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I think most countries spy on their citizens

we should not be OK with that

And he invented JavaScript in a cave, with a box of scraps

Guns have useful legal purposes

Weapons are tools with only one utility, kill people.

Fuck them all rich countries. They got dirty rich exploring the global south and now want them to be condemned to be eternally poor.

not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

not OP, but my guess is that he was referring to android

isn’t it funny how double standards work?

There are about 90 billion neurons on a human brain. From the article:

…researchers grew about 800,000 brain cells onto a chip, put it into a simulated environment

that is far less than I believe would be necessary for anything intelligent emerge from the experiment

The competition is welcome

the 100% tariff enacted recently says otherwise

China cannot be trusted

just about as much as the USA cannot be trusted too

He was jailed in 2019. Are you telling me he still managed wikileaks from inside a prison in the UK?

Sounds instead like he realized he would never win the stalemate and was tired of house arrest

IIRC he wasn’t under house arrest, he was at an actual jail

He wasn’t in jail. He was in the Ecuadorian embassy. It sounds like you really don’t know the details here.

what? I did acknowledge that:

It was just a conjecture of how Assange might have thought about. I never said that there really is any link between him and Russia. And it was long ago, when he was still hiding inside Ecuador’s embassy, when the hypothetical link between him and Russia was new.

and:

In 2016 he had already spent years hiding inside an embassy. It’s not that hard to conceive that hatred tends to build over time.

Okay, but you said it was short-term. That is not short-term.

It was just a conjecture of how Assange might have thought about. I never said that there really is any link between him and Russia. And it was long ago, when he was still hiding inside Ecuador’s embassy, when the hypothetical link between him and Russia was new.

And as far as I know, Wikileaks is still very easy on Russia. So how long is this favoritism of his going to last?

I doubt he still runs wikileaks. Assange was in jail for years.

Why should that be what Wikileaks is about?

I don’t know and I don’t really care.

In 2016 he had already spent years hiding inside an embassy. It’s not that hard to conceive that hatred tends to build over time.

That really is not an excuse for his relationship with Russia.

The enemy of my enemy is a short-term ally, that might be how he thinks, who knows. I have no side in this fight since I’m not a Assange fanboy and I have nothing but contempt for the USA.

The man has every reason to hate the USA. Helping getting Trump to power would surely be some sweet revenge, since another Trump presidency will be undoubtely be divisive and harmful

It’s still my opinion that Google and Facebook have a large percentage of engineers that personally try to make them a genuinely good service

Most of those people were sacked long ago. Today’s menu for those that remained is shareholder maximum value extraction sausage fest

This is satire, right?