The one thing that I always hated about those votes on Hexbear was how they intentionally used the most difficult to visually discern emojis for each of the options (Really, look at how similar option 1 and 3 are from each other) and they also try to put their thumb on the scale by making option 2 the emoji with the more positive expression. The most bullshit, baby brained consent manufacturing I’ve ever seen.

They’ve done this a number of times about a bunch of issues. The admins/mods must think everyone is as online as they are. I was very online on hexbear back in the day but even this would always make me go 🤔

I think this post is very useful. You have mentioned you are considering deleting, but I would appreciate it staying up.

I think that is absolutely their calculation. I strongly disagree with their conclusion but it is what it is

Putin tried to be an ally of the West after 9/11. I’d have to try and remember which book I read it in, or maybe it was an interview, but he approached Bush and said something to the effect of, we both have an issue with Islamic terrorism ( The Russian invasion of chechnya and resulting blowback, and the United States’ support of wahhabism to combat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan).

The problem is is that America couldn’t get past the concept of Russia still being the adversary. Even after the end of the Cold War and Russia’s transformation into a capitalist hellscape.

There was a great deal of time where there could have been an opportunity to normalize relations with Russia, but groups within the American security apparatus were vehemently opposed to that.

Edit: https://youtu.be/dYi5S81fKxI

Trump won an election 4 months ago. How long has it been for you, Zelensky? Oh and quick follow-up, when’s your next one?

Please do. Let’s see how well that goes. I’m sure lots of people are willing to sign up and die for a system that barely gives them enough to survive each day

I mean it’s never going to go away, because there has to be something to bootstrap all these newer languages from.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

I absolutely agree that most normal programmers need to move away from C but it’s not going to go away anytime soon

If this happens

I’m just pissed that he reappeared

Noooo my precious norms!!!

Russia’s Blitzkrieg

Imagine using this phrase on purpose

Europeans going absolutely apeshit, realizing that they were just a client state the whole time.

Complete the pivot to Asia and war in the South China sea

Not even having a kiddie table for Europe to sit at lmao

Can’t wait for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi to chain themselves to the front door of the NED office in protest. I hope they lose the keys and are stuck there till they starve

America has nukes. This is America’s world and everyone just lives in it.

(Deeper context, America’s nuclear doctrine is madman theory where we will absolutely use nuclear weapons if pushed, to get our way, so the rest of the world is our hostage)

In $BAD_COUNTRY reporters who don’t toe the party line get arrested

It’s a good point though. It’s all calvinball.

2 and 3 are not really viable and Google already had a policy in place for disputed territories. For example look at Kashmir, it gets rendered differently if you are in India vs Pakistan, so I mean Google employees just shrug and implement the same thing. If America wants to have a temper tantrum and call it the Gulf of America, like fine whatever, it’s stupid, just mark it in the system as such and move on.

Google has far more serious topics that its employees should strike, and have struck over.