They would have been on a 457 visa which means they were indeed temporary, but they had skills in demand. It is a pathway to citizenship.

Point is, we’re not just letting people show up for medical treatment.

We’re not talking about letting anyone in.

These two were working towards becoming citizens. They were already here.

I think people think of fascism as specifically “murdering minorities” or something rather than a form of autocracy.

A winning horse?!

It’s hard to imagine how you could pick a horse less likely to win.

This sounds an awful lot like doing nothing

What does that even mean though?

As long as the rule of law and checks and balances can be continued afterwards

Historically that never happens and it’s naive to think that it would.

Even if that were true, and it seems unlikely, that’s still an order of magnitude more than the ladybug devs.

Of course it’s arbitrary.

It doesn’t take much self awareness to realise that having a president pick and choose which SCOTUS rulings they think are ok, is exactly the type of authoritarian autocrat you’re trying to avoid.

Arbitrarily rewriting laws you don’t like sounds pretty fascist to me.

These threads are awash with comments like this but you can’t avoid fascism by becoming a fascist.

Shit is fucked but arbitrary killing is not the solution.

You can’t beat fascism by becoming fascist.

Sorry mate this is just bonkers.

It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.

Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.

Nice. These look great.

Do you know if it will turn off entirely if the temp is low enough? Or they just idle away at 300rpm or so.

I’m sure it was just one flea.

Oh my sweet summer child.

Seems a little idealistic.

If ladybird actually achieves any sort of userbase they would take the same deal in an instant.

a Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards

Yeah, as a layperson this is my take. If mozilla is struggling to stay in the game then I just don’t really see how an unfinanced indie team has a shot.

WDYM “independent” ?

Isn’t mozilla / gecko more or less independent?