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Comment Re:We taught boys and girls to hate marriage (Score 1) 81

Boys don't matter that much here. The fertility limiter in humans is female fertility. Male fertility is basically ~13 years old to around 60-80 depending on individual and ethnic group.

For females, this window is much narrower, and optimal window is very narrow. Optimal starts around 14-16 (depending on ethnic group) and it crashes into geriatric pregnancy between late 20s and early 30s and sterility between mid 30s to early 40s (again depending on ethnic group).

The really fucked up part no one is talking about? Blacks just crashed way below pretty much everyone else. Their fertility window is earlier than the rest, their optimal is something like 14-25, and they slide into geriatric pregnancy around 30 (for europeans and asians, that's usually around 35). So when rich white women finally got the "don't have kids early, have them only after you have full education and career" fertility suppression strategy affect blacks, their ethnic group's fertility crashed much harder than the rest. The sheer amount of "DEI boss babe" black woman types being genuinely distressed that they're in their early 30s and they find out that they're actually so far into their geriatric pregnancy stage that they have low single digit percentage to get pregnant even with modern IVF is staggering, and their ethnic fertility rate is showing it.

Seriously, look up a few of those videos on tiktok. It's genuinely distressing to watch if you have any empathy. These women really want children, they have been told by rich white women that they should put it off as a part of female intersexual competition (human females' primary intersexual competition mechanism is suppressing fertility of other women). And whereas their european and asian colleagues can actually start having kids in early 30s with only minor difficulties, africans are basically off the cliff into geriatric pregnancy/borderline sterility at that point. So system told them their whole lives that if they do this, they'll have the dream family. They structure their whole lives around this lie, and then the dream is shattered when for the first time in their lives, MD tells them the actual truth about their biological limits.

It's heart breaking stuff.

Comment Re:More Blatant Corruption (Score 1) 33

The Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) worked in the 3rd Reich (and many other places and continues to work) not because the Nazis were a lot better at using it. The Big Lie works because, generally, people are dumb and without insight. Present the average person with anything where disagreeing might incur a cost, and they will readily agree, regardless of what they agree to and regardless of how evil that makes their action.

Comment Re:Financial in nature, no kidding? (Score 1) 33

In the ruling on Wednesday, the court acknowledged that Anthropic "will likely suffer some degree of irreparable harm absent a stay," but that the company's interests "seem primarily financial in nature."

Yeah, the company's interests are financial. That's what companies are for.

Actually, no. That just seems to be the primary motivation to create companies in the US. It is not the only reason and, for people that are not total greedy scum, it may not even be a goal besides financial viability. Profits a entirely optional and there strong evidence that running a company with a primary motivation of generating profits is detrimental for its survival. And society, incidentally. You have fallen for some thinly veiled religious fundamentalist propaganda.

Comment man lsof -or- appropos list open connections (Score 1) 56

Unix (that includes Linux and obviously Macs) have a command called "lsof".
"ls" is short for list and "of" is for "open files. List open files.

A port is considered a file, and depending how the device tree mapping to names works, they are also in the device tree.

The output might be overwhelming, but if you only want to see open ports and do not care about extra firewall features and user interaction, then lsof might be enough, especially considering the many command line options.

Comment Liability laws (Score 1) 46

Now lets bring these requirements into law, permanently, across all industrial and consumer devices.

Any obstacle to repair and maintenance other than the inherent difficulty of the operation is anticonsumerist and in the long run, economically damaging (and many of the inherent difficulties are as well, but we gotta start somewhere).

If we change the "right to repair" laws, we should also change the liability laws. If a home-repaired unit becomes unsafe and injures people, who is responsible?

In the case of farming equipment, suppose a farmer makes a repair to a piece of equipment and then his son is injured or killed by said equipment. Who is liable?

The company would say that the farmer took full responsibility once he modified the equipment, while the farmer could say that his modifications did not affect the safety of the device.

It's also not at all clear whether a physical repair done by the farmer could have contributed to an accident made by software. Lots of things can affect software, such as the alignment of the two welded pieces. The software makes a performance analysis of stopping distance based on information it has, but the repair might have changed those parameters.

People who like to race want to download new parameters into the ECU of their car, but that's illegal. It actually is: the parameters are set to maximize efficiency, and while you can get better performance with different numbers, it would promote climate change, so it was made illegal.

Being able to repair things is good, and it's very clear that open source has driven the software industry forward, but we need to be careful about liability as well. Jailbreaking your phone is one thing, but jailbreaking your EV might have catastriphic consequences. I'm not a fan of ID-tagging headlights (BMW, Mazda), but if an accident occurs because of reduced visibility the company could be held liable.

I'm completely in favor of being able to repair things, and John Deere is the worst sort of predatory behaviour, but just wanted to point out that there's another side to the story and we should be careful.

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