US discovering universal healthcare backwards.

You know, the answer to captions like that is to 99.9%:

Yes*

*Under laboratory conditions and for a very specific use case / a whole lot of money, once.

The reality is that billions are poured into developing faster computers and change is happening gradually, because low-hanging fruits are gathered even before they are ripe.

Die Ablehnung des Staates Israel ist Antisemitismus.

In meinen Augen ist das Antikolonialismus. Und ich debattiere da auch nicht drüber, ich lehne diesen Staat, zumindest in jetziger Form, nicht wegen der Religion oder der Herkunft der Bewohner ab.

Genau weil die Israelis den Staat Israel ablehnen…

Verzeihung, das habe ich missverständlich formuliert. Was ich eigentlich ausdrücken wollte war: Es gibt eine Opposition in Israel (die gegen die Aktuelle Regierung steht) und (unabhängig davon) auch jüdische Antizionisten. Darunter sogar überaus bekannte, wie Einstein und Chomsky.

Israel ist ganz sicher keine Theokratie

Israel ist ein Staat, der speziell für die Anhänger einer Religion gegründet wurde und seine Gebietsansprüche auf religiösen Erzählungen basiert. Außerdem gibt es Probleme mit Diskriminierung und Vorurteilen, die vom Staat nicht nur zugelassen sondern sogar befeuert werden, um vermeintlich eigene Gebiete von anderen religiösen und/oder ethnischen Gruppen zu “befreien”. Israel mag dieser Tage mehr oder weniger demokratisch regiert sein, ist aber fundamental auf einer Religion, religiösen Erzählungen und Ansichten begründet und lässt sich bis heute davon leiten.

Ich lehne ein Israel jenseits eines Zwei-Staaten-Kompromisses ab, weil ich es im aktuellen Zustand schlicht für eine brutale Kolonialmacht halte, die nicht mal versucht besser zu sein als die, die aus israelischer Sicht für ihr eigenes Handlen verantwortlich sind.

Als entschiedener Israel-Kritiker möchte ich gerne einwerfen, dass gegen den israelischen Staat zu sein, selbst Antizionist zu sein, nichts mit Antisemitismus zu tun hat. Sonst wäre ein großer Teil der israelischen Bevölkerung auch antisemitisch, mindestens die komplette Opposition in Israel selbst. Und ich finde man kann Theokratien religionsbasierte Demokratien verabscheuen, ohne das auf die dafür missbrauchte Religion zu übertragen.

Darüber hinaus halte ich es für erwähnenswert, dass die Palästinenser auch zu den Semiten gehören, wobei diese Bezeichnung genau genommen komplett überholt und mindestens leicht rassistisch ist. Über die Implikationen davon lohnt es sich nachzudenken.

You know, comparing people to God is basically blasphemy already. Not that I trust people who genuinely support Trump to understand anything about their own religion - or anything really.

I know this won’t help you a whole lot, but I do.

Love how people look at GB, see their much bigger economy, see the results of Brexit and be like: Bro, I think we would do better.

I have to, for work - which is why I am happy whenever they do stuff right. That said, there is also a lot of schadenfreude whenever they think something along the lines of “let’s tell people we will screenshot everything”.

Whatever MS does, I win.

Might be about time to try blendOS I guess. All that’s missing is Gentoo-like local compilation of packages to tick all the boxes of stuff Linux people get off on.

Imagine thinking you have authority over your children’s sexuality and gender. That would be kind of a pro-abortion argument tho.

The trick is not microwaving everything at 100% power, but for a longer time instead

There is a Kill la Kill reference hidden in there… Hidden in plain sight, I mean.

Aw man, I was hoping for wings, or at least feathers.

If you gonna rant, please make it at least comprehensible. You went from “JS is flawed” to “everyone is wrong these days” within three paragraphs like wth.

I also highly disagree with your premise that people think ‘simple is bad’. Things that are complicated are usually complicated for a reason. C++ for example is complicated, because it grew over decades. Rust is complicated, because it tries to be secure, capture mistakes at compile time, while allowing for concurrency and memory management, and at the same time be very efficient and give the programmer much control. It’s hard if not impossible to achieve all these goals in a language without making it complicated.

Go on the other hand is not complicated, because Google engineers saw C++ and wanted to make something less complicated - and thus they created a simpler language. This is an example that goes directly against your argument, together with many other modern languages and frameworks that were created for reasons like this. But notably and more importantly, the most popular languages are simple. Python, JS/TS, Java - These languages are all relatively easy to use.

I won’t pretend that I get you bit about WASM since I have little experience with it, but as far as I understand it is primarily a vehicle allowing to use programming languages for the web that weren’t designed for it. And as far as I’m aware you can do quite sophisticated things with it, so where exactly is the problem? Putting guardrails in place is rarely a bad thing, because they are easy to remove but hard to establish retroactively.

I just realised I have only been to Berlin and Paris. And if I had to choose between the two I would pick Den Haag, be it only to anger three nations at once.

I think TOML found a pleasant compromise there

If I had a Euro for everyone who thinks they understand the Nazis and what they did but doesn’t, I could have bailed out Greece on my own.

I thought exactly the same about controlling a millilitre of water. You could straight up behead people on sight and leave basically no trace at all - just a suspiciously clean cut

“I can’t make shitposts about trans-people in a “mainstream” meme community without backlash, so the mods must be transphobic.”

You do realise there are probably dozens of communities where people actually get your posts, you know? But feel free to farm more dislikes I guess.

If you carry a deadly, easily transmittable disease, you know where to go now