So, wisards shit in the corner of the room they’re in and then magically teleport their shit somewhere. The place they teleport it to is now full of potent wisard shit chemicals. That’s where they grow their banana trees.

Oh very much so. I’m a huge fan.

Everywhere. Not saying it’s not happening, everyone does a bit of self-deprecating humour some times. But the amount of slander Americans do against non-americans is just on another level.

It’s specifically Kebabs. They cornered the market of fast-food completely. Not the regular restaurants though, those are all Vietnamese.

Well, those memes aren’t saturating the space

It’s not that though. It’s Americans doing the same overused “joke” about UK, completely different country. You can’t self-deprecate another culture.

If you’re indoctrinated from childhood that you have achieved ultimate freedoms, the concept of fighting for said freedoms feels not just alien to you, but completely disconnected. You can’t even understand that you, an American, need to do something. It’s like explaining to a fish that water isn’t a universal constant. Except, this time fish was never actually in the water and is currently being deep-fried.

That’s not the line though. Some words are not used for a reason, everyone understands it. It’s not some magical incomprehensible mystery, it’s a basic human decency.

You’re are allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. You’re not allowed to bitch like a child if whatever you’re doing will provoke the reaction that might be unpleasant to you. That’s how community self-regulates. One idiot says “unalive”, someone else tells them that they’re a fucking idiot, they don’t want to be called an idiot, they don’t say “unalive” anymore, that’s how it supposed to work.

My intentions are to promote human flourishing, and I try to follow my intentions. If I was talking about someone else, I would unequivocally qualify that as being a good person. So by transitive purposes I just have to qualify myself as one.

There is only one guy who guessed correct religion after particularly vivid mushroom trip, but he’s still in hell because he started doing correct things for the wrong motivation.

Going there was never a problem, the part where they started killing people and bombing shit is what we take an issue with.

Don’t know what is involved in your process, but recently I made some baked vegies with cheese in a ceramic tray, and the only difference is, I had to run dishwasher on a long mode instead of regular eco mode I use. Then I wiped it with a towel and it was as clean as it was the day I bought it. I don’t know what to tell you, it’s a normal German dishwasher, nothing out of the ordinary. It’s a new one, the house I’m renting in is like 3 years old, maybe that’s the difference. But my previous one was some older model, and I also don’t remember any troubles with it.

What weak ass dishwasher are you using? Normal ones will clean everything from everything.

Why would anyone waste enormous amount of energy making a new engine, when forked Gecko works and you can backport Mozilla’s updates to it. Same way with Linux, everyone uses Linux kernel because it exists.
When/if those project die, that’s when you’ll start seeing replacements, and at some point the best or most popular will be seen as mainstream and will be a focus point of all the enthusiasts. Like Firefox now.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that a corporation is required to have a good opensource project, just because right now a corporation maintains this specific one.

These forks are in essence just preconfigured and hardened Firefox

That’s also not true for a lot of the projects. Forks maintain their own code, porting new updates from Mozilla’s stuff, but they aren’t required to port everything, and that’s the big reason to use them.

if Mozilla stopped maintaining Firefox, almost all of its forks would die.

That’s an assumption. You’re severely underestimating the amount of work open source maintainers put into those things.

Would these people pay […] Canonical for their work?

Plenty of nice distribs exist without being maintained by a corporation. Good on them, for getting to have a bunch of money of the opensource, but it’s not a necessary model for the opensource projects to survive.

I see a lot of people shit on Firefox for integrating LLM-related features

And that’s good, as it should be. They crammed this bullshit that nobody asked for, and reluctantly gave a button to opt out a year later, and it’s still on by default. This is bad behavior regardless of your stance on it.

You should never, ever, under any circumstances, cherry-pick what parts of studies to read and use that to draw conclusions. You need to read all the words, experts believe all the words in the study they publish, unless it’s a citation predicated with “some idiots who are wrong also saying:”.
Whoever told you your way of reading lied to you, possibly taught you wrong way on purpose as a joke.

Is that how you read the articles? Is that how you expect everyone to read the articles? You just skip to conclusion and pretend that you now understand what it’s all about? Bloody hell, no wonder then. I know people like to link studies that don’t support their points, and I now get why, you actually think you do.

Those people started doing it becaus a ghost told a guy that the magical energy flows through the spine and every illness happens because the spine is misaligned and needs to be straighten. You don’t need a doctor to tell you the merit of all that

The main portion of dot com bubble was about 5 years long, so it’s actually pretty realistic estimations