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by masonium 2207 days ago
To be clear, it's possibly a political statement but it's hardly an ad, at least in any sense that people (Americans?) traditionally use the term.

I also don't think that the existence of 'more important' issues precludes the discussion of other issues that may be relevant to a large number of people (or a small number of people, for that matter). I would certainly find it annoying if every political conversation I took part in were interrupted with "Well, that's nothing to be compared to climate change", even if I believed it to be true.
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IshKebab 2207 days ago
It is clearly an ad. Not a commercial ad but those aren't the only kind (as you pointed out).

They've opened themselves up to arguments over what non Rust-related cause to advertise next! "For Rust 1.45 I think we should put replace the release notes with a message about the civil war in Yemen."

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heavenlyblue 2207 days ago
Tech is a first-world thing. It is quite clear that the problems in the most tech-y country in the world would spill into tech itself.

By the way, the same thing happens with for example suicides at Chinese factories: companies do take a stance which source from these factories because it directly affects them.

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ZoomZoomZoom 2207 days ago
> Tech is a first-world thing.

Wow, quite a statement. Guess I'm giving up on coding, then.

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