lennivelkant @ lennivelkant @discuss.tchncs.de

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I was looking for you. Or someone like you. Or someone other than you.

I need a Tau advocate and you got the job.

That's something that helped me cope with a lot of things: realising I am not alone. I've also made it a point of trying to share that same comfort with others. If you struggle to get up, not because you're tired but because your brain refuses to comply, because Why bother? What even is the point of getting up?, know that someone somewhere is fighting that same struggle right now.
Someone else just won it (for today, at least), and picked themselves up, because doing something at all is better than letting defeatism and apathy paralyse you. You can do the same. You can muster the strength, and by that strength, may set an example for someone else. They don't need to know you, just the thought that you exist, that you share their struggle, that you overcame it and they can too.

Take hold of my hand
For you are no longer alone
Walk with me in Hell

Lamb of God, "Walk with me in hell"

Ah yeah, that seems to have Anticheat issues.

Still, I like to term it "System inertia" - moving systems is work, and unless something applies force, getting yourself to switch is hard.

Laziness most definitely is a thing. I didn't switch until I had to.

What's TOF? I'm only finding answers about flight instruments and cardiac issues

Only peanut butter

Bribe them with snacks. Source: Am IT. Have been bribed with snacks. You can bet that user got priority treatment from that day on.

If it's real, I'm confident he had some competent assistant hire a competent crew for that photo-op. I'm guessing a competent PR consultant suggested a good photo-op in the first place, hit the right buttons to appeal to his wannabe cool image.

If it's fake, some competent developer created a good tool, fed with competently selected data to create a rather convincing image.

What I'm trying to say is that there most certainly were several competent people involved in the making of this picture.

Just not the subject.

When the diapers get so full that it finally starts trickling down 😌🙏

I mean, butter is nice, but eating it by the stick? I scrape some onto bread, or cut off a small slice to fry something in, or maybe mix it into a cake.

But eating a stick of butter?

You eat it by the stick?

Then you ought to have someone remove him nonviolently, just to make sure he's not a threat. Maybe send a cop up there to instruct him to get down?

Cop is threatened with a gun

Okay at that point you'd expect a radio call to go out "Person on X roof just threatened a Law Enforcement officer with a gun" which I'd consider license to fire.

Playing games in general or specific games? Because just about every game I like to play runs just fine on Linux now. The only one I ever missed was Destiny2, but then I moved on.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

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[A]s long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force

Karl Popper, 1945, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Nerd and proud of it

Germany uses lower quotation marks too

I'm an Analyst. The amount of times I've had to tell people how their business works based on the data they had me analyse and prove their own preconceptions wrong...

"I was under the impression it should work that way"
Great! I'll whip up a report showing just how often it doesn't.
"Those are edge cases"
They make up about 35%
"Can we filter them from the final report?"
Then your figures will be way off and I get to justify the error when inevitably someone spots it and will blame the data for it. Fix the issue in the source, if you don't want it screwing up your numbers.

Which part and period of Sparta? Which social stratum? It makes a huge difference whether you're a Spartiate, a free non-citizen or one of the 85% of society that were public slaves, subject to all sorts of violence and abuse and probably fighting for your survival so hard that there isn't a whole lot of room for sexual self-determination or expression.

Also, that shield seems to small for hoplite.

But someone that blatantly argues for Russia's benefit probably has some ulterior motives. Doesn't have to be deep throating Putin, money will probably do.

Both Medieval Europe and Antiquity were defined by wealthy landowners and poor workers. We don't always see a whole lot of that in the writings that have survived until our time, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist.

Most of the ancient sources we have were written by people with the both leisure to learn, travel around and write stuff down and the connections to have their writings be considered worth duplicating and preserving. In a word: the elites.

The issue here is that the poor and destitute didn't exist in a vacuum just because resources were scarce. Even in bad years for the peasantry, the elites generally did fine.

These ancient sources don't always spell that out, because it isn't worth spelling out to them: this is just how they and their peers live. Most of these elite members owned property or the workshop and tools with which their workers labored.

By and large, they were rich. Whether that richness is defined in numbers on some net worth estimate or just in the amount of things they owned, the result is the same.

And even in Ancient Greece, the rich had to make some contributions back to the community (except for Sparta, but they're a whole different beast of exploitation). Philanthropy has its roots there, even if it is a far cry from what we would term Philantropy today: The wealthy either voluntarily or out of obligation funded buildings, artworks etc. for the general public.

What changed with Industrial Capitalism and later Globalisation was mostly the scale of exploitation. But the principle - an owner class exploiting a labour class - has been around forever.

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