optional @ brotundspiele @sh.itjust.works

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Capitalism works when people can participate

OK then, let's allow all people to participate by giving everyone their fair share of Amazon and other big businesses.

I'm all for communising them. I'm just not sure that capitalism is the right expression for that, but I can't come up with a better word...

I'm still waiting for someone to build this into a tank. It probably wouldn't help your fighting ability, but you'd for sure be the Oest G on the battlefield.

🎶Never gonna look down 🎶 Never gonna show up 🎵 Never gonna get up and hurt you 🎶

There's only one great season. Sadly it was quite short this year, at least where I live. https://song.link/i/549480694

I had six so far 🙂:
\ New Years, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost.

There are only 4+ ²/₂ official holidays left in the rest of the year though:
\ German unity day, Reformation day, 2 Christmas Days. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ½ a holiday each.

Or she marries a really bad carpenter: Breaking Bed.

I'd love to see a spinoff where she marries a bar keeper who is really shitty at his job. Name of the show: Shaking Bad.

Every month is wild. Do the electricity prices change based on the season or why can't they just calculate the average over a year?

Recently we also got more and more smart meters here in Germany, as there are a few power companies that calculate your price by the hour. But that's not based on your maximum consumption but on the time of the consumption. If you use the solar and wind power on a windy summer day it's basically free, whereas the price goes up when it's expensive power from gas plants on a windless winter night. So you can lower your price by washing or charging your car at the right time.

That probably would not work that way in Norway as you have a lot of hydroelectric power which is available much more continuously, as far as I understand.

Are there really people in the US driving from house to house reading the meters? In Germany you just get a letter (or an email nowadays) asking you to read the meter and tell them. Unless the values you're providing are obviously wrong, noone questions you.

If you lie there you'll be found out when you move out of your apparent or when the meter is changed after 20 or 30 years.

No problem, we don't kinkshame here.

It was xz, a software most people probably use without even knowing it as it is a library which is included in a lot of other projects. The vulnerability targeted openssh which is one of these users.

That being said: Do you also audit the dependencies of the software you're installing? I usually don't, unless a customer pays me for it. However, before I pull any dependency into one of my own projects I take a look at it's dependencies. If a library for a simple task brings tons of dependencies with it, I rather not use it.

They were still good windowses for their time, especially when you compare them to DOS and Mac OS 9 which would have been the alternatives. For a fair comparison with professional OSes with full memory protection like UNIX you'd have to look at Windows NT, but there the preimise is true as well (as far as I can tell by googling, I only ever used 2000 Pro): 3.1 was bad, 3.5(1) good, 4.0 bad, 2000 good, 2003 meh.

It was a known rule that every second version of Windows was good. 95 was good, 98SE was good, XP was good, 7 was good, but sadly they never released Windows 9, so we're still waiting for the good version to come after 8.

How, do you believe, babies are made in the first place?

We stopped buying these death machines from you years ago (in fact, we never really started buying them):

But that didn't stop you from making more of them or making them more deadly each year.

The last time I remember having the same opinion as the pope was in 2003 against Bush Jr.'s war. If anyone will ever get me to become a catholic, I'm pretty sure it will be a US president.

He's not targeting us, but only the "bad" imigrants. Reminds me of these guys.

It seems I'm not too good with numbers 😔 But it really doesn't matter if it's been 20k, 200k or 2M years, the point is, that it's been a long time.

You can't eat decades-old food with no consequences

Except when you can. There have been cases where they have found canned foods from decades ago and when they lab-tested and taste-tested them they were still safe to eat (albeit a bit bland). The biggest danger with intact cans that are not inflated it that you might get lead poisoning if the can is older than ~1990

That's the whole point, you have to use your senses (common and biological). You can't assume that something is unsafe to eat just because it's beyond its best before date or has been stored at 5° instead of 4° for a few hours. At the same time you can't blindly trust that every food is fine just because it has been stored correctly.

Use your senses! I know doing that is not very famous these days, but you should try it sometimes.

So instead of "If in doubt throw it out" I'd suggest "If in doubt, throw it out, but if its still tasty, throw it in the pasty".