u/TheOctonaut — The Octonaut

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It's so silly

If you label "when people from the middle east kill family members for disobeying the family" as honor killings, then yes it's going to be a list of primarily Muslim people.

If you replace "from the middle east" with "from Italian-American culture" you get a list of mafioso.

If you replace it with "from the Italian peninsula c.0 AD" then you get a list of Roman patriarchs who had the literal power of life or death legally over their offspring and numbered rather than named their useless daughters.

Islam did not make these people kill their families. It did however make an American decide to call it an "honor killing".

The Dalai Lama(s) are worshipped as reincarnations Avalokiteśvara, the Buddha of Compassion.

If "god" means "something you can pray to, to directly make changes to reality", then they are definitely a god. The issue here is the conceptual trappings of Christianity's deity as a creator and omnipotent being.

The section on Tibetan Buddhism in the Wikipedia Avalokiteśvara article leads quite happily with calling them a deity and follows by noting the link to the Dalai Lama(s)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokite%C5%9Bvara?wprov=sfla1

Tibetan Buddhist beliefs

Avalokiteśvara is an important deity in Tibetan Buddhism. He is regarded in the Vajrayana teachings as a Buddha.[56]

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Certain living tulku lineages, including the Dalai Lamas and the Karmapas, are considered by many Tibetan Buddhists to also be manifestations of Avalokiteśvara.[60][61][62]

They keep registering at other instances which makes blocking them all frustrating

https://mander.xyz/comment/18955256

I'm all for shitting on tankies but I'm unsure what part of an all-male divine birthright theocracy they're supposed to support?

Ireland isn't in Schengen.

The UN is specifically *not* a protester with a gun.

The moment the UN uses proactive force, it just becomes NATO.

Yes this is just a strongly worded letter. You might think that's useless. Not sure what you expect them to do differently though?

You can just say you don't know what the UN is, it's ok.

I have terrible news for you if you think using a homophonic slur is as bad as anything the previous popes and cardinals have been doing.

Ah yes. Those Irish Islamists. Always demanding Sharia law.

Our other trade partner also went batshit about 10 years ago and made it a lot more difficult to trade with them.

Life's lonely as a relatively norma neutrall northern-hemisphere anglophone state.

Look, I get it, but people are allowed to have complex relationships with their language and history. I don't know the specifics of this guy and I'm not exactly defending him (or his complaints, which seem petty), but nobody owes anything to a language because if their blood.

I'm Irish, and the oppression and near-loss of our language is a real pity, but I can't deny either that we have have 150 years of real, actual Irish people speaking, writing, creating, singing, *dreaming* in English. Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, O'Brien, Heaney, Lynott, Sinead O'Connor, Samantha Mumba... they're not less Irish for having created or performed in English.

It can be hard for Irish, native-English speaking people (i.e. to a statistical approxination, literally everyone) to understand the amount of effort and resources that are poured into funding Irish-language art that the majority of our modern nation cannot read or understand, in a language that they associate mostly with an abusive and failing school system and patriotic guilt, while English-language art in general struggles with the odd and cold assumption from our society that the ready market for English-language Irish art and culture abroad will pay for anything with actual reach. If you have a weird niche idea, you'd better make it even more niche by sticking a *cúpla focail* in it - now a tiny fraction can enjoy it, but at least you get paid.

The same applies every time I am frustrated with the state of our healthcare system in a waiting room and pass a tall stack of pointless support resources and documentation in the Irish language, the cost of which could have paid for at least one dose of medicine.

We have very little going for us resource-wise in Ireland, but by christ we can write in the global language at least, whether it be for job opportunities or art. If someone sticks a knife in me I shouldn't be called a traitor for keeping the knife.

Absolutely it is *better* than *not* subsidising EV cars. No doubt. My issue is with the original comment painting this as something "barely any effort" implying that any country could do this. This was a unique situation and I'm glad that Norwegians chose to make themselves feel better about being an educated western petrostate bane on the planet by buying themselves EVs instead of feeding it to a king, ceo, sultan or emir.

Care to point out what hate and misinformation is relevant to this? If other countries didn't buy their oil, they could not have achieved this. Norway is a small petrostate with a side gig in poaching EU fish. No amount of Irish salmon would have covered the cost of this. If you don't understand that a country smaller by population than the city of Barcelona exporting the fourth largest amount of natural gas in the world taints this achievement to some degree, you are entitled to your opinion, but it's not misinformation.

To be absolutely clear, Norway has achieved this by selling oil to other countries. This wasn't a heroic sacrifice or noble vanguard effort.

The same reputation extends to Windows too so I don't think it's a Linux specific issue.

I like the UX as it's pretty powerful but I'm mindful of being ancient and having spent nearly a decade working with arcane telco applications. I have the opposite of your complaint - I like that it does periodic checks and will notify you of detected problems and usually give you a button to press to solve it.

My biggest pain usually comes in load order management. Usually this is because this is mentioned nowhere but in a note at the bottom of the mod description that might say something like "near the top" or "after mod x". I don't know how Steam just handles this mostly but I have a feeling it might be strong categorisation of mods.

No-one has ever told me what's actually wrong with Vortex.

The CCP is evil and so is Russia.

So is censoring people during an election.

I'm not a 'tankie', I'm pretty sure I'm banned from those grad and bear instances.

What I am is *not American*, so I don't have a vested interest in the sports-team-politics at play here.

lol. This is one way to say they arrested journalists and banned media coverage.