Mostly politicians would oversee programs for civil benefits

Western politicians would also bomb the shit out of brown people in other countries. Politics was never “boring”, it just managed to present itself that way for the privileged citizens of the empire.

Yes, there were a few times I have managed to convince someone on here, even on “political” topics. Not so much on Reddit.

Plenty of times I’ve been convinced that I was wrong about important things as well, which I always try to own.

I wouldn’t say there’s definitive “winning” or “losing” an online argument. This is a public forum, your arguments are there for everyone to see, even if the person you’re talking to still disagrees by the end it may help someone else form a more informed opinion.

Contributions from russians make up a sizeable portion of Linux and GNU tooling. A myriad of foundational software, from nginx to strace, were created and are currently maintained by russian citizens.

While there has been a lot of brain drain (hello), russia is still a country of 140 million people and the remains of great soviet theoretical education. In such conditions there will be both a bunch computer science geniuses and a small army of half-competent coders which would allow you to roll your own OS, let alone a distro, if the efforts were organized enough.

Baikal went bankrupt in 2023 because they used TSMC for chip production.

Elbrus is barely hanging on but it’s helplessly far behind, you can’t really run a modern DE and browse modern web on anything but their flagship Elbrus-16C, but that’s made for servers, AFAIK there are no “desktop” form-factor motherboards for it at all, and it’s exceptionally pricy compared to competition.

I think a more likely outcome is that russia starts bulk-purchasing chinese CPUs soon.

Yeah, exactly. trump is part of the class who employ the “establishment” as it is usually understood. He is literally the boss of the establishment.

You can technically remain conscious and in control of your body for a few seconds after your heart stops, while there’s still enough oxygen in your brain and muscles. So there’s nothing theoretically stopping this from happening. I don’t know if this has happened at any point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.

It’s a sports gambling app ad, using sex to sell to men, who are the VAST majority of sports bettors. It has virtually nothing to do with women’s sports at all.

I think it is related quite closely, the ad depicts a woman, clearly overtly sexualized, in the same settings and with the same equipment as those who participate in sports. It is targeting the same “tastes and sensibilities” (in the grossest possible sense) as requiring women athletes to wear shorter clothing or other similar practices. IMO it’s a pretty good opportunity to protest those strongly related practices now.

Although the outrage aimed at the actress is clearly misdirected, it should instead target those who benefit from women’s exploitation.

It’s also nonsense to suggest that it’s ok to murder 100s of schoolgirls, or that trump didn’t sexually abuse children, or that the private healthcare system is somehow better than universal, or that flock is not an invasion of privacy.

And yet for some reason only trans people were singled out as unworthy of protection somehow, even though their lives are currently being destroyed in the US.