It takes a lot of sugar for it to act as a preservative. Like candy levels of sugar. Below those levels it’s part of a growth medium (i.e., food).

But we really need to know what Random Internet Arbiter Of Truth has to say. That bot is why we come here.

Trump is shit, but Biden’s hands are not even close to clean in this situation. He has done everything he could to allow the situation to escalate and the war is starting in earnest on his watch.

Let’s all be honest here and recognize when our team is doing the wrong thing also.

Who brought Trump into this comparison?

You can “win” this argument if you want to. I don’t really care. My issue was with Gates being described as a good hearted oligarch. I’m not trying to rank them or say that Gates is the worst or anything. Rewriting history so that Gates is a good guy is a bit much though.

I’m not going to give you a list, because I have other things to do, but you can read for yourself under Controversies here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates.

I was mostly thinking of the decades of anti-trust and “embrace, extend, extinguish”, as well as his sexual harassment of his employees. But I had forgotten that he was besties with Epstein and his wife divorced him after the extent of his endeavors there came out. So I guess child-raping may be on his list too.

Pretty swell guy.

Gates was (and arguably still is) an enormous asshole and has only recently started spending money on “charity” and PR to improve his public image (similar to Carnegie). That you’re willing to let him off the hook for all of his past evils only shows that spending a tiny fraction of their ill-earned gains on PR will wipe their slate clean and people like you will let them off the hook.

If you let Gates, Carnegie, etc off the hook for their rotten past, expect future generations to let Musk et al. off the hook once they buy back their reputation when they get old.

I use this thing all the time. It will serve up ISOs and VMDK images also. It’s quite fast

Due to the very real and observable ratchet effect, the outcome of your strategy is that things actually get worse… just slightly slower than they otherwise would. Voting for the “lesser of two evils” will never, ever make things better. You need to take a risk and vote for a non-evil to even have a shot at making things actually better.

Some Palestinian children and international aid workers are going to pay dearly for this.

He’s a hardcore Zionist who thinks that Palestinians are subhuman and he’s trying to say that indiscriminately slaughtering civilians is good for Israel.

It’s basically like talking to a cartoon villain Nazi without any self-awareness and I congratulate you for not taking the bait.

Be careful everybody! This poster was extradited and is currently serving a prison sentence in London for the comment above. Don’t make the same mistake they did.

That’s not good enough. Threads like this show up in the comment count and give the appearance of activity on a post even when there is none.

Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

Dude, even mentioning it violates some international convention. There goes the rest of my day.

They were in violation of that treaty themselves and the US is no longer a party to it (as of 2019).

This really is the right answer, as much as I despise what Israel is doing.

The Olympics should be about increasing non-hostile relations between people of the world and I don’t think anyone should be excluded.

Complicating this stance though is the compulsory military service that means that the attending athletes are associated with the military and the ongoing atrocities.

Which Democratic candidate are you thinking of? Surely not the one who has been bankrolling this whole thing so far…

I don’t think any “viable” candidate from any party will support the ICJ judgement.

But they’re also having to fight for more limited funding among a crowd of chatbot “researchers”. The funding agencies are enamored with LLMs right now.

I currently have 301 unread text messages (not even close to my high score). For me, the anxiety wore off and was replaced with a sense of defeated relief.

If I get bored, I can go through them without feeling any obligation to respond at all.

With even email clients and web browsers running arbitrary and untrusted remote code on a regular basis, that model needs serious reconsideration.

This xkcd shouldn’t still be insightful. https://xkcd.com/1200/