This was part of why I got into Linux in my teens. "I'd love to play CS instead of doing my assignment... but, Linux won't run it. You guys have fun!"

Ben Carroll!? IDK you were on Nostr! (Your plan is going great!)

Brown = works in the fields. Fair = landowner's daughter. Even though most low-status jobs in SEA today are indoors, the culture is very slow to change...

More than a million Indians served on the Axis side, mostly but not only Hindus.

Yes

Bro is hilariously wrong. Most of the Christians guys I know bear the name of one of Jesus' disciples. A Filipino FOAF is named Jesus. And most Muslims I know drink alcohol at least sometimes. They're more dedicated than the average White Christian, but the gap isn't huge. They do named their kids Moh at an alarming rate, that much is true. Middle names get a good workout in famillies with a lot of sons :D

TBF, many immigrants support traditional Western values, even long after most Westerners dropped those for the current thing.

Truth. I think it helps that Nostr is largely psuedonymous. When people's RL careers, relationships, and power over others are on the line, they double-down, take more stupid risks, and cross more ethical lines to stay on top.

These are also deniable. "I asked Claude to write the config, and it seemed to work".

Will have to read that next! Currently reading Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society". Not agreeing with the writer 100%, but seeing a lot of my extended family reflected in it :D

She's absolutely correct... but I trust her to curate datasets even less than I trust megacorps.

What I find entertaining is that I don't know which of many foreign cultures this was written about. "Vote banking" of immigrants is nothing new to America, though. The Democrats did it even more in the 1800s. Even though in the South it only netted them 3/5ths of a vote :p

Many have been both...