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Comment Re: All Things Considered (Score 1) 23

Probably correct. But all of the (valid) studies of microdosing psychedelics as treatments for depression or PTSD have involved sessions supervised by trained professionals. Instead of popping a few caps of 'shrooms and catching a jump seat ride on in a commercial airline cockpit.

To many people have developed false senses of expertise with regards to dosing themselves. But that is one sign of an addicted brain just trying to justify another hit.

Comment Re:uh (Score 0) 42

I honestly don't understand the visceral hate for systemd.

It is the antithesis of the Unix way. This has been argued back and forth all along, and if you don't agree I won't try to convince you here.

Systemd, at least in my experience, just works and writing systemd unit files is easier than writing sysvinit scripts. So when Debian switched to it, it was fine. I adapted.

The problem with systemd and unit scripts is that they cannot do all the things that a script can do, so you often wind up using a script anyway. In that case you have really not made things any simpler than the usual case. Meanwhile you've added a whole lot of complexity which is largely unnecessary, some of which is utterly dependent on other parts so it is difficult to impossible to switch out portions of it, and much of which doesn't work very well. systemd is arguably better at typical run time logging but is worse at early boot logging, which is what got me to drop it. I was having problems with root on zfs on Debian, which had been working, and I couldn't tell what had happened without a debugger. So I switched to Devuan.

In fact I just did a fresh install of Devuan excalibur (Debian trixie) with root on zfs from the trixie instructions on the openzfs site, where I had a dumb problem with grub which I solved in a hacky way by dropping a script into grub.d (the script which creates the root= part of the cmdline doesn't detect the pool the root volume is on correctly) and also had to do an init script in place of their .service file. It took me about 45 seconds to whack a related init script into what I needed and add it to the boot sequence.

When Debian switched to systemd, I adapted. I switched to Devuan.

Comment Re: Unemployment (Score 1) 175

It isn't his fault, it is his mothers. but interesting that you support the fraud.

The SSA is using people who are not medical professionals to make what are effectively medical determinations. This is ever so much bullshit. People can appeal with the same facts (documentation etc) and have a much higher approval rate when they do, and then they have a yet higher approval rate if they employ a disability lawyer (who takes a portion of their back benefits as payment.)

I am very much not supporting fraud, I am saying that the people whose job it is to stop the fraud from occurring in the first place (as there is no benefit fraud unless you are receiving benefits) are not only not doing their jobs, they are fundamentally unqualified to do their jobs. What's better than detecting fraud is preventing it. And those same people are also denying claims that they should be granting, because the chance of success goes up on appeal even without employing legal counsel.

Am I happy about false claims? No, not if they are occurring. But unless you know who's getting what benefits for what reason, which you don't unless you have read the notices of action, award letters etc., I don't have any reason to believe that there is in fact any fraud. I do however know for sure that the SSA is doing work the employees are not qualified to do.

Comment Re: No, they don't (Score 1) 30

Take phones for example. The average person does not know about alternatives, and their bank app wouldn't run there anyway, so they have no choice but to plug in to one or another platform that wants to milk them in some way. I chose to have my bank app work myself.

I don't just buy everything that's thrown at me, either. But many people don't enjoy the choice I've got.

Comment Already happening. (Score 1) 93

Almost every time I ask google something on my car touchscreen connected to Android Auto, it puts up a popup asking me to rate my Google Assistant experience... that would be a popup OVER the map I'm trying to use to navigate! Also, please stop asking me to confirm the reports of police car sightings... again, it's obstructing my map and making me miss my exit.

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