“B**ches” can be considered a slur in some circles as it’s used to target women who fight for feminism.

That said, the word in French is not really used that way, and has a direct masculine equivalent in a way the English version does not.

IMO it’s insulting but not a slur

Edit: Also “slurs” are not a thing in France, the best characterization you’ll get for the n-word for example would be “insulte à caractère raciale”, so racial insult, which is also illegal. But there is no common denominator between this, and the word f*g or insults targeting other minorities, each are qualified by who they insult and generally illegal for who they target.

Why is it described as a Russian cosmodrome instead of a Kazakh one? Is Russia the exclusive user of the launch pad?

That works for the web, because you control the browser & can know the domain before it gets resolved (& encrypted by DOH/DOT), but for a fridge you’re SOL

There is another rotor hidden behind the cabin, you can barely see it though the window

And also a huge QC culture. If we let the auto industry make aircrafts for the general public, we’ll soon wish we were flying Boeing

Let’s say we all magically become able to not crash into each other at all. That’s not going to make things much safer; car aren’t built with the strict QC of airplanes, they’re bound to have more failures.

When you have wheels, it’s not all that problematic, with some luck you could even be unscathed after losing a wheel on the highway.

Once you’re flying though? Anything happens and you’re pretty much toast

Taiwan is a region of the ROC. The ROC is a country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

You can check the territorial claims of the Republic of China (“Taiwan”) under the selector “Show map of Taiwan (dark green) with ROC Mainland Area and historical claims (light green)”

The map is not quite up to date as it still shows the ROC as claiming Taiwan, despite formally granting independance in 2002 (source)

Because that’s a history question. “Taiwan” is not a country, it’s a province of the Republic of China (ROC), which was the government of China before the communist revolution. They fled to Taiwan but their constitution etc still define them as the Republic Of China, with territorial claims over all of China

Here is an article specifically on that exact topic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Area

Edit: The main “Taiwan” wikipedia article also has a map that can be selected under the label “Show map of Taiwan (dark green) with ROC Mainland Area and historical claims (light green)”

They’re VCs, they’re not here for the long run: they’ll replace the employees with AI, make record profits for a quarter, and sell their shares and leave before problems make themselves too noticeable to ignore. They don’t care about these companies, and especially not about the people working there

That doesn’t work. Data can and has been deanonymized previously. It’s still very much unsafe if it falls in the wrong hands

The only civil war that could possibly happen is between netanyahu and people thinking he’s not genociding hard enough.

I see way too many people thinking israel is somehow a dictatorship and the fault for the genocide is with the government, when the most widespread criticism of israel’s government by israelis is that the government is not “doing enough”. The country is rotten to the core, as are all ethnostates

These kind of posts will, sometime in the future, be referenced in a memorial of some sort as complacency in the face of crimes against humanity.

History will not look kindly at you.

Well I agree in principle (I disagree that AI training is necessarily “stealing”), but downloading copyrighted material for which you do not own a license is textbook piracy, regardless of intent

It’s sprouting BTW, it’s not dead 😄 though it will take a while for it to be more than a sprout, and it will never have its iconic shape again

This is from 2014 in the donbass region, which russia didn’t approach until 2022.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munitions

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It may take 200 years, but it will happen. Not only because every empire falls, but also because you can’t just get away with bullying your neighbors forever. Someday the wind will turn

??? She did consent, but while completely drunk. The argument being made is that she can’t consent while drunk, but he also consented while drunk. Did she rape him?