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  • for example, would you call Bob Marley a genocidal maniac?

    no, because hes talking about an ideal in Rastafarian and not advocating for the genocide of a people. two very different situations and very different usages of the term zion.

    its almost like words have different meanings in different contexts and its important to actually understand the contextual usage before we spout nonsense.

    edit: unfortunately zionists w/ respect to isreal are inherently genocidal. its a per-requisite for isreal to exist. isreal was founded on a genocide and it’ll continue to perpetuate genocide for as long as is necessary to complete the job.





  • return on investment.

    define investment, who was going to pay the state’s ROI? elon? lol. the jobs these companies outsource to other countries?

    seriously spend two seconds critically thinking about your nonsense before you speak it.

    Free buses would have a much larger return on investment.

    1. movement of the population is streamlined. meaning more people will go more places and spend their fares in a larger variety of locations without having to worry about cost.
    2. you save a shit ton of money because you no longer need all that infrastructure for charging people money for fares and the ongoing maintenance related to such.
    3. population increases due to QOL improvements. meaning more revenue for the state via property/income taxes.
    4. its durable. population based revenue is much more reliable than investment nonsense.

    the only difference between the corpo subsidy and free transit is:

    • the corpo can walk away for any reason leaving the state holding the bag.
    • the corpo concept has a shorter chain of cause/effect: give money to corpo -> corpo fails | corpo gives roi -> $
    • vs free buses -> increases desirability of the area & reduces on going costs of infra -> population increases -> more tax revenue.

    in short: free buses absolutely would bring a return on investment it’d just be harder to measure the precise return because its part of a non-linear system.












  • They block the ip addresses for the server components of those applications. easily circumvented with a proxy outside of russia. most these communication apps have such proxy support builtin.

    The only way ‘apps’ can be banned is if they cut of the internet. soon as you have a data pipe from one end to another you can encrypt whatever you send.

    This is why i2p and p2p protocols are so important it makes it infinitely harder to control / ban. you end up having to have a directional whitelist (i.e. you need to only allow outgoing connections from home devices to a specific set of ip), and even then once thats in place… if any of those things allow communication we can push data through them.


  • I gave examples of the opposite in an earlier comment. Though it’s unclear what level of APIs you refer to here, specially given that you said “same deal with webkit” (which, again, is not under google). You might as well apply the same deal to gecko too.

    I do apply the same standard to gecko. and if it every becomes a larger market share I’ll be more critical of it than I already am. However those criticisms are immaterial to the decision this judge had to make.

    This is a contradiction. If few browsers will do it, then my statement that it can happen is correct…

    its not a contradiction. the difference here is every browser you mentioned as ‘alternatives’ are not well funded dont actively add new functionality in the same way mozilla/google do. they dont actively trying to drive the feature set of the web. apple’s browser is just there to give apple control they dont care about it beyond that, which results in a captured ecosystem on macos. most/all 3rd party browsers use chrome under the hood on other platforms to limit developer costs, resulting in a captured ecosystem by google or are so tiny they’ll never bootstrap effectively (i.e. ladybird). Mozilla has the only non-corporate / user focused implementation of a web browser that is funded.

    The point was that the final say on what those projects will do is a decision those projects can make, not Google.

    which is completely immaterial when they don’t develop/add new features for the web.

    look your argument is ‘other browsers besides firefox exist so its fine if firefox dies’ and mine is ‘they dont provide any real value for the growth of the ecosystem so they’re immaterial when considering the market effects of the only well funded one with a open code base and user focus’

    now we can sit here continuing to talk nonsense at each other or just move on. I recommend just moving on. I grew bored with this conversation about 15 posts ago and im basically just responding to you on autopilot.