carbrained bullshit from the guardian as usual. do they wanna cite statistics or even a source on “many motorists, however, resent the changes”? of course not, evidence-free bothsidesing of vehicular deaths it is

any Firefox fork, while we wait for Servo to be ready

“yeah, keep doing that and some useless fuck will spectacularly fail to assassinate you, giving a huge boost to your election campaign, take that!”

switching to a browser engine developed by a literal advertising company seems like a weird protest against advertising

servo is the only one I know of

mournfully flipping the counter back to “0” on the “it has been X days since a turbolib said something deeply homophobic” sign

I assumed each line represents time, so Spain’s values fluctuated some

if you mean bike (as opposed to motorbike) helmet laws I would drop them from your list, they’re unscientific garbage which have been found to worsen public health

19 downvoters bringing a strong “shooting the messenger” energy

the only reduced population size that’s needed is the population of plutocrats, the rest of us will be fine

you’re right to be sarcastic, better sit back and shut up and wait for the free market to fix it /s

since the end of the pandemic

Journalist Eva Corlett proudly fighting in the war against COVID, on the side of COVID

mm, delicious bait! 😋 go on then, which proxy war does the US have “actual moral footing” to get behind?

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mm yes and it has no relation whatsoever to current events, well done calling out this completely irrelevant information

imagine doing free PR for a man with as much money as Jeff Bezos

the developers of composer are way ahead of you, every time I run composer install I get a blue and yellow “stand with ukraine”…

under any coherent definition of “whataboutism”, it would mean saying “any crimes against humanity committed by the North Korean government don’t matter, because of [something an unrelated regime did]”.

instead, I was responding to @Marsupial@quokk.au, who was saying that the US invading North Korea wouldn’t make the citizens’ lives any worse – to which, talking about the history of how US invasions have affected people seems, I don’t know, extremely relevant?

unless your comment is meant to be satire about how “whataboutism” is coming to mean “any criticism of the US government whatsoever”, in which case it’s a beautiful job 👏

just like the neutral-to-positive impact caused by some good ol’ apple pie war crimes in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc…?

what if we had records of contemporary US top military leaders saying the exact opposite, would you stop cheerleading for mass slaughter then?

because, in an amazing coincidence…

While a majority of Americans may not be familiar with this history, the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., states unambiguously on a plaque with its atomic bomb exhibit: “The vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria … changed their minds.”…

Seven of the United States’ eight five-star Army and Navy officers in 1945 agreed with the Navy’s vitriolic assessment. Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and Henry “Hap” Arnold and Admirals William Leahy, Chester Nimitz, Ernest King, and William Halsey are on record stating that the atomic bombs were either militarily unnecessary, morally reprehensible, or both.

No one was more impassioned in his condemnation than Leahy, Truman’s chief of staff. He wrote in his memoir “that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender …. In being the first to use it we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.”

MacArthur thought the use of atomic bombs was inexcusable. He later wrote to former President Hoover that if Truman had followed Hoover’s “wise and statesmanlike” advice to modify its surrender terms and tell the Japanese they could keep their emperor, “the Japanese would have accepted it and gladly I have no doubt.”

Before the bombings, Eisenhower had urged at Potsdam, “the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-anniversary-japan-atomic-bombs