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Comment Re:Everybody knows where the pipelines are (Score 2) 58

Dude, nobody is telling young girls that men are evil.

Little girls see the same little boys that you see. The same boys that won't look you in the eye. Don't talk about their feelings. Don't focus on their school work. Pick fights, be rude, roughhouse, disrupt class, etc. Way too fucking online and anti-social. If you're their parent, what are you DOING? You won't put them in Boy Scouts because "it's gAy"? You're part of the problem.

I know you know about those exact issues because you complain about them too, but you blame the school. Now it's the girls. I think maybe you're the problem. Laying those problems at the feet of other well-adjusted kids is just fucking chilling man. Literally everything you said is backwards and wrong just like that one. Young men need help. You can start by helping them instead of blaming everyone else like a lunatic. Everyone wants to complain about the boys, nobody wants to cop to being parents of those same bored, unsocialized, unfit, way too online boys. Build a fucking doghouse with them, take them out for volunteer work, take them dirt biking FFS, and show them how adult men make new friends. The fuck is wrong with you?

Comment Re:Stop with the be gay, do crime stuff (Score 1) 58

Funny how nobody is burning down cities over a straight-up assassination.

I think you misunderstand people's motivations and lack a sense of scale.

A HUGE amount of people care about police violence in their own cities, and they were out in the streets in every major city and a lot of smaller ones. When you have tens of millions of people in the streets you get a few crazies. 15-26 million engaged people, feet on the ground.

I'm going to be honest, I don't think many conservatives liked Charlie Kirk in particular. He's like an uneducated Rush Limbaugh and drug religion into odd corners. Few million followers on xitter, for the entertainment? There were more feet on the ground for blue lives matter than Charlie Kirk's vigils, just saying.

Comment Charlie Kirk's killer wasn't radicalized. (Score 3, Insightful) 58

Killing Charlie Kirk makes you a murderer not a radical. Charlie said some hateful things about a lot of people, and for them it's personal. Fox News and New York Post are happy to report that the alleged shooter is a member of or adjacent to one or more groups we know for a fact Charlie has said some very hateful things about. Do to them what we did in the 1950s, stoning gays is god's perfect law, etc. That's not politics, it's not policy, it's not political theory, it's just hateful. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the possible motives here, and it wasn't disagreement over universal healthcare or college debt or size of government.

Comment Re:20% as much CO2 (Score 2) 67

It has nothing to do with investment in trains or not but a tolerance for allowing people who cause trouble to use them. There are countries with far older rail infrastructure that I would use over American public transit. Those countries won't put up with some crackhead or meth addict terrorizing other patrons.

I see a glaring problem here. Do you know how much a ticket costs on a commuter train? Crackheads can't afford them.

You have never used the American railway system in your life, have you. Shut your fucking mouth.

Comment Re:20% as much CO2 (Score 2) 67

That's basically saying trains are an urban necessity, and I'm not disagreeing with that part. I just don't see trains as a good fit for suburbia, and usually when an article implies that we need more trains, they're also subtly hinting that low density development is a problem by extension.

I have never heard of an urban, but not suburban train. I know your only experience is the Disney monorail, but dude, this is a larger scale than a theme park. Trains go from the city, through the suburbs, and beyond. It's like the whole fucking point. Commuter trains connect the jobs in the city to the vast, rich expanse of exurbs beyond the reach of light rail.

You say it's not a problem, then you complain about the traffic. Then you complain about construction. Then the apartment buildings. It will happen because the growth will happen, like it or not. When you say low density development, what you actually mean is you want low density no development. Everyone wants the economy of the bigass city down the road, but the neighbor situation of Alaska. Then they act shocked and butthurt when more neighbors show up like nobody else is thinking the same thing.

Think how your vascular system is laid out. There's the big tubes, connected to littler tubes, to littler tubes, etc. If you don't want growth, move somewhere with little to no economic activity. You can be as spread out thinly as you want there, I can respect that. Otherwise your little town will turn into a big town some day, and you can do that with your head in the sand in a really stupid way, or you can do it in a smart way.

Comment Re: "Lefist Rag Calls for More Trains" News at 11 (Score 1) 67

Odd how someone can be "radicalized" enough to shoot someone, but participating in democracy the proper way is still too much of a hassle.

To vote for what for example?

Charlie Kirk was never on a ballot, and people keep saying his "politics", he was targeted because someone hated his "politics". Charlie Kirk's opinions on a lot of things were not "politics", and they were hateful. The shooter apparently had someone close to him (roommate) that was a member of a group Charlie Kirk openly hated, this is all based on what's been reported so far. All we have from the Utah governor is a vapid "leftist ideologies" and some theory of rapid radicalization. What is he calling leftist, because the shooter seems to be a stereotypical angry young white conservative/libertarian guy that was gay and didn't like Charlie's hate speech.

At trial it will be very interesting what evidence is brought to support the aggravated murder charge because everything points to very personal feelings, not politics. I certainly don't think Charlie saying we should do to someone what they did in the 1950s is politics, nor do I believe the shooter disagreed with him on universal health care, or small government.

The shooting was personal not political. Murder not assassination. Prove me wrong.

Comment Re:The Apache name *honors* the Apache tribe (Score 1) 78

Why would anyone think it was a put-down? The Apache Foundation is highly respected. What on earth makes anyone think it's an insult to name the foundation after a tribe?

You're upset at someone being upset. Nobody was upset. A group of adults got together and decided to do something different.

Why do you feel upset by this. Why on earth do you feel insulted. How do you not see the irony? I honestly thought the Cracker Barrel episode would expose this kind of tail-eating dumbness.

Do a little reflection and recognize that your feelings aren't from other people being irrationally upset about the status quo, because you certainly didn't know or care if they existed until now, as evidenced by your shock and disbelief. Your feelings are from being irrationally upset about change, and you're projecting, onto "them". That's a you thing. I'll break it down Barney-style: WHAT THEYRE CHANGING THE LOGO, WHOS UPSET WITH THE OLD LOGO. The company just decided to rebrand. There's one upset party that wants to change something and they think it's someone else. Do you get it now?

Comment Re:I'm Italian... (Score 1) 78

I see loads of "italian" restaurants with the italian flag as their logo. The food is vaguely italian and often, though bearing italian names, doesn't even exist in this country (fetuccine alfredo?).
Should I make a fuss about this?

Oh you thought that would be a joke? Don't tease. Minimum standards in order to call something Italian. A legit Italian food review board or something. Absofuckinglutely yes.

There's a big fight over Almond "Milk", but you can put mozzarella on Cacio e Pepe and call it Italian. Fuck that like sliced american cheese on lasagna.

Comment Re:Fuck "acivists" everywhere (Score 1) 78

If Trump is hiring white men because they are white men, please do call him out.
Racism and sexism is wrong, from whichever side it comes.

Guy, that's not it. I don't want to sound ableist but man they're all handicapped. I'm all for diversity and I fully support the mentally handicapped and any way we can enrich their lives let's do it, it's just that... don't you think it's a little extreme to put them in cabinet positions? I'll say it, it's cruel.

Look at poor Pete Hegseth, my man just wants to play softball, can't you see it in his eyes? It's fucking cold what you're doing to him and it brings me to tears. We should be reading Betsy DeVos bedtime stories and you put her in charge of the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION? Stop abusing them, you sick bastard.

Comment Re:Question (Score -1, Flamebait) 78

on a journey to erase anything other than "white"

Um, projection? httpd with no explicit cultural references, is "white"? That's your neutral? Doesn't THAT say something?

The same thing happened to Aunt Jemima. As a child, I loved Aunt Jemima, the smiling sweet woman who brought me delicious pancakes and syrup.

You don't think in modern times a corporate brand that represents "authentic ex-slave mama food" is no longer what it once was?
Betty Crocker is now a red spoon instead of a white 1920's homemaker. Nobody cried about that, must have happened before you weirdos decided this shit is important. All of a sudden it's a "culture war".

Who do those brand icons speak to?

It is the continuation of scrubbing any reference to any presumed "non-white" group from society.

But you have nothing to say about stuff like Betty Crocker's famous mug missing, and that's hardly the only example. Removing explicit cultural references makes everything "white" to you and you're trying to pull some reverse racism bullshit.

Why is your neutral, "white", WHY? Answer me!

Comment Re: Nice improvement (Score 3, Interesting) 34

All tape backups systems are indexed, tape and seek position, by client, file path, and time.

Yea there's some cost to doing that, there's a little database involved usually, but it's ultimately no different than filesystem metadata, it's just tracked off the media because they're removable. Like any filesystem there's still metadata backups, maybe written to the end of the tape or at a fixed position to aid rebuilding the index instead of scanning entire tapes in case the backup server went tits up with the things that need restoring.

When you do a restore you're just browsing that index, and when you hit go, the system knows exactly which tapes to tell the robot to load and what all the seek positions are. Then the tapes can be run at full speed before reading.

It's not as optimal as backup IO, like constant optimal request depth, optimal block sizes, full wire speeds etc. But restore IO, aside from tape load times and seeking is still really fast linear reads with optimal block size and request depth.

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