psivchaz

To be honest... If tomorrow WINE was 100% perfect, we'd probably see laptops start moving the direction of phones and it would be terrible for consumers. You'd get your AceOS on your Acer laptop and DellSys on your Dell and so on and they'd all have little marketplaces where you could install LibreOffice next to an ad for some other office suite that costs $100 for some reason and that's all people would know.

Yes, techy people would have more options but for the average consumer, they have no idea what an OS is. Many don't know what Windows is. They don't care or want to care. If presented with the average Linux install screen, supposing they could make it that far by figuring out how to make a bootable flash drive, they'd freak out at all the options and information presented. They're at the mercy of the manufacturer, and the manufacturer will want to squeeze out every last dollar, and being given control over the OS would be terrible.

Experts pretty much all agree that kids need some level of autonomy and freedom to grow up healthy. The exact level is under constant debate, and at what age things are appropriate is under constant debate. With freedom and autonomy though will come accidents. It's an unavoidable consequence. There's no way to be absolutely certain that a particular kid won't make a terrible lapse in judgement, no matter how much you've drilled something into them. Hell, even adults make those kinds of mistakes all the time.

Put another way, I could keep my kids very safe by keeping them in the house, tethered to an iPad all the time, unable to leave my earshot, like so many parents seem to do now. They'd be super safe. And they'd grow into the kind of inept, stunted kids that people are constantly complaining about.

I don't know if it's what happened here but I have noticed that sometimes people use highly speculative math for things like this. Like the actual cost of landscaping and paint was 100k, but if you assume that everyone who would use this had to divert to another route that took 10m, and they all average £15 an hour, and 10,000 people per hour could have used this, then there's £9,000 lost per hour of construction.

Nah, 20s me was the best time to get into the show. 30s me is stressed, has no time, has developed anxiety, spends a lot of time exercising not because it feels good but because apparently my cholesterol is high now, and the show is mostly focused on the kids which is usually a sign that the plot quality has gone down.

My default stance when someone says "I am a..." or similar online is to assume they're full of shit and not what they're claiming to be.

The competitors only exist because Tesla succeeded, and they are not better. Every car company has spent money lobbying for less regulation on gas cars. Every car company has donated massive amounts of money to the Republican party. Every car company has had scandals driven by insane greed and disregard for human life, like VW and their diesel engine.

People act like Elon Musk invented being a shitty billionaire, but Henry Ford and Rockefeller were doing it long before Musk was born, and VW was the literal Nazimobile. The entire industry was built by shitty people, sustained by shitty people, and continues to be shitty to this day. If you drive a car, you don't get a choice of whether to financially support a piece of shit, you just get to choose which one, and taking it out on one group of largely progressive people who at least give a shit about the environment is counterproductive and stupid.

People supporting oil companies do not have the moral high ground here just because the fascist, murderous billionaires they support financially have the good sense to not do Nazi salutes on a stage. They're still responsible for incredible amounts of suffering and death, ongoing.

Something has broken in a lot of brains. I think maybe it's the number of things they can keep track of. Why keep track of your expenses when you can just trust the president you voted for when he says prices are down?

Maybe I'm too easy to please but I'd be happier if they took the money that currently goes towards tanks and "how to shoot first" seminars and put it towards ongoing education for officers on law, de-escalation tactics, and critical thinking in stressful situations.

No fault divorce isn't about assigning blame. They actually still do that in certain situations, such as adultery or abuse. No fault divorce means that the state will allow a divorce even if no one is to "blame." Prior to that, you essentially needed a legal reason to get a divorce other than "I just want to be married to this person anymore."

AI could probably find the occasional actual bug. If you use AI to file 500 bug reports in the time it may take a researcher to find and report 1, and only 2 pay out, you've still gotten ahead.

But in the process, you've wasted tons of time for the developers who have to actually sort through, read the reports, and verify the validity of the issue. I think that's part of the problem. Even if it sometimes finds a legitimate issue, these people are trying to make it someone else's problem to do the real work.

In case you're curious why they might hate the post office so much, I suspect it's because as a government entity it has two important attributes:

• A requirement for universal access
• At least some constitutional protections for privacy.

When you ship UPS or FedEx, you're giving a package to a private entity. They are only bound by the contract they make with you. If they decide to start opening every package, that's their right. The USPS has specific laws around when it can and cannot search packages, and generally requires a warrant.