Trump loves dictators and is trying to emulate them.
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Are you recycling old memes, or did you miss last year’s news?
Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.
If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.
If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.
Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.
Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.
It’s sad.
Adoption rate does matter. HEIC currently has a 13.99% adoption, and WebP has a 95.92% adoption rate in web browsers.
So when considering support in softwate, it’s more reasonable to pick WebP as default, rather than HEIC.
There are of course other considerations, like compression efficiency, format features, patents, …
Seached and found that the European Union published an explanation for its vote on a similar draft submitted by 2022 by Russia.
EU Explanation of Vote – UN General Assembly: Draft Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism
This both explain the EU’s rationale for not voting Russia’s draft, and explicitly condemn Niazism
The European Union is unequivocal in its commitment to the global fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, anti-semitism and related intolerance. Our joint fight against contemporary forms of all extremist and totalitarian ideologies, including neo-Nazism, must be a joint priority for the whole international community.
Thanks for the context.
Given Russia submitted the text, and given how european countries voted, I suspect this is mostly about Russia looking for justifications for attacking a neighbour and grabbing land.
Defending Nazism or showing Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany. Holocaust denial is illegal in several european countries. Yet they abstained.
They’d probably vote for such a text if it came from another country that doesn’t “undermine genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism”
Blackrock is part of the big three (BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street). They own a portion of almost everything, including each other.
So it’s often the case that Blackrock is involved, even indirectly.
https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-america-77072
Meanwhile in the EU: TikTok, five other Chinese firms hit by EU privacy complaints
Translation: We’re extremely short staffed, so we are shaming our employees into sacrificing their vacation



Which Debian distribution are you using, stable, testing, unstable?
I take care of a couple machines for family members. Those have Debian stable with automatic update (unattended-upgrade). I can’t recall the system or packages ever breaking. At most users are a bit confused when an update change the UI a bit.
Sticking to stable and avoiding third party repos gives a pretty solid system. Only developers or sysadmins might consider Debian testing. Only people working on Debian itself should use unstable.