zitsarethecure

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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
It's already a system where unaccountable private monopolistic moralizing multinational middle men have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I called an ambulance and they were there within about 10 minut
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
It always was.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
New Mexico is experimenting with free child care. Canada has nationalized its own system and while it isn't free, it is heavily subsidized.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/ Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software"
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.
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by zitsarethecure 11mo ago
If it works well enough for the people who use it, why does it matter?
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Many people are saying it. Unfortunately the small minority of nasty people opposed to it are using violence to stifle free debate.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
It's the Stonecutters. They did it before with Steve Guttenberg.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Absolutely. RTO mandates. Blanket AI adoption for developers. All these asinine trends done solely to make executives feel like they are still relevant.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
The blanket RTO mandate is peak cargo cult thinking and a great example of why executives should be the first employees that should be replaced with "AI", rather than the last.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
I've been using btrfs on my NAS for years and have not had any problems. I suspect there are a hell of a lot of people like me you will not hear about because people don't generally get as vocal when things just work.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
A fun game is to replace "Donald Trump" in news stories with "Hillary Clinton" and to imagine the reaction if they were otherwise identical.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
I've been running a MythTV backend to record OTA content since the early 2000's and PBS is, by far, my most recorded channel.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
I am following the development of a new company called Slate who are specifically trying to build low cost EV's by shunning gimmicky BS like "self driving" and selling them with only an extremely limited number of options fro
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
France's freedom of speech is as strong, or stronger, than the US.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Out of curiosity, is it a "smart" appliance that requires an app to function?
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
ICE just got a massive boost in funding, so the money is obviously there to pay for it.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
And that person is "rebuilding" the FDA. https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-ai-will-approve-new-drugs-at...
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
I saw it last night. The cinematography of the racing sequences was interesting. The races they actually depicted were not, though. The human story line was trash, just a really hokey "old guy uses gut feeling to beat young people u
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Personally, I fully expect this to gradually become the primary method by which all ID is issued and used. Cell phones are already effectively mandatory to function in our society, so whether you need to target a protest of potential dissi
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Four years of air drying may not have been enough, depending on the thickness of the boards and the moisture level in the air. Also the issues of wood movement and grain direction must be considered during the design and manufacturing of f
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
"This time WE will be in control." is probably what they were thinking.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
If you read the marketing content on their site, the intended method of recycling these structures is to cut up the wood sections and re-use them as structural beams in regular building construction. They aren't grinding them up or me
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Not voting is a vote for whomever wins.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
> In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clea
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
I don't know if you are joking and I think it says a lot that I can't tell.
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by zitsarethecure 1y ago
Along similar lines would be those people who constantly start up their cars in campgrounds after hours for whatever reason.

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