How petty the mainland Chinese must be if they cannot move on from a small island after three quarters of a century.

They might not be but our echo chamber is.

Also I don’t see you denying being pro-genocide, pro-war, and pro-dictator.

No analogy is 1:1.

Our pro-democracy, pro-peace “echo chamber” > Your pro-genocide, pro-war, pro-dictator echo chamber

I can imagine back in 1942 you’d been like “Shut down Hitler…any day now, for going on 3 years”

Immigration is neither here nor there. This is a reaction to a Russian hybrid operation.

Like the old joke goes, “when I’m watching anime and my mom walks in, I alt tab to porn because it’s easier to explain”

A 5 second break, while suboptimal, is significantly less suboptimal than having to watch 20+ second ads.

I often watch vods. My favorite streamer’s time zone and streaming schedule mean that I can only catch a couple of hours of the beginning of their stream before going to bed, and I couldn’t regularly watch 8-10 hours of stream in one go anyway, so I watch the vods of the streams I want to see the rest of.

However, when your platform is for everyone, does everything, hosts any kind of content, you have nothing to use.

Why can’t you use the content of the page to decide what ads to show? If there’s a Reddit thread discussing games, show gaming ads in that thread and kitchen ads in the threads about cooking. If your front page on Twitter happens to have multiple people writing about traveling, show travel ads. You don’t need to know anything about the users to advertise based on content.

Then it looks like they need to change their strategy.

Russia has a long stretch of Black Sea coast outside of the Sea of Azov. They don’t need any more land to use that.

Russia already has access to the Black Sea even without any Ukrainian land.

I truly feel like if we let Russia get anything that might count as a positive for them from this war, there will definitely be a new war of at least similar scale, but probably significantly worse and significantly less contained.

“Real” in this sense is not etymologically related to “royal”.

It’s not the exact same thing, but I’ve definitely been drawn out of what I’m watching because of compression artifacts.

The price of a cup of coffee yeah maybe, but with how many paid online services there are, how many cups of coffee a day y’all think I’m having?

No, I hold down the clutch and the brake, then slowly start releasing the clutch, and when the engine starts struggling I release the brake and jump to the gas pedal to get more revs in, release the clutch all the way, and hopefully start moving forward instead of stalling the engine.

I believe it is the Vsauce video titled The Banach-Tarski Paradox.

That’s the main reason I didn’t even consider them. “Proton(mail)” just sounds more professional when used in actually important contexts and is easier for people to get right.

In general, I’ve noticed that a lot of privacy focused software, particularly FOSS, are really bad at choosing names which make people want to use them. They tend to have names which might appeal to some crypto-nerds, but which make them sound just weird or questionable or niche to the average user. Like (the precursor to) Signal the messaging app used to be called TextSecure. There’s no way I would’ve gotten my parents and siblings to use something called TextSecure. The name just sounds so geeky and niche.