TheGrandNagus

In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn't be able to harm the One Ring.

It's the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.

No shit? It's run by ex-Twitter people, and Musk has brought a flamethrower to TwitterX.

"You're serious? He needs a therapist with him to keep his anger under control?"

"That's what our intelligence suggests, captain. And there's more... he was once involved in a bar fight with multiple Nausicans. He was stabbed through the heart, then laughed at them. Should I answer his hail?"

"Oh fuck."

Now show me these hundreds of others of US bases in Europe.

Oh wait, you can't. They have 128 bases in total outside of the US, with a disproportionate amount of those in South Korea. Ergo, your claim that there are hundreds of them in Europe was a complete fabrication.

You evidently do not understand geopolitics if you believe Russia invading Ukraine is the US's war.

And as for yelling slurs... mate, you literally just called myself and others mentally disabled for disagreeing with your pro-Russia tankie nonsense.

Now, I don't know where you're from, but where I live, calling someone disabled as an insult is definitely frowned upon, and considered a slur.

I have to say, that was a sub-par attempt at a straw man argument. I've seen far better.

Alas, the existence of US military bases outside of the US does not mean that Russia invading Ukraine is the US's fault – It's Russia's fault.

You are also deliberately calling NATO bases US bases. They aren't. They are NATO bases. NATO is a defence treaty where every member joined willingly. In fact, more are seeking to join, because of Russia's aggression.

And yes, you are a tankie. Plain and simple.

Ok that's actually pretty funny

I'm usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)...

That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.

American war

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Yes, that's exactly what they want.

"American war" is in their comment, and if you take even just a 5s look at their profile you can see them moaning about "Ukrainian propaganda".

They are firmly on the side of Russia. A tankie. Lemmy has an unbelievable amount of them.

Yes it is what you said.

The police in all countries exist specifically to do violence against citizens of that country. That is literally their reason for existing.

You said they're there to carry out violence on citizens. That's not what the police are or should be for.

If you have services available other than the police, it is in your interest to prefer those.

No. You're again thinking police are violent thugs everywhere.

it is in our interest to offload non-violent services from the police onto social workers and other non-violent labour.

That doesn't make much sense to me.

My wife gets sexually harassed at work... is she just not supposed to call the police? My car gets stolen... am I not supposed to call the police? I see a policeman in the street and I am lost, is it wrong to ask for directions?

I appreciate that the police may be far more militaristic where you live, I acknowledge that I'm lucky in that regard, but you should at least acknowledge that that stuff varies place to place. I don't think the belief that police should be/are only "violent labour" is a correct one.

Police having monopoly on (legal) violence does not mean the point of them existing is explicitly to terrorise people to the extent people are afraid to call them for assistance.

Only in places where they are allowed to become thugs is that the case.