Definitely - a lot of people doing 'bad' things are broken in some way, had difficult/abusive childhoods etc etc. Not minimizing that at all, and it's something we have to work on as a society.

But what we're each saying isn't mutually exclusive - a person's background is obviously relevant to why they ended up in court. But the point is - they still did something horrible. I saw on multiple occasions, people not going to jail for awful crimes because their lawyer told Court what a difficult upbringing they had - and then that person going on to do something horrible to vulnerable people. Actually meeting a few of those victims and talking about their confusion/amazement that the perp was allowed to come back and beat/rape them really changed my worldview on all this.

I'm politically on the 'left' but I think you're dead wrong about this.

In a previous career I spent LOTS of time talking to criminals of all stripes, from shoplifters to serial killers. I went into that job thinking more or less the same as your above post; I came out of it many years later thinking the exact opposite. There's definitely inequality in terms of who gets sent to jail, but what I learned (n=1, this is just my opinion) is that we need prisons, and prisons don't have to be about education, reform, whatever - they can just be about punishment and that's fine.

it's starting to feel like it for me. I was joking to someone the other day that my work now consists of running 3 claude code terminals and me pressing '1' every 5 minutes.

I guess the world seems like quite a scary place from your mom's basement.

Meanwhile in the real world, exactly like GP says immigrants have made a meaningful impact on US birth rates.

Something I've noticed is - being forced to use Azure and O365 at work - the experience in firefox is horrendous. Laggy, sign-in looping, it's just awful. Even in azure - activate subscription, and usually even 10 minutes later I still have no access to resources. If I do the same thing in chromium it usually happens right away. Maybe just optimised for chromium browsers (?), and maybe it doesn't like my extensions, but it's a massive difference - anyone else see this?

some countries have figured out that having families is not purely about income but somewhat correlated with other complicated stuff like: paid leave, affordable childcare, safe spaces and parks etc. I'm sure the US will catch up some day.

I much prefer charging for access to having corporate fifth column interlopers steer linux away from all its core values, but it is very much the lesser of two evils.

genuine question - why was this code pushed now? I don't know who this idiot dev is but I'm struggling to imagine how this is issue is anywhere near the top 10 things they should be working on.

So then, who is setting the roadmap for systemd and the issues that are prioritised? There's no way this just came from the community - it smells very much like MS or even Valve have been advocating for it.

weird take

wow really? you must look so intimidating in your leotard. Bet that driver is petrified until the signal changes then their truck, about 2ton heavier than you, can push you off the road with almost zero effort. Cool!

I'm a cyclist and morons like you are why drivers hate cyclists.

+1, and lots of 'mainstream' apps also have fdroid versions which I always go to first, including:

• nextcloud
• aegis (MFA)
• Dsub2000 (play media from my NAS on android auto)
• jellyfin
• k-9 mail
• kore (kodi remote)
• OLauncher
• tailscale

It seems China is trying to make us forget about how well-known their quality control is by just flooding the markets with cheap shit. Here in NZ 'BYD' is very popular and affordable. Time will tell, I suppose. But I was in the market for an EV not long ago and a key requirement was "is not made in China" (which also counted against the Honda enY:1 although Honda still have a reputation here as being reliable).

I recently test drove their EV and the salesguy was practically begging me to buy it (more than normal I mean) - the finance package was insane, it came with free installed home charger, and a load of other stuff. It actually made me suspicious, but the reviews on that model are not complimentary, it feels like they just got it wrong with that one.

Thanks for your uninformed reckons but World Car of the Year award" - for the last four years - has gone to Korean makers.

I don't have a big issue with consumption based pricing in principle. But I *do* have a problem with the needlessly ambiguous units of measurement which feel purposely enshittified to confuse customers.

if I'm looking at switching products/services I really need to understand cost. I don't want to spend 2 hours figuring out what a DPU or a credit or a token actually is. For reference snowflake's pricing/utilisation info is here. It's 19 pages long.