Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

I like you ask in hypotheticals.

Resist now.

All 30 if us who play it agree.

Right? Wrong?

I asked you a question, I didn’t make an argument or assert a position.

This is surreal. It’s like:

You: why does everyone say good afternoon when it’s only 12:30?!

Me: what time zone are you in buddy?

You: you didn’t answer my question!

Me: I mean, China for example is all on the same timezone regardless of how west or east you are.

You: FINE. YOU’RE RIGHT. I’M WRONG. HAPPY?

Me: wtf man, I just asked you your fucking timezone.

It does. The centre-left in Montreal municipal politics corresponds to the left wing of the left in Canadian federal politics. So if I write a long diatribe lamenting how the centre left in Montreal is not progressive enough, and send it over to someone in Alberta, they would have no idea what I’m talking about.

I’m Canadian, buddy. Which is why I asked about your political context.

I note the spelling “right of centre”. So help me out here: are you Canadian, British, Australian, Kiwi, …? So when you say “everything that just leans right of centre is called fascist” what the fuck are you actually talking about? In your specific political context?

Steven Universe too!

There you go:

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

Yup. It should not be a thing.

Quit the fucking around, blue states. Start actually resisting, like the Northern States Personal Liberty laws before your civil war. And if your compromised Supreme Court wants to allow your federal government to run a gestapo secret police, well too bad, Marbury v Madison was not in the original constitution either. Fuck shit up you fuckheads or you’re going to lose your democracy!

If your Democrat politicians are not threatening to persecute these goons if elected, what the fuck do you need them for?

Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.

Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.

In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.

If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.

If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.

Vodka 25 years ago.

Yea, that’s exactly why I thought it was worth asking.

It seems Aral has actually done the work: https://mastodon.social/@staff/115129752094733480

Sigh…

[…] to get to the bottom of any mistreatment allegations.

Are you familiar with the concept of …time? That things can happen to somebody after they have first been seen by the Swedish diplomats?

Plus, the dehydration stuff is already in what the Swedish diplomats report from the first time they saw her.

Not sure if you’re debating in good faith anymore.

The article above mentions “dehydration” and “insufficient amounts of both water and food”.

In addition:

One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters: “They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.”

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/10/04/greta-thunberg-israel/

Given these kinds of reports of beatings, dragging by the hair and degrading treatment, diplomats would need to make sure to keep meeting with her and keep pressuring to get to the bottom of any mistreatment allegations.

That doesn’t absolve them of responsibility for her welfare.

At the very least, under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Swedish diplomats have the right to visit Thunberg, verify her condition, and ensure she’s being treated according to international standards. Continuing to monitor the situation like this makes sure that Thunberg is not feeling isolated and makes sure her captors do not get any (further) funny ideas.

For another, there are all sorts of pressure tactics they can use, if her welfare is danger. They could summon the Israeli ambassador to formally express concern, they can push the European Commission and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs to issue a joint statement or demand investigation into her treatment.

The Swedish government, and the EU commission is not making nearly enough noise as it should here.

Wasn’t this guy raptured yesterday? Hm, maybe he’s not righteous enough.