Haha fair enough

If you were to tell an average English speaker that you were going to dig an indentation, chances are high that they would misinterpret your meaning.

On the other hand, if you told them that you were going to dig a "blind hole," I imagine they would have a much better understanding of your meaning and you would still be technically correct.

Exactly, genocides happen and no religion is good at preventing them. All religions are equally useless as sources of truth and morality.

Religion also isn't a prerequisite for genocide. Whether or not all religions are equally useless for truth and morality is a big and absolute statement. I can't say that I agree or disagree because I'm not familiar with every religion.

We should neither vilify or praise anyone for being religious

This I agree with 100%.

The Buddhist successors to the Mongolian/Qing Dynasty were plenty harmful to others. That's what sparked the student revolts responsible for their leadership's removal.

It's my understanding that those harms were political and not religious in nature.

You can blame the icky yicky communists

Why the disparaging adjectives? I feel like I'm missing the point.

falling back on CIA agitprop to justify what was effectively a US military operation intended to destabilize a border region isn't proof of your humanitarianism. Even the Dalai Lama himself regrets letting the CIA militarize Tibet.

I don't think there is any justification. It was selfish and self serving from the beginning. If the CIA had followed through on their promises, that would be a different story. But they clearly never intended to do so.

It's the story of the Cold War told over and over again. The goal of these operations is to spark civil war, not to liberate or liberalize any population.

Amen.

Thank you for the clarification, I see that now. What I also see from further research is that he and his family were taken by force and have not been seen publicly since. Whether or not that would be technically considered kidnapping or abduction feels like splitting hairs.

I don't follow religious doctrine either, but as long as the adherents aren't acting in ways that are harmful to others, I personally try not to insult or belittle them or their beliefs.

The information regarding the CIA is interesting though. The fact that the US reneged on their promises and only used Tibet to extract information about China is depressing, but not surprising.

Forcibly relocating a child away from their parents is the literal definition of kidnapping. Whether or not he ended up having a good life afterwards does not change that fact.

Archive link.

This apparently isn't even the "real" Panchen Lama, but is the one chosen by China to replace the one that was kidnapped and was chosen by the Dalai Lama.

I just installed and chsh'd into ksh, does that count?

VB.NET app that was installed on every employees computer to capture time sheets. Required VPN access so it could talk to the accounting DB using raw queries, zero input validation, and it used a pirated library for the time input grid control.

The IT staff who would install the program on all new machines (it didn't work with their imaging system) had a script to suppress the message requesting a paid license. There was nothing special about this control, it was basically a rip off of built in winforms controls.

Source code was long lost, but reverse engineering and decompiling CIL/MSIL code is thankfully relatively straightforward.

Never forget this Tom Cardy classic: https://invidious.f5.si/watch?v=Ap9GqyLoWyY

Or: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap9GqyLoWyY

For further clarity, it's a shortening of "fitting to" just like how "gonna" is a shortening of "going to." As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.