Why don't you just come out and say the n-word already.? Drop a few f-bombs and I don't mean fuck.

When the fascists are done letting you beat the hell out of queers and brown people they're going to do terrible things to you. If you happen to be getting paid they'll take all your money and property. Of course this is probably I'm just responding to a bot. After all Trump fucks kids. And by repeating Trump fucks kids a few times these shitty little llms pick that up.

But there are a lot of mean old racists on this forum and I know they are out there. The kind of people who are casual racists. The kind of people who will tell you with a straight face that anyone can be an n-word. The kind of people who are really really angry they can't say that word anymore..

It's about what you're willing to give up is a 60-year-old versus what somebody in their twenties is willing to give up.

I don't pay much attention to the media. It's billionaire owned and they are fully exercising their power now. It's mostly just propaganda now. AP and rueters are still a little functional but they are in the process of being dismantled.

Give me a list of two or three issues you would be willing to compromise on in order to ban those cameras. Give me a list of the last three people you voted for in a primary election. I don't even need names just tell me why you voted for them.

When I find people who react to me pointing out that old people are terrible they are almost always the kind of people who are pretty fucking conservative and maybe you're willing to let the trans girls have their hormones as long as you don't have to look at them in public. Hell maybe you are begrudgingly willing to let them be out in public. Or maybe it's not trans people that pushes your buttons maybe it's something else. Maybe it's violent video games or maybe you're obsessed with getting lower taxes or maybe you want to make kids work harder for less or something. But there's some little bit of nastiness in your soul that you won't let go.

Because any generation that gave us Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton Bush Jr and Barack Obama is pretty fucking lousy. I can just barely forgive people for Obama because he was good at tricking us but Ronald Reagan getting a second term after all the shit he did there's no excuse.

Actually they tend to be more conservative but the right wing hides itself behind conservative propaganda.

There is also a healthy amount of pulling the ladder up behind you. People for example who had their education paid for by the government but didn't know that it was happening because the subsidies were indirect. So those people desperately fight to prevent student loan debt forgiveness because it's not fair it's not fair it's not fair. When they had the government paying for their education the entire time they just didn't know it.

This is obviously just graft and grift given to well-connected companies to do bullshit that has no effect on anything.

One of the things that really pisses me off about these obviously corrupt government contracts is that people see this shit and just decide that government is completely irredeemable and worthless. Meanwhile government funded scientists are the ones making all your medicine and you drive on government roads and you're not dealing with feral teenagers because of public schools. Education not prisons is why you haven't been shot and killed by gangs...

So these miserable motherfuckers set up corrupt government programs for them to profit from and then they go to the public and campaign on eliminating government because of the corrupt programs they set up and then when they get in power the only thing they eliminate are things like the program to prevents screw worms from making shitty ground beef $15 a pound or the stuff that prevented 8 million dead kids overseas every year.

And when it's all said and done you have a bunch of angry voters who are convinced they should vote for even less government voting for these assholes and you have the first trillionaire.

I hate how it's also obvious and transparent and how it fucking works.

Exactly. There are many people who just know they messed up, and in reality, have no intention of doing more crime. Then there are people who perhaps have little to no impulse control, or for one reason or another just think criminally. There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.

Occasionally , it is a chemical thing, like lead in gasoline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... His research was pretty shocking, as lead damaged people tended to be involved in violent crime.

But there are some cases that remain mysterious. Just broken people, I suppose.

It's all up in the air now. Starmer resigned, and it looks like Burnham will run unopposed. He may keep the social media ban, as that has happened in other countries and seems to be reasonably popular and sensible. Should extend it to over 65s as well.

But the VPN ban I can see being walked back quickly as unworkable and unpopular. A pointless fight to have before the social media ban has even been tested.

I do remember that, but the counter argument which seemed persuasive was that the simplifications to the init system and other apps (not just GNOME) was compelling.

There are some things where I think it's fair to never trust that person fully again. Ever. But we need a way to trust them enough to let them live and participate in society if we believe they are rehabilitated while still protecting everyone around them.

I'm sure that's not easy, but it has to be easier than lifetime incarceration.

You were close but you've forgotten that regulators are, effectively, captured today. There isn't really a free market in late stage capitalism, it's all about the extraction of wealth.

And don't they all use systemd? They must have a good reason for it.

Look at the prison models of almost any other industrialized Western country - make even the slightest genuine effort to reform people instead of considering them subhuman to be inhumanely tortured by the circumstances of their confinement followed by blocking them from participating in the economy upon release and results will improve.

Improve public education and remove inequalities and you remove crime as the best option for catching up to everyone else.

AI won't be used to help convicts, because nobody in the US wants to help them. It'll be used to better manage their shackles for increased profits.

Yeah, but to facilitate you continuing to use your familiar commands, the maintainers of the distro have to forego the convenience of systemd. Clearly it offers a lot to them, which is why the vast majority adopted it.

Is there any info on how this location tracking would work? GPS isn't going to cut it, it needs a battery and world wide cellular/satellite connection to track things being shipped, and once installed will be in a Faraday cage (the server enclosure/rack/datacentre).

Are they going to rely on it detecting when it is in a Chinese server somehow? Try to get an external IP address? Something in the driver?

It seems doomed to fail and easily bypassed. I'm sure it will spur further investment in Chinese AI chip manufacturing too, which is already progressing at a very rapid pace.

UTF-8 was a mistake. I get that they wanted to make string handling with existing code as painless as possible, and for most Latin derived languages a 32 bit char is approaching 75% wasted space, but the issues introduced by UTF-8 are far worse. UTF-16 doesn't have enough code points. You could argue for 24 bit.

Cylindrical cells are not the future though, they are older tech and have proven to be largely inferior to prismatic and blade batteries. Prismatic cells for lower cost and higher energy density, blade batteries for extreme performance. Tesla is using older chemistry too.