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Westerners only care when white people die. Despite racism against Slavic people, Ukraine was white-ified for purposes of Russophobia and NATO.

Sounds like they do their user testing exclusively on failson C-levels.

One thing to consider is the Eurocentrism of what it means to be "advanced" in these contexts. When Europeans invaded and colonized the Americas, yes they had many material advantages, but something key to consider is the cultures and humanity and decisions made and how they differed between cultures in Europe and the Americas. Europeans were vicious and condescending, rapidly transitioning from curiosity and trade to plunder and murder and ethnic cleansing. The fate of the indigenous people of Hispaniola, for example. In contrast, there were rich cultures across the Americas with wide diversities of thought and philosophies, none of which compared to the barbarity of Europeans (even the supporters of regional empires in the Americas couldn't hold a candle to the salting of the earth depravity of Euros).

I'm pointing at all of this because the common Euro narratives are imbued with a social darwinism that conflates conquering and violence with success and superiority. They then go a step farther to absolve themselves of blame for developing cultures so barbaric, pointing at things like you mentioned, including geography. While on one hand material conditions are extremely important and explain a lot, they should not allow us to cease a political or philosophical or cultural critique, nor to accept simplistic and vulgar analysis of material explanations. The colonial mindset that genocided continents persists in its evolved form of imperialism of the US-led capitalist order.

The barbarity of Euro colonizer cultures lingers, which is a reason they avoid drawing attention to the continuity of capitalism and ethnic cleansing over these hundreds of years. They'd be forced to take a position against empire, to make statements that suggest a need to change the current order. Instead, they safely leave the material in the past, implicitly supporting the status quo.

Thank you for your service in banning the shit out of this pedo

The normal thing on Reddit is to parrot the imperial line and ban socialists and their subs. This leaves a political chasm where fascism can be normalized. It's usually not normalized so obviously as "look at these Nazis isn't it cool that meemaw met this genocidal fuck" though. Most fascism of the empire is already mostly normalized and these folks just push for it even more: scapegoating immigrants, creating forms of acceptable racism against out-groups, promoting privatization, demonizing socialists, justifying settler-colonialism for their "friends", blood & soil rhetoric, etc.

Two examples:

• Frothing-at-the-mouth blood & soil rhetoric premised on Russophobia and giving Ukrainians the "white" treatment.

• Pretending to care about Uyghurs while spending zero time researching it and only caring to the extent that they can hate China and fantasize about Balkanizing it.

Re: these particular posts, Reddit has been astroturfed for ages. In addition to oddly-timed posts, the dramatic difference in opinion and tone between large and established vs. and small or newer subreddits is massive. You'll see polar opposite levels of astroturfing between "worldpolitics" (fashy chauvinist opinions and banning the left on sight) and "fauxmoi" (filled with better opinions that are common among 20-30 year olds). It's kind of entertaining to explore why zoomers on a gossip subreddit are more politically informed and worldly than the "commenters" on a much larger subreddit dedicated to the topic. A lot of it does seem to be bots and left-punching directives from corporate.

There is no way those tubes are balanced step away from the centrifuge

Commits are snapshots with tracking that enables diffing and histories. git very specifically focuses on commits containing complete information (snapshots) instead of older diffing models that would need to sometimes replay diffs to arrive at a commit state.

I do communist things.

The world is getting better in a lot of ways but this is despite the US, the primary state agent of death and destruction. What we can do is organize together against that while also building local class consciousness and support structures so that as that violent apparatus turns more and more inwards, our neighbors will be (1) less horrible to one another and (2) safer overall.

The kids are alright

User experience with all software is pretty shit and Linux is no exception

Che pin/sticker? on an AK

In terms of non-genetic evidence it's always been on shaky ground. Not necessarily disproven so much as it wasn't established as likely in the first place.

In terms of comparative genetics analysis, the studies are fraught. The more typical hypothesis of origins near the Levant is the most popular and does have decent evidence. At the same time, some scientists, including Israeli ones, have reasonably entertained hypotheses of origins in the caucuses and have some amount of evidence. IMO there have not been good enough studies in general, they need to sample more populations, particularly different ethnic groups, and do proper work testing alternative hypotheses under different (appropriate) modeling methods. This research is also challenging because of the hypothesis being favored by antisemites. I probably wouldn't work on the topic myself if I were in the field. There's a lot of potential for negative outcomes without having rock-solid evidence and rock-solid evidence may be impossible.