Oh cool! Not terribly far, then.

That looks like the Rio Grande in New Mexico! Did you happen to stay at the Bosque Birdwatching RV Park? I miss that place

Google forks Linux to make a mobile operating system, stripping out lots of familiar FOSS software and licensing requirements and replacing it with their own. Also it’s written in java.

They get overrun by the local threats the USA may have been able to help with? I mean, there’s obviously nuance here, but you aren’t using it either so

Yeah when we ask the government of that place, and they say yes, we should then feel free to do that.

So this person thinks they found a loophole to steal gas and power, and all they have to do is an “I said so” spell, but that the people they’re stealing from can’t and won’t just “I said so” spell right back? “How can I get these people and the cops to stop caring about my theft attempts?”

What short sighted idiots. Chopping down a tree to steal the fruit? Our species is its own Great Filter.

I’m out of the loop. I know he’s seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?

Who does that help?

Edit: Yes, I see.

Edit 2: Ah jeez.

It’s exhausting having Europeans assume that because I live here I A) endorse everything about it with every fiber of my being and B) have no ability to conceptualize any other way of living at all, much less a better one than my current American lifestyle.

It’s true we don’t have a quaint medieval village on an island, but we never had invading Huns or something force us to live on a postage stamp of land and make a quaint little village there.

The thing that confuses me about this wonderful concept is how did the Tamarians ever get to the point of building wooden ships if they only spoke in meme and metaphor? How could they have created a culture that speaks only in references if their references couldn’t happen without culture existing to make note of the referenced events?