Where did I justify it lmao

Yes. An occupying force that came to help the progressive government that the people didn’t like. Going back to my point - the Afghani people never wanted any of this. They wanted to be left the fuck alone.

You think everyone has the same values as you? Newsflash: Most Afghanis outside the major cities would consider you to be a piece of shit for your values.

USSR and USA tried to change that by force. They failed, because you can control a few cities, but it’s incredibly difficult to control everything in the mountainous countryside. Just give up. Let the people of Afghanistan deal with their own issues instead of forcing western values on them at gunpoint. They’re not really hurting anyone except themselves. Eventually they may be enlightened, but it needs to be grass roots, not bombs and bullets.

Get the hell out of here with your occupation apologism. The urss ia responsible of 1.5 millions afghan death

Of course it is. Because they were rebelling against what the USSR was trying to bring - a more progressive nation. They did NOT WANT any of what the soviets wanted to force on them (such as, among other things, gender equality). Getting back to my original point - they do NOT WANT TO BE LIKE US. Which is why it was wrong of the USSR to get involved, and wrong of the US to get involved.

Say the average bus is 10 tons empty and the average car is 2. The fourth power law states that the bus is 625x as much wear on the roads.

It’ll reduce traffic jams, as well as empower people who can’t, or can barely, afford the fare, but road maintenance? Not so sure.

What would help more with the road network maintenance is taxing heavy vehicles. Commercial vehicles could get a bigger threshold and personal vehicles a smaller one.

They didn’t care about afghans or democracy that’s why they kept a weak army

The locals didn’t care either. Have you seen those videos of them failing to grasp the concept of jumping jacks in their military drills? Why did afghani commanders make up troops (that they got paid for enlisting)?

The “united snake” as you call it only funded what was already a very popular group with rich history in their region of the country. Obviously I’m not saying that was the right thing to do, I’m just saying that it’s not like they put any more effort into that.

They had a government that was getting increasingly progressive - and they had increasing amounts of trouble keeping the population happy with that, which is why the USSR came and tried to help, but unfortunately a lot of people did not support the PDPA’s initiatives - the women’s rights were a particularly sore spot and had been even before the revolution. Then the US of course famously funded a bunch of hardcore religious freaks (that were essentially seen as good guys who helped people in their area) to counter the soviets, the soviets lost what was already an incredibly difficult campaign to drive progress in an anti-progress land, and then we got Taliban numero uno, yay

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The slaves didn’t raise their own masters.

The US backed Afghani government lasted less than one day because NOBODY wanted it. Only the Americans did. It’s not part of Afghani culture to send women to school and such. It’s like forcing Americans at gunpoint to eat salad instead of McDonald’s.

These Afghan women married and gave birth to the men ruling over them. They’re at least somewhat complicit in this. They had 20 years to breed a more liberal generation of men, but they did not.

Taliban had such an easy time taking back control because nobody gave a shit.

I don’t know much about Iran, but do they have legalized slavery?

It’s debatable, and I’m by no means an expert. But forced marriage is still a thing, where you sell your daughter to a man to clear your debts. If you ignore all the sex slaves, there are still about 600k people living in “modern slavery” conditions. The government isn’t doing anything about it either from what I gather.

So no, it’s not legal the way it is in the US through prison systems, but it is very much a huge issue that isn’t being corrected.

But I mean between the US, Israel and Iran… There really are no good guys. Each of these governments does some real horrible shit.

I feel like Android and Linux (being that it’s what Android itself is based on) do the whole “everything is an app” much better than, say, Windows. On Windows, generally speaking, your entire desktop experience is built-in and so tightly coupled that it’s hard to switch it out. On Linux, you don’t NEED a GUI at all, but if you want one, you’ll have a display server, a window manager, etc. On Android, at least without the desktop mode, the base GUI is the launcher, which is just an app.

System apps that require root access are still apps. Of course the kernel isn’t really an app and I don’t think Google Play Services fits most people’s definitions of an app. System libraries aren’t apps. So those are the parts that you could consider true “OS updates” as opposed to “app updates”, but since the “apps” part of the system (if you include system apps) is so much more visible to the user, an OS update will seem like it’s mostly a bunch of app updates.

Yeah I actually liked the whole Vista/7 era Windows looks. Didn’t like anything else about Vista but that wasn’t Windows Aero’s fault.

It’s a washer but it’s also AI generated most likely. But also not too uncommon in tiny apartments.

Isn’t that what Whatsapp and Telegram are already used for?

I mean yeah, you’re right about the desktop mode, but 90% of new user facing features are going to be in one app or another generally.

Technically the desktop mode itself might also be an app, though a window manager or desktop environment isn’t something we conventionally think of as an app.

No idea when I’ll get to touch a new enough Android to play with it. My old Oneplus is on shaky custom rom support and my daily driver is an iPhone (which will likely get much longer software support and is newer to begin with)

Everything in Android is an app tbh, even the launcher is a completely normal app.

Man it’s porn, not guns. Children should not be near it!

Oh wait this is France

Anyway, I agree with you. We’re talking about regular ol garden variety porn. Everyone will probably see it at some point. Parents can limit what their kids see until the kids become smart enough to bypass filters. At which point they can probably handle seeing pennis n vagene.

Good ol’ Anja und Katja definitely helped me out in my teenage years.

Maybe pistonhead is more accurate than carbrain. I’m REALLY into cars. Love internal combustion engines. I still want to be able to walk to the bar because I ain’t driving there and I don’t want to have to use a ride hailing app either. Luckily in my city, I have that freedom.

Carbrain here. FFS, give me bike lanes and public transit. And walkable spaces.

I don’t need to drive EVERYWHERE. I also want there to be fewer cars on the road when I do need to drive.