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Comment Re: Money scam (Score 1) 214

Judaism was developed to give Jews title to lands other people were living in already,...

This is completely, provably historically false. Nobody was inhabiting those lands before the Jews first settled there, and the Palestinians only moved in after they had largely vacated the region and simply failed to protect it from squatters. It only became a serious problem later when it started to become popular for Jews to move back and they found squatters on land they felt was rightfully theirs. You're buying into a false narrative.

Now don't get me wrong, I still think it's unethical for the Jews to displace the Palestinians and to commit all these atrocities and what modern law considers war crimes against them, but it's flat out factually inaccurate to claim the Palestinians were there first.

Comment Re:Well that's not a fair comparison (Score 1) 69

...why can't Windows do it better since it has a head start and official hardware and software support?

Now you're starting to ask the right questions. After all these years, why does it still suck so much? The depressing answer is that they're breaking it on purpose, for profit, because it sells upgrades, because most consumers really are that stupid that they still haven't caught on to the pattern after 30 years. Linux development on the other hand isn't driven by direct profit margins from retail sales, so they don't have the same type of perverse incentives to self-sabotage.

Comment Re:What hardware are they targeting? (Score 1) 67

The Purism Librem 5 and the Pine64 Pinephone, as well as anything listed as supported currently by Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS are probably good candidates for this. You can already use many of these right now with several different Linux distros as the reverse-engineering work has already largely been done, and the phones are already in the wild, people are using them, and some of them are indeed still available for sale new. By and large, they suck compared to the latest iPhone but you can't have everything. Maybe in time though, this centralization effort can help out the overall experience for everyone.

Comment Re:So panels in desert won't be low maintenance? (Score 1) 77

You've never spent any time in a desert, have you? First of all, kudzu is a forest plant and isn't a threat anywhere near these panels. Second of all, anything that might actually manage to struggle up on top of these panels will be quickly cooked to death before it can cover them. Third of all, weeding in the desert is generally going to be a trivial task, and will barely make a dent in the normal maintenance regime. Are they paying you for this stupid FUD?

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