In a nutshell, you’re making it about you. Would you do the same for a woman who wants an abortion, pestering her with your unsolicited opinion? It’s none of your business, or mine, or anyone other than the person concerned.

All I’m hearing here are a whole bunch of reasons that you feel your opinion should override the will of other people. You should really take a step back and re-examine your biases.

Nowhere did I say eugenics is similar, equal or analogous to euthanasia. You can go ahead and read the comments again, you won’t find it.

Then why bring it up? Why don’t we discuss your favourite chicken soup recipe while we’re at it?

it must be judged on its own merits outside of groupthink

“Groupthink” is to presume we’d have the right to deny them agency over their person. MAID is the ultimate expression of bodily autonomy.

That’s what I’m attempting to do here, discuss the idea on its own merits.

Except you are not. You haven’t actually discussed MAID itself other than saying it generally makes you feel icky. What you have talked about at length is eugenics, despite your claim that eugenics are irrelevant to the topic at hand. Can you explain why you’re against MAID without referring to eugenics or any other historical issue?

This is Poland erasure.

Edit: and also the Baltics

I’m not comparing eugenics with euthanasia. I’m comparing the perception of what “progressive” meant back then to right now.

… by comparing eugenics and MAID. There are lots of things that were considered progressive back then (e.g. workers’ rights) that are still considered progressive today. Why did you specifically pick eugenics as an example only to then say it isn’t like MAID?

Eugenics is completely different — in fact, it’s the polar opposite of MAID. Conflating the two is like arguing that rape and sex are the same thing.

Canadian here. I’m all for it, so long as the person isn’t doing it from lack of access to services that would improve their condition. It’s a question of bodily autonomy and denying MAID is no different than denying abortion.

So they’ve now essentially replicated the USA’s system - congrats!

Hey, at least those poor souls in the sweatshops have access to healthcare.

Fun fact: China doesn’t have free healthcare.

Edit: this is always a guaranteed way to get salty tankie downvotes!

That’s very dangerous. Turtles can stay stuck on their back forever if no one is around to put them right side up.

They’ve been trying to grab that last slice of Golan for decades — don’t conflate opportunism with long-term policy. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that HTS would support Palestine less than al-Assad did. You may enjoy this analysis: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241209-is-the-overthrow-of-assad-good-for-the-palestinians/

Not really. Al-Assad was a known quantity and the relationship, while certainly not friendly, was at least stable (by Middle-Eastern standards). These guys on the other hand are an unknown, and that lack of predictability makes neighbours uneasy.

From the US’ POV, having Syria devolve into a theocracy is a small price to pay for the harm this inflicts on Russia (most notably losing their only port on the Mediterranean and forcing them to transit through the Hellespont, subject to the whims of Turkey)

what do you gain by running Linux over Windows?

Not using Windows.

But more seriously, you’d be astonished at the progress over the last ~3 years. I don’t play that many games but have yet to run into one that doesn’t work.

Link to the actual source: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1h7521g/looks_like_valve_is_working_on_a_steamos_device/

I won’t buy this, but as someone who uses exclusively Linux including on my self-built gaming PC, it’s great news.

ChatGPT-ass article. Is all news going to be like this now?

No

And I speak three and am learning a fourth. It’s just a bad name.

Maybe it’s more like for-gay-joe? Or for-gay-o? For-gee-o? For-gy-o? Who knows?

Great, hopefully this high-profile move makes them change their name into something that can’t be potentially pronounced 8 different ways. Forge-joe? Or more like Jorge-ho?