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It's basically like saying "illegal immigrants" aren't made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.

Nautilus shows me that stuff next to each other out of box on Ubuntu. It just doesn't have drive letters.

So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.

(Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)

Many of them work without having to install anything. You could try a live boot USB and see what of them doesn't work to get an idea how difficult it'll be.

Adding to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

(He wants it because he thinks it's a lot bigger than it is.)

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Your sentiment here betrays a misunderstanding of the way war works. People who fight in wars for years or decades (which was very common at the point in history you're referencing) were often "just" in the business of fighting in wars. There were people who fought on two different sides of the same "ideological" conflict. The mechanics of fighting a war are fairly separate from the political and ideological ends of the war.

He died doing what he loved, being a fucking idiot.

No it isn't. You were trying to cast China in a harsher light for doing "for decades" most of the same things the US has been doing (also mostly for decades).

Everyone sucks in this situation.

No, the pot and kettle can both be black, that's the entire point of the expression.

Our last standing differentiator was IP law, until we got weapons of mass IP destruction in the form of AI companies and LLMs.

From IP theft, to secret police stations in foreign countries, human rights abuses etc…

At this point you could literally be talking about the US with this sentence.