Check back in a few years and the edits happen on send.

The man was a professional torturer and professional terrorist. He said he took those jobs because they aligned with his passions for torture and terrorism. You can be pragmatic without becoming a cartoon that will advocate for literal satans. There are levels.

Still 5.2 million too many. Though the UK is probably one of the more Israel-friendly countries after Germany, so maybe they’re hurting worse everywhere else.

It was. I’ve known about this for weeks, so any anglophone journalist probably has as well. They don’t want to report on it.

It’s not like Chinese capitalists don’t hold any power in China. Capitalists and non-capitalist bourgeois hold their wealth in USD. (And the working class also have a lot invested into their savings, though in RMB). So it’s unpopular to do anything to drastically affect their savings. But on top of that, China and Chinese businesses obviously trade currency with the outside as a matter of operation. What are the effects on that trade if the world’s wealthiest country suddenly completely recontextualised the value of it’s currency?

(I liked the meme by the way).

“Injured but can continue his duties”: Bloke barely noticed it hitting him come on.

How many protestors did cops in Hong Kong kill? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like your phrasing is intentionally designed to imply a number greater than zero.

(The) argument that (children can’t buy internet) (…) is also bullshit

You can’t just say it’s bullshit and not provide a counter argument. Are you insinuating that children will use their parent’s internet? Fine, but how does that change for VPNs? They can’t buy a VPN subscription either, so they would have to use their parent’s VPN accounts, and then the age verification has been bypassed anyway.

Which forward steps are you referring to in this context? Starting with a head start (compared to the USA’s Internet laws) doesn’t count as moving forward.

None of these are good counter-examples. They gave him a “Jew-nose” when he doesn’t have one. These other ones are either inspired by the person’s real nose or other types of unflattering noses with different implications. Perhaps the best defense using this evidence is that they didn’t give Zelenskyy a Jew-nose despite him being Jewish, if it’s one of the publications from the collage above.

Making a joke or completely missing the point of the post?

Steam is bad for developers and publishers, but it’s good for each individual developer and publisher. If the game didn’t release on Steam, it would have fewer sales. Someone with more power or a coordinate boycott could encourage change, but right now asking a developer to stand up for themselves is asking them to be mowed down.

Why is that mitigated by using a desktop app? If anything you’re more likely to leave apps running in the background than you are browser tabs.

Why can’t it just be a website? Is it because the desktop version plans to mine my computer?

You should though…

Steam used to upload your whole resolver cache to Valve (So they could sidestep things not showing up in history when you use private-browsing). And they’re mandated to share everything they have on you with the NSA. So if you’re coming at this from a “I’ll trust Steam but not Wukong” angle, then yes, you are unreasonable. If you’re coming at this from a “All these private Chinese companies have insane privacy policies and send me hundreds of cookies, I’m not trusting anyone they work with!” angle then that’s completely reasonable. Closed source software is never safe, and capitalism doesn’t reward treating your customers well.

Do you think OP is presenting this street, completely full with people, as an example of normal pedestrian traffic? This is the inauguration. Nobody lives in these flats. The people on the street are having a party, following a plan by the party organisers, and then at the end they will move in to their new flats.

Most likely the party organisers have made deliberate choices to discourage people attending from watching from behind the stage, on account of how stages work.

Is this even the privacy forum? A lot of people here implying OP should consent to the spying for better service. Cloudflare absolutely does gather as much as Google, and with much deeper access. If you can go without those websites, then block Cloudflare.

ShinkanTrain is correct, but on top of their cruelty, Israel practices Nazism. They have a fascist economy. They are expansionist. They have legal racism. An extreme version of it too, with random hostage taking, slavery, concentration camps, terrorism as state policy.

This has to be some Comrade NYT Photographer shit. How are they so incompetent?! Just take the picture from the other side. Ask the guy to take it off for a second. Crop him out!