"meaning that these "people" would not be capable of speech or abstract thought (or really much more than rats or similar-sized animals are capable of)."

Brains are not equal. A parrot does a lot with a tiny brain for example. I think the rest of the argument is more compelling

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No need to announce your arrival any more than your departure, just fuck off

Yes, you trolls certainly are small people.

That's a great concept of a plan!

So as long as they can keep secrets until they get approval they're home free? This is as thoughtless as all of your proposals.

You are begging the question.

The answer to that question is no.

"Only to need to pay inflated prices to import power from France's nuclear plants."

Hardly. They PAID Switzerland several times already to take solar and wind power off their hands, forcing the Swiss nukes to shut down.

Tried looking at wealth inequality?

No, here on Slashdot.

IME, grub is that reason.

You should have noauto in your options. Or today, better yet, use autofs.

You mean where they're still using scripts?

I've been maintaining serious Unix-like systems since I was a teenager, when at home I had a Sun SLC netbooting Xkernel from a 486 running Linux so I could run Netscape on a fanless system by my bed. Now I run Devuan with root on encrypted ZFS for funsies. You don't need to tell me about boot problems. I just don't blame my problems on sysvinit because I know which components are actually responsible, and it has never failed me. It does one job and does it well. I too have had my system be problematic because I could have done better with my fstab, but that's not sysvinit's fault.

You're pretty weird. Are you mad that he doesn't take your bait so you're going to come at me or what? Unfortunately, you are pretty boring. If you would like to make me mad, please come up with some new material. Peace!

Sure, that's a reasonable approach, if you can keep it up. But evidence says we can't.

"Capitalism forces the worst people to keep each other in check."

Yeah we can see how well that works when they all go fuck kids on the same island.

Which is ironic because they completely do support that happening for the owning class, but not for them, even though they are promoting their own demise by supporting that class.

Sure we think that.
Automatic Weaving Looms (Northrop Looms)
In the textile industry, the introduction of the automatic bobbin-changing loom meant a single operator could manage 20 or more machines instead of just two or four.
This caused widespread "de-skilling" of the workforce and led to intense pressure to increase the "workload" per employee.
This specific type of automation led to massive labor unrest, such as the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912).

Continuous Processing and Automatic Control (1900s–1920s)

In industries like flour milling, oil refining, and chemical production, the industry moved from "batch processing" to "continuous flow." Early pneumatic controls and automatic shut-off valves began to replace manual oversight for pressure and flow.

The Linotype Machine (Late 19th–Early 20th Century)

Before the Linotype, setting type for newspapers was a painstaking, manual process done by highly skilled, well-paid typographers. The Linotype machine allowed an operator to cast an entire line of metal type at once using a keyboard.
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