zohch's comments

> Karen is a pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people’s behaviors.

There are actual people with this name, and even if it was not racial, is it really okay to use pejoratives and denigrating terms, especially if that terms happen to be a quite common name in some parts of the world, like Denmark and Norway.

As someone who has used the MS stack, I have yet to witness anything I would call high quality.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Karen#Etymology_1

> (slang, originally African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A middle-aged white woman exhibiting a sense of entitlement or white privilege.

And if you are unclear what a racial slur is:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slur

> An insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.

For most people this level of dishonesty would get them fired or at least a stern request to leave. If I go to my boss and tell him sure I did my job if my job was something other than what you asked, he will tell me "pls go".

This should be called what it is, lies, and it should not be allowed on HN, and it should get all quantamagazine's social media accounts suspended.

If you can't provide an example it is fine, I understand, I already think you are wrong about it, and this just confirms it.

Please don't do this, and don't advocate for this. (A/L)GPL is poorly understood by most, poorly worded, and the FSF refuses to clarify basic points regarding it and are openly hostile to people who sell software for money.

One example of the lack of clarity is what constitute linking, and where the boundaries of the covered software is. The like to play a game here where the on one hand suggest it is not linking to make network calls, but then in their own documentation say it is open ended and for court to decide where the boundaries are, which basically makes it completely pointless and a massive landmine. Just use a sane license by less zealous people.

China has mastered the manipulation of the west's successor ideology better than those in the west that instituted it.

Fair enough, the point about not supporting Uber Eats is great. I boycott Amazon for example for similar reasons. I'm just a bit tired of hearing how awful the west is while any problems that the west creates for South Africa is negligible compared to the problems that South Africans create for themselves.

But yeah sure, fuck Uber eats, where I live (in the west) we don't even have Uber never-mind Uber eats. But again we have legislation that prevent them from operating here, put in place by politicians, who were voted for by the populace, same as in South Africa. So you know, the root cause remains the root cause.

South Africans en masse can claim they don't want Uber eats to operate there, but of course they would never stop voting en masse for shitty politicians either that keep screwing them over and that allow Uber eats to operate there.

But I guess if you are the kind of person who thinks lynching a Pakistanis and Nigerians will fix something, then probably it also seems like a good idea to boycott Uber eats while voting for politicians who allow Uber eats to operate.

Do you not get how viruses work? Many western nations has or had travel restrictions from other western nations.

Who made that possible? The voters, who voted for Zuma and the ANC and gave them a legislative super majority, who then in turn gave the Guptas all the power that they managed to get and either looked the other way or more likely were complicit in the Gupta's corrupt dealings with KPMG and McKinsey.

Without South African politicians selling out the South Africans who voted for them, the Guptas, KPMG and McKinsey would be entirely irrelevant. But I'm sure these facts won't prevent South Africans from lynching some more foreigners.

Nothing happening to the wealth of South African today is happening without explicit authorization by a political party that have had a legislative majority and/or super majority for almost 30 years. Pointing fingers at the west for what South Africans do to other South Africans won't fix any problems South Africa has.

A stupid but justifiable policy from the past 2 weeks cannot be a good example of why South Africa is spiraling the toilet. Sorry. Pick better examples. South Africa has been spiraling the toilet way before COVID.

> Secondly, damn are we really gonna blame colonized countries on low vaccination rates when vaccine access is still being hoarded, it’s production still close sourced, and antivax movement is still strong in western nations?

Who exactly is South Africa colonized by currently? And further:

- EXCLUSIVE South Africa delays COVID vaccine deliveries as inoculations slow ( https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/exclusive-south-africa-... )

- South Africa Asks J&J, Pfizer to Stop Sending Vaccines “It is entirely owing to hesitancy,” Crisp said. “We have plenty vaccine and capacity but hesitancy is a challenge. Unfortunately it means that many unvaccinated people may have an unhappy festive season and will possibly result in hospitals being congested.” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/s-africa-...)

- South Africa's low vaccination rate is NOT a supply problem and vaccine hesitancy is stifling demand so much that it had to delay delivery of doses, say experts - but the rest of Africa still needs more doses ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10248699/Low-vaccin... )

Let's not pretend like South Africa has a vaccine supply shortage, because that would be a lie.

I guess as South Africans who voted for the politicians who sell South Africa out to anyone willing to pay while stuffing their pockets, the majority of South Africans have no clue what I'm on about.

I mean at least Russians can claim that their voting system is horribly corrupt, but South Africans claim with a straight face that they, en masse, do not in fact support the policies instituted by the politicians they elected and who who are so blatantly corrupt that it would make Putin blush.

No, that is all the west's fault. Apologies if I delayed you from a xenophobic lynching with my crazy talk, or was it the burning of another university?

My heart used to break for them, but really, why shed a tear, this is what the South African masses vote for, and this is what they get good and hard, and god forbid anyone stands in their way of them getting it as good and hard as they possibly can get it before civil war finally burns the country to a cinder, at the very least they can find comfort in knowing south africans would have burned most of the county down before a civil war erupts:

- Why are South Africans burning schools in Limpopo? (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-36225502)

- Why Cape Town's trains are on fire in South Africa (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45990981)

- South African university set ablaze in student protest (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/south-african-...)

Burning their country down seem to be their national passtime, or at least while they are not lynching foreigners. But I'm sure one of them will come along to blame the west for this also.