pragmakist

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[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deterrence and prevention are different from post facto responce, and show of force is different from application of force.

Consider what went wrong in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vitenam. Consider how many Indian lives it took to end the Indian wars the hard way. Consider the Black and Tans in Ireland. Consider what happened when the Nazis slaugthered whole villages. Consider the Sovietunion in that war (27 million lost out of a total population of 200 million)

Now find the cases, please, where actually sending the troops in helped in something like this.

And then take note of how limited the deployment were, or how special the circumstances.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"Israel must respond in a severe heavy-handed way if they are to dissuade any further attacks and keep their people safe"

This newer works!

Simple as that. Look at the evidence, please. This always leads to further violence, and ultimately mass slaugther.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, by the way, text-only browsers are still a thing.

You might want to look at links and/or lynx and see if they cover your usecase.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a service.

It's a service given to you for free by a company with no apparant way of generating income.

Would you think about that, please?

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

More than 400000 of us for each of those locations then, and how many of us have then bothered to wander in, I wonder?

Anyway, would you really trust an American company to actually make their sandwiches 1ft tall?

How would you even start to eat such a thing?

(Also most standardized feet are around 30 cm, so 12ft is ~ 3.6 m)

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Or Children of a Dead Earth.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also there's a lot of architechts who fancy themselves to be Artists, and want nothing to do with having people living in and/or using and debasing their Art.

Nor do they want random people looking at it without paying homage to the exalted being that is the Artist.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The vast majority of the value of a consumer facing computer system is in the people who help other people.

They know that.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Kids will never learn Purple if no-one uses it around them.

Remember: Kiss stands for Keep Ignoramusses Stupid, Son.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Japanese attitude seems to be that if there's a way to increase the likelihood that the alert will go through, then they will do that too.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

This is Europe of course, but I'm fairly confident that I might successfully challenge the schools right to know my childs sex.

That's none of their business.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

And you mentioning koreader, and a helpful discussion of the topic on koreaders github, helped me finally find an open source reader that does vertical text correctly.

Thorium, sadly not koreader, does Japanese vertical writing correctly and I'm very happy right now.

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