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  • Electric cars are a type of vehicle. Public transit is a type of transportation system that include many different types of vehicles and can include electric cars.

    You're comparing apples to orchards.

  • The comparison I'm making is to Nazi Germany's war for global domination. So yes, there was Jewish armed resistance in occupied Europe. Now, I don't condone Hamas's massacre of civilians and hostage taking. I do believe Palestinians have a right to armed resistance in the face of Israel's control over Palestinian sovereignty and the continued extreme injustices they've been inflicting on Palestinians collectively.

    I was pointing to a distinction in the logic of "rightness". If you ignore morality, then yes, eradicating a population will effectively stop groups within it from continuing to attack you in the future. However, with morality, genocide is wrong. It's the same reason why wiping Israel off the map would finish things and end the IDF's war crimes. However, it would still be morally wrong.

  • By that logic, Hitler/Nazis should have finished the job too so there would be world peace. If millenia of history and the present is anything to go by, nations keep going to war with each other, so coexistence will never work in the long term.

  • No, the vertical spit and the term doner kebab is traced back to Bursa in the 1800s, with offshoots into shawarma and gyros thereafter. It wasn't until the 1970s that German Döner Kebab evolved in Berlin.

  • I am sympathetic to the frustration with and resistance to feeling marketed to, but this person just seems to lack self-awareness... And lack of awareness in general. Not a good look.

    I won't assume he's representative of large swathes of developers 👀👀👀

  • Buddam tsssss! I too enjoy making fun of big business CEOs as mindless trend-followers. But even "following a trend" is a strategy attributable to a mind with reasoning ability that makes a choice. Now the quality of that reasoning or the effectiveness of that choice is another matter.

    As tempting as it is, dehumanizing people we find horrible also risks blinding us to our own capacity for such horror as humans.

  • No, it's not paradoxical. You are conflating time points.

    I won't debate the "value" of CEOs, but in this system, their value is subject to market conditions like any other. Human computers were valued much more before electrical computers were created. Aluminum was worth more than gold before a fast and cheap extraction process was invented.

    You could not replace a CEO with a Palm pilot 10 years ago.