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How bold of him! (pun intended)

The ivory example is bad. Aside from being illogcal, it is also wasteful. It profits only politicians and impostors.

Revisionist History. I broke up with a very old friend of mine after suggesting that The Lady Vanishes episode is hinting gently at jewish exceptionalism.

So little sci-fi here. I was influenced a lot by Lukyanenko and his Wonderful Future series of short stories about the post-UBI world.

IIRC, ESA mandates 11 operators for their mission control centers that operate 24/7.

I'd rather have minimal files in $HOME than megabytes or gigabytes in a deep hierarchy under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME In reality, I have both. In practice, I commit go the vesion control o…

Following the lead of Brussels that was doing it for decades. And the yearly (sic!) STIB-MIVB subscription costs 50€ for students between 12 and 24 years old.

> HTTPS change could be easy Yes, but it adds load on download servers and increases the cost of serving VLC to users.

No

Truncate the $PWD to ¼ of the terminal width and put the result into the command prompt: # truncate the $PWD function cut_pwd { newPWD="${PWD/#$HOME/\~}" local pwdmaxlen=$((${COLUM…

The maximum universally accepted death tall is 4000 but it is not actual deaths but rather outcome of statistical simulations. Still, much lower than 2.1 mln.

This is not completely wihtout sustance. Gooogle "value of human life in dollars" and you'll come up with an answer in the single-digit millions. Murdering a few people would proba…

Which enjoys the same level of independance as Saudi Arabia because of its natural riches.

After bees have disappeared.

So why not punish Israel as well?

Like LFS?

He is not officially disabled.

Out of Europe, GCP Coldline storage is comparable in price to AWS Glacier, and access is much faster. I am using restic for regular encrypted backups.

There is a lot in this article that explains the behaviour of the psychopath.

I would not eat mushrooms from a forest near Munich because of pollution.

IIRC, the number of direct deaths was around 100, including a helicopter crew that crashed on site a few days later.

Because Germany has a hard time matching supply and demand internally. It is not a reliable seller. Negative prices are a symptom of technical problems are they face.

The distance between Thiange and Aahen is over 100km. What the hell these people are afraid of? Rich and stupid people.

As a kid, I survived Chernobyl in Belarus without noticing. I am living now in Belgium. Thiange nuclear power plant is some 60km away. Still, my daily worry is not its relative pro…

David Graeber is the author of «Bullshit jobs» https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/