> They ate meat when they could get it, which wasn't 100% of the time, and the meat they got was lean.

Um... no.

If they had an animal, they used all of it. They didn't waste any of it. They would not have turned up their nose at any part of the animal because of modern diet fads.

They would have eaten the fat and been happy to have it.

You can see how the same pragmatism manifests in older food cultures where pure fat may be eaten as a delicacy. Humans for the vast majority of history have eaten whatever they could acquire and digest. Doesn't matter if you're talking about a farmer or a hunter/gatherer.

We might not need to relent from any of those allegedly "bad foods". We may just need to lay off the recently invented industrial food chemicals.

I have a family member that's just fine with white wheat flour products as long as the flour in question is not brominated. This easily could have been misread as "gluten intolerance". You gotta wonder whether these "allergies" are the real thing or just chemical sensitivity.

Plus there is always moderation to consider. Just about anything is harmful in excess.

> Barring allergies, most humans are fully capable of assimilating anything they throw at their GI system

No they aren't. This can be readily apparent as inappropriate things leave your GI tract. A lot of this boils down to individual variation. We aren't machine stamped machines, but modern political correctness has us thinking we are. The idea of "being equal under the law" has been perverted into "being exactly the same".

We aren't all the same. Some of us do better with some things than others. Some cultural traditions actually acknowledge this.

A little science and some self awareness goes a long way. Both of these are actively discouraged by American consumer culture.

I don't find upstart easier. I don't find it easier at all. If systemd is anything like that, then it's not making things easier either. If anything, it sounds like it's making things more complex and harder to debug and easier to screw up.

That's the value of "old and primitive". It's easy to keep the whole thing in your head rather than it being a big mess you can't get your head around.

> Only in the open source community would people that think it is perfectly fine having to compile drivers every time a kernel gets a .1 update

Must be a FreeBSD thing since this is a solved problem in Linux.

You need to update your FUD playbook. It's out of date.

> GNU/Linux is still pretty irrelevant outside of cheap server

Linux is the flagship platform for a leading enterprise software vendor that sells their product for 60K per CPU.

One single server installation of their product can cost more then your domicile. This is true regardless of where you live or what kind of structure you live in.

Linux isn't just "relegated to cheap servers".

> Who cares if you have to relearn stuff?

Anyone that uses something besides Linux. One great thing about Unixen is how they share common interfaces. The more you change that, the less interchangeable the various Unixen become. The more reason their will be to resist moving from one to another.

This is something that has benefited Linux greatly in the past: the fact that a Solaris user could feel fairly comfortable with picking up Linux and just dive in.

The anti-dinosaur sentiment should not be an excuse to blindly and gratuitously change things just because of "new shiny shiny".

All of your substantive complaints seem to be a direct result of ignoring the principle "don't fix what isn't broken".

> Fundamental changes in the structure of most Linux distributions should not be met with such fervent opposition.

Sure it should. At the very least, such sweeping changes should be met with some skepticism based purely on mundane ideas about change control. Why are changes with such a massive impact being considered? What is being done to mitigate risks? How is this going to impact how Linux fits in with other Unixen?

What's broken exactly?

A beheading? Really? You think that's gruesome? There's probably footage from the evening news from the Vietnam era that's more disturbing. If you widen the scope to historical documentation in general, things get even far more disturbing.

The Nazis were proud of what they did. They were also highly organized and highly diligent. They documented their own atrocities.

Stuff they produced makes an execution look positively tame.

Suppressing or hiding from information in a free society is really not a productive or healthy thing. This includes things that will scar you for the rest of your life (and I am not talking about some mere execution video).

> In that light, I also believe video evidence of US military atrocities against innocent civilians should be published as well.

You're funny. You speak of providing more information to help develop a more realistic perspective yet you parrot propaganda that itself is the product of an unrealistic perspective.

War is a nasty business. It is chaos and destruction. It's not surgical demolition. People other than combatants are harmed even when they aren't the intended target.

This is something that people selectively forget when they want to demonize the nation of their choice.

Executing a civilian journalist is an act with the intent of ignoring the Articles of War. Attacking a military barracks, or military headquarters, or a mortar position, or a rocket position, or even an arms factory are not.

Yes. I thought the same as well. Other options would be organizations affiliated with the Iraqi or Kurdish governments. Those are the ones that are in direct opposition to ISIS today.

There's also Assad, but he's not exactly a poster boy for being more civilized.

Skilled trades have the advantage of being hourly positions with overtime pay. This can easily make a job in the skilled trades quite comparable to something one might have gone to college for.

You actually get paid for the time you work instead of everyone expecting you to work more hours for a fixed salary.

According to the article itself, this BD storage farm only gains an edge once you bring power costs into the equation. So everyone's inclinations to go WTF aren't that far off the mark really.

No. If you read the details of the story, it becomes MORE sensational.

A minor was questioned by the police without his parents present.

Actually, based on the writeup it sounds like he could be guilty of nothing more than knowing his rights.

He was questioned by police without his parents. That's not acceptable. He shouldn't be punished for anything that arose from an illegal interrogation. He may have simply refused to cooperate.