Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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Hit the wife, divorce the lawyer, talk to the gym?

My grandmother has always had iPhones and I've always been on the android side of the fence. She's been struggling with spam texts and unfortunately I'm not seeing an obvious way to stop them. Meanwhile my pixel automagically tosses basically all spam texts usually before I even see them. Honestly the spam is becoming a problem because she's getting so many texts from organizations begging for donations and she doesn't actually know how much she actually has set up to donate every month or to whom

I've noticed the tech illiterate develope tunnel vision and only see the tiniest portion of the screen at a time. They also are incredibly suseptible to the dark patterns that phones are riddled with so when the phone helpfully tries to offer a random app that paid to be promoted with a certain search term they don't realize they've been had and blindly install it

Y'know, if this gets conservatives to actually start being interested in EVs maybe that's not as bad of a result as it could've been

you agree not to “boycott israel” whatever that means

As performative as that is, it's just bizarre to imagine as a business having to ask "if I just happen to have not had any contracts with Israeli entities am I in violation of my contract with this random rural Texas county's public works department?"

If the computer exists it can theoretically be compromised, it just depends on the resources of the individual or group attempting to compromise it. For example, the US Government created Stuxnet targetting the completely airgapped computers which operated centrifuges in Iran. They created brand new malware, loaded it onto flashdrive and sprinkled said flashdrives near the target, then sat and waited then observed their nuclear refinement centrifuges fail way more rapidly than they should effectively killing their nuclear program

That's pretty standard practice with stocks because traders are more interested in seeing the detail of what the price has been doing than they are in seeing how much it has changed in total. That and the stock should never be anywhere near zero unless the company is on the verge of total collapse (and usually by that point it becomes de-listed)

Problem is the markets have been dropping ~1-2% basically every day since Trump entered office. Traders and investors were initially excited for the "business friendly"(read anti-employee/consumer) political environment but then it became clear that the current Republican administration isn't operating on "business friendliness" and is instead entirely operating on "fuck around and find out" and now they don't like the uncertainty of anything that's going on at this moment

I can't tell if this is sarcastic or serious.

I choose to believe that the current Republican regime and the pressure by Democratic constituents on Democrats will push the Democrats to be more liberal and do more, but honestly there's some clear "first Hitler then us" vibes to that thinking that I can't get past

Huh that's very interesting!

rm -rf / only deletes everything on the / partition and any currently mounted filesystems, since efi is its own partition and not mounted it wouldn't be touched

And also don't run commands that require you to type in "do as I say" before they run

Men who have sex with men are trying to quash news about Luigi?

My wife grew up on a farm and her description of how nasty cleaning out the chicken coup is is enough to put me off ever considering keeping any kind of birds

He’s in jail but millions of people who are inspired by him are roaming free, any of which could become the next Luigi, and wack some CEO

Let's be real, all it takes is one person struck by tragedy who no longer has anything to live for choosing to go out this way rather than going quietly. Maybe their kid was killed in the nth school shooting of the year. Maybe they're dying of cancer due to delayed treatment. Maybe they're financially ruined by medical debt. Like you said Luigi reminded people of what is possible, and there's plenty of tragedies that can be correctly attributed to the choices of the rich that happen every day

Generally the best option is for all property taxes for education to go into one pot to by divided up fairly across all school districts in the state, that way wealthy areas don't end up with over funded schools while rural areas and poor areas get poorly funded schools

It's more like a tax, you choose to purchase land from the city, you gain access to city services by living in the city, and in exchange you must pay the city annually for the privilege of owning the land, and if you don't pay for long enough the city might seize the land from you. Could even call it a property tax...

You're right! I finished Sourcery like 6 months ago and have read a bunch of other books since then so my memory was kinda foggy. But that's exactly it, the magic exists and can be powerful but it's simply more trouble than it's worth

I think you might have responded to the wrong comment?

This is the one thing I really appreciated about the Discworld books on a recent re-read. The wizards are hilariously incapable of doing anything useful. Terry Pratchett doesn't give a super clear series of rules for the magic system but it's abundantly clear that the wizards are incapable of actually useful magic, and mostly just get too tired up in internal power struggles to ever do anything. And in the book Sourcery, the first sourcerer (one who can create new spells) to grace the disc takes over the world, realizes running the entire world is too stressful and tedious then creates his own pocket dimension to play with magic in instead (I'm oversimplifiing here, skipping over a bunch of interpersonal stuff related to a sentient wizard's staff run by a dead guy who tricked Death among other details but that's the general gist)

By making the wizards so useless it bypasses any of the logical problems posed by creating a world with magic in it. There's no "why no use this spell" "why not magic out of this problem" etc. all because the wizards are too useless to actually do anything