doubtingtammy @ doubtingtammy @lemmy.ml

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Please don't be silly. If you're in the US, you should absolutely never be "interrogated" by police. Get a lawyer. Always. No matter how innocent and clever you are. You should be terrified of the police, not plagiarism machines.

As a kid, tho, I loved 9volts because they had the best connectors.

It's the best connector because you can lick it

Also Lockheed

Also unsurprising that the stochastic parrot simulation is fucking up its mission of being a propaganda machine

Sometimes you need to enable something in the bios (virtualization? i forget what it's called)

IDK if you can have a live windows usb, but virtualbox is great for that sort of thing.

We're surpassing the credulity of 19th century yellow peril propaganda

Recipes should be written with the quantities in the procedure. So instead of reading

Mix flour, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl

It should be

Mix flour (300g), salt (1/4 tsp), and sugar (20g) in a large mixing bowl

That way you don't need to read/refer to ingredient list, read/refer to ingredient list, etc

Krita is nice. IDK how it compares to commercial products, but ctrl-c + ctrl-v works like you'd expect it to

The article draws the line from increased policing in the 90's and 00's to today. I think you can also extend that line further back as a response to the great migration. This isn't a criticism of the article, just adding more to it. And I think the great migration just needs to get talked about more often. We've never really dealt with the fact that many Black communities in the north were formed by refugees fleeing terrorism in the south. They weren't welcomed with open arms in the north, but were rather ghettoized and used as a source of cheaper labor

Of course, the line always goes back further. America's descent into authoritarianism isn't really a "descent" as much as an expansion of who the targets are

Has any other national leader gone so hard on turtle necks?

With ring cameras, it's every municipality

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to search man pages was a gamechanger

you've been duped. He's the executive chairman and largest shareholder. He's not the CEO, which means he's not involved in the day to day operations, but he's still the de facto head of the company

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is not in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

*FBI

This is both believable, and actually makes me feel safer about world security

I'm not saying that discouraging reproduction is eugenics. I'm saying that @Aitherios@lemmy.ml's attempt at defining Eugenics is wrong. Saying it's about producing the best "GENES" possible is just post-hoc reasoning to make it sounds more scientific.

Eugenics is based on 19th century racial science. If someone is advocating for any sort of population control that uses that framework (of bettering the "race"), they're doing eugenics.

A good example of what's not eugenics is China's one-child policy. It wasn't aimed at creating a "better" race of any kind, and It actually provided exemptions for ethnic minorities. The goal wasn't to create a better type of human race, it was to prevent the population from growing faster that what the economy could support. IMO it was probably unnecessary, but definitely wasn't eugenics.

However, if there was an alternate reality where china instituted the one-child policy only for ethnic minorities in an effort to make the nation a pure Han state, that would be eugenics. If they did it based on IQ, that would be eugenics. And if they exempted minorities from the policy out of a belief that the Han were inferior, that would also be genetics

These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions

[edit] whoops, didn't mean to reply. Yours were not the reactionary opinions lol. after the revolution, all tetrapods will rightly be understood to be fish