Comment What happened to suburbia? (Score 1) 182
I'm not american. I thought everyone there wanted to live far from town in a cute suburban neighborhood or a small town etc... confused
I'm not american. I thought everyone there wanted to live far from town in a cute suburban neighborhood or a small town etc... confused
Are citizens allowed to live with those densities?
Plato was a big thinker but he suffered from "left-brain poisoning" which leads to over abstraction, including racism, classism, political parties, communism, and other mental disorders. "Plutonic Ideals" were supposed to be a though experiment originally.
Aristotle did major work to fix Plato's fuzzy-headed thinking.
In that case, why do we need the law, other than some grandstanding seat warmer needing the attention?
We mandate safety requirements for all sorts of potentially dangerous devices. Why is this different?
If they teach that then most people will realize they are much closer to the Helot class of slaves in Athens than to free Citizens.
The extant reality is a cleverly-designed rouse fed by selected ignorance.
> community-powered, open-source project
Has someone written a feature to make this better and it's being ignored?
Or is this a matter of insisting someone else do something?
TBH it sounds like we need a standard for pre-rendered blurb and thumbs.
Extended OpenGraph for thumbs? Or does that exist?
Social media is moving to distributed no matter who dislikes that idea, so make it as efficient as possible, yes, but don't bitch about reality.
> Some of them are years old.
Decades, even.
You should learn about Columbus's colonies.
Sure. All professional gamblers make money. Just ask them.
But, for some reason, they're always broke.
One trick to manage their self-delusion is to retroactively put their winnings in the "professional gambling" pile and their losses in the "just playing for fun so it doesn't count" pile.
"Expenses" is also a handy excuse. "It wasn't the gambling - it was the expenses that ate up my bankroll." Followed of course by asking to borrow money.
bookmakers absolutely do care who wins or loses. Here is one example from a few months ago.
Zachary Lucas, director of retail sports at TwinSpires Sportsbook, knew pregame that Dallas was a serious liability issue.
"There's a landslide of money on Dallas. We're up to our neck in liability," Lucas said.
One thing that has always been true - what bookies say about their results and what their results actually are are two quite different things. In the long run what happens in any particular event isn't important. The long-term profit is determined simply by how many bets they took in. The more business they write the more money they make. Sure, there can be outlier events, but they take steps to mitigate those so they don't go broke.
Ubuntu is a weird borkage of Debian which was mostly obsoleted by Bookworm's inclusion of firmware.
Unless you need automatic ZFS support in the installer then install Bookworm.
There's a ZFS howto that just needs a LiveCD image. The lxqt image works better than GNOME.
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Too bad - I am buying a large quantity of batteries for a project.
Way to launch.
Free fuel should be pumped into an onsite mining rig and split the crypto with the owner.
Do I need to build the trailer?
They have a fear of fire. It's a primitive fear.
They want to ban coal, wood stoves, gas stoves, iCE's, diesel ships - anything that uses fire.
Solar, wind, wave - they are not afraid of those.
"FIRE BAD!" - Unfrozen Caveman Bureaucrat
Germans want to blow up the Kirsch Bridge even more than they want to engage in buggery.
Listen to the leaked tapes from last month.
Now they are forming a pretext.
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. -- C.S. Lewis
