"If blocking a bunch of illiterates from coming in..." juxtaposes so nicely with "...acting like everything is being done from a purely racist perspective is ridiculous". All in service of a vacuous argument no one actually contested.

Were you going for irony in that last sentence or are you truly that self-unaware? The quote states that Linux follows that philosophy, and that the user likes that fact about Linux. It does not say the user follows that philosophy, much less to whatever degree of strictness you're insisting they must.

Several states have a pattern of cutting polling places and resources in areas that are statistically overpopulated by the minority party's voters, yes. You'll also see more creative forms of this, like Texas (my home state) limiting each county to one drop box (https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/27/texas-voting-elections-mail-in-drop-off), with the background context that big (majority Dem) cities annex neighboring towns into their home counties when they annex the towns themselves. See also Texas coming down hard to limit drive-through polling locations because those same big cities implemented the concept as a COVID mitigation and saw a massive increase in voter accessibility. Texas was under a Democratic trifecta until the mid '90s, and is still much more purple than one would expect. We just also have bottom-5 voter turnout rates, partially due to the state legislature pulling shenanigans like I described for the past 25 years.

...California primaries aren't ranked choice. Each voter selects one candidate.

None of those quotes show disdain at all. The closest it gets is mild judgment about frequency of changing political support. Contrast that with the sheer disgust you've flung in this thread--right down to incoherently insulting the extremely common metaphor of party support (or any other group affiliation) as ships. The only "wild" thing in this thread is the unprompted hostility you brought into a pretty basic discussion about a famous personality.

The US and Venezuela combined do not have the capability to ship anywhere approaching enough oil to make up for the shortfall present in the Persian Gulf. You're off in fantasy land.

There is zero hypocrisy in an atheist pointing out the insanity inherent in a group of nominal christians attempting to warn the pope away from discussing theology--not that you have any right to declare that "people on slashdot routinely" doing anything means nobody on slashdot is also religious.

"There is no civilian use for 60% enriched uranium" just tells me you get your nuclear engineering knowledge from the OANs of the world. Time to turn off the talking heads, grandpa.

"Trump is not doing anything to any country but Iran. One can argue about Venezuela, but it's the same government there". It's the same government in Iran too. And why should anyone listen to the geopolitical lessons of someone who doesn't know about the blockade of Cuba?

" Most ships are waiting the for minesweepers to finish checking it out though." Sounds pretty damned closed to me.

Nobody's saying Iran should have nukes. Please learn to read, coward.

Reacting to the insults and expletives is not a rebuttal to the very straightforward argument made in the post. If you care about cogent arguments, perhaps you should try making one.

That is an entirely made up definition of the former. Our own constitution acknowledges slavery can be a temporary punishment.

40-bit addresses fit no less nicely on 32-bit machines than 128-bit IPV6 fit on 64-bit machines today--or for that matter, 32-bit IPv4 addresses on the 16-bit processors ubiquitous in 1980. In all cases you're spanning two words. The unused bits would have been put to use packing metadata according to the needs of whatever system is working with the address. The bizarre re-slicing of 5 bytes into 10-bit chunks obviously irrelevant as an argument.

You love to throw the word "evil" around, don't you? Maybe you should spend some time introspecting on your blindness to nuance.