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There can’t be a comma missing from a motto which is itself entirely missing. They threw it in a ditch a few years ago. (I’ll be honest, I thought it had to have been at least 10 years at this point, but Wikipedia says otherwise.)

The example picture at the top of the article is weird.

The window title reads “nano” but the software running in the window is Pico, Nano’s now deprecated (and strangely-licenced) spiritual parent. Or it’s Nano hacked to have a Pico header which, while somewhat fitting with the theme, that would be even more weird.

Spies working for a country do not have to look like the stereotypical person from that country. The spy could even be “on loan” from some other country friendly to SK.

If I was Finland, I would continue as if Russia had changed nothing at that camp, however reassuring the changes there might appear to be.

Even if it’s “only” a training camp now and not a fully operational military installation, I’d still not let my guard down just in case the Russians decide to take a “special training exercise” over the Finnish border. That is the sort of thing they like to do, after all.

I remember this being panel two in a Dilbert strip (from back in the days when Adams did a great job of presenting as sane.)

One take I saw on it was that he has no case because the local authority were not responsible for the harm caused to him, such as it is.

Sure, he feels aggrieved because of the local authority’s refusal to accede to his demands to search the landfill, but that’s secondary. Had he never pursued it they would not have had to say no.

In his shoes, I’d be sick to my stomach every single day, but I might have given up sooner nonetheless. I’m pretty sure that due to sheer bloodymindedness he’s now in deep with various financial backers who were hoping for a return when he succeeded… and now he owes them money.

Basically, if this doesn’t stop him, I’m not sure he’ll ever stop trying.

“Oh, but officer, I was only pretending to be a criminal when I robbed that store, so it doesn’t count.”

TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word “delete”.

In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that’ll never happen.

And in the sense that once you’re known to them you’ll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you’ve little chance of winning, yes.

But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that’s what this article is about.

One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don’t like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren’t also doing a bunch of other heinous things.

And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.

Thus proving that Tencent is either stupid or is insulting our intelligence.

You’re overreacting too far the other way. Sure they’re not saying he was a duck, they’re saying he was a goose, but for many practical purposes, those two things are the same.

Furthermore, they said what they said in the way that they said it to foment precisely this sort of confusion (or because they’re equally confused. Take your pick.). Did they go on to explicitly say “not an actual communist, but a bit like one”?

The blog writer got his account on SO restricted.

As I said elsewhere earlier today, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they’ve made a mistake.

Here the mistake appears to be treating Mangione’s account differently to those of other alleged and actual felons, but secondarily, taking retribution against anyone having the absolute audacity to point that out.

We should all be praising the Emperor’s new clothes and none of that truth stuff.

She probably figures that what they’re doing isn’t as bad - as terrible as it is - as whatever their retribution would be if she did that.

What she needs to do is cook them all a nice meal with no poison in it whatsoever.

Depends where you are. In British English, it’s “strik(h)-neen”. If you’re not sure what it is where you are, it probably ends the same way as how you pronounce “iodine”.

(And you probably pronounce iodine’s siblings “chlorine” and “fluorine” with “een”, not “yne”, which is kind of strange when you think about it.)

Thanks for the sensible and in-depth response. I was reaching hard for any reason to set them against each other, and maybe went for too clumsy of an idea… That said, I’m not sure I would have been capable of a better one.

Oil doesn’t go off if you store it properly. Or don’t extract it in the first place. The fact it has been in the ground for millions of years is testament to that.

And, there’s that whole Putin thing I alluded to. Europe might well be interested in surplus oil.

Yeah, we should be using renewables, not fossil fuels, but a lot of the old infrastructure is still here. There’s bound to be some interest.

I do feel for the oil workers who might be affected by all this, though, which might be what you’re getting at.

So how do we convince each of Kickl and Orbán that the other wants to re-form the Austro-Hungarian empire and get rid of their counterpart in the process?

The thing is with right-wing parties is that they’re more easily led to be at each other’s throats than for others. Not much more, because, well, humans, but maybe it would be enough.

Yeah, that whole “???” part wouldn’t be pretty.

“US and Russia spearheading the new axis in WWIII” levels of “wouldn’t be pretty”.

Pipelines can be shut off. It’s a Putin-approved tactic.

Need you be reminded that German carmakers were among those who rigged cars to cheat on emissions tests?

They got caught, but it proves they’ve been willing to lie and cheat and there’s no reason to believe that they’re not still willing, even if they fixed that particular problem.

[Preferred refugee destinations] have to make the home countries of immigrants attractive enough to stay there

Most governments take a very dim view of other governments interfering in their region’s affairs, and further, the aforementioned destinations generally used to be colonial powers and don’t have a good reputation in that regard to begin with.

Sending boatloads of cash to the migrant source won’t fix the problems either, because it will just end up in the pockets of a small, corrupt few as it does literally everywhere else in the world, and nothing will change.

If you’re in favour of abandoning ethics for a quick fix there are two or three “solutions”, but there doesn’t seem to be any easy ones otherwise.

FWIW, I’m very much not in favour of abandoning ethics.