I have a gray cat that looks a lot like him. He's my everything. He is so sweet, wants cuddles & purrs so loud. I'm so sorry for your loss.
But I have bone spurs and my parents are rich. Also, what part of me not being okay with conscription anywhere do you not understand? America isn't a true Democracy at this point, more like a corporatocracy mixed with oligarchy. We're also heading towards, if not already there, authoritarianism as well.
I understand and even agree with some parts of your point here, but:
By being born as citizen of a country, you automatically gain lots of benefits like protection from violence or healthcare.
Yeah, being a US citizen gets you neither of those things in reality unless you're rich & powerful. I guarantee the people they'd be kidnapping here in the US & sending to war aren't the rich kids.
Since you seem especially concerned about the moral aspects of the subject, and cite scandalous abuses, the question is unavoidable: why you are so exercised by Ukraine’s situation when Russia is far, far, far worse on all these fronts? It’s odd.
Ukraine is supposed to be the democracy. Forced conscription is not something that I believe democracies engage in. What if Ukraine started requiring women to have one baby a year, and if they refused, they force bred them. Would you be okay with that?
I bring up conscription because I'm opposed to it, that is why. That includes Russia doing it, but Ukraine is supposed to be the democracy not the dictatorship. I'm not going to look at this & think to myself, well Russia is worse so even if Ukraine started force-breeding women to create more future soldiers then it is okay cause Russia is bad. I can understand Putin is a fascist dictator, but Ukraine forcing people to war through kidnapping/beating/jail/etc. is not good either.
But are you aware that Russia has had multiple rounds of conscription? Have you considered that many of Russia’s hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers were not properly supplied and used cynically as cannon fodder against Ukraine - and were therefore obviously deployed under some form of duress? Either as prison convicts or press-ganged off the street in poor remote parts of the Russian Federation that nobody in Moscow cares about.
Yes, am I'm not okay with that either. I'm not okay with conscription in Russia, Israel, South Korea, Ukraine or anywhere. I find it odd that I say I'm not okay with conscription, and you and many others chime in with things like... "Did you know Russia has conscription?" Do you think Ukraine should be more like the authoritarian dictatorship in Russia, is that what you're trying to say?
Let’s remind ourselves who is the aggressor here, and who is responsible for the vast majority of the war crimes in this pointless war that could end tomorrow if Russia called off its illegal invasion.
I agree with this, but it is a bit beside the point in regards to conscription. Russia should call of its illegal invasion, but Ukraine should also not be involved in forcing people to go to war against their will else get kidnapped/beat/jailed or worse.
In the light of all this, why would you be so concerned about the aggressed party’s respect for legal procedures as defined under its own laws?
Prob because forcing people to war through kidnappings/beatings/jailing/etc is human rights violations IMO and one wrong doesn't justify another. Have you read about internment camps in the US before? Do you think those were justified cause Japan was the aggressor?
Perhaps it’s time you stopped watching this “bunch of videos” and starting getting your information from reputable sources instead.
I already explained I assumed some of them could be propaganda, but I did additional research & posted 2 links that include plenty of additional reliable sources. Are you suggesting now that PBS is not a reputable source? Or that Ukraine doesn't do conscription? It turns out many of those things in the videos actually DO happen. I assumed they were propaganda, but it turns out that this is really happening.
Are you in favour of an independent Ukraine if they must use conscription to maintain that independence?
If the people are being forced against their will then that is not independence. The definition of independent is not being subjected to control by others. At that point they've just substituted one authoritarian instead of another.
I am very much against conscription.
I still support Ukraine’s independence
And another comment of mine since that wasn't enough for you people:
So if Trump forces people to go to war by having police jail & beat them, you'll support it?
I am very much against conscription.
Did I say I am only against Ukrainian conscription? No I did not.
I am very much against conscription.
I still support Ukraine’s independence
I think Putin is fascist dictator. I literally said I am very much against conscription & I still support Ukraine's independence, but yet here you are ignoring it like an unprogrammed NPC that can't imagine being critical of an action by Ukraine without someone being a Putin apologist. Let me be clear again since me claiming to be against conscription wasn't enough for you. I am against conscription in Ukraine, Russia, Israel, South Korea & anywhere that does it. It almost always leads to more fascism & not less.
Holding kids back & provide extra support costs the school money. A large percentage of schools either don't have the money or their bloated bureaucracies are siphoning off the money. Where I live the average pay for teaching is like $22/hr. but people in admin easily make upwards of $100/hr. Additionally, the admin staff is many times larger than the staff at multiple schools.
Your kids in 20 years trying to find your will, will love you.
Why not just use plain text then? I mean if your important content can be summarized into the most basic structure, why not just create your own markup format that makes sense to you? Makes no sense why you'd limit yourself to CommonMark.
Like I said, the files are in a standardized format. You can literally extract & view the content yourself. Do you want extensively structured data in 10, 20 or 50 years, or do you want only the most basic? If something is important enough for you to save for that long, you prob should put some effort into making it useful. I'm not saying word processors are perfect, but almost every markdown editor out there is essentially trying to recreate a word processor.
CommonMark includes like 6 levels of headings, blockquotes, code blocks, bold, italics, hyperlinks, HRs, and lists? At what cost though? Which heading is the title, which one is the subtitle? Now you want to add frontmatter, which is not part of the CommonMark spec. What if you don't want a thousand files, will your editor support multiple pages in a single file with multiple frontmatter declarations? Now you want a table, guess you're going to deviate to GFM. What if you want to use callouts, etc.
Things like Lexical is promising:
https://playground.lexical.dev
I'd rather have a single SQLite file that has my entire knowledgebase in a useful CMS than having a thousand markdown files that I have no clue what I titled them 10 or 20 years ago. So much easier to manage, rename things, etc.
I wholly disagree with this after using markdown for everything for a few reasons, but it may work for some people if you really love operating from a basic CLI. Some people also get by with storing everything in plain-text files as well. Why not, plain-text will still be supported as well.
Markdown, especially CommonMark, will likely never provide what you want. Is it convenient when you have hundreds or thousands of files to manually manage? Most likely you'll constantly be searching for ways to make markdown work more like a word processor & CMS, because what you really want is a powerful WYSIWYG content management platform.
I'm not going to judge someone if they are content with basic markdown. It isn't my place to. But to make a statement like, "if it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown" is preaching from a bubble.
It is gross to a lot of people & a sign of being a submissive. If you told someone that you're into toe-sucking & they made fun of you for it, that would be kink shaming. You can't expect everyone to be fine with toe-sucking though.
Update: Wow a lot of toe suckers down voting me. Must be hard for them to find partners so they think everyone should be fine with it. Prob even harder for ass eaters.
I'm always down for a good ratfucking.
I ran it through an AI checker & it said it was real.
There are people that don't care if their lifestyle exploits child labor. As long as they benefit, that is all that matters to them. They are so disconnected and unable to fathom or have empathy for anyone aside from themselves or their small inner circle. It isn't a small minority like this but unfortunately around half of America. About 30% of them are just incredibly spoiled, but as soon as they face hardships then it is all woe me. Now a few of them after may gain empathy, but a larger percentage just want everyone else to suffer and be miserable too. It's fucking despicable what money does to people.