A lot of teens in the US have jobs; I’ve worked since I was 14. At $10/month that’s like 1 fast food meal, and if you use it as your major chat platform that’s easily worth it for the convenience it offers you. And teens don’t generally have other major bills to pay.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft commit antitrust violations too fast and numerous for the legal systems to keep up.

That and they spy on consumers for the US government so that gives them free passes at a lot of things.

It’s 35m deep - for comparison recreational scuba divers go up to 30m deep and professional scuba divers up to 60m deep.

It will have to be well engineered and difficult to repair compared to a land facility, but nothing compared to like the space station.

Very cool idea, after 25 years there should be significant cost savings overall.

Damn you my go-to password in the 2010’s was “P4nc4kes!”.

Funny that I was just watching Bill Burr on Conan say the same thing about Steve Jobs like 15 years ago. People treat him like he’s Nikola Tesla level inventor, but he’s really just ordering around the nameless/faceless engineers who do the actual invention.

I think collectively we’re getting burned out on hero worship or the lone genius myth. Every advancement is a collective effort.

They actually found a 5-second sleep embedded in the JavaScript, so it’s not the cache.

They certainly referred to it as liberation, make no mistake you are using Nazi wordplay.

And it speaks mountains that you won’t even try the deny that killing the Jews is your agenda.

you’re projecting your genocidal views on the rest of us

I’m literally advocating for peace, you are the one who thinks you’re pursuing a “righteous” ethnic cleansing.

Liberation how? Like how Hitler liberated Germany, kill all the Jews?

Germans sympathetic to the Jewish plight would’ve helped their neighbours and friends no matter what Jewish resistance was doing.

You’re privileged af. Sympathy doesn’t just stick around when someone is killing your family.

Are you are happy to have your rights and pull the ladder up behind you?

I’d rather preserve my rights because if I lose my rights, I can do jack shit for anyone else.

Swallow this bitter pill: if Trump wins in 2024 and women and LGBT and minorities continue to lose rights, Palestinians will suffer and die more.

Do I have a fetish for violence or do I just believe that oppressed people should be able to fight for their rights like those before us did.

The difference is that you don’t support any scenario in which oppression lessens or ends. You only support scenarios in which oppression and violence get worse.

Yeah 100% you’re horny for blood and you make it everyone else’s problem.

It’s just not a Democracy, unfortunately.

Bad faith actors weaponizes this against the concept of Democracy itself.

Pre-internet fog of war was on a whole different level; it’s not like Anne Frank was positing tiktoks from inside Germany explaining what was happening.

Modern day corporations have no such excuse.

Many German civilians actually sympathized with the Jews and helped them hide/escape.

Now imagine they hadn’t.

It could absolutely have been worse.

All your rights we’re violently fought for and defended at some point in history.

At some point it was violent, and at some point the violence ended.

You don’t want the violence to end, you want an excuse to indulge in your fetish for violence and feel like you’re morally right for it.

Ahhh that makes a lot of sense now.

I want to make my position on this part clear:** there’s no defending the DNC for supporting a genocidal apartheid state.**

But like it or not, the DNC is demonstrably far better on LGBT rights, women’s rights, minority rights, and voting rights in the US. They could look similar to you, but with the DNC there is actually a path forward to be better.

And also like it or not, Trump will do nothing good for Palestine. Trump fucking hates brown people, he hates Muslims, the situation will get worse for everyone in the middle east and for women and minorities in the US. And long-term, if you all think America is racist and imperialist now, when cristo-fascists take over and really turn America into a white Christian empire that launches a religious crusade against the rest of the world, y’all will realize how good you had it when it was just the neolibs being greedy for money.

Critical thinking - would a little Jewish strike group attacking German civilians make the Nazi party hold back and lessen the horrors, or would it have scared the Germans into further supporting the Nazi party and lead to an even more outright assault on Jewish people, making the horrors even worse?

It would have made it worse. Without a doubt, the Holocaust would have been even worse.

You need to be honest with yourself, is this about protecting human life, or do you just fetishize violence against people you hate?

You’re running in nonsensical circles my dude. First you say “Democracy” is “fascism-lite”, now you’re saying that to be “anti-Democracy” is “authoritarian”.

Did you slip up and accidentally reveal to the wrong community that you’re anti-Democracy, or did you poorly communicate your original intent and write out the wrong statement?

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Democracy is demonstrably far less oppressive than fascism.

If you are actually anti-opression, the choice for Democracy is a no-brainer.

Interesting, so do you support the oppression of women in the US, or are you against the oppression of women?

Sure, but who is the “oppressor” and who is the “oppressed” can flip on a dime based on context.

A lot of oppressed people eventually find themselves to be the oppressor.

If you take a hard stance joining any side, you are at some point siding with an oppressor.

I don’t need to describe how horrific and oppressive Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was. But you take a hard stance siding with the Jewish people, you are siding with the oppressor in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

I don’t need to describe how horrific the situation in Gaza is, but if you take a hard stance siding with Palestine and Hamas executes a bunch of festival goers, you’re siding with the oppressor.

The only way to be anti-opression (and according to you, a real progressive), is to not take sides but take every situation as it is and support the best possible outcome for everyone.

No journalists on the ground found any indication of a mass casualty event on Tiananmen Square

ON Tiananmen Square. This is fascist-level wordplay. The same journalists found a massacre all around Tiananmen Square in the rest of Beijing.

no evidence that Chinese tanks actually killed anyone on 6/4

This is just a straight up lie. Lots of people were killed in Beijing. Just possibly not any within the tiny physical confines of Tiananmen Square itself.