UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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You have a better, equally integrated solution?

I mean, we do. Linux OS, Libre Office, Apache servers, Linux Cloud Service of Choice, PostgreSQL.

But you need techs familiar with those systems and businesses eager to implement Linux at a foundational level early on in the company's development. Because a lot of businesses outsource their IT early on, and because a lot of end-user hardware has Microsoft pre-installed, and because the major IT outsourcers all get big kickbacks from Microsoft to be the default solutions, and because Microsoft has embedded itself at the university level at a global scale, and because Microsoft has successfully lobbied itself as the premier US contractor of choice for federal and state IT setups, it can be harder to find professionals willing and able to configure a Linux environment. This is assuming the company founders even think to ask for alternatives.

That's not to say it never happens. FFS, some of the biggest competitors to Microsoft - Amazon and Google most notably - have relied on Linux/PostgreSQL architecture to keep their overhead low and their integrations non-exclusive. But they're exceptional precisely because they laid the groundwork early.

The problem isn't that integrated solutions don't exist. The problem is that most CTOs don't embrace them early on in the company's development and find themselves trapped in the Microsoft ecosystem well after the point a transition would be easy.

which tech-giant is the default choice

Meanwhile, on Lemmy, I suffer under the tyranny of Big Penguin

this is a fucking joke

Seems more like an incel joke to me.

Yes, but that doesn’t make the comparison to all countries with over 500 000 people meaningful.

Fair enough. Any state with less than 500k people probably shouldn't be on the list.

A lot of this is rooted in the media and politics of the community. I've watched older peers fall down the FOX News rabbit hole, becoming increasingly paranoid and hostile towards practically everyone outside the conservative base.

Churches that see Republican politics as a way of raising money will happily play along, further deluding their neighbors.

So… you’d get shot

Only if he was faster

It’s framed as “look, if we put US states on a graph with other countries, they have such a high incarceration rate that there are almost no countries even on the graph!”

It's certainly possible that you have one big state with a high incarceration rate - Texas or California for instance - that's throwing off the national average. States are free to set their own penal process. It's not a given that every state has a globe-shattering incarceration rate.

Saying "It's not just one or two states with astronomical incarceration rates, its the whole country contributing to the total" indicates something notable about the politics and culture of the country as a whole.

Wyoming could have an incarceration rate of 0% without affecting America's position as a carceral state. That it doesn't is meaningful.

You should add peaches to give your dish more sweetness

The dish:

• One cup carrots
• One cup flour
• One cup butter
• One fuckton sugar

Don’t be a Jihadi?

There it is. Everyone's guilty once you've flung shrapnel through their chest.

But you still can't imagine why the French-aligned government got ousted in a coup on these terms.

If we play that game we can’t trust American numbers either

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The French are arrogant, no doubt, but that’s different from wanting to rule the area or wishing it ill.

Explain it to the 2700+ dead that the French are responsible for.

Fusion energy is always 10 years away

I mean, we're closer to commercial fusion than Iran is to nuclear weapons, because Virginia is actually building a fusion power plant while Iran has never had a program to enrich uranium to weapon's grade.

If it was absolute numbers, it would maybe make a point.

If you have a population with 10M people and 20,000 of them are prisoners, that's significantly less concerning than a country with 100,000 people of which 10,000 are prisoners. You can't make an apples-to-apples comparison between Texas and Wyoming with raw head-count.

it’s somehow shocking that the individual states of the county with the highest incarceration rate in the world also have a high incarceration rate

It's shocking that the state of Louisiana has a full 2% of its population in jail. That's twice the US national baseline.

Interesting how it’s southern states at the top eh?

Legit amazed California wasn't higher on the list. They've been doing mass-incarceration at an industrial scale since the 70s. But I guess the population is big enough that the per-capita statistics work out.

States like Alabama, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have such small and anemic populations and dedicate so much of their domestic budget to incarceration that they're basically giant publicly subsidized slave plantations.

Nothing more American than privatizing and off-shoring our concentration camps.

Israel is trying to zero out that number as quickly as they can.

The trick is to always assume "China is lying about its internal statistics" and inflate whatever number they give by an arbitrary large percentage. 1.7M is obviously an under-count because the CCP is always lying about everything.

Also, you can do some broad brush "Everyone in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, North Korea, and Taiwan are prisoners of the Chinese state, so actually that's over 60M people" napkin math to make the numbers look better.

There a) was no occupation

The French Defense Minister Florence Parly announced in February 2020 that France would send an additional 600 troops to the Sahel region, bolstering Operation Barkhanes' force to 5,100 troops.

b) not even the Putschists were in “full revolt”.

More and more voices are being raised against the presence of the French soldiers of Operation Barkhane, despite the lack of alternatives.

You're either deeply misinformed or deliberately lying.

Russia needs Iran for Ukraine

Oh, well, if this somehow hurts a few Russian Oligarchs then I guess incinerating 90M Persians is perfectly fine.

Can't raise prices if nobody has any money

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