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There are facts and there are lies.

The fact that innocent people are purposefully being killed in Gaza is just that - a fact.

What you can do is argue that that's okay. What you CAN'T do is argue that that isn't happening.

For example, it is a fact that the US slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

You can argue it was justified and the lesser of two evil - people do it all the time. What you CAN'T argue is that hundreds of thousands of innocent people werent slaughtered. They were, it just happened.

I'm sorry, you just have to live with that and live with whatever resulting beliefs you may have.

Its important to note that most of those "irrelevant" countries are only irrelevant because they're perpetually under the thumb of world powers. Hence why they petition the UN. And, hence why empires and somewhat-formally colonial nations ignore them.

Ultimately, a lot of the wealth of the West comes from core countries siphoning wealth from the periphery and propping up psueodo governments to place their thumbs on the scale of world politics. Exhibit A: Israel.

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Yeah you know, the UN, notoriously hostile towards Israel.

Despite, you know, literally creating it.

This is already a thing, compiled languages have been doing this for decades. This is just C++ templates with extra steps.

There's a huge planet-sized gap between techno-fascism dystopia and being Richard stallman.

If you want to actively make the world a worse place for everyone be my guest. But naturally, people are probably not gonna like you. People might point to you as an example of what's wrong with humanity.

That's a something you have to live with.

This is programmer thinking, laws aren't algorithms.

The laws regardless this almost always make a distinction between intentionally surveillance and by chance background noise. Taking a picture of the street with people on it doesn't matter, recording the street 24/7 probably does, and purposefully singling someone out and photographing them definitely matters.

We already kind of have this. Think about it - stalking is illegal, but you've walked behind people right? You've glanced into someone's window before, right? You've taken a picture of a random person before, right?

So why aren't you in jail? Because laws aren't algorithms

I have some loyalty in open source project I rely on and I regularly donate to them, particularly KDE and thunderbird.

Maybe loyalty is the wrong word - if they really go to left field, I would abandon them.

But I have a lot of faith in their design decisions and overall vision. Their software works, continues to work, and has always worked amazingly for me.

I also feel the same way about Firefox but donating to Firefox isn't like donating to thunderbird.

If your phone is remotely rooted, the screenshot is providing no security.

You can't get anything through because you're simply incorrect.

No, housing is not always cheaper, feel free to do some research. Its highly dependent on your city.

If you truly think buying is cheaper in Manhattan then I don't know what to tell you. You're just wrong, period.

What's happening here is youre comparing suboptimal housing to THE ABSOLUTE most expensive apartments you can find.

My parents do the same thing. "Oh housing is so much cheaper, imagine renting in Dallas!"

But... We're an hour and a half outside of the city.

The reason the housing is cheap is because nobody wants it.

Yes, 1500 or so.

No offense intended to JavaScript monkeys, I'm a JavaScript monkey too. And a PHP monkey, which I think is worse.

Right, I'm just telling you that's that's simply not true.

And, if you really want to compare apples to apples, you have to compare properties in the same area. Its easy to make housing look cheap when you compare upper Manhattan to New Jersey.

Suddenly that 4,000 dollar apartment looks pretty competitive when the alternative is 5 million mortgage + 3000 a month HOA.