Huh, TIL!

Hmm. Sounds like Marx. Maybe it’s a general 19th century German thing.

War is when you get an idea to invade a place, and then just do it. Politik is the next president’s problem.

Wouldn’t any civilian endpoint they’re buying be designed to use IP?

Which happens, but then a different idiot tends to fix it. See what happened with the Starlink-controlled drones.

That would require someone who could stop a Trump invasion, and who also deeply understands and cares about the region.

Most people in America, and who run America DGAF. Some nerds from the State Department or DIA probably objected, but we can guess how that went.

The options, like, Europe has to stop this are not very good ones.

Well, India and SE Asia were also pretty high up on the trade route wishlist. Europe basically just wanted certain trade goods they didn’t have, and for the first time anywhere had the technology to scalably cross the high seas to get them.

They have imposed a tributary system in the past, and in the present they are emulating it.

In a lot of ways, China is what would have happened if Rome had successfully been put back together.

Oh yeah, it’s common as dirt. We do have a monoculture going here, though, and like anywhere those allow strawmen to kind of fester.

Hexbear: It’s actually helping a lot with Chinese characteristics.

At least fast enough to meet the buyer’s deadline, EZ.

Well, realising you’re actually just going to sit in the dark transcends countries.

(More credibly, I’m guessing sending several thousand trucks through a random patch of the Middle East would not be cheap, regardless of borders)

but i can understand if someone wants to use windows for ease of use.

Lemmy probably disagrees with that. I mean, I could argue with it.

Even if they’re right they’re highly unusual, echo-chambery things. America is 1/3 solid Democrats and even some of those people are going to try to coexist. Most people have a very vague idea of what Linux even is. Some might not have heard of it at all.

And Lemmy contains a lot of polemics.

I meant most mainstream, as in they might be okay with OpenBSD as well.

People have to be aware Linux is itself a weird nerd thing, although like in this thread there seems to be a reluctance to admit we’re not a representative sample of the population.

Ooor that fools seldom differ.

'Member when Reddit was sure they’d found the Boston bomber?

You will often see strawmen and a lack of understanding toward groups that disagree with the prevailing thoughts here.

Like literally in this thread, including towards OP, although I don’t see anybody trying to be mean about it (yet).

Imma guess it’s like 10% common left, 30% extra extreme and 60% extreme. And then there’s the whole Hexbear thing, which is like an unrelated axis of belief or disbelief.

I mean, sure. But OP is basically just pointing out Lemmy is much closer to incestuous amplification.

Most people IRL agree with that view.

Now try “Linux is the most mainstream OS you should consider” or “only terrible people would vote Republican”. Agreement on Lemmy will be 90-some percent. Agreement IRL will be a distinct minority.

I agree with this opinion, lol.

Lemmy is an echo chamber, even a comically specific one. Reddit had that reputation in the early days too, although Lemmy is dealing with the fact it’s a technical FOSS thing disproportionately certain people will appreciate, on top of it.

I’m doing my part to get downvoted a lot. In the meanwhile, just keep touching grass and listening to people you disagree with. Especially if they disagree with you in a new and unexpected way. I’ll add looking at polling and demographics as well, since it’s the only way to identify which bubbles you’re in. Even IRL they’re impossible to escape totally.

And most people here live in a city and work in IT. Like, take the 10% of your area that agrees with you the most and there’s going to be vastly more diversity of thought and opinion.

You know what they say about thinking everyone else is an asshole…