TheOctonaut

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Does this mean exclusively for bikes? Because it sounded from OP like this is not the case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's why you got to wait until you're beekeeping age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Right. Not something we knew 30 years ago, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There were nukes in Ukraine. This is not the same as Ukraine having nukes. They couldn't control, and worse, couldn't maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Im pretty sure you don't know what a curb is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well yes, the only way to erase a nation or culture's hatred of your violence is with enough violence to literally genocide them.

But there really aren't that many. You just put it down for a generation until it comes back, usually with a different name.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Stop making violence the only thing you'll react to in any way? Or indeed, stop responding to peaceful resistance with violence (eg the civil rights marches in Northern Ireland).

It might seem like Palestine has been a hopeless mire forever, but there was a point in the 90s where the last reasonable leaders of both sides were coming together for a peaceful solution. Hamas and the Israeli right wing - the "both sides" of today - were on the fringe.

Then Yitzhak Rabin was killed by an Israeli right-winger, Israel inexplicably responded by killing a Hamas leader, Arab civilians were massacred at the Cave of Patriarchs by an American Israeli, and Hamas responded with more bombings, Yassar Arafat died under siege by the IDF, Hamas took control of Gaza, and well, here we are.

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin is probably as impactful to history of that of Archduke Ferdinand, but seems to be being forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago (25 children)

As an Irish person, you can't end terrorism with violence. You just create martyrs to a cause, a cause which looks more and more legitimate the more civilians suffer and die because of said violence. "Kill the rebels" every 20 years did nothing for peace on Ireland for 800 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Agile is explicitly a way for a team to be self-organising. What benefit do you get from it as a solo developer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I live in a country that hasn't used cheques in a couple of decades. Being reminded of their existence and spelling it "check" was beyond my aging 40 year old brain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We call them current accounts, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What the fuck is a checking account

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