Do we really trust the administration responsible for the Reflecting Pool fiasco to handle nuclear power plant roll-outs sanely and safety?

Not to mention the current regime's penchant for indulging in magical thinking. It has a habit of dismantling safety and oversight while thumbing its nose at both established science and plain common sense.

Totally aside from Trump's 51st state rhetoric, as a Canadian I'm starting to get really freaked out at the raging tire fire that the United States has become. It's like living next door to a real-life version of an Evil Dead movie.

Were you perhaps thinking of full self-driving? Oh, wait - that was Waymo, and Tesla still can't do it. Or maybe it's the tremendous progress he's made toward putting humans on Mars? The Hyperloop? Humanoid robots?

Yes, he's done a lot with battery technology, and without him those advances might have had to wait an additional two or three years. And he gave a boost to Tesla - while displacing and stealing credit from the actual innovators who founded the company. But that boost was celebrity-powered, unicorn-fart, PT Barnum-style bullshit - it wasn't technical or scientific prowess.

I think it's safe to say that Musk's legacy - at least so far - has rather high ratios of both style-to-substance and damage-to-benefit.

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!

The difference is the smartphone does something useful, the glasses don't.

(Not useful to you, at least.)

What could have been the business plan was just to keep the site frozen ca. 2012 and continue raking in ad dollars with a minimum of maintenance effort. A stable organization, with a stable and wildly popular product, providing stable employment to the people running it.

But, simply making a luxurious living isn't good enough when you have desires of world domination. Those kind of desires necessitate, and generate, instability. So the business plan became... what we see coming out of Meta today.

If they loved him so much, they could have convinced him not to board the vessel. Oh, he boarded it anyway? Well, your loved one is a dumbass. Incorporating those into your circle leads to emotional distress.

Or, maybe the family convinced him to board the vessel, as was the case with at least 1 OceanGate passenger. No bystanders in that family.

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.

So the US tech and financial sectors' acquiescence to Trump and his administration's Fascist ways are coming back to bite them. Good. "The more you tighten your grip, Trump, the more countries and income opportunities will slip through your fingers." (Apologies to George).

That said, I don't trust the European "commercial banks and payment service providers (who) would offer digital euro services to customers" - mostly because 'bankers'. Another Star Wars quote comes to mind: something or other about altering the deal...

Thanks! I hadn't considered all that concrete. Although I know producing it creates huge amounts of CO2, I tend not to be mindful of that in an ongoing sense. Going forward, that will be top-of-mind when it comes to evaluating the 'greenness' of projects and technologies.

Thanks for that. I was about to post a knee-jerk response about the fittingness of Orwell having been a Brit. And given some of the British government's excesses I've heard about over the past while - many of which sound disturbingly like thoughtcrime laws - I still think my reaction was appropriate. That said, I appreciate your reasonable counterpoint.

It's a tough balance for governments to strike. Sadly, I think that the British government is starting to strongly favour a bit of totalitarianism - so much so that I, as a Canadian, am reluctant to even visit the UK.

This time is already different. You don't need a crystal ball, you need glasses.