Second this. If you don’t have leaks, the copper that’s there is almost certainly better than what you’ll replace it with. 70 years in service is reason to be confidant, not skeptical.

China is a big place. Saturation with security cameras is an urban thing.

Also, something I’ve learned in America is that people make a lot of noise about keeping kids safe, but that’s all just smoke. I can’t speak for China, but in America children are the least valuable humans, in economic terms, and they get prioritized accordingly.

This just isn’t true. Our healthcare system isn’t bad because we’re cheap. Or because the Pentagon sucks up all the money. We already spend more on healthcare than the military and it’s not close! The truth is that we’re getting ripped off! In fact, Medicare for All would be cheaper and we’d have more money for bombs.

Medicare Advantage alone costs more than the Army and the Navy. The whole Medicare program is slightly bigger than the entire Pentagon. Add in Social Security, Medicaid, and the VA, and if anything, the military starts to look like a real bargain.

The people who are satisfied with status quo are the beneficiaries of it.

People like Epstein can’t exist without a universe of assholes who figure it’s not their problem.

He got his social justice, time to pull up that ladder.

My wildest dream is to die in a world that is marginally better than the one I got born in. At this point I’d settle for marginally worse, since catastrophically worse is a real possibility.

I’m just going to note how giga-fucked it is that AI is openly being criticized because it hasn’t led to more layoffs.

Every-day pedestrian computer tasks should be easy to complete with the keyboard only. Mice were bad enough as a crutch for lazy users, but now it’s a crutch for lazy developers.

Let me pick on Mozilla for a second. In many of Firefox’s menus, they have alt keys. You know, an underlined letter in a word that you can select by holding the alt key and pressing that letter. In FF, many of these letters are capitalized. So now you have to press shift+alt+whatever letter. Criminally bad design.

Murdering people and stealing their land is way older than Jews, Abraham’s God, or the Old Testament. The reasons are always the same, why do we focus on the justifications?

The difference between Manifest Destiny and Zionism is academic; I don’t need to know how a monster thinks of it’self.

Every time I see the Governor, I’m reminded of that Lion King song: Oh I just can’t wait to be king!

People will say it’s him or Hitler, because it takes that kind of relief to make Newsom acceptable to a progressive. So I’m just going to say now: I’m not voting for him. Don’t start lecturing me about vulnerable people because Newsom already threw trans people under the bus. He also actively hates homeless people. And being inhuman to migrants is more Californian than Hollywood.

If “saving America” means voting for Sheriff James Davis over Adolf Hitler, then you have to wonder, is she worth saving?

Just a reminder that the raid on Waco was about more than modified and stockpiled guns, but it was also about David Koresh raping little girls. So as bad as the three letter apes are, still better than pedos.

Also, I just want to point out how impotent all those guns were when it came time to oppose the government. Some of you 2nd-brained people should study that.

You can’t pump gas out of an oil well. It has to be transported, refined, transported again, then burned. The price can fluctuate wildly in that time.

the 20% is the estimated reality now. the 60% is what the market is betting the real price will be.

What econ101 does to your brain is not normal. Into to Econ has y’all seeing a sinking ship and the first thing to ask is “how much is this life jacket worth in dollars”?

Ancestry is weird. You’ve got 2 parents, 4 grandparents and so on. Do the math and you’ll have a billion ancestors in like 40 generations. Obviously, we can’t all have a billion unique ancestors, so mathematically there must be plenty of people in my family tree that are also in yours. No matter the geographic spread or race nonsense.

However it’s also true that you’ve got 50% of your parents DNA, ~25% grandparents and so on. Which means eventually, you’ll have an ancestor that you share no genetic markers with. It’s usually about generation 12 where this happens.

So it’s true that we’re all related and it’s also true that your not related to your 12^th great grandfather.

My favorite is a pamphlet printed and distributed by Sam Adams warning the white colonists of the King’s secret plan to make them slaves.

I like this one because it reminds me that conspiratorial “thinking” in American politics is not a new phenomena.

I started with Debian and am driving Catchy now. Catchy will pull you into the terminal more than Debian will, but you don’t sound like someone put off by that.

The good news is that pacman is easy to learn and Catchy’s default terminal app is superior.

Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that’s what everyone was used to.

The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That’s it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.

So now Ubuntu is the OS where “advanced users can just turn all that crap off”.

No, no, we should deffenatly punish some of them.

You’re right. Linux has always struggled to compete with hypothetical versions of Windows that aren’t available. But you see, for testing purposes, we’re forced to use the Windows version from this timeline.