He really should wait until Tuesdays for this stuff ... :-)

Although commutations apparently just need a lavishly praising letter to our Dear Leader, and "the courage, conviction, and intelligence to always vote Republican" -- even if you actually pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

President Trump commutes the prison sentence of George Santos

And when another place becomes even cheaper, they'll replace the humans in the Philippines with robots operated remotely. :-)

Robots in Japan <- robots in Philippines <- people elsewhere ...

"So because someone happens to be winning life's lottery for the moment, they deserve to be killed..."

They volunteered to die in an experiment in stupidity, no one killed them. Suck billionaire cock if you like but don't expect to be rewarded.

Do you need your comfort blanket, bootlicker?

Gun violence is an overwhelmingly reich wing phenomenon.

Seems like they really should have done an upward-facing camera as well so they could ID you without your fingerprint.

Transparency is still cool, but only when used on elements which can be transparent without screwing everything up.

I used to use Compiz with Emerald as the decorator and a liquid glass theme. But I didn't make window contents transparent, I only made title bars (and other decorations) translucent. The text and its drop shadow were fully opaque, same for the widgets, so it didn't create any readability problems whatsoever. But it did look neato.

Transparency isn't the problem, overdoing it is the problem.

It's standing because Russia hopes to use it someday. At the point at which it becomes clear that Russia cannot win, I wouldn't want to be near it.

No, for everyone's stupidity. Everyone involved including every passenger was an idiot. The only one who deserves any sympathy was the teen whose father pressured him into it, when he knew it was a bad idea and didn't want to go. Rush has been well known to be dismissive about safety concerns and random people on the internet knew that the hull wasn't fit for purpose and the main window wasn't rated for the depth. If you're getting into an experimental submarine without knowing more about it than people who only learned so they could make jokes about your probable fate, you're a fuckup.

When you combine that with the fact that it's a bunch of rich fucks who we're all supposed to believe got rich through merit in this chickenshit society, schadenfreude is the most appropriate response, and anything else is boot licking.

You do realize that's basically just paraphrasing what I said and what you disagreed with, right?

The initial problem it claimed to solve was needing to write scripts to manage daemons.

It doesn't solve that problem.

Claiming that systemd solves that problem is the actual gaslighting.

Meanwhile it creates new problems. I switched away because I had an early boot problem which systemd's bullshit logging scheme wasn't capturing. It was actively preventing me from addressing the problem.

People who think systemd solves problems are provably the ones without understanding.

The total number of init systems which exist is completely irrelevant to that determination and you brought it in as a distraction.

Accurate statement: "Humans invented a way to harness CRISPR/Cas9 to create transgenic organisms"

Inaccurate statement: "Humans invented CRISPR/Cas9"

This isn't complicated.

Surely someone has done a thesis on this, good luck finding it with modern search engines. In principle a steady and significant rate of inflation could be positive, but you've still got to have some mechanism for people to build wealth or else the best you can achieve is that everyone stays poor together.

Being in denial about how people are is a big part of how we got here. I constantly run into people saying "oh I can't believe how hateful people are" and shit like that because they weren't exposed to it. I live in a part of California where logging is still a primary source of employment and spent a couple years fixing trailers and I heard all manner of ill shit that other people don't experience because they're not a big white guy wearing carharts and turning wrenches. If you think you have some idea of what kind of repugnant ideas are out there you haven't heard a damned thing until they take you to be one of them.

It's a simple fact that people who haven't had as much exposure to other people and cultures are ignorant about them. And it's also a fact that people who don't know shit typically don't have any idea how much they don't know. But that works in all directions, see?

You have no idea what consequences I'm facing.