It’s just th enclosure continuing in the non-physical space.

I’m sorry, I was told if Trump wins this one it’s the end of democracy. What other presidents?

^Has not solved the riddle

Organising requires funds, though.

So, the article itself says the thing it’s writing about is irrelevant?

So why write about it?

Ternary computing is some serious alt-history fodder.

From what I hear, the war spending is still pretty low, all things considered. This could just be another autarky subsidy.

It’s like he became the opposite of King Midas.

Why steal data when you can just make it up!

Posers, man. They steal your thing and ruin it for everyone.

Ah, you mean the Bellamy salute!

“Look what you made me do!”

In development and science, sure. But this is a finished product on the market.

If youre lazy/busy enough, doing basic checks on the input is enough boilerplate to package out.

Not even “of all places”. Cracked had some great articles before everyone bailed.

Yes, and the original question can be interpreted as either “why are warmongers not disinvited?” in which case, well, we all know Israel will never get booted, so there’s your answer, or, “why is Russia, in particular, not disinvited?”, which, seeing as the response was an immediate accusation of bad faith, I feel is more accurate. Hence the “personal dislike” take. I once heard the war in Ukraine described as the geopolitical equivalent of the Missing White Woman Syndrome: Off the top of my head, I can think of 4-5 other, let’s say, nurembergy conflicts in the past four years (wow that’s depressing), but for some reason none of them induce neither the level outrage, nor the hostility to anyone not sharing the level of outrage. Hell, I’ve seen Armenians leaving Nagorno-Karabah actually cheered, because “they deserve it for being Russian allies”. I find the moral grandstanding to be despicably hollow.

Don’t get me wrong, though, the Olympics are a joke.

We could. We aren’t. That’s my point.

Coulda fooled me. If you wanted to, you could prune an awful lot of countries from the “peace pls” competition, but for some reason even the notion is only ever brought up in one or two particular cases.

And it’s not whataboutism, whataboutism is a red herring, I’m making a pretty direct point. If it were, bringing up any comparison or precedent would be whataboutism.

That’s not the same thing, though.

Whataboutism is when you change the subject. This is the same topic. Israel is invited, North Korea is invited, Azerbaijan is invited. The host doesn’t get to pick who attends, no matter who you, personally, hate.