leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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Even bigger question: what then?

Say you deport a citizen of Mexican origin to Mexico. Can't they just, you know, go back? They're citizens, with a passport/id.

The only alternative is to strip them (at least de facto) of their citizenship, which is literally a Hitler move (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_%C3%BCber_den_Widerruf_von_Einb%C3%BCrgerungen_und_die_Aberkennung_der_deutschen_Staatsangeh%C3%B6rigkeit, only a German source, unfortunately).

"Even deader internet theory".

Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?

Honestly, it could be kind of cool.

If you're doing it right, the juxtaposition of "profound" graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don't exist anymore. Camera phones didn't have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There's hardly anything left. And that's a good thing.

They're afraid to not get a chance to interview them again.

If you're a political journalist and half the politicians won't talk to you, you have a problem.

Now, a press with a backbone would of course retaliate by simply not showing anything of those politicians (just indirect statements, no pictures, no sound bites), but the press has no backbone, so....

I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.

I mean, soundwise they're fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It's just that everything else is crap for no reason.

Shouldn't that be standard everywhere? My flats here in Germany all had one central switch for that wired before the actual circuit breakers so that any outlet should be protected.

Is there a reason to only put that on select outlets?

I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.

They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.

The second button switches between a regular and a "speech bubble" mode. I'm not sure what that's supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.

Then there's the volume knob. It's extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.

And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.

Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn't make sense.

I get what you're trying to say, but I'm not sure it makes sense.

I mean, that's literally every field you're not an expert in. And most of us are experts in less than one field.

You don't know about medicine, car engines, electricity or tax laws, you have your guys for that. Even in our field, we have guys for databases, OSes, networking, because quite frankly nobody understands those really.

So I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. That having experts is good? Yeah, I guess? Did we need to have that reinforced?

Privacy is almost always a double edged sword here.

Making all medical records of everyone available to science would catapult us 200 years in the future...

... but it would also lead to extremely widespread discrimination against a whole bunch of people, throwing us back 200 years.

Damnit, that's exactly the joke I wanted to make.

I'm not sure what these things have to do with each other. How exactly would cryptography have prevented SBF, you know, a crypto bro.

And even worse: bad polling amplifies the interpretation the pollsters want to see.

In this case, there's no link to or mention of the actual question. Just the in favor/not in favor distribution.

Did they ask "the government should implement laws to ban children" or did it say "rules to prevent children from signing up"?

Did they mention the age limit? Asking any children and teenagers might lead to very different results.

And so on. If you can't find the exact question, polls like this are useless.

God I hate cryptography so much for making me feel stupid every time I read anything about it.

I want to feel smat!

I already thought about that, but never really could justify switching.

I would argue, though, that it's not customization, but rather packages themselves changing over time and sometimes just break.

And sometimes you have crap like a full boot partition, because apt decided to keep all Linux versions for some reason.

The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It's gotten much much better, but it's still not good.

Idiodin itself can't get "bad" in any way. The carrier material might go bad, but that's also just starches and a few mineral compounds. At worst, you get powder instead of a pill.

The expiration dates on medication are intentionally extremely conservative.

I mean, look at the username.

Wrote it before, and I'm not the author, but: conservatives stop thinking if they like the current result.