Yeah, agreed. Hence

Consider other peoples of the world as equals and allies rather than dumb weaklings to be taught a lesson and/or exploited.

TBH the change can be pretty small, albeit revolutionary.

Actually embrace the humanitarian values of enlightenment. Gain some class consciousness. Remove the dictatorship of the capital by seizing the means of production. Consider other peoples of the world as equals and allies rather than dumb weaklings to be taught a lesson and/or exploited.

It all fits in a very long and established european tradition. Remember that Marx, Engels, Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Kropotkin, and Lenin were all europeans.

Moving to the Netherlands would paradoxically allow you to be high enough away.

No experience with kids in Vietnam, but the country is really nice. Not too sure about the safety nets in case you lose a job, especially since it would also mean you lose your residence permit…

As for europe, I think it will do reasonably fine for the next ~30 years, the decline of capitalism will be slower than in the US because it has at least some regulation in place to slow down the wealth inequality explosion. The quality of life is better than Vietnam, especially outside big cities. Practically speaking, I’d trust the safety net more too, at least for the near future. Racism depends on the country, I think your kid would do fine in most. The main drawbacks are of course that the safety net and quality of life is funded by imperialism (some from gnarly neo-colonial imperialism, looking at you France, others just economic exploitation of the global south), and that the capitalist system will decay there eventually too.

A couple years ago, they couldn’t even provide the token military support for a long-time ally, almost-neighbor, and main stronghold in the Caucasus - Armenia - in what was basically a more-or-less righteous (even if legally dubious) defensive war against Azerbaijan. Instead the few russian troops already stationed there just withdrew in an orderly fashion. This resulted in quite a serious anti-Russian shift in the country, so much so that they basically withdrew from CSTO, and are starting to consider leaving the EEU and joining the EU.

Do you seriously think they would be able to provide meaningful support for Iran, against the US?

Documentation will always have to be actually written by the author(s) of the code (or at least someone who understands the code really well), because only the author knows the intent behind a certain function or API endpoint, and that’s what the documentation is for.

LLMs don’t understand shit (sorry AI bros), they will sometimes produce accurate descriptions of the function code as written, but never the intent. Even if the LLM “wrote” the code, it doesn’t “understand” the real intent behind it, because it is just a poor mashup of code taken/stolen from someone else, which statistically fits the prompt.

What LLMs could help with is generating short, human-readable descriptions of what is happening in a given function. This can potentially be helpful for debugging/modifying projects with poor documentation, naming, and function separation, so that instead of gleaning through multiple 2000-line C functions in a 100k SLOC file, you can kind of understand what it does quickly. I’ve used deepseek for this before, with mixed-to-positive results.

But again, this would just be to speed up surface-level digging and not a replacement for actual documentation or good practices.

I can’t answer for the rest of the world, will trust the US again when it abolishes capitalism and makes sure that wealth/power can not be hoarded by private individuals or unaccountable organizations. This is the only solution. Everything you propose is just a bandaid on a gaping wound that is the dictatorship of capital; it doesn’t really matter how effective or competent the governance structure is, as long as it is subservient to a few billionaire oligarchs.

I mean, good for him. China, Europe et al ought to seize this opportunity to invest in those organizations for the betterment of humanity, without constant impediments by the US.

We may kick them out every other 4 years but the American public is stupid and easily forgets.

No, it’s more than that. The opposition (i.e. Democrats) is paid for by a group of oligarchs largely overlapping with those who pay the fascists, and fights tooth and nail to keep the american people poor and obedient. They might not be as mask-off about their imperialism, and they might allow some leeway for minorities, but they are fundamentally in service to the same group of people. The average american will not see significant economic improvements when they vote for Dems again; so, ever more angry and upset about the deteriorating living conditions, they will continuously vote for “the other party”.

Now is the time to realize that there will not be a solution to this crisis while your country is still ruled by oligarchs, as it has been since the founding. You will need to destroy the root cause of the issue, the unbounded exponential accumulation of wealth - a.k.a. capitalism - in order to see meaningful progress.

LMAO, US is literally the original fascist country that the nazis tried to emulate with lebensraum. It is the most evil entity on this planet to date.

putin’s russia supporting some marginalized neonazis to destabilize europe is nothing compared to the dozens of literal fascist coups staged and puppeteered by the US starting way before putin was even born.

Now the citizens of the empire are reaping what the oligarchs of old have sowed with quiet support from the liberals. Fascism is simply coming back home.

1. This is not a problem that needs solving, it’s an artificial barrier to prevent you from using the device which reduces profit for the manufacturer. Being able to install and run whatever software you want (apart from actual hardware limitations) has been part of personal computers since the invention of personal computers.
2. Google is trying its best to do this as well, if you’ve missed the news.

I think the actual headline should be “Apple forced to remove some illegal barriers to app installation for users in Brazil”.

I am annoyed by the headline giving Apple the agency to let users use their device. Screw that, if someone buys a device they should be able to use it however they please, including installing their own OS and their own apps on top, and replacing any part of the hardware. Anything preventing that should be illegal.

There is a difference yes

Ok, point out the material difference between war crimes conducted by obama and trump. “Decorum” or “justifications” don’t count as material differences.

trump is worse on many other topics, from outright fascism in the US to openly supporting fascists abroad to cutting USAID and such, but in terms of military action this administration is mostly just following the long-established bipartisan war crime traditions.

No, it literally isn’t?

Murder is the process of intentionally killing a living being.

The entire species is not a living being. Extinction of a species can come from murder of all its individuals, but it doesn’t have to. I’m literally proposing a solution under which there is no murder happening at all, and all individuals live out their lives happily until peaceful death, more or less.

Extinction of a species is not a problem by itself, especially when the members of that species don’t have the necessary mental abilities to understand the concepts of species or extinction. It can be a problem if it causes ecosystem failure, which then results in unnecessary suffering and death. But it’s not a problem by itself.

What you are proposing (keeping the animal farming industry going) will involve a lot of murder of animals, whichever way you structure it, or however many “animal welfare” stickers you put on the end products.

My solution involves murdering exactly 0 animals.

Letting animals live out their lives until peaceful death is the opposite of murder.

Your solution involves a continuous cycle of exploitation and murder with no feasible end in sight.

So, keep the cycle of exploitation and murder going, but with slightly less shitty conditions? It’s an improvement for sure, but doesn’t solve the fundamental issue with murdering animals.

Ok, name me a nutrient and I’ll give you either a plant-based source of it or evidence that your body or gut biome produces it itself

And yeah, I agree, if you want to have a healthy diet you need to read up on dietology and/or visit a dietologist. But this has nothing to do with veganism, omnivores need to do it too.

So, what is your proposal? This is not a rhetorical question, I’ve thought and read about it for a while and it seems to me like the least bad practical option, because the others are:

• Kill them directly (way more suffering, seems worse)
• Release them into the wild, ensuring most die from hunger or predators and destroy entire ecosystems (seems worse to me as well)
• Keep them in the same hellhole farms where they already are, but stop insemination and ensure sex separation (seems the same as sterilization but with another way to remove autonomy)
• Magically build shelters for them and let them reproduce freely while providing them with food. This is (1) pretty much impossible economically, (2) clearly not sustainable because it will just result in an explosion in their numbers, without a clear plan to provide food for them long-term.

I’m asserting it because it’s true. I’m vegan for over 7 years now, the only supplements I take is B12 (and occasionally D), I’m in good health. I’m friends with a vegan of 20 years, the only supplements she takes is B12 and iron, and she’s in good health. The science backs it up as well, plants contain almost everything we need to exist.

In order to be healthy, you have to make sure your diet is varied and contains the sources for all necessary nutrients, but then it’s exactly the same for omnivores.

Yeah, I guess I’m not entirely accurate, because you can get some tiny amount of B12 from plant-based sources (e.g. nori). But it’s probably not enough, so vegans should supplement it. The rest is probably fine unless you’re blasting junk food every day.