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  • Way to purposefully misread it.

    The whole issue is that the Russians work for companies with sanctions against them.

    So, treat all companies involved in war the same way, and you’ll never run into this hypocritical issue again.

    There’s plenty of companies (like Valve) who don’t directly produce weapons of war or have contracts with their governments for war-services who contribute to Linux that could still do so, and plenty of individuals who don’t work for military and military adjacent companies to contribute.

    Acting like removing people who work at companies that contribute to wars will mean no one can contribute is obviously a grossly exaggerated misinterpretation.






  • But folks who work for US companies building weapons for Israel are totes okay?

    It’s honestly fucking wild that an internationally developed open source project has to play by the US government’s rules when the US government is out here helping commit genocide right the fuck now.

    Like, look in the fucking mirror on this why don’t you.

    Maybe the better rule is that if you work for a company that produces weaponry for war you shouldn’t be allowed to contribute, period.






  • Microsoft taught people to distrust updates because they break shit and don’t ask if you want them or not.

    That leads a lot of people to being “scared” of updates, and Linux updates literally constantly (a good thing).

    Further, Ubuntu as well as others have moved towards phased rollouts, to ensure new versions don’t break things. I constantly have updates say “These updates have been held back due to phasing” which is intended to save me from any trouble if the small number of users who they have phased the updates to start having issues. Easier to roll back and fix for a small number of users as opposed to the whole world.

    Linux doesn’t just handle updates better, but they’ve continued to grow and change how they handle updates to make them better for end-users long-term.

    Breaking Microsoft ingrained habits is hard for some people.



  • Because actually, the biggest change came on May 9th, 2013…

    If I recall my understanding correctly, it’s 1) because there hasn’t been consistently this much CO2 in the atmosphere since an era when the planet whose climate was fundamentally different and 2) that this is an escape velocity type thing, where it becomes harder and harder for us to get back under 400ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, because of how long it takes for CO2 to be absorbed. Thus, climate change will spin out of control far faster in this new, different environment.

    So literally, yes, we were climate changing, but post 2013 things are indeed a lot more grim and the outlook less clear.

    These people are fools who are making a conscious choice to ingest information that would challenge their worldview.