Water usage but in the opposite direction. Yes, I’m going to take a bath. No, I don’t think it makes any actual difference ; go blow up a factory or a data centre if you care so much about water. (Or maybe do it even if you don’t, it never hurts !)

Does he mean the strait that is only insecure because HE made it insecure ? Good job by the way !

The US started this war decades ago. The “Cold War” did not end, it was merely renamed “Peace”.

I use NixOS on everything ! This way, I can re-use parts of my configuration as a base, and customise only the few things that need to change from one machine to the other.

The only exception is my Steam Deck. I trust Valve on that one, and my usage of it is so different from other computers as to make 95% of my config entirely irrelevant anyway.

Welp. This comment has completely killed all my enthusiasm for matrix 😅 I had no idea it was such a horrible mess under the hood…

I’m trying to move some communities off Discord to something self hosted but I don’t know enough about SMPP to know if it would do the job.

The Matrix.

The first film was perfect as a standalone.

Truly, the most noble in name are not the most noble of heart.

I agree. We do have to be quite careful about the optics thing, though. It’s not enough to be on the side of the people, the people also have to feel like you’re on your side.

The right has that part down real good, and we’re getting wrecked in many places because of that fact alone.

Maybe “American Food” should stop pretending to be from somewhere else, then we would respect (some of) it.

I generally despise mergers and acquisitions, but I’ll try to keep an open mind as I don’t know the whole context here, so it could be a very rare case of an improvement.

The problem of course is that, bad as it may be to think this way, people (including me !) absolutely do think this way by default, unless consciously making the effort not to.

Maybe this can be deconstructed, but until then we need a good dose of “Realpolitik” that takes those biases into account, at least if we want to achieve anything concrete.

There is some truth to the “us vs them” between elites and the people, and the current elite is (somehow) very good at making a big part of the people they oppress think that “actually, you’re part of the elite too !”

Idk if it’s perfect but I really like the “literate programming” version of wc

This is not the original, but here is one version of it : https://github.com/zyedidia/Literate/blob/master/examples/wc.lit

Unfortunately, optics are incredibly important to win public opinion. As a radical leftist myself, I have little to no compassion for the man who died ; nonetheless I hope this doesn’t start a pattern.

Many people see these things as entirely vibes-based, so if we don’t look like the good guys, to many people that’s enough to decide we aren’t the good guys.