Supposedly the team left OwnCloud and forked it. So the value is that the OCIS team will be working on OpenCloud in the future.

I mean he more or less did it at gunpoint. Do you not remember how hated he used to be? He would’ve been shot by someone eventually for sure.

I’m not the one making deliberately obtuse comments about completely valid grammatical constructs to make a political point.

At the same time you could argue that his decisions have affected billions of people on this planet in a negative way and the fifty million lives saved were to whitewash everything else he’s done. He’s not doing it out of the kindness of his heart, he did it because 1) Melinda told him she’d fuck off if he kept being such a jackass, and 2) As one of the most hated men in the world, he needed to fix his image.

Singular they had existed for centuries before your miserable existence.

It’s a way to refer to someone in the 3rd person without knowing their gender. If you do know their gender, you can use the proper gendered pronouns.

Not only ‘the’ for all sexes

‘The’ has always been gender neutral in English because English doesn’t assign gender to nouns. Thus grammatically, a gender-specific “the” isn’t necessary unlike in German or Spanish where all nouns have grammatical genders. And if you come back at me with “‘the’ isn’t even that old, it used to be spelled ‘ye’”, well the problem there is that it was only printed that way for convenience, the pronunciation was never with a “y”.

“It” is incorrect for using about a person as well, unless referring to a baby or a small child. Why? It’s just how English has been spoken for a long time now, and how it’s still used. Language rules should reflect usage, not the other way around.

Most people are too lazy to switch to alternatives when docker works fine most of the time and has a huge community to get support from. What do you use?

I guess you need to pretend there’s a threat NOW in order to divert funds towards defense now.

If the threat is in more like 10 years, why don’t we start investing next year instead? etc.

It’s an Aurus, a Russian luxury brand. Knowing Russian automotive engineering, I’m sure the only part that works properly is the engine, which was developed with help from Porsche.

You can run quality modern oils for 20k in a car as robust as a Toyota if you change out the filter mid-interval.

Germans specify 12-15k nowadays and they run much tighter tolerances.

It has awesome reviews on Amazon so it’s worth it

This is unfortunately not an option for everyone, but personally this is what I’m doing to reduce my exposure to Tesla via index funds.

I’m transferring mine to a group of non-US-specific indexes. The world indexes unfortunately still hold some Tesla, but the emerging markets ones sure don’t. In my previous retirement fund, a huge part was an S&P 500 index, but now there are no “US only” index funds. Also only one of the indexes is managed by a US company - previously there were a bunch of blackrock and vanguard funds in it. In case you’re wondering why I said “I’m transferring” and not “I transferred”, it’s because I can’t do it instantly. The application has been put in already though.

It’s not a huge amount of money (5 digits, I’m young, have only been working decent jobs for the last 6 years) and I don’t have full control of it since it’s in a pension system where the laws specify how much diversity there has to be, what the max fees can be, etc, and local banks run different funds you can switch between. I’m just doing what I can.

As for investments outside of this system, I’m thinking of buying some of this new Europe defense index ETF in addition to other interesting European and potentially Emerging Markets ETFs I might find. I think betting on Europe getting its shit together is a smart choice because if we don’t, we’re fucked anyway and if we do, I might as well make a small profit off it.

Portugal could never buy enough jets to stop the US

No, but Spain is right next to it and France isn’t that far. Both likely to help. But why would they help Portugal if Portugal itself doesn’t take meaningful steps to protect itself? You use a lot of exclamation points in your comments! That doesn’t magically mean you’re right.

You also gotta make sure nobody tries to steal the Azores for their beautiful nature.

I picked the wrong week to quit methamphetamines.

Caffeine tablets it is then… Oh wait I bet those are going to be affected too. Fun times

It’s not just cover, it’s a downright genius distraction.

Don’t be daft. There’ll still be women and browns! They’ll keep the republican pickme women who want nothing in life other than to be bred, and the browns that mow their lawns.

We could stop respecting US copyright laws everywhere outside of the US. That would be hilarious.

I mean I already don’t respect them, but legally they still matter unfortunately.

Western NY is super red. Saw loads of Trump flags on lawns in 2022, not even a presidential election year. Very kind and friendly people though.

Microsoft practically encouraged piracy in ex-USSR at some point. Piracy solves the availability problem, supports market share, leads to short-term loss in sales but long-term growth.

Yup, Bill Gates pretty much said he’d rather have people growing up on pirated Microsoft products than use alternatives.