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Comment Re:Elevate critical thinking (Score 2) 148

in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.

We learned in the 1940s that you can't compromise with Nazis. Then we forgot all about it and now we've got Nazis everyfuckingwhere.

Too bad we didn't do what Germany did after WWII, but after the civil war, and educate people as to why being uber-racists is bad. Instead we gave them the electoral college so they could have more voting power than they deserved.

We're the only country which still has an electoral college and guess what? It's a fucking shit show which only serves to let shitty people have an outsized voice in government.

Comment Re: Trump said this war would be done. (Score 1) 149

"Not really any different than people who want to believe Trump."

Trump lies more than any three of them combined, and that is different. The difference may be only one of degree, but it's still different, and your accusations of sycophancy are a poor disguise for yours and based on unfounded assumptions. Run along and preach false equivalence on behalf of a fascist traitor dictator rapist elsewhere if you must, I'm not buying.

Comment Re:Just say no to snap (Score 1) 46

This is not my experience. I am on Debian and I did not experience anything like DLL hell in since I switched to Linux 30 years ago.

There is no direct equivalent to DLL hell on Linux because nothing precludes you installing multiple different versions of a library and loading them at the same time like DLLs. But if you go trying to get a new version of some software on Debian that nobody has bothered to package yet, you will often have a bad time. You will need to build dependencies for your dependencies and then you will need to build dependencies for those dependencies and so on. You can help keep your system clean by setting the prefix someplace in opt or whatever and installing all of them to their own tree, but then you will also find that some of them have config files that you're going to have to change the locations for so that they don't conflict with other versions of the same deps you've got installed and so on. The more complex the package the more of this you will deal with as it will have more deps and those will have more deps and so on.

Comment Re:Just say no to snap (Score 1) 46

It's the same line of thinking that says Systemd exists only because of RedHat. The reality is Snap is just one of several attempts in parallel by multiple people to solve a very real problem.

No, it isn't. I mean, it's not the same line of thinking. Systemd does only exist because of redhat. It doesn't solve any problems because there are things you can't do in unit files, so what you wind up having is unit files that cause systemd to call shell scripts, at which point you have gained nothing.

Snap, as shit as it is, addresses a real problem in a way that at least offers a solution to the problem. Systemd addresses a made-up problem in a way that doesn't even solve it. The only thing the two have in common is that they both create new problems.

Comment Re:AWW POOR BABY (Score 1) 73

It's really not clear at all what you mean by this.

We should have been planting trees and switching our high emissions ag over to lower emissions types because nature had reached relative stasis before we got to this point but after we became aware of the problem, as nature already had evolved mechanisms to fix the problem which we could have made use of. But now it's way too late and no amount of planting trees or replacing cows with goats or any of the other relatively easy fixes will solve the problem.

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