Just look at the situation in the Ukrainian border.

And your notion that the use of Violence is related to fear and not power speaks volumes.

A quote from someone who understands this really well:

“To the meaningless French idealisms: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, we propose the three German realities: Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery.”

— Prince Bernhard von Bülow

Entry level communist ideals, disguised or a bit diluted for easier public consumption

Summarizing: Portuguese don't use long 'r' phonemes when the word starts with 'r'. We usually pronounce as if the word starts with 'h' in english.

Either I didn't understand what you mean or I have never seen any Portuguese native speaker (including me) pronouncing it like you say we do.

There are certain interviews to Azoreans that require subtitles to be added, otherwise nobody from the mainland will understand anything that they're saying due to a very thick accent.

But as far as I know it's due to the colonization of the islands with both Portuguese people and people from the low countries.

These words are non-existent and potentially characterized as “right-wing” which is so insane to me: hard work, perseverance, determination, ambition, unyielding, disciplined, persistence and strong work-ethics.

These are the values my father taught me

You just summarized Prussianism [0][1], so you're not far from the truth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussianism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_virtues

Sociopolitical commentary as in an anal sex guide to minors, and several articles "explaining" how Socialism is the way forward?

It's pretty clear to figure out what is their end-game, and it's not just a redirection from shallow subjects such as the fashion world and teenagers stuff, to more "serious" topics.

The National Academy of Medicine recommends that adults get a minimum of 0.8 grams of protein for every kilogram of body weight per day

If you want to look like a feeble elderly that sounds like a good amount for an adult male.

Ketamine is used to induct children into surgery it’s so safe.

Which is not the topic of the article, nor am I debating that fact.

Depressed people cannot maintain the discipline required to undo their learned helplessness Those deeply depressed people are not the ones I am mentioning in my comment. And as with any other serious disease, sometimes taking experimental treatments are worth the risk if more conventional treatments don't help patients improve.

If I wasn't clear enough, I'm talking about people who think they are depressed but would most accurately be described as "sad", for any given reason that could be happening in their lives.

Can't wait for regular people that have a few solvable issues in their life but perceive themselves as "depressed" to just take a shortcut where Ketamine, or whatever is the miracle drug at the moment, will fix everything.

Many doctors won't have any problem prescribing them, as they can always say "it was <national drug institution> approved and the patient should stick to the prescribed dosage".

What the vast majority of people need in their lives are discipline and sense of fulfilling, which they won't get from drugs or other material things they can buy.

Furthermore, this cannabis usage is primarily motivated by a perceived enhancement to certain software development skills (such as brainstorming or getting into a programming zone) rather than medicinal reasons

How can anyone who has tried it remotely believe this nonsense?

What is better in this day and age? That is highly subjective, as certain stacks are only available for certain kinds of tasks. What a web developer finds enjoyable is not the same as the Linux kernel contributor will enjoy.

Personally what motivates me is the domain of the problems I am trying to solve, such as contributing to the digitization of my countries' companies and industries.

Once you find that for you, you won't think much about technological stacks, unless the one you are stuck with is god-awful.