the CCP's problem with him was purely that he got too much money and 'influence'.

I am in absolutely no doubt that the CCP would also love it if everybody was working 72 hours a week, and were probably just more pissed that they didn't think of it first..

...why was it officially adopted in lots of respectable linux projects (like Arch and Debian) ??

Genuine question - I'm not smart enough of a sysadmin to have a strong conviction about it. But, if it is so objectively horrible, against the principles of open source, etc etc, how come it made it so far out into lots of really good distros?? Doesn't make sense to me.

The troll almost makes a good point - healthcare professionals ARE just literally doing their job. It's an amazing job, and I'm really grateful they do it, but I get a bit sick of all this putting people on a pedestal because of something they're paid to do.

There are millions of people who don't get well paid to do really important jobs (carers for elderly people, parents with disabled kids, teachers) but it's always Doctors who swing in and get all the glory.

they're monitoring everyone's keyboards aren't they? I mean I removed windows from my work laptop ASAP, but with the amount of telemetry in that piece of shit OS, their constant pop-up's asking for feedback as well as extremely creepy 'innovations' like trying to complete my emails, or tell me how many meetings I had last week... this stuff is an absolute gold mine, plus they get to act all sanctimonious about how we should behave.

I'll work whenever I feel like it, thank you, now get the fuck out of my inbox

Russia has nothing to trade that the West can do without. Sure, they foolishly tied themselves to Russian gas but that can be undone. Otherwise, what have they got? Absolutely nothing.

So in a scenario where you (in the medium term, at least) don't have to trade with the offending party, why woud you?

Sanctions are only partially something so transactional as regime change. Nobody in their right mind thinks sanctions = immediately the end of Putin. It is about sending a message that we don't want anything to do with you because of your actions. It may not be a deterrent, it may do nothing, but who really gives a shit. This is a principle.

can you elaborate please?

are you saying that the claims are not true?

I have a friend who keeps saying that Solana and Cardano are the 'next gen web3' that solve all the PoW issues of bitcoin/etheruem. I don't care enough to find out, but I'd love to tell him he's wrong.

My impression of Vitalik Buterin is quite different, for what it's worth. I think he's an extremely smart, erudite but possibly naive and idealistic thinker. He genuinely thinks his crypto can enable all these positive social changes, and that's what he's in it for.

There's a lot of jerks pumping crypto in any way that can possibly enrich them personally - I don't think that's his mindset at all.

here you go: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Or were you trying to make some 'clever' point that because much of Europe still depends on Russian gas to keep civilians warm and, yknow, not die, everything else that is being done is somehow pointless?

Interesting, but ultimately retarded, point. Thanks for trying.

I really don't get this view that Arch is 'hardcore'. I've used it as my daily driver almost ever since it came out and - if anything - it has completely de-skilled me.

I used to compile my own kernel, optimise svn mplayer, etc etc. Nowadays I just do 'pacman -Syu' and that's it.

The killer application in Arch is an amazing package manager - it just works, and beautifully. If I was going to try a 'harcore' distro it would be Gentoo.

Yep and in my view that is exactly what this so-called 'virtue signalling' is about. It's making it clear to ordinary Russians that, unless they are actively opposing the delusional madman in charge of their country, then they are supporting him. And that comes with some repercussions.

It is entirely within the power of ordinary Russians to get rid of this guy - if they are happy with the status quo and just want to complain about the exchange rate, then it's on them.

you seem to view Ukraine's potential accession to NATO as a betrayal of the post-Soviet 'agreement'.

Just to be clear - NATO is not enticing Ukraine's membership. Ukraine themselves - a sovereign and independent nation - is begging to join NATO because they're so sick of living next door to the senile retard Putin. In fact, the Yanukovych and Yatseniuk governments always wanted to be non-aligned, but then Russia decided to invade Crimea and public opinion turned against them - leading to the current situation in Ukraine where NATO accession is so popular.

Who's fault is all this, again?