Greenwashing.

Guns, Butter, and Growth: The Consequences of Military Spending Reconsidered

[…] military spending, social spending, the economy, tax revenue, debt, and the money supply are all related to one another. This implies statistical models that estimate the effect of military spending on social spending or on the economy without considering the ways in which these variables affect and are affected by one another likely are misspecified.

[…] we find that military spending has a nonlinear effect on economic growth that varies over time. Increasing military spending leads to significantly lower GDP growth in the first three to six months following the increase and then significantly higher economic growth starting approximately one year after the increase.

Oversimplification leads to bad conclusions.

This might be the right thing for you:

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Wraparound on-ear headphones with USB-C plug. I can’t vouch for them personally though.

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If you need to charge and listen at the same time, they make split adapters for that too. Adding 2" of wire to your wired headphones is a very minor inconvenience.

There are also wired headphones with USB-C plugs if you don’t want to bother with adapters.

Well obviously they’re RGB LEDs.

DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

Ah, another appeal to violence as the source of morality.

It’s very funny for you to accuse anyone else of being authoritarian.

No, that is not the point that was made in this comment:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

This comment makes very plain that the writer believes that a nation only achieves independence through military force.

We’re not talking about what is ‘widely acknowledged’, we are talking about what you have expressed as your personal belief. And you do have a morality problem:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

You believe that in order to be independent from mainland China, Taiwan should have used military force - or again, that might makes right.

You made this statement. It is not about international law, or opinio juris, or any other deflection you want to attempt. It is about what you believe justifies a nation’s independence, and it is solely based on the exercise of military power.

Even if I did choose the company I applied to for work, I didn’t choose my coworkers, nor did I get to meet them until after I was hired. And, I certainly don’t get to choose the customers I have to interact with during my work.

No, you said:

I would simply win the civil war instead of losing

Which indicates quite clearly that you believe military power should decide whether a nation has the right to independence. You don’t get to try to deflect that ex post facto. You either admit that this is what you genuinely believe in spite of its obvious morality problem, or you admit that you were wrong to make such a statement and acknowledge that your ideas about national independence need changing.

I see, so “might makes right” for you then?

I appreciate you making your sense of morality - or lack thereof - so very clear.

Counterpoint: you can have high-quality human contact with people you choose to be around, not so much with people you’re paid to be around.

Yes, an authoritarian government with a lot of economic and military power just made it a crime to even speak about their own country’s independence, so they have legitimate reason to be afraid.

Just don’t walk behind them, or they might try to kick you.

This is really good advice for basically every animal with hooves. They mostly have a blind spot directly behind, like horses:

If you walk up behind them inside that blind spot and then move out to either side and suddenly appear in their vision, they’ll react defensively, usually by trying to kick you with their hind legs.

Basically if you can’t see the animal’s eyes then assume it can’t see you, and stay out of kicking range.

Or just reinstalls it in the next update.

I’m having trouble understanding your point. What is the “quiet part”? That representatives from a foreign government visited Taipei?

Mozilla is the primary developer of the Gecko web engine which Firefox uses. Open source or no, web engines are complicated things to develop and maintain. Even Microsoft gave up and just started using Chromium.

Would it continue to work without a significant organization dedicated to maintaining it? Sure, probably, for awhile. Would it continue to be safe to use for things like finances? No.

Is there any point to switching web browsers to one that is based on the same engine? Not really, no, the browser application is basically just a wrapper for the engine… a skin, a theme, like having an SUV shell vs a pickup shell on the same frame and drivetrain.

it’s easy as fuck to change browsers these days

Is it? Switch to what, exactly?

This kind of action is more likely to make people reject the message.

You’re right that this doesn’t compare to the death and destruction in Gaza, but that doesn’t make it productive or helpful.

Well, that’s what I mean though - they only included the original characters as nostalgia bait, and then wrote them out of the plot as quickly as they felt they could get away with. They certainly had no plans to continue writing stories with the original characters, and look, they disposed of Ackbar off-screen. It was literally just for trailer scenes so they could draw people into the theaters.

Of course, with the absolutely pointless sideplot they sent Finn on in The Last Jedi, and the batshit discombobulated plot of Rise of Skywalker, it’s not clear that Disney had any plans for writing stories with their new characters either.