Insecurity is a pox on this world

He is also addicted to ketamine, yes. I hadn’t heard about the blown apart dick. Clearly I have also been living under a rock.

Online banker man turned electric car salesman bought that website you used to use to tell your friends about what the dentist’s waiting room was like or whatever (or yell at celebrities I guess) and used it to help that guy who fired people on tv become president. In return banker car man gets put in charge of shiny new government agency and given the power to fire basically whatever government employees he wants, also his private security detail is deputized by the US Marshals Service, also he has your social security number, probably

I think that should about cover it unless someone else wants to add more detail. But I think I was very thorough.

What would happen to such a human? Do you suppose that we would try to give them every job on the planet? Or would they just get fired?

No no, look what they did with Sun.

66% of Republicans vs 41% of Democrats and 45% of independents. I still don’t like those numbers.

For decades the American left has been, on the whole, anti-firearms. There simply are not enough of us who own and train with guns. If/when a civil war happens we lose. And that’s before you start taking into account drones and surveillance. People keep making fun of the 2A but seem to conveniently forget that damn near half the electorate just ceded the power of arms to the other half out of fear.

Linus tends towards self-deprecation. I remember reading about him joking that he named git after himself.

Any robot I can get drunk with is alright by me

Decentralization is cool but unmoderated spaces tend to attract the worst kinds of people.

Halt and catch fire? No wait, they already do that.

What’s your preferred system?

But then how will you know where the nearest Arby’s is on your commute

People are posting about wanting to run away to the woods but I think it’s important to remember that cities can be quiet.

Not that we should all move to Delft, but if we built infrastructure for people instead of cars cities wouldn’t be so fucking loud.

What would you say is technology? Materials science isn’t technology, but what about things made out of the materials created by materials science?

You forgot to treat us like we’re stupid and close the thread as answered

The last time I used LibreOffice was admittedly a couple years ago but it was just plain clunky in comparison to MS Office. Word feels nicer to use than Writer, and Excel is more intuitive than Calc.

I’m glad that FOSS alternatives exist, but the older I get the more I turn into a boring normie. Office just works. I can collaborate on our budget with my girlfriend, I can pull up my resume and edit it on my phone, I can share files with my friends or with my boss or with my prof. And I don’t have to maintain any infrastructure to do that. I don’t have to set up a domain or any kind of server, it’s a couple hours’ pay. For a year of relatively seamless support.

Clearly having the word “league” in the name generates toxicity.

Nah, but the game got so much worse after it went free to play. I’ll never forgive Epic.

I imagine it’s a hell of a lot cheaper/simpler/more reliable in manufacturing to use the adhesive over screws, gaskets, and grease. It reduces both the BOM and the number of processes required to ship a unit, and probably fails less often, which means fewer RMAs. Plus it just plain takes up less space, which leaves more room for the battery.

I don’t like it, my favorite phone I’ve ever had was a Galaxy Nexus with a zerolemon battery that was bigger than the phone itself, but I can see why gluing everything together would be an attractive solution for the engineers who design these things.

Because we kept buying thinner and lighter phones, and gluing the battery in makes thinner and lighter phones with better battery life possible. As a convenient side effect glue creates a nice watertight seal that can make devices more water resistant.