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Comment Re:Good old Labour (Score 0) 147

Parents in the US discipline their children for using foul language in inappropriate places. Various SCOTUS cases define situations where we have no free speech. There are boundaries and the British Government is setting down boundaries as to when people are mature enough to encounter the types of posts common on social media. It's terrible when I watch Millennial parents staring at their phone while walking down the sidewalk with their children. This was a bad habit before we understood what social media could affect us in such a way. Regardless, in the end it's up to the voters in the UK to decide how their Parliament creates laws. As I understand it, there's no judicial review in the UK like we have in the US.

Comment Re:Grabage in / Garbage out, Continue using VIM. (Score 2) 55

Personally, I use vim, but barely. I don't know most of the features. I know the features carried over from vi, the cut and paste logic and when I upgrade a version of Linux, how to look up how to get rid of all of the shit put into the system vim configuration afterwards. I had to use an older system with a pre-vim plain-old vi. The only thing I missed was the cut/paste (yank, etc.). Everything else worked as expected.

Comment Re:Say (Score 1) 55

Emacs just adopted a no-AI position

Emacs rejected having another feature??? FFS, it's the original bloatware. It took decades for Eclipse to come around and supplant it as far as code editors go. Maybe ^a^i was already taken for some other function. So now emacs has everything but the kitchen sink and AI.

Comment Re:You know it's funny (Score 1) 84

Explain what you mean by bad behavior.

Wow. Do I really have to explain this? Rewarding somebody who has broken the law in order to attempt to gain permanent entry into our country? That's bad behavior. I guess you are the type that would give a kid an ice cream cone when he is disobedient. We already have the 2nd easiest path to legally immigrate, second only to New Zealand. Yeah, Canada and Australia are harder to get into and you don't see lines of people trying to get into countries other than the US or possibly some countries in the EU. Being a citizen of one country doesn't automatically mean you can move into another.

What burden are you talking about?

Uhm, first, housing shortages for everyone. Food prices. Basic essentials. Next, assumptions by some that because you're brown and speaking Spanish that automatically means you're an illegal immigrant. Legal immigrants speak Spanish and are brown, but get the burden of that assumption. They shouldn't have to deal with that. This is a burden they would not have were illegal immigration enforced. Same goes for any language and ethnic background, but we don't have anywhere near the population of other ethnicities illegally present as compared to Hispanics.

The difference between a legal immigrant and an illegal immigrant and a citizen is a piece of paper.

No, the difference between a illegal immigrant and a legal immigrant/citizen is somebody who jumped our border vs somebody who has spent a lot of time and paid a lot of money to our government to gain the privilege of living and working here/somebody who was born here.

assumes some form of bigotry

And here's the usual idiotic "call somebody a racist" comeback to try to get somebody on the defensive when you know you have no ground to stand on because you don't understand the concept of "Don't reward bad behavior." Even were it were just a piece of paper, a piece of paper is the difference between somebody who gets into a concert hall for a concert and somebody who doesn't. Yes, I know in the modern age cell phones work as well, but you would be pedantic if you were to try to use that as an argument, so I'm just cutting you off pre-emptively.

You fucking KNOW what you're saying sounds like bigotry, but you tried to date a Brazilian

How many Brazilians have you tried to date? DACA recipients? How about how many people of color have you invited into your house to live with you in a roommate situation? I'm guessing the answer to all of those is probably none. So this circles back to what I said of this person: he doesn't understand the idea of not rewarding bad behavior. Clearly you don't either. Immigration is a privilege, not a right. We tried open borders in the late 1800s into the early 1900s and again during the Biden administration and the same problems of overwhelming resources like housing came about in both the former and the latter.

So where do we go from here? Stop handing your children ice cream cones when they misbehave. The same goes to illegal immigrants.

If you think this is a trap because the more you explain yourself the more it's going to sound unintelligent, feelings based, bigoted or worse, then fucking reflect on that will you?

You wouldn't know bigotry if it came up to you and slapped you across the face. Go watch the show Cómo sobrevivir soltero/How to Survive Being Single on Amazon. This show was filmed largely in Mexico City, yet all of the characters in the show are white in a city where most of the population isn't. And your name calling also discredits you as you again try to put people on the defensive. You've not got any ground to stand on because you don't understand the concept of "Don't reward bad behavior." Stop giving illegal immigrants ice cream cones because you come off as, "unintelligent, feelings based, bigoted or worse," to people who do.

Now here comes the real shocker for you: my personal take is that you can't easily deport millions of illegal immigrants. With our southern border now, for the most part, secured, grant this: if you came in before the Biden administration and can prove that, you're granted residency status without the possibility of citizenship. Let's call it a yellow card instead of a green card. You can work. You must learn and, in public, speak English. We can provide classes. Regardless, in your private space, speak Klingon for all I care. Why is the "Speak English in public" part so important? I was recently at a campground renovation site and asked if there were any water fountains. The guy responded, "No comprendo." Unfortunately for him, Yo hablo Español. So I asked him in Spanish. His answer came back in perfect English: "Yeah, it's over there." I have epilepsy. Dehydration could have quickly turned into a medical emergency if I didn't speak Spanish. Continuing, you pay taxes but pay an additional tax for the rest of your life because you immigrated illegally. If you came in during the Biden administration, you go through the pre-check process that should have been done correctly, by law, in the first place at the border. If you pass that litmus test, you continue through legal evaluation. If you fail, you're deported. And during that evaluation, if most of your family is back home, minus Cuba, you likely don't need asylum when most of the Americas are democracies.

Comment Re:You know it's funny (Score 1) 84

Lately it seems every time we get more free speech it's just more racism

Define "racism". I've been called "racist" by a racist liberal because I have a problem with illegal immigration, under the pretext of the fact that you don't reward bad behavior. He doesn't understand that concept. He fails to understand the fact that he is in fact the racist. He's assuming my problem is based on Hispanics and not illegal immigrants in general. He knows nothing of my past including trying to date a Brazilian and trying to date a DACA recipient. The latter is interested, but going through a lot of other things at the moment. Meanwhile he fails to understand that illegal immigration puts an unnecessary burden on people who were born in the US or are otherwise legally present in the US. He assumes that when I refer to illegal immigrants I mean exclusively Hispanics. If somebody is here illegally from Germany, I've got the same problem. This is what makes him a racist. The truth: we allow almost 1 million people into the US legally every year. Imagine if illegal immigration had been controlled since 1987 when Reagan granted amnesty. There'd be none of this burden on our fellow countrymen and women.

Comment Re:No Intel fine by me (Score 1) 122

The first thing I did with my new to me Intel Mac (again, last Intel generation) is remove Tahoe and revert it to Sequoia. Screenshots on review sites made it clear it wasn't something I wanted, Liquid Glass being the primary reason. It falls under the idea of "Change for the sake of change." If your product is mature and works, stop screwing with it and accept that you've made something great. I still haven't switched over from Windows 10 on PCs and VMs and will continue to use extended support until 2028. My brief experience with Windows 11 was indeed brief. I've kept old installation media around as it hopefully keeps me from creating a Microsoft account as I can install without being forced to create one when I install the old version without an internet connection.

Comment Re:Doom (Score 1) 72

- Sea levels continue to rise at an increasing rate, from 2mm a year prior to 2015 to 4.3mm a year in 2023.
... - Large gaps in knowledge persist -- with only 27% of the ocean floor mapped by 2025, deep-sea ecosystems remain poorly understood.

Right or wrong, detecting this kind of difference is clearly highly prone to error. Just a minor change from things like El Niño or La Niña can account for this kind of stuff. These are examples, not the only things that can interfere with oceanic changes. Let's also not forget that Europe and Much of North America used to be covered in ice 11000 years, andon a geological scale, that's nothing. Let's also not forget that to get an accurate data set, you need 900,000 years of data to account shifts in orbit, shifts in tilt, etc. Temperatures are going upward, that's not the call-out I'm making. It's just that the methods of gathering the data set is inherently poor.

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