I’m convinced the whole “your computer will instantly turn into a botnet that cripples children’s hospitals the moment you disable Windows Update” thing is part of Microsoft’s internet propaganda.

Like there are sysadmins for pretty big industries that schedule updates, sometimes once a month or even less frequently. Why aren’t they worried about all the 0-day remote code execution exploits that supposedly exist every single day?

Why doesn’t China, North Korea’s biggest trading partner, pressure them to be less authoritarian?

They’re definitely among the worst.

frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language

I’m really tired of people saying “both sides are the same” when it comes to western capitalist exploitation vs eastern totalitarian authoritarianism.

It’s ironically so privileged to even make the comparison because if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

BBC is a pretty reputable source.

I thought you guys were talking about processed foods. Like potatoes > bread, that kind of thing.

“suggesting that NATO expansion was one of the causes of the war”

“We gave Putin just cause,”

Those are definitely Russian propaganda talking points.

This is how they get us. Infiltrate the groups that we already agree with, like pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, then flood those communities with “…and also we should all hate NATO!”, and people like this guy can’t tell the difference.

Yeah but this is the same guy that likes to repeat Russian propaganda, so maybe we can find someone more reputable.

how does an 11 year old surrender? walk up to a border crossing and say “please relocate me” and hope they don’t rifle butt her head?

It’s not a security risk to not get updates until there’s a known remote code execution exploit in the wild, and by that point it’ll be in the news and Microsoft will patch it anyway, like they did for Windows XP in 2017.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

No it won’t, don’t buy into the Microsoft propaganda.

Starts getting slower and slower over months, then yeah starts failing to boot, sometimes works if you pull the battery and retry, and eventually doesn’t work at all anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

Nothing like turning on Sam O’Nella for some entertaining educational comedy for the kids only to hear “removed” over and over again

Hey I’m somebody

In Canada we were told that putting execs in jail would “hurt jobs” and we had to pass a law that said they just get a fine instead.

The execs in question were caught selling hookers to Qaddafi’s son.

All my old devices became unusable due to the flash memory chip degrading. Unless they can run off SD card?

DIE EIER VON SATAN

Eine messerspitze turkisches haschisch

und KEINE EIER!!!

In most contexts, we’re mostly talking about Single-Winner elections.

In the context of electoral systems, “Congress” and “Senate” are multi-seat legislatures. Hence the talk about proportional representation, IE how many Americans vote Democrat vs how many Democrats get elected. Without that discussion you’ll never get a 3rd party elected.

Really bugs me how americans talk about “ranked choice voting” because you guys seem to mean STV, which is a form of proportional representation with multi-member districts.

But in Canada, “ranked ballots” meant IRV, which was basically FPTP with a ranked ballot, and ironically exacerbated the worst parts of FPTP like the trend to a two party system.

Stick with the real names of electoral systems!