TBH, I could see non-Israeli Jews getting worried that the longer the horror show continues in Gaza, the more likely it will be used to demonize them.

This isn’t just a moral stand-- it’s sensible self-preservation.

Personally, I hate that “support Israel” has been turned into “issue a blank cheque for genocide.” Real “support” includes recognizing when a terrible mistake with long term consequences is happening and trying to pull them out of it. Cutting off arms to Israel is the nation-state version of taking your buddy’s car keys at the pub so he can’t drive drunk. They’ll scream and curse your name, but they’ll get home alive.

We’re calling about your vehicle’s warranty.

But at least there will be plenty of delicious red crayons.

I figured there’d be more interest in Minister of Railways.

What you want is a CBDC.

The trustless-blockchain story is the big red herring. In the real world, we don’t need immutable distributed databases to settle the ledger because there’s a legal system to arbitrate. So a CBDC can be implemented by an efficient conventional database operated by the state. Goodbye environmental waste; a data message is probably greener than printing a banknote.

Implementing it as a twin of a real currency also deflates most of the speculative BS.

Cryptocurrency is basically “bottled scarcity”-- an asset without a real use, so it inherently goes to speculation. Real currencies have anchors to their value because real goods and services are priced in them directly. Even a currency without a “real” country like the Somaliland Shilling works that way, but anyone accepting BTC or Dogecoin is taking really USD and translating in real time.

You still get some noxiousness from Forex-as-an-investment types but nobody is HODLing a CBDC yuan at a scale to cause deflationary crisis deathloops.

At least use Yandex.

Any idea if it will work on Proton?

So Jimmy Buffett?

I believe the huge mistake in HTML wasn’t having some sort of element-level addressability.

People went insane over “the page flashes for 15ms because we have to reload the header and footer and it doesn’t look NAAATIVE!” and the response was to SPA/AJAX everything, inviting a huge Turing-complete nightmare of possibilities when 95% of what peopleneed would be delivered with < form action=“blah” replace_with_response=“#foo” >

That and a dearth of native widgets-- a < combobox > and a < menu > that worked like the system menus might have kept JavaScript as the sick oddity it should be.

I never got why Asus is so beloved. The RoG branding is cringe even by motherboard branding standards, and the one Asus board I had (a M3A78) had a surprise showstopper incompatibility (hard crashes with a specific PCI-e card that worked fine on a LGA775 board and a Gigabyte 790X board) that their support refused to take responsibility for.

It’s like they’re still coasting on the goodwill from when they did a dual-Celeron board.

Our economic policy switched from “skate to where the puck is going” to “show up in full uniform where the ice rink closed 35 years ago and there’s just a strip mall anchored by a Ross and a closed Big Lots”

I think it sells to them as the “Guardians of Civilization and Culture” fantasy. They have that “moral rights of the artist” legal mindset which extends beyond a purely econonic perspective. At least the American brand of the IP fiasco is mostly anchored in economic hoarding stupidity.

Considering how Europe celebrates the various mid-millenium artists that grew up to become Ninja Turtles, you’d think they’d recognize that culture ticked along just fine before the Statute of Anne.

Grok went into a new conspiracy k-hole?

It looks similar to the lemon sold to my family in 1995.

No, this time it’s for sure the H-train! If we keep running her eventually she’ll win! Worked for Adlai Stevenson!

I think the best possible fanfic plot would be the local pigs wasting Netanyahu on the grounds of the UN.

Not for any grand symbolism about peace and global cooperation, but because cop shows suggest the scene would turn comic as everyone, including the janitor and random foreign dignitaries, started arguing who had jurisdiction.

I think I had top ranks for the K6-233 in the day. Ran all day at 250 (3x83) which was overall better than 262 (3.5x75). Couldn’t quite boot at 292 (3.5x83) without a big Socket A heatsink strapped on.

I’m staying in the pattern buffer where it’s safe.

Please do not use an exact power of two. We need one bit pattern for “undefined”

I always preferred the aesthetics of locomotives where the side walls don’t slope inwards at the top (common in late German designs). I suppose the vast Soviet loading gauge makes it less neccesary.

Was the ‘80’ a reference to power output (80MW?) Fun trivia: in the US, GE’s first major mainline diesel was the U25B (for its 2500hp rating) so GM-EMD’s competing model got designated the GP30, despite only being rated 2250hp.