I wish some entrepreneur had instead created an amazing fucking Mastodon instance and put all that marketing and engineering dollar into the platform. But you can’t own Mastodon so you can’t ever sell Mastodon so those types of folks will never invest in Mastodon. We could just say “fuck ‘em” but they have done a serious job of monopolizing the time of all the talented people who know how to make something like this go.

Surely that could never happen again though! /s

I guess it all depends on the physical layout but this seems like a very complicated way to get material downhill.

My dad is not Russian. It’s not a “hidden interest,” it’s a life experience that gives me compassion for this person.

Gee is there anything you are doing?

Calling me a Russian shill was an ad hominem, and an attack. The stupidity is getting quite thick here.

Zoom exists. You can’t argue.

LOL you’re absolutely correct. I cannot argue with someone who clearly has no real life experience of their own to provide an actual frame of reference, and will just pop off fast solutions to things like the deep human need for connection like “use zoom, duh.”

So I won’t try.

Your contention that Russian civilians should be punished for the acts of their government is ghoulish and evil, and your repeated attempts to clothe yourself in the righteousness of the Ukrainian cause is unconvincing and frankly an insult to Ukrainians, including children.

She did more against Russia by picking herself up and moving away from it than you will ever do with your “fuck Russia” comments online. Your derision for her is as impotent and pitiful as your hatred of her birth country. You’re never going to “fuck Russia” or anything else with this small dick energy.

I ain’t gonna be sad

Yeah man, I picked up on your total lack of compassion for this person whose life was just ruined by the Russia you so hate.

Shill for Russia much?

Wow, you are not only barking up the wrong tree, you dragged your entire bed up to the top of the wrong tree so you could shit it there.

No, fool, I don’t shill for Russia, ever, even a little. I have a nickel’s worth of compassion for someone who still has a life back in some corrupt old country, because that’s my father. He left that shitty country. It doesn’t mean he never visited again, because he has so much family there.

I’m just going to let your first massively downvoted comment stand. Your whole “dipshit got what she deserved” comment is stupid enough without me having to put on gloves to handle this one:

All Russians should suffer

Child, grow up.

How dare she visit family or anything else that might take her there. Really every Russian should leave forever one-way at their earliest opportunity or they get what they deserve?

Excuse me, presumptuous one. I did read the article and I know she has dual citizenship.

I was not talking solely about visas, though that is obviously the limit of your imagination.

There are also family, professional opportunities, and cultural ties to consider.

In the article it actually says she moved to the US in 2015. It’s unclear why she was there to be charged. Visiting family perhaps? Oh well then I guess she deserves it for having the audacious stupidity to visit her parents in a shitty country where shitty things happen?

I guess maybe… It’s a ridiculously terrible notion no matter what your priorities are.

Yeah this is such a losing strategy. All it does is authorize crimes in the short term and drive up nuclear proliferation in the long term.

Of course, the alternative is a game of chicken with nuclear powers to test the doctrine of mutually assured destruction.

Still, better to do that now than years from now with the smaller, more radical parties who will by then control nukes, thanks to the nuclear proliferation the current strategy drives.

Yeah it’s so simple to just live wherever you want, especially this magical fantasy land where shitty things don’t happen.

WTF is even happening in this article? An official / novelist says “women would have their uteruses removed” and there is no additional context? Is he describing a fictional future? What? Why is this presented as some kind of news? What’s this “would” phrasing? Would under what conditions?

Before we panic about the world let’s get some basic context to this drivel. How does sterilizing women over 30 address population decline, even in the most bizarre fictional speculations?

I don’t really care what’s installed on my work computer, which I use solely for work purposes. Should I?

It’s so Papa John’s to support only one browser.

Sad saga, but here we are. I remember when Chrome was new and brought much needed speed and low resource usage to the browsing experience of the day. I even got email from a Chrome engineer once about a bug I mentioned in a forum, asking me for more information.

Google was already an ad company by then so anyone could have looked forward to this inevitability. Some did. Most of us did not.

Chrome has just always been there for some younger people but it will now live in my memory as a fully encapsulated end-to-end enshittification experience that I really should have always expected.

And just like it used to be with Internet Explorer, I am forced to use Chrome at work all day because thats the IT & security approved / enterprise-managed browser.