Android: It’s based on Linux, except it replaces any and all of the things that make Linux worth using, with Google, and runs it on hardware so proprietary, closed, encrypted and nefarious nothing the OS does can be plausibly trusted anyway.
I’m glad I read the article, the dripping irony and mockery in the title for some reason didn’t trigger for me until I actually started reading. The idea that someone who considered Google Plus the “next big thing” has any ability to predict the success or failure of social media platforms is indeed pretty comical.
Israel is always on a hair-trigger against the faintest whiff of criticism. It’s why almost everybody of any significance is terrified of giving them even the faintest whiff of criticism even when they richly and profoundly deserve it. Dictators often fall into the same trap (aptly named the “Dictator trap”) when they make their administrations and subordinates afraid to criticize them and as a result end up finding themselves surrounded by yes-men and sycophants and become increasingly disconnected from reality. Criticism is necessary and important feedback for any nation, organization or person, and by instantly denying it and calling every hint of criticism “anti-semitism” Israel have spent decades robbing themselves of the ability to use any criticism to learn and guide their own actions. It’s sad, because it’s actually very understandable why Israel is so sensitive to criticism after what they lived through in WW2. We are literally seeing the legacy of generational trauma on a national scale. They now hurt others because they have been hurt so badly themselves. They are even hurting themselves because they are so afraid of being hurt again.
The reason they think all their actions in Gaza are completely justified is because they have pre-emptively shouted down anyone who might give them any contrary idea. Even people who are Jewish or Israeli are accused of anti-semitism if they criticize settlers, zionism, the IDF, or anything else Israel does. When you refuse to even engage with any views contrary to your own established point of view, you’re creating an information bubble which may or may not have any basis in reality, and you’ll never even be able to know whether your position is based in reality or not because you’re simply not engaging with any other views that could ground you in reality.
Yeah that’s fair, but for some reason discussion of AI combined with Linda McMahon being the secretary of education robs me of any ability for intelligent thought and simply fills my head with thoughts of wrestling.
Don’t let A1 distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
Coworker is in her early 60s on the fatter and smaller side, walks slowly, bouncing her whole body to left and right,
This stuff being the first thing that comes to your mind when you start talking about this coworker I think tells us more about you than it does about the coworker.
I’m also a bit curious how spry you imagine you’re going to be when you’re nearing retirement, I know a few nurses and former nurses, and one thing they all agree on is that it’s a tough job and can be harder on the body than most people give it credit for. She’s been in the trenches too, she’s been doing what you’re doing, probably longer than you have. She deserves some credit, some respect, and some empathy – you’re going to be there too, someday.
I don’t know how the system works where you are, but in the systems I’m familiar with senior nurses, even ones who aren’t RN, tend to have significant amounts of paperwork responsibilities and can be carrying serious consequences with what they put on that paperwork. I bet she does more paperwork than you do, and and that’s a lot because I bet you have a lot too. Work is work, even if not all of it is physical. You say she’s “pretending to be busy” but that’s a common accusation against knowledge workers in fields that require a lot of critical thinking and organization. You have no idea what is going on in her brain at that moment, what responsibilities she’s juggling and mentally organizing. That vacant stare may be trying to plan the right way to make sure a patient gets the right care they desperately need despite the mountains of bureaucracy and administration trying to prevent it, and she may have the mental tools and experience to do that in a way that none of the rest of you do. And that’s why it takes her longer.
Go ahead and judge her if it makes it easier for you to get through your day. But don’t you dare go and accuse her and file a complaint without a lot more substantial evidence than you shared here. Because from everything you said, I can only come to the conclusion that YTA.
“It’s not paranoia, if they really are out to get you.”
Agreed, do Trump next! Although, we should do Russia first, as I think what will turn up during that investigation is going to be… very relevant.
If the USA were still a sane country I would argue that SpaceX’s technology needs to be nationalized so it can be used responsibly for the advancement of humanity, especially the bulk of humanity still living on Earth, not in pursuit of profit and ownership of exoplanetary land grabs while polluting the skies and low-Earth orbit with trash.
Unfortunately in the current political reality it seems the opposite is happening, and SpaceX is going to corporatize the nation instead, and then move on to setting up the TechBros as the emperors of the solar system. I don’t think this is an accident, I think they saw the writing on the wall and realized they had to strike first.
Stability is a trap. It sounds automatically appealing but is so much more trouble it’s worth for the benefits it provides, especially for a daily driver system intended for gaming, not a long-forgotten server running in a closet that’s been doing the exact same thing for 20 years. The gaming ecosystem is not stable, new games are released constantly, new clients are released constantly, new updates and DLC are released constantly, new drivers are released constantly. You have no choice but to keep up and if your OS is not keeping up because it’s “stable” you’re in for a world of pain.
If you try to use a stable OS for an unstable goal you’ll be fighting it all the time, ironically things will be broken far more often than any “unstable” equivalent, because you won’t be able to get the latest rapid updates you need when you need them. To get things to work you’ll have to force different updates into place one by one, piece by piece, then future updates will get broken because you’ll end up with two copies of things that are conflicting one of which got manually installed.
Stable distros absolutely have their place, there’s nothing wrong with them and they’re typically the most used and popular distros because they are ridiculously good at doing what they’re designed to do. But playing games on your desktop is not what they’re designed to do.
You are, for all-intensive purposes, correct.
Or at least, if you rage quit doesn’t there have to be some rage?
Oh, there is. You feel the rage internally, but you would never give anyone else the satisfaction of seeing you rage. You save the rage until after the quit and then you rage in privacy. I’ve ragequit many a thing. I am very experienced at this.
No he’s admitted it, although he claims he has a prescription and it’s for depression.
I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride
At least 1% of the money being poured into “AI research” nowadays seems to be spent on spewing these breathless puff pieces everywhere. The other 99% is spent on datacenter costs, probably. I am so excited for the day this bubble will finally pop. Just imagine the firesales on GPUs and rack space. It’ll be glorious.
If we’re actually trying to achieve sustainability, we have to stop being consumers. “consume” means to use up and destroy leaving nothing useful behind. This is what consumers do. Think about this the next time someone says the “additional price is passed on to the consumer” and phrases like that. Want to stop paying those prices? Stop consuming!
Instead of sending your money to some evil dictatorship on the other side of the world to “consume” something else, we should be building a system and a society where we can give that money, probably a little more more money even, to somebody in your local community to do actual productive work that doesn’t destroy the environment.
Right to repair is a huge project that we need to force down the throats of the large corporations who want to keep us being consumers forever no matter how much it destroys the planet. But India can still do things like this even without having the “right” to repair, they just figure out a solution and do it anyway, and we can too if we learn from them. We throw away so much perfectly useful stuff. Not just electronics but everything in our modern world from clothes to cars, because economics has told us that it’s expensive to repair or repurpose or salvage, and cheaper to buy a new one, buy more, buy in bulk, buy and dispose. And it often is, but that’s false economics. It’s the economics of throwing more shit in landfill and digging up more tons of rock and burning coal to turn it into something new. It’s the economics with all the costs externalized onto the environment and onto the future. It’s the economics of us destroying ourselves.
In my experience, Ukrainians don’t really mind how non-native speakers pronounce it, they understand the intention and appreciate the feeling behind it.
Listen, #4 actually makes sense. You’re going to put a bunch of these conservatives out of a job if you don’t vote them into office, and they’ll be unemployed with no outlet for their toxic ideology and next thing you know you’ll have these dangerous criminals terrorizing your streets, shouting stupid slogans and shoving pamphlets in the face of uninterested passers-by. A tragic outcome indeed.
Ugh, don’t give him any more reasons to attack Canada please.
I don’t trust polls with my vote or my voting choice, but I do use polls as a gauge for my optimism. Everyone must ALWAYS vote, no matter what the polls say. The more important the election, the more important it is to ALWAYS VOTE.
But I am very optimistic, and I believe everybody will vote.