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And their response to LGBT+ issues, and their response to Trump's crimes, and…

Yeah, no. Republicans have had more than enough opportunities to redeem themselves. There is no remaining doubt to give them the benefit of.

You already have that, in the form of the Windows Defender firewall.

Taxation isn't theft, but misuse of tax revenue is.

If the state is controlled by unsavory people, then you probably have bigger issues at hand than them controlling the housing.

Well then, it already is, so we already do.

They did that in the Soviet Union. The government stuffed people into ugly, tiny apartments, with multiple families per apartment. I once talked to a guy whose single mom was forced to live with a violent drunk in one of those apartments. Sounds awful.

That's not how you spell “60 fps”.

I'd say “144 fps” but I'm not rich enough to have a display capable of that. 😭

Nuclear power plants generate waste very slowly—slowly enough that we won't be using fission any more by the time it becomes a serious problem. Fusion ignition was achieved recently, so it's only a matter of time.

However, nuclear power plants are also extremely expensive to build, which seriously limits their practical usefulness.

The risks of nuclear energy are well managed already. Out of all nuclear power plants built to an even remotely modern design, exactly zero have suffered a meltdown, and I don't see any reason to expect that to change.

That's not the problem. The problem is that modern nuclear power plants are ludicrously expensive to build. Small modular reactors are cheaper, but they have a serious problem with radioactive waste output.

If I were to choose to have kids despite climate change, doesn't that prove that I don't care about climate change?

Easy to say when your job didn't get replaced by one.

I've been told that gender is like a suit: if it fits you, you barely even notice it, but if it doesn't fit you, it will bother you constantly until you do something about it.

What's the difference?

Cryptocurrency is a scam. Not just certain coins, but the whole concept. It's nothing more than digital tulips.

JavaScript is a bad language, but what's really bad about it is not the language itself but the ecosystem of libraries and tools. Getting just about anything to work is a huge struggle. Rust is much easier to use.

Having children is a horrible idea.

I disagree on the basis of how many people willingly vote Republican.

The battery in a phone only functions as a UPS if it's plugged in 24/7, in which case it isn't usable as a phone.

Beep boop I am a robot. I am programmed to give you a sensible haircut.

There's not really anything stopping someone from writing the necessary code to make this work, but why do that when you can use an always-online, non-battery-powered computer as your web server?

Had Trusted Computing happened as it was originally envisioned, you wouldn't be. You'd be using Windows because that's the only operating system you'd be allowed to use.

And now here we are again, facing down a plot to extinguish FOSS competition under the guise of security. Yes, it's happened before, but that doesn't mean the outcome is guaranteed to be as favorable as it was last time.

Modern-day Trail of Tears shit right here.

If anyone launches nukes, our whole species dies. We're trying to prevent that outcome.