pupbiru

you’re welcome! you too!

it should be noted though that it hasn’t been updated since 2021, and its repo has been archived (i’m not sure of the reasons). it still works great, but it’s not going to get any updates

also absolutely true!

i’d even say that anti-capitalist and anti-capitalism are different things too

I'm not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name

that’s exactly the point: there are international bodies that name these things. the arrogance of all of this is astounding. the US president doesn’t get to just snap his fingers and have the world say “yes mr president” and bow down to it…

gulf of america

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absolutely agree! could mean anything from sanctions and “stern words” to nuclear retaliation

the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question

but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change

being anti-capitalist is not the same as being a tankie. conflating the 2 is how labels get diluted

i use uMatrix (by the same author as uBlock Origin), which essentially allows very granular control over what dynamic content to allow:

per domain and subdomain you can allow script, xhr, media, frames, cookies, images, css, and other things

so you can say, for example, on lemm.ee deny any scripts from google.com from loading and deny any xhr (so analytics can’t work even if the script is hosted on the sites own domain)

this stops a lot of fingerprinting in its tracks (except when you need to allow eg reCAPTCHA), but it does break pretty much every website until you go and allow only known good things (like scripts and xhr to the sites own domain)

there’s also server-side fingerprinting, which is harder again

Canada being the only big producer with democratic standards

very much not true: canada produces only slightly more uranium than australia, and canadian uranium reserves are fraction of australia’s - we just don’t mine it much because it’s a bit of a political issue

(canada 873k tonnes, australia slightly more than 2m tonnes)

when it comes to mining pretty much anything, never underestimate just how much raw resources australia has in the ground… and our country is basically entirely based on resource extraction

that being said, i do agree that nuclear isn’t the answer

law is complex and international treaties are rife with weasel word interpretation

absolutely; we’re in no disagreement! my comment was intended as a “yes and” for something that seems to be a particular focus for conflict in modern history

until it’s tested, i’d guess states could say that “all the means” could be read with relation to trade and economics and other things governed by the EU

completely ignoring the time when it wasn't Russia.

or the more hilarious: when russia was ukraine

(though i haven’t done much research; that could be a funny little “kinda but it’s more complex” quirk to history)