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The cure for high prices is firing the politicians who aren't bothering to solve the problem and replacing them with someone who will.

Pedophiles ruin everything.

The patient's skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again.

Pornography starring Scout's mother.

Use systemctl --failed to see which services didn't come up, systemctl status SERVICENAMEHERE to see some status info about a service, and journalctl -b -u SERVICENAMEHERE to see all log messages generated by a service since last reboot.

If a collection of programs that each do a specific thing runs counter to the Unix philosophy, then Unix runs counter to the Unix philosophy.

None. The opposition to systemd is highly irrational.

If there's one great way to turn people either hard left or hard right, that would be it. Impoverish them. Take away from them what their own parents took for granted.

afraid the gays are going to out-breed you (not even kidding, they really “think” that)

Do, uh, do they understand how reproduction works, or…?

afraid what you want won’t be what everyone does, afraid other people are smarter or more capable

Well, yeah, that's almost certainly true.

afraid that when you die you won’t get magicked somewhere to live forever.

Atheists would say that's true too.

My head isn't inside an fMRI machine, nor is my phone connected to one, so they still can't read my mind with my phone.

Fear not though:

Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”

they’re taking it seriously

Yeah, that's not even remotely reassuring. The instant it becomes feasible to read minds on a large scale, it will be immediately put to use for government surveillance and commercial exploitation. No one will give a single [expletive] about the objections of some college students. My only hope is to be dead before then.

I'm talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn't going to prosecute itself.

Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:

1. Find out where public discourse is.
2. Post child porn on an obscure corner of it.
3. Take screenshots of the posted porn.
4. Send law enforcement to seize all the things.

That doesn't scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.

When that day comes, however…

Emergency midnight Slurpees save lives.

MAGA cultists attempting terrorist attacks is the least of our worries. They have already demonstrated their abject incompetence in armed combat.

More worrying is what will happen if Trump wins the election. He has a pretty good chance of doing so, because the election is rigged in his favor. He only barely lost in 2020, it's a miracle that he did, and relying on repeated miracles is a very poor survival strategy…

Der Spiegel is running Russian propaganda now? Shameful.

Also shameful is that privacy popup with no opt-out option. Isn't that non-compliant?

So basically, the US government doesn't actually mind all the creepy data harvesting; it just minds not getting a spot at the trough. Typical.

The homosexuality was in you the whole time!

Read/write operations can happen in the background at any moment as long as the drive is mounted, so that's not terribly comforting.

Anyway, Windows has always avoided deferring writes on removable media, for as long as it's been capable of deferring writes at all. That's not new in Windows 10.

Linux has a mount option, sync, to do the same thing. Dunno if any desktop environments actually use it, but they could. Besides being slower, though, it has the downside of causing more write operations (since they can't be batched together into fewer, larger writes), so flash drives will wear out faster. I imagine Windows' behavior has the same problem, although with Windows users accustomed to pulling out their drives without unmounting, I suppose that's the lesser of two evils.

Then I envy you, that your legislators are competent and honest enough to do so.