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Comment Can someone fill me in? (Score 1) 387

I don't really get into politics all that much as I don't really care which "side" I am on. But someone explain to me why Trump can't have his own platform? There are tons of Twitter users who spew out hate about white folks and men and yet Twitter doesn't seem to police them at all, why does it seem that people are melting down over a platform that might not be for them? Does it really matter if there is a place on the internet you don't agree with? Why must all places on the internet agree with your state of mind?

I am seriously asking, I am not being sarcastic or trying to make people angry, I just find it odd that people will post the most racists crap on Twitter and people and Twitter seem fine with it, but giving the "other" side a place that they can supposivly do the same drives you crazy? That doesn't quite make sense to me.

Comment Re:politics and its cancer is what is killing comi (Score 1) 163

It's a pretty bizarre assertion that nobody relates to Spider-Man, or that the X-Men movies lost money because of Wolverine.

How many times have you been shot in the head? ripped a part and insta healed from it? NONE! Therefore how can you relate to Wolverine? You can like a character, but you can't know how it is to be them... thinking you know how they feel is silly! Wolverine goes a round knowing he can't really be hurt, if people do the same they need help! No one insta heals!

Comment politics and its cancer is what is killing comics (Score 2) 163

It's clear why DC and Marvel aren't even in the top 20 anymore...No one wants a gay Superman that cries about the environment, they want a Superman that has a great story arc, not pandering to minority groups.

Look at Manga, wanna know why it's becoming more and more popular? Because they don't push nonsense, like it or not, people don't want real life shit in their media, they want to get away from reality, and don't want to relate to the characters.. anyone who says they can relate to a being that has powers of any kind needs help, you can't hang upside down, you don't have claws coming out of your hands that are made from magic metal, you can't control peoples mind... how can you relate to these characters if you can't feel what they do? You can't.

Comics in the west went woke, and now they are going to go broke... I don't understand how people don't understand this, if you don't sell what people want to buy, how long do you think you are going to stay in business for? Not very long! This is not rocket surgery!

Comment Re:The sky is brown!! (Score 1) 186

No, they aren't they are files that tell the filesystem that there are more files in a location, nothing more, to distinguish, between real files that actually hold real data and these, they were given the destination "directory", not folder, not sub directory. (although sub directory's were a hack of this later on).
fsck /dev/sde2
/dev/sde2: 4 files, 1214/1221 clusters

mount /dev/sde2 /mnt/floppy/
rm -rf /mnt/floppy/*
umount /mnt/floppy/

fsck /dev/sde2
/dev/sde2: 0 files, 0/1221 clusters

mount /dev/sde2 /mnt/floppy/
mkdir -pv /mnt/floppy/dir1
umount /mnt/floppy/

fsck /dev/sde2
/dev/sde2: 1 files, 1/1221 clusters

Comment Re: Science everyone understands... (Score 1) 445

Who is "we"? The majority of people do not get a flu shot, (I live in Canada, maybe it's different elsewhere), we get the commercials, we get the ads on the radio, but no one I personally know gets an annual flu shot.

A universal vaccine will never exist, new strains of the flu can't even be reliably predicted never mind whole other viruses and their strains and we have been trying to do this for decades, its like the cold fusion of pharma, it will never happen.

Comment Re: Science everyone understands... (Score 1) 445

But unfortunately a) it isn't known how long immunity from having Covid lasts; and b) getting Covid does not imply you have antibody immunity -- that depends on how sick you were, and hence on viral load.

So getting a vaccine N number of times a year is the solution? No one knows how long any of the vaccines last either... if everyone needs booster shots twice a year (like the CEO of Pfizer says) this becomes almost impossible to travel anywhere. It's hard enough to vaccinate the entire population in one year, nevermind doing it twice a year.

The people who don't get vaxxed in time, might allow the virus to mutate so this is a game we can't win, let nature take its course and deal with it, no matter what we do, nature always finds a way anyways, implying we know better is just acting like a fool.

This vaccination game doesn't work anyways, in 100 years if we keep it up the way we are going, when a kid reaches five years old they will have like 900 shots a year, this why survival of the fittest will always win, intelligence is great, the ability to survive is a bit more important. Civilizations have lost knowledge many times, that can be relearned, extinction on the other hand is pretty much permanent.

Comment Re:Doubts (Score 1) 127

Actually they can be more sustainable, but there are sacrifices that need to be made for now...Converting your EV or ICE to run on hydrogen will emit true 0 emissions. However the range will be cut short, for now.... Batteries on the other hand are a dead technology, the problems with them stem from mining enough lithium in the future (there not 100% renewable), to the weight they bring to the car/truck, there power to weight ratio is not that impressive (before you talk about production cars and how fast Tesla's are, you are also forgetting ICE's have both hands tied behind their backs, with all the emission controls that rob the engine of its power) Go to a race track and look at the 1/4 mile runs or even the 1/8 mile runs, yes Teslas can beat most production cars, but I have yet to see a Tesla beat someone's home made project with equal amount of money put into it. You can buy a Foxbody Mustang and get an all aluminum block, and have it put out 600-800HP when the car itself only weighs 2700lbs for less then you can buy a Tesla for. So please drop the whole more power thing it's complete bullshit... Just because production doesn't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.

Tesla's are fast, but they aren't that fast.

Comment Re:They're not appalled by China's actions then? (Score 1) 459

I dont live in the US, and no such Freedoms are violated, actions are not speech, to dig up dirt on someone after they said something 10 years ago and use it as a means to their end, is not freedom of speech, its predatory in nature, while were at it, why do we just beat the shit out of people we dont like until their disabled and there life is ruined? Both achieve the same goals here.

Comment Re:They're not appalled by China's actions then? (Score 1) 459

K so he is fired, but it will never end with these ass hats, they will keep attacking and attacking, being woke doesn't mean your invincible, your actions have repercussions, no one gets to dictate who gets to live life with this one thing constantly hanging over their head forever. The woke think their judge jury and executioner, in reality they are just mentally unstable sad individuals.

Comment Re:Oh no... What will the FSF ever do without RedH (Score 1) 459

FSF is not just LINUX. It paved the way to make LINUX popular.

What will the FSF do without corporate sponsorship, it won't be just RedHat. The answer is very little. They have always relied upon patronage. No the FSF did not pave the way for Linux. People wanted unix on a PC. Linux got there first, its success is little more than that. Had FreeBSD not been mired in legal crap at the time it may very well have been that "PC unix".

So the entire userland "gnu" and RMS's gcc compiler just came out of thin air eh? Without gcc or the GPL 2.0 LINUX would have gotten as popular as it is. Without the FSF LINUX is nothing but a kernel.

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