> OAI is doing fine on its own

This isn't my understanding of their current state of affairs, especially regardless their finances?

Hundreds of comments and not one seems to think this is misguided - unusual for this community. Save the children I guess.

Mostly I think that's because it's pretty obvious smart phones, and the applications that inhabit them, have been a net negative for adults and children.

Unironically yes, save the children by not letting them be on smartphones all day during school.

Counting from the dawns of the various police forces in the country maybe? Impossible to know, but even then...

Hyperbole illustrates the point pretty well though

Rainbow tabasco required nothing but water, ime - if you have decent sun or a grow light.

These things: https://seedsbeeblooming.com/shop/ols/products/rainbow-tabas...

Can't vouch for that merchant though

Great tip - thank you!

That is an ironic hope coming from the one who started the Ukrainian war.

Are you asking a rhetorical question or making a statement?

Ambiguity is a thing.

I was asking for the other commenters, to clear that up.

Was that not an imperative statement agreeing with your cathartic comment? A little weird there isn't an explicit "this is why", but asking questions with a poorly conjugated why along with bad punctuation isn't usually a native speakers habit.

They said in a follow-up comment that they intentionally wrote something ambiguous, so… I don’t know, I wouldn’t waste too many cycles on comments that are deliberately unclear.

I think it is fair to separate putin and russia. I mean, I don't think he uses our society as proxy for his own ego. I think he really likes Putin.

My first instinct was to close the article as I didn't want to read a Republican virtue signaling to his audience. I wonder if they were trying to sound Republican?

The article itself is a nice, well interesting, dive into the topic; kinda unfortunate.

"Republican"?! US defaultism strikes again. He's in the UK, and he states his pronouns here https://danq.me/about/ so doesn't sound very "Republican" to me.

On the other hand, Twitter is full of Republicans who are not from the US.

I didn't find anything from a short keyword search and a read through some of his other blogposts, but I would not be surprised if he were a republican in the "prefers a republic as a form of government" sense. (I'm one, and am very much not a fan of the US political party by that name)

Surprisingly neutral on topics regarding monarchy/monarchs, in favour of the AV referendum to get rid of plurality voting, and very annoyed at the electoral system for unilaterally changing his name on the voter rolls. (His surname is Q)

I think this kind of virtue signalling has become known as "vice signalling".

Putting diverse races in an ad, while not doing anything else about diversity, is virtue signalling. Complaining there are other races in the ad is vice signalling.

Funny, the tone sounded UK/Australian to me. Just be aware, beyond a surface level awareness there are very few people who know what a specific ideology in your country sounds like, or care enough to learn.

I've seen this sentiment on the left. I think the author just phrased it a little oddly.

Sometimes called "pink capitalism" or "rainbow capitalism", where a company will show the rainbow pride flag for Pride Month, but not put any more substantial effort towards diversity, plurality, LGBTQ rights, etc.

I expect nothing from companies, and it's nice to see that virtue signal. If they're signalling, it means they think we haven't been exterminated yet. But I don't expect good works from anything for-profit. It's just business.

Edit: The author using the phrase "surveillance capitalism" is generally a left wing thing. I don't hear right-wingers rallying against capitalism (let's not even get into the weeds of defining "capitalism" the word) even when they happen to oppose surveillance

I don't think anyone on the left would phrase it the way TFA did. It's very right–coded.

> I didn't want to read a Republican virtue signaling to his audience. I wonder if they were trying to sound Republican?

It would be very surprising behaviour for a British guy living in the UK

His policies were tempered, image-wise and often in substance, by his affinity for Joe Manchin alongside his disdain for Bernie Sanders. Balanced alongside the middle eastern foreign policy, he comes across as centrist despite the BBB.