Why is nobody thinking about the poor lil wannabe-brown-people-killer 😭

Look, I get that, nobody wants bloodshed for bloodshed’s sake. But this is war, they are being attacked, there are troops massing near them while they’re getting bombed. Either they get brutally murdered, or they defend themselves. That or the US retreats; I think we both know that’s not happening.

The conclusion seems fairly simple to me.

And tbf I’m not particularly giving much worth to those who follow orders on the US & israeli side. They made their bed, they lie in it. You can’t expect to go and kill brown people for decades, sign up to be the next generation of that machine, and come out unscathed.

You really ought to rethink your angle. Beyond “whataboutism” which is a useful tool to avoid any self reflection, do you really think we should first pay attention to protests, while Iran is getting bombed, i.e. every Iranian, including protesters, is in grave danger of death?

You’re telling us we should disregard deadly danger to all Iranians and instead pay attention to some danger to some Iranians?

To wrap this up, YOU are asking “what about the protests”; nothing in this post is about the protests. YOU are guilty of that nonsensical “whataboutism” pseudo-fallacy.

Edit: Less personal attacks (sorry)

Tell me please, how do you stop an enemy army from killing your people & destroying your infrastructure? Do you think the US will go back if asked politely? Be serious

I don’t see how not, but I’m not a lawyer. From my perspective only Waterfox’s edits would actually be GPL anyway, since they don’t own copyright to Mozilla. If they wanted to integrate their work upstream that would be an issue

That would definitely not be “more atrocities”, that would simply be self defense, in the most righteous way.

Extreme? They’re getting bombed, their public infrastructure is getting targeted, schoolchildren are dying, but killing US soldiers is a step too far???

If the US doesn’t want thousands of deaths on their end, maybe they should have considered not attacking Iran.

1. The protests weren’t a wholesale denunciation of Iran’s government. There was some who protested for that, but most protested because of the result of US sanctions resulting in a devastating degradation of Iranian people’s quality of life.
2. The protests and their supporters were mostly in urban centers, which the US and Israel hit. Anti-government sentiment was annihilated the instant they were attacked (or became so low on anyone’s priority that it’s functionally the same).
3. US and Israeli bombs don’t magically spare protesters ⁉️⁉️ Like, what could possibly go in your head when hearing that Iran is defending itself, to conclude that it’s bad for Iranian people? The best thing for Iranian protesters is that Iran wins unequivocally

Your weak ass defense of the US would be ridiculous if Iraq didn’t happen; the fact that you’re unable to learn from it is sobering. Iraqis being freed was one of the reasons given back then; as a reminder more than a million Iraqis died to it.

Do you think Iraqi protesters were spared?

Nooo you gotta debate them in the marketplace of ideas /s

Because the dollar being the reserve currency is a direct result of the US being the world hegemon. As the US is falling, and China is expanding trade but not asserting itself as the hegemon, the world is becoming multipolar.

The EU’s economic situation doesn’t allow it to become the new hegemon either, and their political fragmentation makes them unreliable anyway.

The concept of a reserve currency might be outdated because of that multipolar world. And if not, the EU is in no position to impose the euro, as China is way more stable and has much better economic relations with everyone, including both US economic allies and enemies.

There would be no contest if China tried to assert the RMB as a world reserve currency, but AFAIK they’re not interested in doing that.

The “radar” part of this radar plane is even more priceless, as US manufacturers scramble to find rare minerals that China banned from export for military use. They literally cannot build them anymore

As a non american, I’m very happy about all this for the exact same reasons you specified makes you unhappy. This might be the end of the unstoppable bully the US is.

The issue is that you can’t really “beat” China. Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

Sure it’s going to be the same for personal use, to most people chatGPT or DeepSeek are websites.

But to enterprise it will be a massive difference in cost, and AI can’t even begin to dream about profitability without enterprise

I appreciate it, and tbh I get you

MacOS doesn’t really lock you at all though, and you’re free to dev for pretty much any software there, iOS or not

Bruh I toggled off literally all existing and future AI features with a single toggle on FF, they still need to be opted out one by one on Brave 😭

ngl I did make the jump to liquid glass on Macos, but for iOs I started on liquid glass (and quickly came back to Android once I realised I could not stand youtube without adblock and sponsorblock), so I definitely did not miss features and did like the looks of the UI

Oh yeah I’m aware that some professionals are essentially locked to a single platform (same goes with accounting and Excel), I can only hope that the industries this affects start taking Linux more seriously (or Mac, but tbh once you’re running on Mac it’s less of a leap to work on Linux)

Brave browser is poor man’s attempt at firefox, motivated by homophobia (literally)

Privacy badger, it’s basically the good ghostery made by the EFF, it just doesn’t have any marketing budget lol