You know what is detached from reality? Reading a comment criticizing Zionists, and somehow interpreting it as some long running stereotype about Jewish people, which the comment never mentioned. It's hard to believe that people are still doing this pearl clutching in 2026. Most Zionists are Christians, and a large portion of them, including the US Ambassador to Israel, believe in the Rapture. Connect those dots.
Ok, so you think your responsibility ends with voting? You build and fund a giant death machine and "welp my vote for death machine leader doesn't count so nothing else can be done"?.
No idea what the most heavily armed civilian population on the planet could possibly do about its tyrannical government?
We are approaching a situation where everyone else on the planet is going to have to do it for you. It would be much cleaner for everyone involved if you dealt with this before it got that far.
Developers rarely pay for their dev tools - except if it is far more expensive to replicate and it being closed source.
Hence why we keep seeing the likes of Astral, Bun and Tailwind CSS struggle in keeping afloat and have to seek an exit, especially when they are open source and have raised money from investors.
I run very small models locally for code completion and writing boiler plate. I still use Claude in a web browser on occasion since it's free, but the second that goes away, I'll be done with it. They get none of my money.
this does not matter from the business perspective.
microsoft does not care that your company forces you to use their products. google does not care that your school forces you to use their products. TSMC does not care that you are forced to use their products when purchasing ~any electronics. etc.
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