what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason

Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.

It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.

That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.

The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.

That’s why transactions are defined as the exchange of something of value. In most legal systems, if you’re caught swapping phony transactions like that, you can be prosecuted for fraud.

but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology

Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.

In the USSR’s case, they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg. And in terms of its foreign policy, they talked internationalism and cooperation while carrying on the legacy of Russian imperialism.

When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit.

All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2. Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party’s rule. The double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, and many other events put paid to that naivety.

Sometimes the best defense is to retaliate before the initial attack has completed.

As soon as they’ve committed, they’re fair game. You don’t need to wait for the full effect of the attack to materialize to legitimately exercise your right to self-defense.

Russia helping Trump get elected president was an act of war against the people of the US.

Also, NATO is a mutual self-defense treaty. Ukraine is not part of NATO.

I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.

It’s too trivial to remember.

“A quarrel in a faraway country, betwwen people of whom we know nothing.”

Cheaper troll farms there.

Like they’re not killing enough Palestinians already.

Fucking murderous scum committing genocide for real estate.

I’ll bet that this brainfart originated with Trump, and he has some idea of how to get a rake-off from it.

Call it genocide and state-sponsored terrorism. That’s what it is.

one lesson on Israelite history

If you regard the Old Testament as history, the violence is probably exaggerated because of it being written by nationalistic zealots. It almost certainly also exaggerates the scale of Israel’s conquests. They were never more than a minor force in the region, not much more than a city-state. Other ancient national epics are just as bloodthirsty and just as unreliable.

Canaanites, now Palestinians

I’m pretty sure the Palestinians got their name from the Philistines. In Arabic, the place is still called Falasteen and the people Falasteeni.

That doesn’t say anything about descent, though. The genetic evidence is that the people in Palestine now are genetically quite similar to people in Palestine in ancient times. The population has been pretty stable, despite wars, conquests and language changes. Modern Palestinian people are also closely related to Jewish people-- probably the closest of any non-Jewish group.

They’re the OG evil

Far from uniquely so. The whole region was prone to genocidal wars, enslavement of whole nations, and general chaos and brutality. Most other “advanced” societies 2500 years ago weren’t much better, at least not for long.

I think the bigger question is why those primitive tribal values should be considered a guide to how we live now.

And yet people keep buying

For low values of “people.”

Wait for knock-off Trump-branded goods on Temu and Alibaba. They’ll probably be of better quality than the originals. And that’s not saying they’ll be anything more than worthless straight-to-landfill crap.

What’s to stop states from saying “fuck you” to this lame-ass attempt to rule by decree?

Trump just wants to get rich and have people kiss his fat ass. Those other goals are imposed on him by Putin and by American kleptocratic billionaires.

“Thanks for the backstab, you’re a real friend!”