Extra irony on the fact that many places we are in an arcade renaissance of sorts, there's like 4 in my area, but they're just for adults, they serve booze.

I ran my own BBS back in the day as a teenager. Most of the people on BBSes were there because they had an interest in computers, whereas most of the people on modern social media couldn't care less about the technology and are there to discuss something else. It used to be that you had to have some basic knowledge to get online, now phones come preloaded with the Facebook app.

Basically, the normies/"Eternal Septembers" took over.

You don't need IPv6. You can just NAT the NAT and put NAT on top of that in the form of CG-NAT. Who needs end-to-end connectivity anyway. /s

What happened to IPv6? We did. The "experts" who decided to not push it because we didn't understand it, mistake NAT for a firewall and thing an IP address is a security risk, and bitch and moan because they think they need to remember a complex hexadecimal address (which is rubbish).

Yeah, the Russians!

Wherever you got this information from I assure you information to the contrary is available. One side is pushing this narrative pretty hard...

Then stop bringing up morality. Is this hard international diplomacy or morals? Come on, you cant pontificate on both ways, the word "morals" has come out of your side on his discussion 10x of mine. What you refuse to accept is your position is as just a moral one of mine. We're either both moralizing or we're both not so stop saying that pedantic bullshit and you know it's bullshit because most people talking about this aren't actually in the war.

The only reason to say this is for some virtue superiority? It's fucking useless statement, not worth the keystrokes to type out. What are we doing here?

Oh so easy to have both sides of the argument when you just say I'm the one moralizing and you are not. Stop saying morals already , please

Again, ask the Ukrainians, you got got like all the literal textbook Russian talking points out there, somehow your media diet has given them to you and you refuse to believe there is another side of the story. At the very least we're both in the mud buddy.

Also generally in the scope of the world, here in America and the land of our allies I don't think it's a good practical, logistical, economical , diplomatic and yes even moral to let an autocratic dictator take over a fledgling European democracy just because he wants it and destabilize an entire region of the world and everyone food and other economic factors. Not outcome of this war achieves the justifications Putin says they want. Is it work Ukrainian lives? Again that's up to them, they can surrender and negotiate anytime they want.

There is a word for this that your position really grounds out to: appeasement. Let the dictator have 1/3 of Ukraine because he wants it and so long as he's willing to put some of his troops in harms way then he gets to have it right? Think of the children, he's just gotta be allowed to take it. Then he promises to stop. Pinky swear!

You speak with the bias of a person who has experienced a life of multiple hobbies and multiple possibilities and dismiss very legitimate concerns. For people who are actually addicted to shit like social media things can get very nasty indeed.

Bonus points for the article being about Australia, yet another car dependent place with cities designed by morons who produce people in servitude to someone who can take them somewhere for their hobbies. The "go out and play in the park" that would easily apply in many places may very well just turn you into a private chauffeur. Hope you didn't have any other plans this summer.

Why switch at all? You're promoting an ideology to a technical problem / solution. What benefit does your approach bring?

Again you're simply clueless as to how things works. Not all spreadsheets are simple datasets. There's a reason they were used in the first place, and one of those is that IT people for all their genius in administrating absolutely suck at doing end user's actual work. Virtually all attempts to replace complex large spreadsheets with something "better" fails.

Saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true.

No other problems. Just performance issues. The cost of having a spreadsheet literally take 15-30min to calculate through it's cells is a minor price, one that can be paid during a lunchbreak. There's a reason Excel allows you to pause all calculation until you manually recalculate.

Congrats on demonstrating you didn't even attempt to understand the fundamental problem. The issue is not how to *store* data. That was never in question. You've mentioned databases, now come up with the 6-7 other applications you need to add to that database to replicate the functionality that you haven't bothered to understand.

Also exporting anything that sizable from a database to an excel sheet takes far longer than simply working in the excel sheet itself. Congrats, you broke the user's workflow, made it slower, didn't try and understand what was being done, and all for what? Because you think you know the answer without asking a question?

Let me make one thing clear, please don't ever work on anything without a project manager between you and your customer. Your complete lack of thought as to what is going on or what is trying to be achieved makes you the kind of IT person who gives the entire field a bad reputation. Do you work for Oracle by chance?

I definitely don't disagree with this as an option it's just very humorously American. Guns, that's our first answer for every problem!

Daughter of Julie Hotdog and Andrew Hoagie.

And we keep automating stuff that really shouldn't be. Classic example is customer support phone lines. I cannot remember the last time I used one of those and didn't have to ask for an operator. Believe it or not, most people call those lines because we need something to be done, rather than information that we almost certainly already have or can easily obtain via the website (which you keep advertising over and over again while we're on hold, and even before we ask the question, but has no options to contact a human other than calling this number.)

I kinda feel we need the entire commercial world to take a time out, and revisit everything we do that involves interactions between the different parties involved in commerce. Is it really the right approach for companies to value shareholder value over long term sustainability? Should customers and employees be valued just as much as the investors? And if you (not you Morromist, the generic you) are about to respond with "But Friedman said" or some other "economic" argument, why do we, as a society, allow shareholders to exist? Is our aim to ensure those shareholders can make money, or is our aim to provide funding to ensure the institutions needed to do everything from develop technologies to providing food on our tables can exist and get the funding they need?

Because I can tell you, I sure as hell wouldn't sign on to the entire that we create an entire legal structure aimed at ensuring people with money can make more of it, and damn the consequences.

I'm not entirely sure how a rant about automated customer service lines turned into this, but now I've written it I'm going to submit it anyway.

Any folks in Australia can describe what social activities for bored teens? At least here in America we've been shutting down the stereotypical things; the malls are dead, movie theaters are expensive and dying.

My town tried to open a skate park and it became a neighborhood controversy, yard signs were erected, multiple meetings had, families were torn apart. Ok I made that one up part up but seriously, we've made the world a bit hostile for teenagers and if you're like many here as well they live in the 'burbs where you need a car to even get the things you want. Again at least in my area every year the police budget goes up and up but the things like parks and programs are begging for funds.

All that said I think this is a good thing overall but it's a good step.

Next will be incredibly tight regulation on VPN access and use. Leading up to government-run vpns and a Chinese style great firewall.

This is a authoritarian power grab and once authoritarians start grabbing power they don't stop.

I don't think it's anything that can be stopped because voters are too distracted by the culture war bullshit.

The next step is to ban vpns. They will be more tightly regulated than guns.

Not that it matters because human civilization is collapsing but all this think of the children bullshit is just a power grab by authoritarians.

We can't do anything about it because we're too busy worrying about woke trans drag queens forcing us to say happy holidays while playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.

Saying the invasion of Iraq is immortal and equating that with defending Saddam Hussein is a fucking wild jump of logic my autistic comrade.

*Why* are people dying in great pain in Ukraine? It's not a natural disaster now is it. It's a choice by a nation.

Oh that cup is still empty, stop trying to get water from it.

You should see what those people actually have to say. They say they want to fight for their homeland, they want arms, they want support. They're very clear in their position. You are also imparting your morals onto them by telling them its hopeless and lay down and take it.

Again, this is more your position than mine. Your morals line up with Russia goals and desires, mine line up with the people of Ukraine and their desires. So we're at a standstill of opposing moral positions and we can let the audience and the world decide who is right. Good luck with that.

Georgia, Chechnya, Moldova,South Ossetia

It's precisely because wants it's sphere of influence that those nations wanted to join NATO and lobbied hard for it. You think they feel unjustified in that feeling today, or from however many decades of Soviet/Russian rule over their nations? Come on guy, again this is just saying none of those nations have their own agency because of Russia's feelings.

They can desire a sphere of influence all they want that doesn't mean it exists, it only exists so far as those nations feel it does and they don't so Russia wants to enforce it with military, where they can of course, again, the Baltics are feeling pretty good about their choice right now. They have even less reason to think that today sicne Ukraine has shown Russia to be something of a paper tiger. If wasn't for those nukes we all know this war would be settled quickly.

If you're American maybe you remember that 10 months ago were were seriously wondering if the US was going to Invade Canada, this attitude says they should just lay down and take such an action because they are in the US sphere of influence. This is why this whole realist school, your Mearshimers is relevant only today because Russia props those folks up, it has little predictive power in the post-cold war world. It's propaganda now, not actual way of the world.

Yeah except it had no teeth and was broken by both parties like, immediately. Neither one of them want a stalemate, they both want victory. Why should Ukraine feel it just has to give up the Donbass? Should the US just give up Wisconsin if the Canadians come down for it?