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  • "I take seven {kids} from {Columbine}, stand 'em all in line Add an AK-47, a revolver, a .9 A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine And that's a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time (Ahh-! Ahh-ahh-!)"

    Edit: I want to add that the context, like always, is more nuanced. But it is foolish to say music has no impact.

    If a song can make you feel happy and sad, it can also make you feel angry. I'm not saying an artist should be restricted in their art, but that we should also accept that art influences people.

  • I think a lot of people are in really deep from 2021/2022 car purchases and will lose their ass if they sell it.

    I also think 99.999 percent of people will have next to no reaction seeing a model 3 or whatever on the road because they are common traffic.

    My guess would be that people putting these badges on their car think it's funny.

  • What is this post even? One of the main plot points of one of the books was about how the students are so engaged that they made an underground secret class to study and learn.

    Harry literally stays up all night studying his books during summer break in the earlier years, the book describes how it's all he can think about. (before schooling became a lower priority due to the active war).

    There are always going to be boring classes, and the book describes that even Hermione is bored in some of them, but typically the students are always engaged, it's clear that Hermione is a hard worker with doctor parents that expect a lot from her, not that she is some hyper genius.

    Harry is a rich jock and a literal child, he is the common trope of the school athlete that slacks in classes occasionally and likes trouble making.

    I think it's very clear that the students were generally engaged in engaging classes with good teachers (hagrids classes, PE / flying, defense against the dark arts, the gardening class with the screaming plants), disengaged in classes that would have equivalent perceptions of boringness (history of magic).

  • If buying a new video card made me money, yes.

    This doesn't really work, because the goal when you buy a video card isn't to have the most possible processing power ever and playing video games doesn't scale linearly so having an additional card doesn't add anything.

    If I was mining crypto, or selling GPU compute (which is basically what ai companies are doing) and the existing card got an update that made it perform on par with new cards, I would buy out the existing cards and when there are no more, I would buy up the newer cards, they are both generating revenue still.

  • A city of 250,000 people could have 250 boats (that's enough for a marina or two) and it would be 0.01% of the population (the one percent of the one percent). That seems to not really be that crazy.

    And if you consider that a small percentage of the boat population may have 2 or even 3 boats, than it gets even less weird.

    I also think that if you live near water, people are generally at least a little more likely to get a boat instead of a nice car or bigger house or other luxury item.

    Edit: I was off by an order of magnitude so it would be 0.1% not 0.01, however, I think the broader point is still valid.

  • Not to discount your perspective, but I think it's important to also acknowledge the close connection that you have.

    My spouse is much more tuned in to things like this than many of their peers, not necessarily because they have more interest, but because we have a close relationship and so we share stuff a lot.

  • I would agree if the features they did work on made sense.

    How come every time I open Plex there is another social media integration, yet device downloads haven't worked for literal years.

    Plex itself is niche software, offering niche features is why Plex gained popularity, watch together is a great feature, I often use when I'm cleaning house so I can watch a show even as I move around rooms, same thing when cooking, which let's the person in the kitchen watch while others may be in the living room.

  • I recently came across a scenario where the person I was talking 'felt uncomfortable' taking down my email, because it didn't end in .com. I would be careful when making assumptions about the general population.

  • It's an anti commercial license. The thought is that, they don't mind if people copy their comments, save them, re use them, etcetera, they just don't want people to make money off of them, likely this is a response to AI companies profiting off of user comments

    However I'm not sure if just linking the license without context that the comment itself is meant to be licensed as such would be effective. If it came down to brass tacks I don't know if it would hold up.

    Instead they should say something like

    'this work is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license'

    I'm also not sure how it works with the licenses of the instance it's posted on, and the instances that federate with, store and reproduce the content.

  • I'm not disagreeing with you, I just want to say, the reason the terminal is helpful in these types of scenarios is never communicated properly in my opinion.

    The reason when you ask people for help or Google stuff and get terminal commands back is because they are clear, concise, and reproducible. It's really hard from the perspective of the people helping, to communicate, usually over text, how to navigate UIs that are ever changing and change depending on the users hardware and setup. This is true for windows too, and it's why getting any help beyond very simple troubleshooting will devolve into powershell commands.

    As for this scenario, it's just inflammatory on purpose, would anyone mention or care if one person at Microsoft who was a project lead retired after decades of working? There are literally thousands of contributors to the Linux kernel, this is just one of them retiring. A maintainer is only one role in a project and can (and will) very easily be replaced. If not by a volunteer, then in a paid position from one of the many companies that pay developers to maintain the Linux kernel. Regardless, there is already people maintaining the the ath10k, ath11k, and ath12k drivers. This is really just a non issue of a temporary vacancy for one position, the same thing that happens at every single software organization every day.

  • 737s are barely bigger than this and not jumbo jets, they are narrow bodies.

    737s are also kind of funny to pick since they are kind of notoriously small (this was one of the causes for the max crashes, Boeing needed to lengthen the nose gear and move the engines significantly higher on the wing in order to fit them, a normal 737NG with CFM56 engines, the bottom of the engine is about 2 feet off the ground only).

    CRJs are smaller, but they are still commercial jets that fit tons of people.

  • This is a joke right? I really really hope that they aren't trusting randoms to know how to manage a gpg key properly.

    It's hard enough to get people actually interested in it to do it correctly.

    And using gpg to constantly identify yourself would mean needing to keep multiple copies of your private key all over the place. I find it unlikely that regular people are issuing new keys and revocation certs properly. Not to mention having canonical key servers (maybe the government could manage that, but the individual is responsible for maintaining a way to get the canonical most up to date key)

    Using gpg backfires because if you lose access to the key or it's compromised (say by putting it on your phone) you lose everything. They work for people who know what they are doing because you are supposed to issue keys for specific tasks and identities, but there is just no way that that is happening.