So, say that Russia tests article 5. This has one of two possible outcomes.

• Article 5 is not honoured which is “yay for Russia” though not very useful for them since militarily they’re stuck in a self-dug pit in Ukraine so don’t actually have the excess military power for handling anything more than a small nation like Montenegro. Meanwhile NATO is hardly going to stop supporting Ukraine (and in fact NATO nations might double up on that support if they feel that NATO doesn’t work anymore as strategically it’s the best way to militarily bleed Russia and make it less dangerous)
• Article 5 is honoured. At which point, who knows how far NATO nations will go in crushing Russia to make sure an attack on a NATO nation doesn’t happen ever again. At the very least Russia would be kicked out of Ukraine pretty quickly and lose pretty much all its air and naval assets.

My point is that this is a MASSIVE risk for Russia if they are wrong, with little concrete and currently achievable upsides if they are indeed right, mainly because they’re stuck and bleeding in Ukraine and a logical fallback plan for European nations if NATO turns out to be toothless is to increase support of Ukraine even more, and specifically for the attacked nation it might even make sense to become a military ally of Ukraine since that’s an ongoing fight in somebody else’s territory.

So to me this sounds like bullshit or this “attack” Kahl is talking about is more of the same which they have already been doing: cyberwar, cutting submarine cables, financing extremist parties. social media disinfo and so on.

The absence of proper reaction to those would certainly explain why Russia would think that NATO’s Article 5 would not be honored in case of a more overt Russian attack on a NATO nation.

Somebody tried to build a bridge between both groups but they ran into the conundrum that to get to the other side they would first need to get half way to that side, then get half way of the remaining distance, then half way the new remaining distance and so on an infinite number of times, and as the bridge was started from the science communicators side rather than the mathematicians side, they couldn’t figure out a solution and gave up.

There is a launch configuration option under each game (under System Options tabs, if I’m not mistaken) called “command prefix” were you can put the firejail stuff (so if you put just “firejail -someoption” there your game gets launched with, for example “firejail -someoption wine …”) or whatever other sandboxing command you want to use (such as bubblewrap).

In the main Lutris options, there’s a section with the default values for all those launch options for games, so if you put it in the “command prefix” there, all games get launched with that command prefix unless you override it in that game’s launch options (so, for example, if you’re blocking networking for all games but want to run a game for multiplayer over the net, you override the sandboxing wrapper options in that game’s launch options specifically, which won’t affect any other game).

Some years ago I saw some graph that showed the proportion of people in each country of Europe whose maximum formal education level was Primary Education, Secondary Education and Tertiary Education an Portugal had lots of people with only Primary Education, then few with up to Secondary Education and then lots again with Tertiary Education, and having that gap in the middle is quite unique in Europe.

The difference between the importance of Education for the Fascists (earlier, none at all, later just about enough to make them cheap factory workers) and for the post-Revolution governments (which were all leftwing), is like night an day, and Portugal definitelly shows how it’s possible to invest in Education and undo many decades of severe under-Education of the population though you can’t really undo the damage to the older generations (even with Adult Education, which was available if you lived in cities, but only used by a fraction of those who could’ve benefited from it).

FYI, Portugal has a massive disjunction in educational and reading level between people who grew up before the Revolution that overthrew fascism and those who grew up after.

Fascism definitely kept people ignorant: mandatory education back then - and Fascism lasted until 1974, so we’re not talking about the first half of the XX century - was only 4 years, which is just about enough to learn to read and that barely so, and access to anything beypnd that was nearly impossible for most people as the country was very agrarian and dirt poor.

I’m Portuguese and some of my older aunts are functionality illiterate, whilst most of my generation in my extended family (so around 14 people in our 40s and 50s) have degrees - which shows the veritable chasm in the availability and quality of Education before and after the Revolution.

The point being that minus that bulk of illiterate and near-illiterate old people who grew up during Fascism, the picture for Portugal changes a lot and, frankly, any 1st World country which is close to present day Portugal without having a whole generation that lived under a dictatorship which denied Education beyond the very basic to most people, doesn’t really have an excuse for it.

“Won’t somebody think of the Gestapo!!???”

Windows applications can still access the Linux functionality when running under Wine, though of course that has to have been purposefully coded in.

However you can run wine itself inside something like firejail to properly sandbox the whole thing - I have Lutris in my Linux gaming machine configured to do just that for all games by default (my firejail config even blocks networking).

It’s doubly ironic that by insisting on the idea that a nation committing such a violent Genocide represents all Jews - and doing so against actual Jewish voices saying that “they do not represent us” - they’re implying that all the horrible actions commited in this Genocide are Jewish things to do.

So Germany is back at associating being a Jew with some of the most horrible things a person can do AND at telling Jews that they know better what the nature of being a Jew is than the actual people who are Jewish and deny that Israel represents them.

Instead of Humanism were the duty of compensation is to the actual victims independently of race, they anchored their theatre of making amends on good old race discrimination and racial prejudice (only supposedly “positive”) so naturally and as was bound to happen, ended up in their traditional racist tropes of “knowing better than Jews what beings Jew is” and “associating being a Jews with horrible actions such as murdering babies”.

The folklore and symbology of Nazism might have been made illegal, but the way of thinking about other people as nothing more than members of races who should be treated differently depending on race, and which is the foundation of Nazism, is alive, well, and continuing to be promoted.

Germany at the very least are very overt about their “unwavering support for Israel” being wholly because they’re “the Jewish Nation”, which is about the purest Racist motivation possible.

One might claim, as others did, that for the US geostrategical concerns apply, but for Germany the only reason for their support of that nation whilst it murders Palestinian children is the ethnicity of the genociders.

The purpose of Hollywood is entertainment and helping out manufacture consent (not necessarily in that order), not raising awareness on subjects were people’s increased awareness would threaten the power of the elites, so when it comes to the minions of the elites it’s pretty much all either “Heroes of Justice” (with a side of “anything is acceptable in the pursuit of Justice” or, at most, “Most are Good Guys but there’s a few bad apples”.

Good point - I hadn’t remembered what was going on in Myanmar since the Military Dictatorship took over.

That said, 6 months ago the estimated deaths in Gaza were already around 200,000 according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal (which differs a lot from the 50k “official” count, because the latter number has barely change in over a year after Israel destroyed most hospitals in Gaza were the dead were counted), which is well beyond the 43k upper estimation of deaths in the Rohingya Genocide in that Wikipedia entry, so “similar” is maybe not the right word.

My point still stands that Israel is on track to turn go beyond a “mere” Genocide and commit a modern version of the Holocaust, were the majority of the Gazan population will be killed (certainly the wish of over 80% of the Israeli population is all of them killed or expelled), and that population was over 2 million people at the start of the Genocide. This would make Germany one of the few, if not the only nation, which committed or actively supported TWO Holocausts

Well, a decade ago I had hope too, but also already felt the guy was fishy (because he already had a history of overpromising and under-delivering and in the areas I was an expert in, I had spotted him outright lying) and so was skeptical about his promises and his companies. Also, having been involved in Tech Startups, my expectation from people in his position and his language were already negative since the Startup World back then was already dominated by scam artists with a salesmanship or Finance backgrund for whom Tech was a vehicle for self-enrichment, not by idealists who loved challenges or the actual Tech.

Also by that point I had already spent a good period in Investment Finance and could recognize a certain style of bollocks a mile away.

I wasn’t aware of just how much a shit person the guy was, but all my instints told me he was a sociopath who would only ever do anything better for the World if it made him more money than not doing it.

The actual public meltdown started there, but before that there was already a history of sales bullshit with unachievable promises with things like the hyperloop and solar tiles, which for those who were paying attention were enough to mentally classify Musk as part of the “Fishy and possible scam artist” category.

Musk hasn’t really changed his swindling strategy much in the last couple of decades, he just started going beyond the script and sharing his actual opinions (which turned out to be “I’m a member of the Fascist elite” crap), possibly because the very cult of personality around him of all the fanboys made him think people loved him for him, rather than for the highly curate tech bro image (back when tech bros were seen as Heroes rather than Villains) he projected.

I’m shocked you’re missing the rabid anti-Islamism in most of the West - I mean, half of the support in the West for what Israel is doing comes from the whole “Muslims are violent” idea which in turn derives from over a decade of portraying the phenomenon Sunni Islamit Extremism (which is a tiny minority) as a problem of that religion in general (which is hilarious if one is well informed enough to know that for example, Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the World).

Not that I’m saying that Islam is any better than the rest, by the way, just pointing out the level of prejudice about it from people who literally know nothing at all about it (learning a bit about it is enough to figure out it’s pretty complex and learning a bit more is enough to figure out it’s as fucked up as most other major religions, just not in the way people think)

Then, of course, there’s the whole looking down on animist religions (most of which are African) as “savagery”, and also a bit so for Hinduism.

In the West maybe only the Eastern ones like Buddism and Shintoism don’t get looked down on, probably because the former was a New Age fad over here and the latter is unknown to most people (and those who do know it, associate it with Japan, which is a country that most people see in a positive light).

The actual religion of Christinanity gets criticized by at most very highly educated agnostic or atheists, whilst for most of the other religions, their practictioners are negativelly viewed by even the most ignorant and ill informed of morons that has no clue whatsoever about the tenets of those religions or the boundary between regional cultural practices and the actual religions.

The skateboard would literally be a plank on top of some wheel axes pinched from a shopping cart, the scooter would just be a flimsy pole stuck through a hole in the “skateboard”, the bicycle would be 2 such poles, one with a small piece of wood as a seat and at the front the wheel axis had been moved to be soldered to the front pole so that one rotates with the other.

All of them function only in the technical sense, are awkward to use, don’t last long under continuous use and look like shit because they were not done with the right techniques for resilience and have none of the finishing touches needed for ease of use and attractiveness.

Their solution was mounting the semi-built old car on top of a new car.

In my experience the waterfall one would be either be “a bicycle that was partly transformed into a monster truck when they figured out it needed to carry a lot more load, but kept some bicycle parts” or “a drag car were they installed an engine far too large for the body so it has no hood and the engine is partly out of the car, and yet the car is supposed to be used as a normal city car”.

The Cult Of Agile with its Holy Practices that Must Be Done without actual logical and well thought about reasons (instead, the reason are things like “It’s What It Says In This Agile Holy Book” and/or “That’s What I Saw Other Agile People Do”), is not at all the same as the class of Software Development Processes called Agile.

Then again, Software Development Processes are the kind of thing you tackle at the level of Technical Architect, and since there aren’t really that many genuine Technical Architects (with the actual chops, rather than merelly 5-10 years experience in a single kind of development environment and a title obtained from a company that gives fancy titles as “promotion” instead of a proper salary raise) around, Agile is mostly just blindly followed without true understanding of what it does, what it doesn’t do, how that is does it or why it cannot do it, and thus were and how it actually adds value and were it doesn’t.

I was tempted to say that “my trash can has torn the fabric of Space-Time and removed itself from existence”, but that would be an obvious exageration since any people whose trash can went that far, would not remember even having had that trash can on account of it having erased itself from the timeline and hence their memories.