One issue with alternative smaller platforms can also be them becoming cesspools of users banned from the big platform. The first couple of Reddit alternatives quickly collected the racists and jailbait porn.

A viable alternative platform needs more than extremist niches.

Anger certainly is a powerful emotion to keep people engaged.

Fraud isn’t the problem. The vote has to be secret, equal, and free.

You don’t want to be able to find out who voted how. But you need to know who already voted.

Proving Fraud actually happened is difficult with electronic voting to boot.

Augmented reality for specialized applications.

I will let the Syrians be the judge of that.

Lots of them. Usually buy into the whole axis of resistance crap.

Assad has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people including using poison gas on civilians and operated a gigantic torture prison. Russia and Hezbollah helped him murder Syrians all day every day for the last decade at least. Assad also occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and murdered Lebanese politicians.

As long as Arabs kill Arabs, people in the west don’t give a shit.

As a mom, getting plowed regularly improves my mood.

Yes, often more than the actual code. However there’s also manual testing, observing users for usability obstacles, visiting clients, and stuff like that.

It’s post ironic edgy. Too many levels of irony and seriousness. It’s ridiculous. They know it’s ridiculous and are having a lot of fun pretending it’s serious and laugh at those upset by it.

Lease it to China so the invasion of Taiwan makes a profit instead costs American lives and treasure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War

That’s not the US led UN backed war following Iraq‘s invasion of Kuwait. Iran and Iraq had a long and brutal war with tanks, planes, helicopters, mines, trenches, and more in the 1980s.

Many supermarkets and gyms have a charging station. You charge your car while you shop or exercise.

Reviews, planning, teaching, mentoring, testing produce little code.

A VR girlfriend can’t make you soup when you’re sick or stick her cold feet between your thighs. Carrying heavy objects for a girlfriend is a reward in itself.

What about in pants?

UNO, ONU, NATO, OTAN

Buying, selling, using, abusing, growing, extracting, synthesizing, losing, hiding, educating, discarding, withdrawing, etc.

China also invaded.

Iran Iraq war also known as first gulf war?