I didn't even know China was building global rail connectivity. Fucking awesome project. Of course Israel + US oppose it.
Never mind the Tankie triad, FEAR THE TANKIE DODECAHEDRON 
preemptively defederated
"as a last resort", of course
Honestly there were always arguments on the internet, but far and away the most peaceful time in my memory was the time of tens of thousands of independent forums and/or websites that profilerated up to ~2010.
You could just like a thing, blindly wander into a community about it, and spend your days, weeks, years talking to similar, friendly people in personable ways. If you got into arguments, mods just banned you for causing ruckus in their quiet corner of the internet. I find the nameless 'talking to the masses' that all social media does is the issue.
Humans thrive on making interpersonal bonds, and to speak to the same person twice online is borderline impossible today. Hexbear probably straddles the middle-upper limit of an enjoyable community size in that you will repeatedly interact with the same people over months or even years. But once you lose that person-person accountability, you inevitably become a pile of ragebait and nothing else.
That's why IRL community groups inevitably have an upper limit before they federate into subgroups - a sea of voices talking over each other doesn't really achieve much of an enjoyable atmosphere, and overall lends itself to sensationalism.
Used Fedora Workstation for 10 years, probably always will if it stays like this. Messing with other distros just feels like work when this is already kinda rules at everything.
Only the worst humans refuse to vote for both the 100% Fascist and 101% Fascist parties. This election was the most important one of our lifetimes, you can vote for a third party NEXT election 
A bit off topic, not the post's fault, I was frustrated already by reading comments. As a European, I'm kinda done hearing USAians opinions on what's happening in Europe (or most other countries really). The misinformation and bad assumptions about other countries seem to be so deeply ingrained in US culture that it's rarely worth the effort of responding to it.
Hexbear does better in general, but even here it's still frustratingly unending.
Just because violent events have proliferated to varying degrees in history does not mean it's the natural state of humanity.
The reality is you can write books about World War 2, which was very recent lasted for 6 years. But it's much harder to write a book about every period of not war and largely peaceful coexistence, such as era 50004 BCE - 46010 BCE, or whatever the fuck.
And that's not taking into account that war-mongering nations have found themselves at largely an advantage for much of recorded (ie extraordinarily recent human history).
Yeah, it's confirmation bias.
I'm afraid Celsius is officially defined by the kelvin, not the other way around
Who the hell can tell the difference? e.g. A difference from 15 to 16 degrees is borderline imperceptible. And if you really need it, decimal points are right there.
Actually the voting is causing too much disruption now so please just pick from two of these preapproved parties
In 2024, the university enrollment rate in the People's Republic of China was 60.8%
Degrees are easily accessible in China and hugely increasingly so. Compare to western institutions where university enrolment is declining. It's understandable that Westoids don't realise how not restrictive this really is.
The issue being that the reason we're running out of air and filling Earth up with waste is not a lack of science or investment.
We are far, far beyond capable of fully sustainable, high-standard living on a global scale with today's technology, we just choose not to do it. Because instead the global system prefers to concentrate wealth on extremely wealth individuals and expensive vanity projects, like this one.
I'm a huge fan of space missions, and inventing stuff this way, but this mission is about 80% vanity, and 20% science. If the launch was purely for science and explorations sake, I'd be in favour. But as it is, it's like burning a huge pile of coal to prove what a good country you are, but with the outward claimed justification it'll help us discover renewable energy sources.
We already solved the problem, this is just making it worse.
Capitalism is a death cult
Homosexual activity is illegal in Uganda. If they pass a law saying your OS should track that, is it moral for developers to enable compliance with it? Or do developers have a moral duty to at least not go out of their way to enable that bullshit, even if they risk a gajillion dollar fine?
By implementing a mechanism that enables this law, it becomes exponentially easier for lawmakers to then make it mandatory (as many already have/are openly planning to).
Yeah, the problem is the lawmakers. But I don't have enough money to control the lawmakers. The creators of free software should not actively helping oppressive measures.
The PR is explicitly for the purpose of complying with age verification laws. Damn fuckin' right I'm angry about it.
Is it cool if we start implementing tools to track users' race and sexual orientation for the explicit purpose of complying with some country's laws about those too? Or is it maybe the job of free software to defy oppressive systems?
Don't forget my shitty country in the process of trying to implement this too 
Is this comment a joke? That or you're very naive about the problems these things did cause.
As someone who deals on rare occasion with Linux PCs, both TPMs and Secure Boot have been a fucking PITA that have done nothing but help solidify the Microsoft/Apple/Google grip.
So this "font" is actually a spectrum of like 1,000,000 fonts? Doesn't that make it pretty meaningless to begin with?
This "empirical proof" is extremely flawed and should not be used for claims like this. They tested one "kind" of Helvetica and five variations of Zed Text. 24 patients of two doctors over an unspecified time period (presumably a few hours?). At a set distance on one screen in a single environment. It only tested 'immediate' recognition. Wasn't double or even single-blind. The test is only random strings, not recognisable words.
They make no explanation as to how they came up with their 'signficant difference' bar other than that it only just fits the gap between Helvetica and the best performing variation of various Zed adjustments. The fact they failed to document and disclose their experimental and statistical methods leaves me to suspect incompetence / cherry picking / malicious p-hacking.
If they sat down and said "maybe there's an effect here? An actual study should be carried out", then I'd perhaps agree.
But the fact they make this very flawed experiment, fail to correctly document it, including even the most basic necessary statistics and then plaster what is bordering on medical factual claims all over their site makes me seriously distrust all the motives and statements here.