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  • I hate HTML5, and absolutely think markdown or plain HTML or RSS or Gemini or some other standard would be a massive improvement. The problem isn’t picking the standard or creating the browser, it’s having content available.

    Maybe you can campaign for a law that says if a data centre servers js, it legally has to be bombed. If a website doesn’t work without js they have to pay for a person to come to your door and operate it for you.


  • The terms hetero and homo refer to gender, not sex. So nothing has changed and whatever attracted you to him is what attracted you. If that’s gender-expression, and that gender expression has changed, and you’re no longer attracted, then hetero is the term for that. If it was, but you were attracted to his masculinity, then homo is appropriate. If you were attracted to his feminity, but also like his masculinity, then bi is appropriate and if his gender never played a part then pan is appropriate.

    That being said, the other person doesn’t really define your label. Just call yourself what you like. It’s completely okay to like someone for one set of reasons, and then stay with them because you grew closer and found a bunch of other reasons, and are now in love and have a life together.


  • Doubtful. The task of running an LLM and playing a video game is the same, so it just comes down to which has more customers. A lot of people spend many hours playing video games. There might be more LLM users, but they use the LLM for a few seconds a day, as opposed to an hour or more.

    That being said, they’re both non-issues compared to beef production, which involves torturing cows. This activism should be directed there, then you can move down the target list once factory farming is outlawed.





  • male only spaces could be a clutch until men get better at talking with women.

    You’re not really making a good case for the inclusion of women in those sessions.

    non-judgmental, but by women and men alike.

    But it’s understood that the men in these spaces are already non-judgemental, or they wouldn’t work. But your comment makes it very clear who you put the blame on. As long as men right now are able to feel safe among other men and not in mixed groups, men’s groups should be encouraged.

    Yes, the support group teaching masking is teaching a toxic culture, but if it’s necessary, it’s also teaching survival. It’s okay for any individual man or group of men to want to keep their head down and not be the driver of societal change.













  • He wants entire buffer countries. He wasn’t content with just Donbass.

    Demilitarising Ukraine makes Ukraine the buffer-zone. I didn’t mean to say that the aim was for Donbass to be the buffer. I just said that missiles in Donbass is particularly scary. Donbass was supposed to become independent from Ukraine to further Balkanise and weaken Ukraine and their ability to threaten Russia. Donbass being independent republics or federated with Russia doesn’t change the effect drastically.

    He poses a much larger existential threat to Ukraine

    Not Russia’s problem. Putin isn’t the president of Ukraine, and doesn’t make decisions for the good of Ukraine.

    It’s an absolute nonsense argument that tries to justify Russian exceptionalism and imperialism.

    I’m not saying it’s moral. I’m saying it’s rational. Conquest is less rational. And more importantly, if your concern is ethical rather than campism, then on top of being more rational, it’s also much easier to work with and manage, to prevent wars. If the western powers were acting morally and wanted to minimise suffering among Ukrainian people, then using this model where we assume Putin has been telling the truth since 1999, then we could’ve given him concessions that would’ve made this invasion and the annexation of Crimea irrational. That would have prevented all this death, and allowed whatever economic integration with the EEA that Maidan proponents want.

    This war is the result of years of intentional provocations by the west. Is Russia guilty for invading? Yes of course, they could’ve chosen self-destruction. Or perhaps there still was room to extract concessions from the west by grovelling and begging harder. But neither of those are rational actions. Who is also clearly to blame are the NATO powers who engineered and provoked this war, and destroyed off-ramps as they became visible.

    This is also not imperialism. Imperialism is creating an empire and extracting wealth from your vassals. The Donbass will not be subject to unequal wealth extraction. That would be too risky with their precarious legitimacy. This is called expansion.

    He uses nuclear blackmail to force other countries to let him take Ukraine

    He’s using nuclear threats to deter attacks against Russia. Other countries are already trying to prevent him from taking parts of Ukraine. There are foreign weapons actively being used in Ukraine, foreign countries have enacted official sanctions against Russia, and yet Russia has never used a nuclear weapon on anyone. More than just foreign weapons and soldiers, the Ukrainian army is cooperating with the USA for military planning. Clearly no one is deterred.

    I haven’t seen anyone making fun of Putin for not starting a nuclear war.

    Okay. If the reference doesn’t resonate with you, then your preferred media probably isn’t guilty of it.

    He’s really not making a secret of his imperial ambitions. I don’t know why you’re trying to sell a different narrative.

    I’m repeating the Russian messaging as told by TASS and RT, and by Putin in foreign interviews and from what I’ve seen of the yearly Putin Q&A. Is your impression formed from primary sources like the ones I mentioned or psychoanalyst pundits and ‘Russia-experts’? You were upset that OP would link a primary source earlier.

    Initially I thought you were arguing in good faith and simply had a skewed understanding on some details. But your most recent reply is very disappointing and shows no effort on your part to consider my arguments or even understand the argument I was making.

    Why do you believe Russia won’t cede land when it’s inconsistent with the map data? Russian battlelines wave in and out, while Ukrainian battlelines stay ridged until collapse. What their specific tactics are isn’t moralistic or something we can derive their quality from. I don’t know which of the two tactics is better. Perhaps they’re both the best tactic for their given army, irrespective of their goals. But you had it wrong. Why?

    Why do you claim to want to find truth, but shun primary sources? And if you shun primary sources, why are you linking Ukrainian sources?

    Why is it so important for you that Russia be unknowable and irrational? Is the reason that your world-view is built on a shoddy and precarious narrative that doesn’t survive scrutiny?