"I mean outside of the areas that are documented by people that work, it is impossible."

You know what else is small brain thinking? INCORRECTLY being pedantic about word choices. That's the part that pisses me off the most with these apologists. They are literally incorrecting people using words properly.

I cited the definitions of "murder" above. Explain to me, with reference to these definitions, how the term "murder" doesn't apply. (Hint: this is not possible.)

I quoted the dictionary definition of murder above. Can you point to the part that says governments can't murder?

Where, precisely (and be detailed, with a map) do you think Hamas should be locating itself in Gaza that doesn't have civilians all around them?

You go get a map of Gaza and point it out. I'll wait.

You'd think that it would be considered more brutal given that the people committing the killings aren't even exposing themselves to a threat.

Cowards, in a word.

I arrived in China 2001.

I experienced the harshest and largest lockdown in all of history: Wuhan, January 23rd, 2020. A real lockdown, not the cosplay bullshit you experienced outside of China. (Yes, this is me saying you've never fucking set foot in the country.)

The rest you're just flat-out lying about. Sorry, Sparky. Did pet killings happen? Yes. They were not the mass shit that the press you're so obviously reciting acts like they were. Did some doors get welded? Yes. But nowhere near you and, again, nowhere near in the masses the press you're basing your lies on made it seem like. The local salaries are garbage iff you're a fuckwit sitting in the west applying western prices to Chinese salaries. (Which, naturally, you are, good little fuckwit liar that you are.) And you've changed your tune from 14 hours to 12 hours really fucking quickly there, Sparky, not to mention using the proper slang only after I gave it to you.

So yeah, you're just a west-dwelling fuckwit lying about being here. Go toddle off in your China Watcher corners and play with the rest of the intellectual children you belong with. There's a good boy.

If you don't actually understand why you got Trumped, making shit up to explain it is the wrong approach and just leads to another Trump or worse.

Wow! Someone who gets "choice" and "freedom of association"!

Usually it’s just the self-righteousness instinct…

I love¹ telepathic people who can read other people's minds and post on their behalf.

¹ This is sarcasm. I hate the delusional who think they're telepaths.

So it's freedom of association you're opposed to then?

By "BOFH that happens to run the server" you mean "the volunteer whose money, time, and effort are being expended on your behalf", right?

This is the single most entitled opinion I've ever heard in this. "I, the person who bears none of the pecuniary, temporal, or psychological costs of running the server insist that 'the free software ethos' means I get what I want on someone else's computer."

Fuck that noise.

If you want a server run your way that federates with the people you want to federate with, put your own skin in the game. Run your own server with your own rules. THAT is the actual free software ethos: DIY if you don't like the way someone else does it.

The free software ethos is the punk ethos, not the hippy dippy shits ethos.

Replace "communist tankie shit" with "CSAM" or "torture porn" or such and see if that makes any sense to you (keeping in mind that all content from your "whitelisted" stuff is stored on the server owner's hardware).

Not trolling. Just:

• showing how clever optimizers can get these days
• introducing a cool web site
• highlighting the importance of occasionally peeking under the hood to spot gross inefficiencies