The CIA has been doing nothing but making everything it touches turn to shit since the cold war. Just wipe the slate clean and start over.

One of the most toxic aspects of the broader linux community is a refusal to ever actually provide proper documentation or even fixes for tons of things and instead simply demanding people search through decades of obscure forum threads and mailing lists. This could force ubuntu to actually get its shit together.

Meanwhile in reality per-pupil spending in the US is some of the highest in the entire world and it's far left policies like abolishing phonics and claiming expecting the right answer in math is "white supremacy" that lead to this, because a neurotic and ignorant population is easier to radicalize.

You're ignoring evidence of outright wrongdoing and egregious ethical violations and pretending it's mere "political leanings". You think you're a centrist but you're not, if the BBC's own internal ethics review isn't enough for you that's ipso facto proof of just how far left you are, all without realizing it. Your ideas of what "left" and "right" are have been skewed that badly.

Your post is a perfect example of circular reasoning. No matter what evidence you're given, no matter what argument is made, you can always circle back to where you started. You've got a way to dismiss and handwave everything away, usually by personally attacking the messenger rather than engaging with the evidence.

And your post is clear projection.You're treating logical fallacies like this is harry potter and all you have to do is recite a magical incantation to vanish away all the evidence that you're wrong about the quality of the BBC.

The irony of someone ranting about "genocide supporting Bari Weiss" is palpable. If you want to see what genocide support looks like go read the BBC, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, or the New York Times. Bonus points for the NYT as well since they still proudly list a pulitzer prize they won for genocide denial during the holodomor.

Agreeing with your prejudices is not the same as "reliable and objective".

When you yourself are extreme left then everyone else looks like they're extreme right. The BBC's own internal ethical review was utterly damning and shows that they're institutionally bankrupt and corrupt to the very highest levels.

This website is one of the greatest scams online. They squatted on an emotionally manipulative URL years ago and then proceeded to simply declare whatever the owner wanted to be true regardless of the actual facts. Meanwhile because of the name of the website everyone treats it like some kind of oracle of truth, no matter how much evidence there is that it's a scam. By your logic I could go and squat on the domain "mediabiasfactcheckbiasfactcheck" and declare "mediabiasfactcheck" to be far left and wholly unfactual and you would have to accept it as divine revelation.

The BBC's own internal ethics memo damns it as an utterly bankrupt organization. Al Jazeera is state run propaganda from the country that sheltered the leader of ISIS and helped found the organization. It seems like your standards for "good news sources" live in opposite land, or basically boil down to being as anti western and corrupt as possible.

The AP and Reuters aren't a "source of truth", their own reporters have blown the whistle on their malicious lying and propagandizing.

Just say "jews", we all know that's what you mean.

Getting your news from western newspapers, who've been maliciously lying since they denied the holodomor (and won a pulitzer for it), is the recipe that brought us the idiocy of today.

My e-reader works with dick all servers, it plugs into stuff via USB and gets loaded that way. If I want to use a server it ties into my own calibre box.

No, you don't. This isn't 14 years of support. This is sabotaging and crippling devices that could work until the parts fail after 14 years. Imagine if Ford or Subaru did this with used cars.

Iran was not in compliance with anything and was so antisemitic it hosted an international conference on holocaust denial. Khamenei himself literally claimed Covid was black magic caused by Jews creating a satanic pact with demons.

What are you blathering on about? It's embarassing to see you at +5 insightful. From the moment the regime seized power it's been at war with the US. It's violated every agreement it's ever made with the west and openly pursued its stated goal of trying to exterminate the Jews before turning its eye to destroying America. They never "trusted" America, they just knew some American leaders were either unbelievable suckers or actively supportive of their regime due to anti-western radicalism.

As for a million troops to defend itself the IRGC is estimated at maybe 600K absolute maximum combat capable personnel, in a country of ~93 million people about 80% of which absolutely despise the IRGC to the point 30,000+ of them accepted the risk of being murdered to take to the streets in protest.

That's just plain gaslighting. Every major western city has been filled with two groups of protestors for the past month: Iranians desperately calling for more international intervention to end the mass slaughter and decades of global terror from the Islamic Republic, and migrants + white westerners waving pictures of Khamenei and hezbollah flags screaming "hands off Iran".

There's been TONS of people taking the regime's side.