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The Moscow Times is actually now headquartered in Amsterdam and has been banned in Russia. I wouldn't exactly consider it to have a pro-Russian bias.

I think the trouble with the conclusion you're drawing is that it enables one to make sweeping statements about Muslims on the whole while maintaining plausible deniability in claiming that they're only referring to "the bad ones." In other words, sort of an inverse "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

Furthermore, I would wager that most people you're referring to as "ex-Muslim" would still very much consider themselves to be Muslim, and even though you're explicitly not addressing them in your claims, it's not a huge leap that someone acting in worse faith would use your rationale as an excuse to generalize the entire demographic (including the so-called "ex-Muslims").

This is mine too. It's obscure enough that I rarely hear it in public, so I basically only hear it when I actually want to.

The title here isn't very good. He was previously sentenced to 13 years in BC, which was then replaced with a 6 year sentence in accordance with Dutch law.

I personally take the stance that the justice system should be rehabilitative above all else, but I honestly don't see how someone like this can be rehabilitated. No normal person would be capable of committing such an unambiguously evil act, and it's a shame he can't be put away for life.

Tommy Lee Jones says this in Men in Black, no idea if it was coined before that though.

That KDE Plasma 5 is finally usable and stable, after having decided to stop pushing the ridiculous plasmoids on the user [...] is like having an old whore finally becoming a respectable woman.

Yeah, I stopped reading here.

My company has on multiple occasions brought in applicants to interview who aren't qualified for any positions we're actively looking to fill. I'm not 100% sure why that is, but it's led to us rejecting candidates who everyone otherwise felt pretty positive about.

The Asus BT500 dongle works quite well in my experience as long as you're running a kernel from the last 1-2 years, it's only BT 5.0 though.

Somewhat ironically, this article reads a lot like it was written by a generative AI.

I don't have exact numbers, but there is some increase in power draw associated with refreshing the screen more frequently. It's certainly nowhere near as impactful as rendering at 50 FPS vs 25, but it's non-zero.

The US wields immense geopolitical power; of course they get a say. That's not to say that it could prevent an annexation if the CCP wanted it badly enough, but Washington has no shortage of levers to pull to make it as unattractive an option as possible.