No

Most countries are like that. The past is full of nasties wherever you look. That’s why it’s important that topics like these are discussed and studied, so that future generations do not repeat the mistakes of the past.

The AITAH people are nothing if not weirdly observant of what happens on that sub. This would be caught immediately

It is a war crime to intentionally attack non-combatants.

I have $10 in a wager that Trump won’t launch a coin before the election and I feel like every passing day that is an increasingly worse bet to have made

I don’t have a problem with snaps as a technology. If you want to use them, then who am I to judge?

But what I do have a problem with is when I don’t have a choice and I am being forced to use what the distro maintainers think is good for me. That is what finally made me quit Ubuntu and switch to Fedora.

I am prepared to be downvoted for this, but I believe in Occam’s razor here: do not attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity

I think it is much more likely that nobody bothered to check their background until it was too late.

To be franc (or to be billion francs), France has enough money, guns, and United Nations Security Council seats to give Haiti the middle finger

If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.

Interestingly, this law also paid the newly freedmen $100 to fuck off to Haiti

It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years

The Yakuza in Japan in past decades are a great example of what happens when organised crime does hire lobbyists

It was the UK that did that. In the US, slavery was abolished through straight up “property confiscation” (from the perspective of slaveholders)

France doesn’t have “trillions”. There is nothing that can be done to force France to pay, so demanding too large of a sum, even if justified, is a good way to get them to say “fuck that” and you get nothing.

It’s a nuke threat. Again.

This comment is shockingly bad taste on a post about innocent civilians being bombed to death in a war zone.

Almost none of the people who are excited about AI know anything about computer science

There almost certainly one incident where that happened.

…and sadly, probably one where the person shot wasn’t a mass shooter.

China isn’t doing this for the money. They do it to keep those countries under their thumb. It’s more like, “Yeah, you owe us a billion dollars, but we’ll forgive half of it and give you a fifty-year extension on the rest because we’re just the best of pals!” And then your country is expected to vote with China in the UN for the next three decades. On top of that, it makes the Chinese government seem really rich and powerful, which is helpful for both its internal and external politics.

China is trying to buy its way to the top like the US did in the mid-twentieth century.

I love the Internet Archive but they are pretty clearly legally in the wrong here.

Not morally, mind. I support open access to knowledge. But they very clearly broke copyright law here.