Yeah, especially in peace time. When war heats up and resources get scarce, you use the cheapest thing that does the job. But in peace time you feed your military contractors to keep them happy and to keep them researching and developing so you don’t lose out on modern technology development.

(For clarification, with “war time” I mean “being in a war that actually threatens the country”. The US hasn’t been in a war like that for a very long time. They’ve essentially being in “peace time” while having military training and testing facilities in the middle east.

You can not change history for any published changes - like I said, doing so makes your repository incompatible with any other clone.

That’s the same on Git.

10 years ago I got into RC planes for a summer, and me and the guy were talking about how ridiculous it is that the milirary is spending so much money on simple drones, when they could just strap some explosives on a cheap hobbyist RC plane/drone for a fraction of the price, and just create swarms of them.

The technology had been widely available for some time already back then. Turns out, it was just lacking a war to do so.

(Just to be clear, we were all anti-war in general, this was just idle speculatiok back then. But if our country was attacked at that time, I’m sure some of us would have ended in a newly created drone force like what happened in the Ukraine.)

Looks like Mercurial can change the history just fine using the hg command. You just need to enable it first.

https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/changing-history.html

Git can also be configured to disable history rewrites.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2085871/strategy-for-preventing-or-catching-git-history-rewrite

So the difference between git and hg really just comes down to the defaults.

I got weirdly invested in this, and by the end I was kinda happy that it was “just” a bug in the tooling and not anything actually malicious.

No you haven’t provided proof. You provided proof that you misunderstood the original post. That’s all. That’s why I call you a broken bot, because you think what you provided was proof and everything I provided was wrong, because you lack the capability of seeing anything but your own delusions.

Your point is that you don’t understand anything that anyone wrote here, that you don’t have the ability to understand what anyone meant by what they are saying and that you believe only your interpretation is the only correct interpretation of the world.

Are you 10 or something?

You took issue with what I said then. And you kept taking issue with it. And now you claim that you don’t take issue with it. So if you don’t just go away.

You might be made of flesh and bones, but your level of understanding is on the level of a very bad chatbot.

But you are not standing up for another person. You are standing up for your own misconception and misunderstanding and misreading of the room. You are fighting against what OP said because of your own misinterpretation of what they said.

Nobody is oppressing you. I’m just sick of your useless pedantry and misunderstanding of everything that has been written here.

Oppression does not mean that everyone has to listen to your misguided ramblings.

Have fun, broken bot.

You are just a broken bot, nothing else.

Yeah sure, saying “I hate this” is clearly an endorsement that it should continue to happen.

I’m not driving you insane. You are already insane all on your own.

OP says: I hate when websites use mother’s day in their marketing/user flow.

I say: Companies should either not do that at all (because it’s insensitive to a ton of people who might get upset by it) or at least allow the user to disable it.

You say: That’s insensitive to ask for.

What’s wrong with you?

So OP never told anyone to stop using those terms… you put the words in their mouth.

Why should I consider what YOU said, when making statements about what OP wants?

No, OP only said they hate when websites do that because they love when websites do that. Surely that’s what “I hate when websites do that” means.

Have fun, bot. No need to talk to you.

You really have reading problems, don’t you?

The first part was from the OP, the second part was from my post.

Talking with you is like talking with the original version of ChatGPT. You forget everything that was said just in the last post before. There’s no point talking to someone with the attention span of a goldfish.

The OP is literally this:

I hate when websites use the terms “Item arrives before Mother’s/Father’s Day”.

Makes me want to cry, thinking about the alternate timeline where I have a normal life and no depression/anxiety.

What about “I hate when websites use the terms” and “Makes me want to cry” tells you that OP wants websites to advertise with mother’s day/father’s day?

And what about “Websites shouldn’t use the term for marketing/websites should allow you to opt out” tells you that I said people (and not only companies) shouldn’t use these terms?

Again, please read what was written, don’t invent arguments and statements. There’s no glory in fighting windmills, no matter how often you claim they were actually giants.

Then you didn’t read what was written.

It sounds ignorant and insensitive to suggest that companies should not monetize and advertise potential trauma-triggering holidays or at least allow users to disable that monetization/advertising?

Do you read what you and I write? Or do you just want to be outraged at all costs?

Sounds like you can’t handle multiple facets of a topic at the same time.

The ability to wake up the laptop from sleep.

Damn, do I regret going with Fedora. Anything newer than kernel 6.10 (which I salvaged from Fedora 39) and my laptop doesn’t wake up from sleep anymore.

But changing distros is a hassle and idiot me went with a single partition for system and data, so migrating to another distro requires me to actually backup everything, so I haven’t done it yet.