Thanks, but the unfortunate problem I see among many of my white peers is that's a deep valley. You don't get to the other side of "they must have had a reason" without exposing yourself to multiple instances where they clearly had no such reason.

And it's not exactly something you can force on people. A couple people I know have started paying a bit more attention when cop videos float across their tiktok feed based on comments I've made, and they are coming around too, but folks need to want to see to the other side of that valley, and it's a very comfortable valley to live in - and more importantly you've always got a fresh batch of people moving into the valley.

“Oh, I can’t support those cruel acts, but the sad reality is they probably didn’t happen for no reason either” is the refrain of the embarrassed white moderate.

I'm ashamed to admit that specifically with regard to police brutality, I was in the "they must have had a reason" camp (without looking any further into it) for many more years than I had any excuse to be. Rodney King put a crack in that, but I was still pretty young then, and surrounded by my own privilege. It was many years later before I realized that sort of shit and worse was happening constantly.

Unbridled corporate greed and the always relevant racism...

“Sometimes it’d be concerning for your car like someone could take it or something,” White said.

Wow, that couldn't be a better sentence to highlight the layers of meaning in that comment.

Buhbye.

My expectation was that it was evidence of a disagreement with my comments sourced with something other than a swipe at my general intellect or capability, but I see my standards were too high. I never made a statement that the Russian perspective should never be listened to, my statements were very specific to this event.

So I've just gone and done some reading based on this comment to try to understand how it is a rebuttal to anything I've said, and although there were some details I wasn't aware of, I'm still not seeing it. You can reply now to re-emphasize my stupidity whenever you are ready.

If you've got something more than rhetorical snark to tell me why I'm wrong, I'm happy to hear it.

Hey ad homs are a good go-to when you encounter what you perceive as someone's ignorance, right? I find it wins hearts and minds without fail. Any time you want to explain to me how they are not the aggressors I'm all ears.

It has no relevance. Russians shot missiles into Ukraine. The facts of the matter are that Russians are the aggressors here, and this is a war entirely of their making. The Ukrainian perspective about the effects of the missile attack on them is what matters to an article about the missile attack on Ukraine.

Not including the Russian perspective isn't evidence of bias, it's omitting things which don't matter. We already know that Russia invaded Ukraine, and that Russia will rubble-ize it rather than surrender unless they are aggressively beaten back by Ukraine.

You'll notice I didn't complain about the parts where they pick on the language used in the article - because those are valid complaints. Expecting the article to include the Russian perspective about the smoking craters they left all across Ukraine is patently ridiculous.

Sometimes facts are just facts. Russia is objectively the nation who started the war, they are objectively the aggressors, and they are objectively responsible for all related death and destruction. We don't need to be sure we include a sentence saying, "And by the way the Russians did this because they would really like to control Ukraine" every time - that's part of the setting.

That’s the point of the site. It doesn’t have any preference and just points out the lack of different perspectives instead of saying that a single perspective is correct.

Not presenting viewpoints of the Russians who shot the missles about how they feel about shooting the missles is not a lack of balance.

Well, now I know SpinScore isn't a site I care about:

Partisan

Score: 3 Explanation: The article primarily reflects Ukrainian perspectives and narratives while omitting Russian viewpoints. Suggestion: Include statements from Russian officials regarding the missile strikes for balance.

(The rest of the analysis continues in a similar vein.)

Fresh packages all the time without any hassle or snaps/flatpak/appimages, and theoretically never needs to be reinstalled. What's not to love.

OP was pretty fucking snarky though, ngl. Some of us enjoy using arch based distros without being walking memes, and far more people complain about people talking about arch than actually talk about arch these days.

Thanks!

Yep.. and that's a blockin' anyhow.

I’ll stick to Toyota for now.

I wish I'd found Toyota products decades earlier. Nearly lifelong Ford guy here, and honestly no major complaints with the vehicles I've had. But we are now a Toyota family, and everyone I know who owns one (now including us) won't even look at another company. Really reliable, well designed cars, IMO. I think you're doing the right thing.

Imagine being so wrapped up in your hateful bullshit that you are terrifying young children on the street and you still think you are the good guy.

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It's not stable, but it will boot and run ... most of the time.

Pretty much my recollection of running Windows NT on x86.

I want names. I've got some angry letters to write.

Schadenfreude intensifies....