elephantium @ elephantium @lemmy.world

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Most people are subject to the death penalty. The world population is approaching 8.1 billion souls. The ten most populous nations are India, China, the US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico, adding up to 4.6 billion -- over half the planet.

Of those, only Mexico has abolished the death penalty (though Brazil is listed as "extreme only" and Russia is listed as "suspended", having not officially executed anyone in the past decade*). Putting these together, at least 4.1 billion people out of the "first 4.6" that I looked at live under the specter of the death penalty.

I don't think you can no-true-scotsman your way out of the simple fact that it's still "normal" for humans to kill other humans. I also don't think that acknowledging that fact requires that you endorse the practice.

*whoa, is this a case where RUSSIA is more sane than the USA?! Strange times.

I looked up the population info on https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ and cross-referenced with the site you posted.

Did you know that there's another jackoneil on lemmy? Except he spells his name with just one 'l', and he has no sense of humor at all.

But would you put a deadbolt on your garage door? Or on your fridge door? IMO, arguing by analogy here just obfuscates the points -- your servers aren't physical doorways with locks, and comparing them just confuses the issue.

Can you explain what added security an antivirus package would offer for a Linux server? I haven't done much with Linux administration, mostly just using Docker images for stuff at work.

I'm not a super Linux expert or anything, but I do grok tech, and I'm curious about this topic.

Less ... bigoted? Were there themes of bigotry in Harry Potter that I missed? Or are you simply looking for a better-regarded author?

Thank you, Picard!

Huh, TIL I'm a little short for a Stormtrooper at 1.68m

oof. Apologies!

Thanks! It's been frustrating -- another team raised some (valid) security questions, but this whole thing is supposed to be a replacement for something we're already using, so WTF? And I haven't been able to get a manager to commit to anything concrete regarding this. I'm going to flip the script tomorrow and basically say "OK, Team X has a problem with us, so we're going to back out of this change regardless of how painful it is". Unless the manager is like WHOA WHOA WHOA, we'll go with that.

The book is His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. Basically "What if they had dragons during the Napoleonic wars?". I've really been digging it. I like history (and alternate history), fantasy in general, and protagonists I can really root for. This book has that in spades, and the writing itself is nicely entertaining :D I quite recommend it.

You’re only taking into account pollution

Yes, that's correct. I'm not doing a serious study here, just summarizing the general sentiment I've observed.

😂

Hmm, interesting. I had the opposite impression. Maybe from discussion of private jets? I wonder how commercial jets vs. private jets vs. light aircraft fare -- similar to cars vs. buses, perhaps? I haven't actually dug much into this subject :\

I had the day off. In-laws are visiting, and I get on well with them. We also had my mother and her husband over for dinner. I was stressing about hosting before they got here, but everyone seemed to enjoy visiting.

After everyone went home, I read for a while and played a little Valheim. I should probably be in bed already, but that's pretty normal. Tomorrow will be interesting; we've had some issues come up at work where it's not very clear how to proceed (yay corporate America). We're going to hash out an actual plan in the morning.

Why not? Probably because:

Bike pollution: .

Car pollution: oooooooooo

Plane pollution: OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOO

(bike pollution is slightly more than nil just because of the CO2 we breathe out while riding)

Helping!

What sweetie 😻

Good bot.

Oh! Did he just post a new one? Off to YT to check...

Huh, TIL. I thought Australia was relatively iron-poor, but you're right about its exports.

Looking up Australia's mineral resources, it looks like iron mining mostly happens in Western Australia. But Primitive Tech is filmed in Queensland, IIRC.

Regardless of where you find iron ore, he's harvesting iron bacteria from a creek with limited success. It's interesting to watch, but it sort of feels like "Here's 56 ways not to start the Iron Age."

Primitive...pottery? LOL!

I love the channel, but the guy is in the wrong part of the world for primitive iron-working.

As someone who also rode in cars in the 80s, I call BS. Cars today are superior in a lot of ways like fuel economy, crash safety, and probably reliability.

But cars in the 80s didn't spy on you. Cars today do. That's not superior.

Cars in the 80s were easier to work on. Cars today can require absurd things like dismounting the motor just to get to the spark plugs. That's not superior.

Cars in the 80s had physical knobs and switches to control everything from turn signals, windshield wipers, defogger, radio volume, you name it. Cars today frequently have some or all of these features buried in a submenu on a touchscreen. Muscle memory? Forget it!

That's not superior.

I haven't noticed this, personally. TBF, though, I haven't really been looking, so it's not surprising. I'm not big into anything you listed (other than coffee, I'll have a cup or two most mornings), so I wouldn't have stumbled on it that way.

Hmm, what's next? Caffeine bread? Caffeine chips? Now this is going to be on my mind when I'm looking at foodstuffs.