True, but the auth-left is really rabid for authority. Sometimes it's not even very left but it's some "trusted institution" and it's "unamerican" to question it. I say question all power structures. Because if you can't even question them you are in a bad place culturally.

When are people on both the right and left going to learn. There is no one in the middle east who's values actually align with yours. So stop supporting a side and lets get our selves completely out of not our business.

Though genocide is our business so that's the one time we should take a side.

But in everything else where we've taken a side it has been a mistake. Folk on all sides of the middle east project to the west an image they hope will garner sympathy in hopes we will fight wars for them and they can avoid fighting their own wars. "Genuineness" is a uniquely western thing to see as a positive value. Absolutely no culture in the middle east values presenting an honest image of themselves to us. The idea of that being socially positive or necessary for their own sense of ethics is literally foreign to them. I'm not trying to single out Muslim countries or Israel. What I'm saying is we in the west do in fact have values that are particular to us, and we need to stop imagining those values on others. That's why the whole of the middle east is like that. Because they aren't us.

Then the other thing we should understand is that all sides employ what are basically professional communicators who study our culture and use what they understand of it to manipulate us. So we get dragged into problems that aren't ours and expose ourselves to actual security threats as a result.

Couldn't that be said of Biden? I'm not trying to make this partisan but only trying to posit a hypothesis. Democratic processes do not select qualified people.

You have ignored the possibility that even though there are finite gay people, among those finite gays one of them might be infini-gay.

I think that could be possible. If sexuality were multi-dimensional and "gayness" was just a 1-D collapse of a higher dimensional space then you could pick a vector in the higher dimensional space to represent gayness, such that a few points at the extreme happen to have the same dot-product with that vector.

But then you would be defining gayness around the gymnastics of setting that up instead of something you are actually trying to estimate about people on that spectrum.

Right. And if you depend on them for your logic with cloudflare functions you will never be able to migrate to another CDN.

Never let a vender do anything for you beyond standardized features. That's why a "selling point" if we go with this guy we can do this... never makes sense. Because if option B can't do it also you wouldn't want to do "this", and you should probably implement it in a more old-school way.

It's crazy though that the lab leak theory is looking pretty solid so we now have a permanent disease on the planet that humans created.

It also has a tradition of fighting communists.

At least the state of Israel is more readily available to criticize, which as an ancap, I hate it when any government is worshiped. It's weirder when it's not your own. One's own nationalism is a strange phenomenon but at least I understand how it develops.

You have infinitely other options. search.brave.com, yandex, bing. And probably a lot of cool ones I don't know about.

All of them search more accurately your directly requested phrase instead of a blurry interpretation of your sentiment.

It's the rule of modern engineering. You will always be served the worst possible product that can claim to have some utility. If it's not on the edge of being useful someone didn't engineer hard enough.

Besides that one time power goes out more often in California. In Texas you just have a temporary price surge you could treat like a blackout if you wanted to. The difference is it's less often and you have a choice.

Alexa's antinatalism is showing.

Don't forget hypocrite celebs that own yachts.

Yes. Arch is not actually hard. It's just a meme.

Because debian is a vanilla distro that does as little as possible, so it isn't extra work to use it. Do you know what other distro tries to be as vanilla as possible. Arch. So if you just use the install wizard Debian and Arch are equal difficulty. AKA the easiest. Don't buy the Ubuntu marketing hype. Just because someone labels themselves the easiest doesn't mean it's true. Just because another distro is labeled hard doesn't mean it's true.

Arch is not hard... at all. Everyone says it is hard but no one can cite why. There is always the option of using a traditional linux installer wizard and it installs just as easy as any other distro. Then the only difference is you have a different command for your package manager. It runs the same software. I'm tired of hearing that there are meaningful differences between these distros when the only major difference is "command install packagename" vs "different_command install packagename". Woah there. I think this is going to be too complicated for new users.

The only other major difference is arch ships the configs that the developers recommend as a default while ubuntu tries to be as aggressive with some of the software as they can be. My experience is sometimes this breaks thing (at least did back in the day) depending on updates and your hardware. This leaves you trouble shooting the most low level stuff. I've had to do more high level tech support for myself every year I've run Ubuntu than I have in 6 years of running Arch.

Maybe Arch users shout Arch because we know it's the easiest distro we've used and we want to save new users the headache that comes from accepting the BS marketing on Ubuntu as real. The more a distro tries to accomplish the more they are going to fail the more it is you who will hold the bag for fixing it. So the distro that does the least is actually the easiest one. If you pick manjaro or artix you get the install wizard and its as easy to install as Ubuntu but with less broken stuff once it is running.

Next time something breaks in your ubuntu just know that if you were running arch it would have never happened.

Ignorant man doesn't understand the world. No. It must be the world that is ignorant and from the 1950s.

Weren't you all just hating on Republicans for not voting for that bill.

How about an all bills must be fucking separate bill?

So do they just maintain their initial velocity or would we have a chance to discover the static reference velocity of the universe?

Also they would still be affected by gravity if they still exist in space. Gravity is not a force that pulls objects together. It is merely the act of going straight in curved space. Either they are in that space and they are going to move along it within the shape of that space or they are not in that space. Though really if they just moved in a straight line with no external forces they are going to be subterranean because a real straight line in our space is down.