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  • Romanian would be either "I'll put my feet in it" or "I'll put my dick in it"

  • Sorry, legacy code and technical debt. Please check in with us in ~2000 years or so, we might have the next minor bugfix version up by then.

  • (remember, your aunt charging below market is the exception, not the norm)

    Isn't this definitionally true? The norm, by definition, is the market rate.

  • Citizens may have non-citizen friends and family who are potential targets.

  • Honest question: are eggs going to be affected? Corn feed for chickens is mainly domestic, there's a lot of US factory farms. I'd expect tarrifs to primarily hurt foodstuffs that are heavily mported, like avocadoes, bananas, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc.

  • What about those on the periphery, with minimal protection from the state both before and after the fall? For them, the only real difference was the tax collector stopped showing up.

    Please don't take this as analogous to the modern day in any way. A modern village/town will break down rapidly without access to modern logistics, which was not the case then.

  • Isn't that the same person? (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

  • No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:

    rm is the command to delete files and folders

    -f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can

    -r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.

    / is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.

    Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.

    /* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.

  • This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.

    My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD

  • And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:

    sudo rm -fr /*

  • If that was the case, you'd have mandatory voting like Australia.

  • We already started during this year. No sane leader trusted in a coin flip to guarantee our security. A possible Trump presidency was planned for.

  • The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it'll have to accelerate.

    Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.

  • This is more about ramping up domestic arms production to fill the gap that is going to come from US production no longer going to Ukraine.

  • When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way

    being able to consistently and reliably operate the thing without taking your eyes off the road

    Considering they'd just spent the previous few questions discussing the visual-first aspect of touchscreens and accessibility issues for the visually impaired, I think that's exactly what they were talking about.

    The generalizations are about completely different devices. They talk about CT machines & automatic defibrillators later.

  • The funniest part is that in one of his dialogue trees, he reveals that he's never actually been to the Semenine islands and his whole understanding of Semenese culture is based on stuff he's read and heard on the radio. He legitimately has no real understanding of the culture he presents as superior, and no place in it.

  • Apparently reading so many bad takes over the last few years has destroyed my ability to detect sarcasm. Sorry about that.

  • If you mean added to the bible after the council of Nicea decided on the contents of the bible, no. The bible, both old testament and new, is very explicitly pro-slavery.

  • Ephesians 6:5

    Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.