Remember: apostasy has always been worse then heresy. The stronger the cult, the stronger the response when individuals leave it.
Also remember that, in their circles, both Trump and (in slashdot context, especially) Musk were, if not idolized, at least archetypes. Trump, the amoral NY property guy, the super wealthy blowhard gadfly always the first invite to Democratic fundraiser parties. Musk, the autistic dot.com billionaire all over the Web, obsessed with tech and compulsive about literally putting his $ into anything that seemed cool.

To liberals, their defection* feels like Aquinas and Augustine both turned to Islam. Moreover, particularly with Musk, there's probably a subconscious sense of identification with the slashdot audience, where they wonder "if I got rich and successful, would I turn into (what I've spent my last 238 posts on Blue Sky and Mastodon insisting is) a Nazi?"
*when anyone with sense can see they still are largely what they were, but the left has been so viciously tugging the binary break point further left that they have been marooned "on the right".

> without interoperability whats the point

Competition lowers prices and increases value.

A monopoly or design-by-committee would just ossify.

I can't hook up my DSL modem to Comcast or Community Fiber but that's fine.

Install Brave and turn off the extras in the Preferences?

It takes two minutes and doesn't bother you again.

Spend an extra two minutes to set up a sync chain, though - it's secure and handy.

Half the news stories I see embed a Tweet and roughly none embed a Thread (what's the correct singular?).

Maybe it's relevant outside of news?

Anything to sabotage the peace talk summit on Friday.

A BOLO for false flags was issued two weeks ago but this is pretty weak.

Even if it were true you'd hold this for a week unless you're a war whore. But NYT seems to worship death and the profits that come along with it.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

For short routes (something like Nashville to Atlanta) you'd win on time but almost certainly lose on cost.

For long routes, for example New York to Los Angeles, you'll lose on both cost and time. I also suspect that, say, New York to London might have some additional challenges for a self driving car... how do you suppose a Tesla Model 3 handles in 40' seas in the North Atlantic?

And bank.

He's obviously talking about the Fourth Geneva Convention given the date, and your response has nothing at all to do with the refutation of "nuclear weapons being criminally illegal [in 1945]."

And, since you're trotting out Nuremberg, here is what General Telford Taylor, Chief Counsel for War Crimes at the Nuremberg Trials, had to say about strategic bombing:

If anyone tells you our Country is at risk because people in charge of mass government censorship campaigns got fired then they're your enemy domestic.

Unless you're one of them and they're your partner in crime.

We must move past not trusting spooks to ignoring spooks, except as to understand the situation vis-a-vis enemy intelligence.

PS Free Snowden!

Just yesterday there was a news story about
Predditors organizing to mass copy a YouTuber's content to try to wreck his revenue.

A court forced Reddit to hand over their identification and he is suing them. Ethan somebody.

There's quite an ethos over there about organizing crime and apparently if it's leftwing they just leave it alone. e.g. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Flgbt%2F... nobody pushing back against crime.

Most neutrally the company may not want to deal with subpoenas and they don't think the crimes are justly constructed.

But it's weird which kinds of illegal-in-some-jurisdictions subs get adult gated and which ones are freeworld. e.g. drugs are legal in some countries and being gay is illegal in others. Region settings seems to have no effect. Rightwingers get ejected post-haste. Tech subs are often great, sometimes conquered by schizo mods. So unpredictable over there. I go there sometimes like I go to failed neighborhoods sometimes - only when the need arises.

The fatigue seems to be mostly about other humans who believe LLM's are omniscient and inflatable.

Or even good conversationalists.

As an information retrieval tool or a radiology diagnosis assistant, sure, hardly anybody is complaining.

OK, maybe some lesser radiologists.

I hate to break this to you, but "your friend" is looking at things through a post war lens. Here's the contemporary opinion from General Telford Taylor, Chief Counsel for War Crimes at the Nuremberg Trials:

Err... if there are no winners, who's writing those history books?

Asking for a friend.

Hairsplitting and inauthentic pedantry. If we want to go that road:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fihl-databases.icrc.org...
The only applicable provision there is that UNDEFENDED cities shouldn't be attacked; this was not the state of Japanese home cities which were aggressively defended as best they could. None were declared 'open' in the context of the Hague rules.

Hague 1923 DRAFT version (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finternational-review.icrc.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FS0020860400071370a.pdf) proposed standards re air attacks BUT WAS NEVER ADOPTED AS INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Because of this lack of clarity, during Post WW2 war crime trials no German/Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for 'indiscriminate bombing of civilians'. I'm curious about your assertion of German officers prosecuted in Nuremburg for 'technical violations ... that were carried out for humanitarian reasons"? Examples?

In short: I don't find your assertions persuasive or challenging at all.
Your position is nonsensical and Pollyansish. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with being a pacifist. Everyone else recognizes that war happens, and refusing to participate simply means you accept that you are handing power to those wiling to wield it.