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I've observed that most "enthusiasts" are really just brand ambassadors. They've been captured by some proprietary software that doesn't run on Linux, and that's the problem of Lin…

Switched in, ooh i dunno, '98 or '99. Quality is about where it was then relatively speaking. Sure things have improved, mainly just systemd, and we got ACPI and later power manage…

Actually yes, that would be an ideal intervention of state into computing infrastructure. It could even be revenue generating as, once developed, it could be sold out to the privat…

Billionaires have sabotaged pretty much every aspect of life by using their enormous wealth, power, and influence to hijack our public institutions. They're destroying our country …

Another possibility not mentioned here is simply demonstrating that they can get away with not doing so.

Assuming there is even a venue where evidence would be provided for the purpose of being looked at

yes, ICE strike me as deeply and sincerely concerned about both agitators and bringing robust cases to courts :)

Probably for the best... Like, anyone who would work with some of my previous employers, are places I wouldn't want to work anyway. It's a big wide world out there.

CEOs: the real victims of capitalism.

Yeah, the details are scattered through the article, so you've got to pay close attention. It says that the LCA that the industry produced ignored the carbon intensivity of drainin…

It's explained in the article. People aren't going to starve to fill their gas tank so you need to grow more corn to offset that used for biofuel. To do that can require destroying…

Yeah the gwangju massacre definitely happened, and he definitely authorized it because the troops who did it were under the command of John Adams Wickham. The agreed framework woul…

Among the proposed strategies is to actually do such studies: https://www.usich.gov/sites/default/files/document/19%20Stra... Most of the other suggestions are banal, and self-evid…

Yes, if only the homeless were more considerate of MY needs.

As you well know, because Musk is a free-speech absolutist/crusader. Actually so much so that he is constantly attacked, and vilified for his courageous position. He is also a bold…

It is their job to deliver shareholder value.

not to nitpick, but I think "reactionary" or "aspiring crank" are probably more descriptive :) "This isn't music, back in my day we had Credence"

Surprised their union agreed to this given the extraordinary profits being made...

There's a great documentary about waco on Netflix and at the end, the guy who is was in command of the troops who massacred 80 women and children concluded (after 30 years of refle…

Also he's saying "don't be evil" was the motto, but he joined a year after gmail and in the same year when the CEO was saying "don't be evil is purely marketing" in interviews in f…

If changing the implementation but not the behaviour breaks a test, I just delete the test.

"The plant is capable of removing 1,000 tons of CO2 a year" So about equivalent to 100 hectares of forest? Anyway, cool, another 50 million more of these facilities and we'll be at…

I'd love to read the papers cited there without having to buy that book. I wonder if what is defined as "support" is actually, meddling, undermining, and pressurzing children into …

It's on a different topic. ie. That if people speak up for themselves, or they want to address unfairness or inequality in their society, it's because their parents hugged them whe…

You should read the paper. That's basically what it's about. eg. car oriented neighbourhoods mean kids don't get to play as much, and that's a factor which is independent of econom…