That you don't self-identify as a racist, doesn't mean that you're not one. You insist that members of a certain race should have benefits above others, for no reason relevant to the people concerned.

DEI is advertised by its proponents as "anti-racism". And as such, it's to racism as antimatter is to matter: weighs the same, behaves the same, looks the same, has some colors flipped, acts violently when in contact with its counterpart -- but as long as all of the flipped "colors" remain flipped, indistinguishable from it.

So here's a math exercise: assuming a normal distribution (which is incredibly "infectious" as long as the scores have multiple different causes), generate a population of scores for group A and for group B, with group B having the average lower by X points. Now select the best candidates, using any of the following strategies:
* quotas: reserve A/(A+B) spots for group A, B/(A+B) spots for group B
* Affirmative Action: give every candidate from B X extra points, pick from the global population
* meritocracy: pick from the global population based only on the scores, completely blind to race/gender/zodiac sign/odd-or-even date of birth/etc
* penalty for the "inferior" group: subtract X points from every candidate from B, pick globally
* traditional racism: pick from only group A
Now compare the total score of candidates you picked for every strategy.

It doesn't matter if groups A vs B differ by race, gender, etc -- the mechanism is the same.

So just open 100 times as many? That'll bring you to the usual standard.

But, borrowing from a library without paying someone is stealing! This will stop the author, dead for half a century, from producing further works! And reading a book you own for second time without paying again is stealing, too!

If you want an actually sane replacement, made to match POSIX (rather than just bug-for-bug), try voreutils. Rust free!

Or, if you need the actual Tinyflaccid Teams client, run it in a VM? Or, if you need to use your company-provided box, give it a HDMI frame-grabber as a monitor?

The latter BTW is a nice solution if they force you to use (and lug around everywhere) a company-provided laptop that does nothing but Tinyflaccid Lookout and Tinyflaccid Teams.

Fukushima hasn't directly killed a single person; there were some deaths due to evacuation panic and cleanup efforts. Meanwhile, climate change risks billions of deaths, will probably render northern Europe uninhabitable (on the level of Alaska or frozen-brass-monkey-balls parts of Canada), etc, and short-term air pollution from power generation alone kills a Hitler's worth of people every 3 years.

So for those who don't parse your comment as irony, there's some astounding level of believing their feels rather than statistics.

Another point is that all three nuclear power plants that failed (Chernobyl, Three Mile, Fukushima) have been built in the '60s. The technology has advanced a wee bit since, and if new nuclear plants were allowed to be built...

Why would you want socialism? It has been tried in more than 100 countries by now, and every time it included concentration camps and related goodies (strictly speaking, there were close shaves like Grenada which had only disorganized killing -- but given that it lasted only 4 years in a nation with 100k people, two towns and a bunch of villages, I'll give it a pass). Also, every major brand of socialism: soviet, nazi, maoist -- includes a massive push for propaganda and social control. Are you going to suggest that current socialist countries (China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc) don't use dark patterns and AI in their propaganda?

Capitalism's record isn't so stellar either, but at least it's not 100% bad and not so extreme. But then, the word "capitalism" is way too fuzzy to use in a serious discussion, we'd need to define it first. And the definition that was used the most, in countries that had dedicated universities of Marxism-Leninism and had mandatory lectures in all other university departments, was "capitalism = every economist system other than communism, including those that don't use money at all (like early kibbutzim), but excluding cavemen ("primitive communism")".

The other major definition is free market. But those billionaires you've spoken of are not so keen for free market, they prefer corporatism.

Thus: your post about capitalism vs socialism deserves to be at -1 not +4, as it brings no valid contribution to the discussion.

Well, UK has declared war on Germany on 1939-09-03, then done nothing for a year until Germany was done with Poland and France, then started attacking them for real. Thus, a "preemptive" attack wouldn't be a big deal...

If the addition of an e-core makes your machine run like crap, use a better OS.

I made a tool "topline" that nicely visualizes this kind of scheduling. Run it on some terminal, then run various tasks somewhere. Observe the tasks moving between p-cores and e-cores.

Spanish okupas would have a word with you.

We were talking about European cities... And indeed, I'm a Polack living a bit east of the country in TFA.

Bowser is a Koopa not a toad. BTW, in Polish "Koopa" means "shit", which is appropriate here.

You need a home 24/7/340, you need a car only sometimes. "Parking" the house is a hassle too (need the flowers watered, etc). An analogy to the rental car would be going abroad for a few years -- in that case you rent the house away.

Not using a car is unthinkable to Americans, most of whom need one just to go to the nearest store -- but the company in TFA is in Germany.

The moment you use a gun during a crime, it's +5 years in the pokey if you get caught. Most of US states have a law that says: carrying a gun while committing a crime is +X years, brandishing it +Y years, discharging +Z years. That's a lot compared to a shoplifting charge.