Oh don’t get me wrong. The strong adherence to pacifism is laudable. But they have not reckoned with their atrocities committed during and prior world war II. They practically deny them ever happening.

Your whataboutism is not appreciated.

Japan has never really reckoned with its past. They were just pacified.

I judge the country as a whole for this, since they keep electing politicians who continue to do very little to reckon with their past.

I feel a lot could be gained by apologising to the people and nations for the past, and nothing lost, other than nationalistic pride, bring forced into self reflection, and being genuinely sorry on behalf of the country.

People who think they shouldn’t apologise because it wasn’t them personally are stupid, frankly, and standing in the way of reducing tensions.

Will it fix everything in the region? No. Will it take some of the steam out of the war machine? Probably.

Ugh. They’re probably worse than a lot of them.

Abducting extremely young children into their cult. Teaching them to suppress their emotions, telling them to cut all families ties.

Someone ought to order their temples shut down to bring peace and stability to the galaxy world.

In true modern Microsoft fashion. Remove features, lock forum posts of people asking for them back. Provide no reason. Profit because apparently this shit is crack to companies.

And when you’re the US president, they let you do it

Seems so arbitrary that they just block the entire project instead of the user in the sanctioned region.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Probably for the best, GitHub seems like a liability (to a lamen like me, anyway)

I ported !engineeringmemes@lemmy.world. Because of its limited volume, it’s barely an effort to moderate.

Just start the communities you want to see :)

Would he not have already sold most when they went public?

DEI is just something they’re using as a dog whistle. It’s always about class first.

She’s rich, so he’s an honourary white

Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.

What a shit husband and father.

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It’s absolutely wild they expect you to pay taxes when you don’t live there, and I’m pretty sure not widly practiced by other countries.

I find Australia’s travel advice contradictory.

No offence to people living in the US, but I’d say most people in Australia would think many places in the US are not generally as safe as here.

For political reasons (we are the US’ vassals, see $300 bn submarines), we will likely hold out a long time before heightening headline travel advice, but to me some of the advice given does not fall under the category of exercising “normal safety precautions” as is claimed by DFAT:

• Violent crime is more common in the United States than in Australia. Gun crime is also prevalent. If you live in the United States, learn and practice active shooter drills.

• There is a persistent threat of mass casualty violence and terrorist attacks in the United States. Be alert, particularly in public places and at events.

Practicing active shooter drills isn’t normal. At all.

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/americas/united-states-america

I think we know he’ll do the opposite. Him being a Russian asset is practically accepted fact at this point

I’m gonna posit something even worse. It’s trained on conversations in a company Slack

Unfortunately I am primarily an android user, as I always have my phone with me.

I shall give it a go for desktop at some point though

Friendship ended with Firefox. Waterfox is my new best friend ❤️

This is what I’m planning to do with some textbooks I want for my work.

$200-$300 and you want me to download an app that may or may not even work in 10 years?

Nah, I’m gonna future proof my access no remorse 🏴‍☠️

I will pay though, because it’s tax deductible, and also because it I ever get questioned on it (since I use them around coworkers and management), I’m golden.

I found this help article where they say “Although not all non-genuine supplies may cause quality issues”.

They said they recommend using theirs, but up until this they didn’t say you couldn’t.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/sp/faqend.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=dcpl2647dw_us&faqid=faq00000184_002

Plus, it’s been universally understood that you have been able to use third-party cartridges. I really think if you’re persistent enough, you’d get a refund in Australia. Because else (in Victoria at least) you could take them to VCAT for like $70, which will cost them wayyy more in lawyer expenses than the price of a refund.

This is not legal advice, but I reckon a refund under Australian Consumer Law is extremely doable if they go down this path (for existing printers).

I’m curious how this will go down in Australia. Seems like a pretty solid slam dunk refund, oh the product doesn’t work as advertised anymore?

Cool, I’ve had this for 5 years and now I’d also like a full refund under Australian Consumer Law.

Motherfuckers.

(I don’t actually own a printer)

You are underestimating how many people will give up at the slightest inconvenience.

I can tell you, when vigorously enforced, you can get the vast majority of a population to play within your walled garden (China, as an example).

Sweden however, yeah, unless they wanna go full internet firewall, not sure exactly how they plan on enforcing this.