They might not even be in the top 5 Middle Eastern states for bad treatment of women. American ally Saudi has got to be 1, and most of the Gulf is next.

I mean, they’re theocratic authoritarian shitbirds, don’t get me wrong, but the main reason they’re singled out has nothing to do with that.

Fun fact, as of last I checked the Russian interest rate was 19% and rising. This will not help.

Me too. And hopefully they can enjoy that freedom without getting bombed, trapped or starved.

So what’s this banking package thing he’s talking about?

You know, if you look at actual subsistence farmers, I never get a cottagecore vibe. They can and do use modern bits and pieces to make their work a little less back-breaking, as they can scavenge or occasionally buy them. A pole lathe is less aesthetic when it’s powered by a cut-off bungie cord.

And also just buy things that are nice for ordinary people. In the West we don’t feel it, but in a place like Africa the inability to produce anything high-tech themselves hurts.

The first part is projection, the second part is ethnically misaimed, considering who I am.

Well that makes all the other stuff okay then. The Foreign Ministry has me convinced. /s

I can only imagine how fucked gender relations would have to already be for this to be a normal thing to consider doing publicly.

Honestly, considering the whole “land invasion of Lebanon” thing, I’d even say it was gentle.

Lol, that’s not the best wording on my part. Right size to shut them down.

East Asia and it’s Chinese-derived alphabets being the big exception. The New World would be too, if it weren’t for barbarians in upturned helmets burning all the codices. I suppose Canada’s North is pretty dependent on indigenous syllabics, which were invented whole-cloth in the modern era.

I was referring to the Latin as per OP, though. And even then “used to” is doing a lot of the work, thanks to the Islamic empire conquering the Middle East and North Africa and converting it to Arabic. And maybe Greek prevailing in the East, but I’m guessing it would be hard to put an end date on Latin in the Byzantine empire.

Please. People say they’re too big now, but there has to be a right size. In Canada, at least, hate groups are always too popular and established to challenge, or too small to bother with.

Pakistan literally wasn’t a thing before that. Muslim vs. Hindu is older, I suppose, although some might pick a bone about if the Mughals count as “ancient”.

There is really no connection between Ur and like, Saddam or Otzma Yedhudit. It’s had just as much history and as many eras as the next region (actually more).

I mean, there’s a bit more nuance to it. The Middle East has changed dramatically several times in the last century. If you put it that way you make it sound like the Crusades are still going, which is not historically accurate.

The jist that everyone’s memory selectively extends back to the last time they were wronged is correct, though.

De-escalate, everything goes back to normal is looking pretty viable, actually. Or at least was a couple weeks ago. Israel is the only one that wants to have a regional war right now.

That would mean Netanyahu goes to jail for corruption, though, and he doesn’t feel like it. And America doesn’t feel like stopping him.

And continue the chain back 70 to (less credibly) 3000 years. Welcome to the Middle East.

If it were anywhere else, the world would insist everyone to calm the hell down and negotiate, but the white guys vaguely in the Bible are involved here, and America has feelings about that.

Yeah, their momentum is no joke. This may accelerate the shift towards Linux somewhat.

Kind of the same story for the Fediverse.

I’ve actually heard mostly positive nostalgia for Vista recently. I think it might have been a situation where they released earlier than they should have, and so only the later versions were worthy.

But also, do you even Linux, bro?

Edit: Other comments are saying it just had really high hardware requirements.