"clutch back pieces of your own freedom"

LOL. I wish I could invest in hyperbole stocks.

You know what? The middle class has - more or less since there was one - gone "to a place to work" and then gone home. Let's remember this has been normal for CENTURIES.

When covid hit, and we'd all suspected for a few years that working remotely was POSSIBLE, there was suddenly a high demand for it. Companies spent PILES of $$ on mostlyshitty remote systems that have by and large gotten better up to "ok". And we worked from home because companies had no choice. Now that the emergency is over, the elite workers (let's remember the real peons in service industries, food service, etc NEVER got the choice, so fuck them, right?) "don't want to go back" - even though almost certainly most of them over 30 originally signed employment agreements that presupposed working in an office every day. (It was so obvious, and so assumed, that no, in fact, most of such agreements didn't mention it explicitly.)

Now it's "freedom", is it? You guys need to work on your narrative, between your therapy sessions.

My favorite bit is that companies - who are on supposedly universally seething with unadulterated greed, mind you, are now somehow uninterested in the $millions per year they could save on commercial real estate letting people work from home, using their own kitchens and offices (for free) rather than the $140 persqft downtown office space?
And this is because, let me see, they somehow get off on flexing on the peons who (supposedly) are just as effective from home?

Maybe roll through that narrative in your head again, see if it makes sense this time:
- allegedly workers are really JUST AS EFFECTIVE from home (according to them)
- they could work entirely from home, easily saving businesses $millions/year
- and yet the pointy-heads don't want this just so ... they can wander around the office with a stale cup of coffee, ogle the secretary's tits, and force the peons to genuflect?

Of course. Makes perfect sense. This is why we can't ever have nice things. Someone always tries to take advantage.

The one thing I can assert confidently is the next time circumstances require companies to loosen the norms a squidgen for workers' sake, COVID showed them "just don't do it, because everyone will start insisting that (whatever it is) is an ESSENTIAL FREEDOM now". Nice precedent.

FWIW, I have 6 employees, all who are completely free to work from home (they were before covid, in fact). I go into the office every day, but I just don't get that thrill without peons to flex on.

In all honesty, he was hardly even aware of it.

Slashdot is an AmeriKKKan site, that's why you can speak freely. If it were an Australian site you wouldn't be able to say "globalize the intafada."

Try that on any of your country's sites. I dare you. I double dare you.

AmeriKKKan freedom doesn't come from any government. It comes from God. The Constitution merely states that the government may not infringe on this God-given right.

What you have isn't freedom. It's loose handcuffs. I suggest China instead of Japan, it will be good when you become a province later this century.

After all, you told the AmeriKKKans to fuck right off with their Navy ships and disbanded your air force as a useless expense. Zai Jian!

Good! Stay out! We don't want you. AmeriKKKa is closed tell all your friends not to come, too. We suck and hate freedom.

Your freedom of speech to shit on AMeriKKKa was brought to you by the Constitution in and the First Amendment. In Australia people can't even speak out against Jews without being arrested. Good example you set.

Yep. The default activity it should perform when there's no control is to turn emergency lights on and pull over/park on the shoulder - at a minimum.

In a city where the power goes out regularly... just how do they fail to correctly deal with basic traffic laws?

This isn't just "lights aren't working, can't negotiate" - it's a failure to account for basic road conditions. What if there's an intersection with no visible signage (damaged or obscured stop sign)? That's not safe at all.

RE the divorces comment, that's a feature not a bug when you realize that what's being uncovered is 100% deeply dishonest behavior.

Personally I don't know why DNA testing at birth isn't mandatory even if it was only to confirm paternity and then disposed.

You can always tell boomers because they are obsessed with asset value.

Who cares if your battery gets swapped out? Whenever you get low on charge you swap and it's a neverending cycle. They already have this in China, an advanced country, for electric scooters. The batteries are all the same and when you get low you can recharge or stop at a swap station and put your current one in and get another fully charged one out.

Why aren't you cheering? The Trumptards are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Oh, how we will all laugh the next time a hurricane blows down the McMansions of these racist science-hating rebels

. We can even have FEMA mark any house with a Trump yard sign off-limits and refuse to give federal disaster assistance, like they did under Biden.

trumptards don't believe in welfare, remember?

I've been reading a lot about this and for the last 20 years largely the agw global warming advocates have INSISTED that food crops wouldn't flourish in higher CO2 environs (despite obvious logical and ample evidence - cf greenhouses commonly run at higher co2 concentrations for just this reason).

www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2017/Q1/rising-co2-due-to-climate-change-may-not-improve-agriculture,-model-shows.html
Rising CO2 due to climate change may not improve agriculture, model shows

https://yaleclimateconnections...
"A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. "

https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
"Carbon dioxide could reduce crop yields" Are we conceding that now? "OK yes it will help them grow but they won't be as nutritious" is th new line?
Just want to be sure I'm current where the argument's at.

What's wrong with you?

Hey, we're going to have a room set up just for breastfeeding.

Should I put in a webcam connected to the internet?

Of course!

China isn't developing, it's AHEAD of the West. They have nearly zero crime, the streets are safe and clean, highspeed rail over the entire country, education and family are highly valued, teachers and fathers get respect in public, and most importantly NO WARS.

Their political system is highly criticized but there never, ever could be a Trump there. No PACs, politics isn't run by billionaire donations, no foreign aid and no bending the knee to foreign countries and bombing other foreign countries for their interests.

Morons are permanently locked out of the system at the leadership and grassroots levels.

Ever wanted a government by rationalist atheists? China is your country. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

The most important billionaire, Jack Ma, was shut up in prison when he tried to use his wealth to fuck with politics.

Imagine an America that had the courage to do the same to Elon Musk, the Sacklers, Miriam Adelson, David Rubelstein, Bill Ackman and all the rest of the far right.

We'd be a different, and better country.

I don't get the Rust hatred. C has implicitly had an "unsafe" mode for much longer than Rust.

If you're a C kernel developer, you can jump on the Rust bandwagon very easily: just put the keyword unsafe in your comments and you can write code just like Rust developers.

Maybe, just maybe, this mistake was caused by the fact that the same sort of people who are likely to write bugs into their code are the same types of people who prefer "safe" languages because understanding the subtle nuances of how computers work is difficult. They would prefer a system where they couldn't make mistakes, rather than a system where they had to understand the code and the machine to a high level. There's a place in the world for these sorts of people, but it's not in OS/kernel development. The sort of I-can't-make-mistakes-with-Rust mindset probably lulled the coder into a false sense of security, with the predictable outcome.

"everyone that disagrees with me is stupid!" .... actually explains more.

Maybe assume that reasonable people can look at facts and disagree, and that's normal, with out assuming you have a magically-endowed monopoly on truth or morality?

Just saying.