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Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

So, locking out repairs for anything they would have to order parts for.

I’m guessing that they’re using some sort of custom size for their bolts and tolerances in the train. The competitors likely have the standard sizing for parts on hand, and any custom part would need to be ordered in. Likely from the same supplier.

Since they know their supplier’s order return timing, they can set up the kill switch when they know that the train will be sitting in a yard awaiting parts.

Scummy as fuck.

I’ve never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don’t write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.

I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.

I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.

Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.

A program that’s similar in many ways is Manuskript

I’d say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.

Then for the closed source world, there’s Scrivener. I’ll not link it because it doesn’t support linux. But same concept.

I don’t think that continuing to do business in Russia is any worse than their constant baby killing.

They used to dress their sales reps up like nurses and lie to new mothers, saying that breast feeding would harm their babies. Then they would give a month supply of formula. Just enough for the new mother to stop lactating.

They also sponsor the creation of new maternity wards, putting mothers and their newborn infants on the opposite side of the hospital. So when it comes time to feed the infant, they are not taken to their mother, they’re instead given formula for their first meal.

The simple truth is that formula is not as good as breast milk, and is not as safe. Mothers in poor countries often do not have access to clean water, or enough formula. So babies die. Either from shit in the water, or from malnutrition as mothers have stopped lactating and can’t afford the formula.

Nestle knows this, and has been killing babies in the name of profit for decades.

There was a study linked around somewhere in the last few days that said that political ideology was a greater factor in people’s religious choices than the inverse.

Yes to both. And that means that the mods who stayed are no longer going to trust Reddit Admins.

Also, the IPO is coming, and there will be stupid policies that are meant to drive up the stock price at the expense of the community.

Look forward to more waves of people abandoning Reddit in the future.

A lot of the best mods left. Some made it over here to the Fediverse, but a lot of them just stopped. Which is probably better for their mental health.

You still have good mods left over there, but there was also a distinct brain drain.

Some of the best mod tools shut down, and overall the site is just a bit worse to use.

Now, can the remaining mods train up to the level of the ones who left? Sure, but there’s going to be that doubt in the back of their minds now. Reddit Admins can no longer be trusted to let mods run their communities.

And the next time Reddit Admins do something that pisses off the community, more people will leave and not look back. The IPO is still looming in the future, and there are a lot of fuckups for Spez to make.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/its-debt-trap-managing-china-imf-cooperation-across-belt-and-road

And

https://intpolicydigest.org/the-economic-impact-of-china-s-belt-and-road-initiative/

Basically, China is using the BRI as a sort of neo-colonialism debt trap.

Here are two articles, with several examples of how China is using the BRI as a tool to put other countries in its debt.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/its-debt-trap-managing-china-imf-cooperation-across-belt-and-road

https://intpolicydigest.org/the-economic-impact-of-china-s-belt-and-road-initiative/

It’s a capitalistic economic colonialism. They’ve learned so much from the west. They must be so proud to have completely abandoned communism in favor of capitalism.

Fun fact, even with the mass murders and repeated famines of Lenin and Stalin, the life of the average Russian peasant got better after the revolution.

Which just says how horrible life was under the Tsars.

The common people of that area of the world have been fucked over for centuries.

You would think that, but no. It’s specifically the Red Cross organization. Which is an international organization.

It can also be used by militaries and such for Geneva Convention complaint medical use, such as search and rescue operations or medical centers and such.

That’s it. Those are the only legally allowed uses. And even Geneva Convention complaint medical use is often run by the international organization.

It was a bunch of stupidity where spez doubled down on the price hike, then lied about being unable to work with 3rd party devs and how much they were “costing” reddit.

While that acronym is true, the British don’t actually operate that many BIRDs, they mostly manufacture them and export to other countries.

I hear that almost 2/3rds of British manufacturing is devoted to BIRDs that are earmarked for foreign government use.

Pissing off the bigots and the lgbt+ community all in one go. AB InBev… they own most of the mass market beer brands worldwide.

I was once banned from Reddit for correctly pointing out that the medically approved cure for Nazism is one fist, applied directly to the face repeatedly until the afflicted individual stops being a Nazi.

The medical professional applying this cure can substitute any handy blunt object for their first if so desired.

There are some rules. Like, don’t take a cell phone to a protest.

More like guidelines really. People break these rules all the time, but it’s good to know in case shit goes down.

And Putin still lost. He’s been shown to be weak. He compromised.

Now the other sharks that Putin surrounded himself with will smell that weakness.

Autocrats must project that Strongman image, especially when it’s a lie. Dictators who show weakness like this rarely die peacefully.

Yeah, I can’t bring myself to root for the Nazi mercenary group who want to wage total war in Ukraine.

Maxim 29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.