You say that like you know a damn thing about masculinity. There is nothing masculine about being an incel you little twit.

That's one narrative you can tell. Another would be that the Republican party really only thrives when their candidates are brazenly corrupt and immoral. There's a fundamental dishonesty to candidates like Goldwater, Ford, Bush Sr., Dole, McCain, and Romney, who feel duty-bound to pretend to be moral while pushing the same aristocratic bullshit as Nixon, Reagan, Bush Jr., and Trump. I would argue that the latter were much more successful because of their shamelessness.

Constantly morphing coalitions consisting of odd couples is just the two party system. The right-wing pairing of racists and religious extremists is a much better fit than Democrats trying to get union members and the trans community to see eye to eye. The Venn diagram of racists and religious extremists is practically a single circle. One could argue that it was the Civil Rights Act that really got them to lock step.

Identifying a singular genesis for our current problems that can be articulated in a couple sentences sounds nice, but we can always move that back to something else. For example, "This whole mess started after WWII ended and the Cold War began, because the military industrial complex has made us economically dependent on a system incentivized to embrace fascism." Or, "This whole mess started when the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans set the precedent for a two party system." One I like is, "This whole mess started when Truman's political cronies pushed him through as Vice President." How about, "This whole mess started when Joe Biden had the hubris to run for re-election and no one in his inner circle had the courage to vociferously insist he step down before the primary?"

History has no single narrative. It's complicated and messy. There are pivotal moments, but there isn't A pivotal moment.

When people describe DEI as hiring unqualified minorities what they mean is that people should be considered unqualified if they are a minority.

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It could be interpreted as either biological, nurture driven, or both. The idiot parents who are reproducing en masse raise their kids to be idiots. The warning of Idiocracy is valid regardless of where one stands regarding the hereditary nature of intelligence/IQ.

But NextCloud and OpenCloud already do this while providing the software as FOSS. Set it up yourself and it is free. Want them to host it or support it? Pay.

Those seem like better, more mature solutions than this Open Desk thing.

What he is complaining about is that things like Flatpak make Linux applications work more like macOS. He is mad because many Linux distros are making things more Mac-like to make things easier for users like you. The OP actually wants the prospect of dependency hell because he would rather save a minor amount of disk space than have redundant libraries.

AGI has nothing to do with the current technology that OpenAI is selling. At this point, it is just a nebulous idea. Right now, AGI is just like what cold fusion was twenty years ago. If you had invested like crazy in nuclear fusion companies because you had high expectations for them figuring out cold fusion, you would have lost a lot as fusion is still just a research toy that in no way functions as a profitable business model. As it stands, we do not know whether the existing technology OpenAI sells will ever be profitable. AGI, like cold fusion, may just be a dream.

While there are certainly valid criticisms of how Apple and Google have structured their app stores, blaming them for massive government overreach that they used their extensive lobbying power to fight against is quite a reach. What's next? Will you blame PornHub for the Texas age verification law because, after all, making porn available in Texas is just asking for it?

They should have included a single Python coder and given him the same data in csv files. That would really put Excel into perspective.

It's nice that we can agree that "conservative" means a tyrannical monarchy with massive wealth disparity and no human rights.

How come all of the so-called Oracle disasters end up requiring the client to pay Oracle 10x the initial estimate. I do not think Oracle views any of these as disasters.

How this company continually gets away with it is beyond me.

That's interesting and all, but since this isn't a criminal case it's not exactly on topic. If we're involved in a traffic accident and you are found at fault, you will be liable for the damages. If you crashed into me intentionally you would probably face criminal charges, but if you didn't display any sign of intent, the laws related to using a vehicle as a deadly weapon would be irrelevant to our case.

They're being sued for being complicit in the wrongful death of a teenager. They're not being taken to criminal court for failing to uphold their duty as a mandatory reporter.

If I watch you drown and do nothing, even though I'm a capable swimmer standing next to a bunch of flotation devices, and all of this is caught on camera, your family could probably sue me for causing your death even though I'm not a lifeguard and do not own the pool.

That is the story, although there are some conflicting stories so it's not really clear whether "a patchy server" came before or after using the Apache name.

Either way, as far as Native American references go, I find the use by the Apache Foundation to be relatively benign.

While all the reactionaries in this thread (like the first post) are completely ridiculous with how quickly they pulled out their soapboxes to decry cultural sensitivity as "anti-white" while demonizing liberal white women, there is a small kernel of truth in their complaints that we can be a little too sensitive at times. Backlash against the "Apache" name is an example of that. Unfortunately, they take that small kernel of truth and turn it into a mountain of racism.