Sigh. That'll explain the multiple trade deals we've signed. That'll explain why we have high rates of non-EU immigration. That'll explain why we're taking a lead on global climate change. That'll explain why we're supporting Australia in defending against Chinese expansion.

Have you even thought about what you're writing and how silly it sounds? Get out of your local echo chambers, it's turning your brain to sponge.

I don't know, I haven't seen that.

How about breaking it down by age and add in the impact of comorbidities.

You see, what works for 70 year olds with other conditions may nonetheless be a bad choice for healthy young people.

Given COVID impacts are highly significantly correlated to age, it would be criminal to discount then when making a medical decision.

Ok, let's do some simple maths.

Set A to 'chance of dying from covid while unvaccinated'
Set B to 'chance of dying from covid while vaccinated'
Set C to 'chance of dying from vaccine'

if A B + C, don't vaccinate.

See if you can get accurate numbers to plug into that formula for under 18s.

Hint: in the UK B alone is higher than A for under 50s. Drop it to under 18s and add in C and.. well, who do you want to keep?

Pretty fucking great. We have a trade deal with the EU, better trade deals than the EU with the non-EU, and no imposition of laws by the EU.

It's a massive win. I'm still happy.

A catastrophic shortage of 100,000 hgv drivers.
Unlike Poland with half the population, who are short of only 147,000 hgv drivers.

Because of Brexit, of course. You fucking clown.

Allow me to put that in different but more helpful terms: There are discrepancies between supply chains in 2016 and a post-pandemic 2021.

You do realise that Poland has a greater shortage of HGV drivers than the UK? That's EU member Poland, still in the EU, with full access to all the EU's drivers, supporting a population half the size of the UK.

Think on that before you raise irrelevant facts again.

Anti-brexiters have to make everything the fault of Brexit, even when it means ignoring the European wide shortage of HGV drivers, even when it means ignoring the impacts of COVID, even when it means ignoring that the anti-brexit media are hysterically trying to push an agenda to try and give them anti-brexit stories, even when it ignores the repeated attempts by the transport industry to protect their profits by importing cheap labour instead of paying a sensible wage.

It's ok, we know you're incapable of rational thought and understanding causation - if you could, you'd have supported Brexit.

You think fuel stations should carry enough reserves to fill every car in the country at the same time?

That's a lot of stock tied up for a once-every-decade event.

Sigh. Now read what I actually wrote. I didn't mention plain text files (oh, and hello systemd) and I didn't say linux was esoteric.

Also,

Configuration for the application I'm running from a USB key doesn't.
Stuff goes in /var and /opt.
The data I'm trying to access on one of my devices is in /shares
Don't even get me started about Android. It's still linux.

But hey, lets go for a professional example that reflects the actual issue being referenced:

Well, let's see, the settings could be in $ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/FormsComponent/forms/server/ or $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin or $ORACLE_HOME/dbs or /etc/opt/sun/im/default/config or.. well, this is just one supplier.

I think his point is valid. I think the same supplier suffers the same issues on every OS though, which supports my point. Linux is no more esoteric than Windows or other OS.

No, I see "meatless pork" and my brain tells me it's a fucking scam. Because meat or no meat, it's not fucking pork.

So stop calling it pork.

How about, call it what it fucking is.

Don't call it what it isn't. It isn't pork. When I eat pork I want to know that a delicious animal has died to give me that pleasure.

I'll happily try this alternative food but I'm still going to eat dead pigs. Thank you pigs, your sacrifice is appreciated.

Ironically, yes.

Those things you don't put in folders, you put them into dedicated systems that manage them, organise them and automate workflows around them.

Erm. The executable files had execute permissions assigned, something a basic 'ls' command tells you about.

The settings and data store are no more esoteric in Linux than Windows or any other OS I've used.

I'm intrigued, which Apple laptop has a touchscreen and pen input?

It's not a fake story, it's just that it was posted here over a week ago.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

Maybe the posting of the material is new, but I'm not interested enough to check.