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I swear to fucking god, even he sounds confused at times.

Big Tim Curry red alert 3 energy

I'm not saying they'll do it, I'm saying it's incorrect to state that there's no valid strategic target when there absolutely is.

Ukraine?

Striking inside their territory won't matter all that much if they can just nuke Kiyv.

And breaking the nuclear taboo is a catastrophe for everybody, regardless of who the target is.

If Ericsson was a person they'd struggle to dress themselves

Which muscle does the strain-to-reach-the-tv-remote train?

f they can determine your browser was associated with some set of unique IDs, then they can track you

The only scenario in which this could happen would leave both strategies equally vulnerable.

No, the idea is that you can't be traced via fingerprinting.

Both strategies accomplish that.

You and 1000 friends go to a party all dressed in the same Mr Blobby costume. When one of you gets absolutely shitfaced at the open bar and vomits in the middle of the dance floor, they get kicked out and banned from next week's rager. Next week rolls around, and 1001 Mr Blobbys rock up on on the dance floor, because management has no idea which Mr Blobby cost them their deposit last week.

You and 1000 friends all go to a party dressed as a unique DeviantArt Sonic OC. One of you fails to hold their liquor. They get kicked out. You all attend the party next week all wearing a completely different costume of a completely different DeviantArt Sonic OC, since the number of them is functionally infinite. Management can't kick the vomiteer out because as far as they're concerned, Jimmy the Hedgehog didn't show up this week, because whoever was Jimmy the Hedgehog is now Steve the Echidna.

If it's unique every time it means they can't create a consistent fingerprint for you.

A UUID assigned to each user is unique, but that's not useful for tracking unless you can ensure each user keeps the same number across visits.

If EFF always says your browser has a unique fingerprint then that means the anti-fingerprinting is working, no?

I think you might care about this a touch too much

VS Code is written with performance in mind. Compared with other electron apps, it's very performant.

Compared with even a sloppily written native app though, it's not great.

Git was built specifically to avoid the necessity to have one authoritative server.

A distributed pseudonymous ledger for use by a centralised authority that will hold sensitive, personal information.

I think the paper was right.

Snakes wriggle around desperately on their bellies all the time it fits perfectly

being the only choices is a symptom of democracy is so foreign to you

Given that the overarching question here is "is biden really the best candidate?", and that ranked choice voting would immediately fix that issue while retaining democracy, yes i feel fairly confident that the current situation is one brought on by an imperfect implementation of democracy.

But again, this is just more bad faith whining so goodbye.

If you ignore the fact that trump wouldn't be running if he hadn't lost the popular vote in 2016 and still won, sure.

This started as you deriding the US's system as an oligarchy, but now when pressed it's your ideal democracy? What are you doing, friend? Are you okay?

What parts of the system that make it bad are anti-democratic elements - which are not particularly relevant in whether my choice should be Biden or Trump.

Or in other words, the system you're in is flawed but you're working within the constraints of those flaws to get the best outcome you can find.

Making the best of a bad system

The US is only in this predicament because the system it has currently allowed a candidate who lost the popular vote in 2016 to get into an office that had enough power to meaningfully damage the country.

However it's clear from your repeated and deliberate attempts to reframe criticism of that system as an attack on the very concept of democracy itself that you aren't arguing in good faith here.

You think the US's implementation of democracy that forces you to pick the least bad between two candidates you don't like is

• A good system
• The only implementation of a democracy

?

And that's without getting started on the electoral college.

That's literally "making the best of a bad system"

You don't like the choice you're making, but you're picking what you perceive as the "least bad".