Did it help?

But the fall of Rome was business as usual.

By “the world” you probably mean US allies so like 8% of the world by population. The real world didn’t trust the US well before Trump.

How many of your friends you game with are non-linux users?

Like all of them?

Democrats IN NAME

Isn’t it true for the US Democratic Party of today? I mean they surely don’t have much democracy within their party and they are definitely not “left” in general.

The only reason they all use USB-C now is because of government regulation.

Didn’t corps start using mini and micro usb for phones before the regulations?

It’s why phones have to all use the same charger now, and they don’t come with a cable.

…because corps want you to pay additional money for that? I hope you don’t believe corps care about ecology.

The only games that don’t run nowadays I think are the ones that require installing kernel malware so you might reconsider playing them regardless of your OS.

It was made default for rm command in 2006.

And slop company recently

You don’t legally own the games you purchase, just have the ability to use it(within legal terms and conditions) without the store.

More likely it’s a long term strategy not to lose money when Microsoft locks Windows ecosystem to their own store(they tried).

Does he even have other code in Python?

Whoever willfully uses this shit is insane even without the recent ai slop.

MS says you need 6GB for windows to stay in ram

Wtf, what is there that needs so much ram?

The dog is King Charles for those wondering.

Technically the UN was established way before the USSR had nukes and actually even a month before the US made the Trinity test. So at least originally the purpose for the UN was different.

Because in practice none of these things in any way deterred countries from using their military and covered assets to practice imperialism.

In a way some of the things you mentioned were essential for this modern imperialism like NATO(just as one example of many it was NATO equipment, intel and training that allowed Azerbaijan invade Armenia), economic dependencies(invasion of Venezuela started with economic sanctions), movies, culture and the Internet(more specifically corporate owned social media) used for propaganda and controlling public narrative.

I do agree though that there are anti-war and anti-imperialism trends in Asia(we recently got to see China and India leaders shake hands, that’s very new and exciting), Africa and South America.

the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly

What makes you think so?

Hope not, just don’t see how consciousness is required for any of the things you mentioned. There are plenty of things usually perceived as without consciousness that do those perfectly well.