What distribution are you on?

LOLZ! Did you try to blame Britain for the Arabs and Jews not getting along?

Yup, this is fascism vs terrorism. My only empathy is for all of the innocent people from both sides caught in the middle.

Why are you making me do math?

Why can’t you just say you’re on an 8?

It’s potentially more complex than you make it sound. Ever see that picture of German soldiers being shown photos of the death camps? Most Germans didn’t know about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis, most soldiers didn’t know.

We have the benefit of hindsight and knowing all of the details that were only revealed after the war ended. So we know that the SS were pure evil, but did the Ukrainians that just survived the Soviet genocide against them know that?

It’s all a messed up pile of shit, but we need to be careful about expecting everyone in the past to have the expanded knowledge we possess in the future.

I had the number of years wrong as I was relying on my terrible memory instead of looking it up before posting, that said, not sure where you are getting your numbers from since you didn’t post any links.

According to the World Bank global poverty was cut in half in 30 years, not 20 as I posted:

For 30 years, global extreme poverty had been steadily declining, and by 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate had been cut by more than half.

That’s from this link: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty

While pre-pandemic global poverty rates had been cut by more than half since 2000,

That’s the first sentence from this article by the UN (the people you claim say poverty is increasing)

Politifact says that the claim:

“Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half.”

Is mostly true at this link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/mar/23/gayle-smith/did-we-really-reduce-extreme-poverty-half-30-years/

If you look at the second graph on the wikipedia page on Extreme Poverty here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty it looks like the total number of people in poverty was around 1.6 billion around the year 2000, but by 2015 it appears to have dropped below 800 million.

So yeah, it’s obvious that there’s a lot of variations in the numbers but still looks like my initial claim was not completely without merit.

Global poverty rates were cut in half over 20 years due to globalization, but yeah, just because westerners lost all of the low skill manufacturing jobs, it all sucks. You realize the US is still one of the biggest manufacturers on the planet but it’s for higher end complex products? Not saying there aren’t problems in the west, but globalization helped billions of people.

I’ve been using copilot and find it’s suggestions are perfectly cromulent.

Grey beards merge and increment (ie: senior devs unite and rise up)

This is the reason for me. Sometimes I don’t want to step through the code and just want to scan through a giant list of output.

Hollywood hacking or updating packages?

By your very logic, if they are willing to nuke over nothing, they’ll also do it to countries that sanction them.

Good point, but the number of countries sanctioning India would definitely far exceed the number that would retaliate militarily against them. Non-NATO countries would join in on sanctions but would not join the fight, so there would simply be too many sanction targets to retaliate against.

Just because you wouldn’t help your friends in a fight or if they got attacked doesn’t mean everyone is the same as you and just watch while it happens doing nothing.

I’m Canadian so I’ve been considering this from the viewpoint of the one who got attacked. I’m really having trouble believing my friends (other NATO countries) would put their necks out on the line, and I think they would be more cautious in the face of their own nuclear destruction.

Great response. I think everything you said is essentially the promise that NATO makes, but as I said to another poster, if India is going to nuke Canada because we accused them of assassination, they will definitely nuke anyone that attacks them. Canada has no nukes of our own, so we couldn’t directly retaliate. Now if you’re the leader of another NATO country, are you going to risk getting nuked for the sake of NATO? I just don’t think anyone else would be willing to step up like that when the shit hits the fan. Think about it… are you willing to risk getting your country nuked for NATO? I just don’t know.

I simply disagree. Canada has no nukes of our own so in order to “glass” India, one of the other nuclear powers would have to take that step which then opens them up for retaliation. I just don’t know if I trust the commitment of other NATO countries to commit that hard.

Think about it, if India nuked Canada because we accused them of assassination, they will definitely attempt to nuke anyone else that attempts to punish them for that. Now if you’re a NATO country other than Canada, are you willing to get yourself nuked as well? I just don’t know if anyone else would put themselves in that position.

The reality of the situation is that India would never do something so crazy so it’s pointless to speculate about what the response would be.

I don’t believe there would be retaliatory nukes as that would just lead to further retaliation. India would quickly get cut off from international trade and financial systems and become a total pariah. Their only friends would be the other pariah states like ruzzia.

Now if the US got nuked there would definitely be military retaliation.

We squash when merging. Final git history is super clean and linear.

Rebase all of your work branches onto HEAD so that conflicts require refactoring the first commit where things don’t match up. This can make conflicts easier to deal with (in my humble opinion) since you deal with conflicts earlier in your commit history as opposed to at the end after ALL of your changes are made.

Plus a linear history is super nice to work with later on.

Yes I know. I was mirroring Hawkeye’s delusion to avoid the horrific truth.

Don’t you mean chicken?

Point taken and why I think any conflicts just need to be noted and weighed with the rest of the facts, as opposed to completely discarding someone’s expertise.