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It'll be fine.

If it gets out of hand we'll just engineer an equally hardy and aggressive rotifer to kill all the algae.

What if we genetically modified the algae to be impossible to kill and survive in extreme conditions. Like the algae equivalent of kudzu.

I have a question for the group. I do run Linux on a ThinkPad, but it's Mint/KDE on an X1 carbon I bought new.

My question is: what's the dress code here? Do I actually need to buy programming socks and a skirt? Can I get away with just wearing ribbed, white athletic socks and cargo shorts? Business casual?

When people outside the conversation are saying "you're being a dick" it might be time to step back and reflect on why that is.

I don't have an inherit problem with "mom and pop" landlords as a thing if they're willing to actually do what they're resposible for. Rental property existing isn't the problem and fills a need for a lot of people. Renting (at sane rates that allow saving up a down payment) is a pathway to ownership. It's a solution to people that aren't planning on settling down in an area -- like students and people working towards another career.

Price gouging and landlords screwing over tenants is an issue. Huge rental companies buying up everything they can is the problem. As is reality companies creating artificial scarcity and driving up prices on housing.

The problem is what's it's always been: unmitigated greed, primarily by the rich and powerful.

I'll admit it: I do that.

... we are talking about walkie talkies, right? Over.

Throw in unaddressed mental health and drug crises.

Well you're entitled to your option ... but it's a dumb one and you should feel bad about having it. Also, I'm going to needless drag unrelated politics into this.

Alright, so I watched the video so you guys don't have to. Here's a synopsis:

Youtube's ad blocking is going to backfire because:

• It caused people to stop using crappy ad blockers that didn't even work with youtube to switch to effective ones that do.
• Drawing attention to "good" browsers and ad blockers, increasing adoption -- including people that weren't using or aware of the existence of them in the first place
• Increased support of the people making/maintaining ad blockers. Spite driven increase in donations, subscriptions to paid ad blockers, bug reports, etc.
• Cites the Streisand effect.
• Analogy of how prohibition led to stronger drugs, stronger booze, etc. If you tell people they can't do something, they're more likely to do it and get better at doing it.
• Cites how Youtube's attempts to block ad blockers is breaking older embedded apps in smart TVs, chromecast, etc. Older or non-tech people are just more likely to stop using those rather than try to fix them -- and thus cut back on watching youtube.
• Believes Youtube's actions are an indication the internet's "free with ads" model is dying -- they're getting desperate to maintain profitability.

So you want to usher in a socialist/communist society in the pursuit of freedom, egalitarianism, human progress, and the elimination of pointless suffering?

"Nah, I just want power to hurt people I don't like, and the USSR had cool aesthetics." -- tankies.

Ted Kaczynski was legitimately a mathmatics genius.

In 1967, Kaczynski's dissertation, Boundary Functions, won the Sumner B. Myers Prize for Michigan's best mathematics dissertation of the year. Allen Shields, his doctoral advisor, called it "the best I have ever directed", and Maxwell Reade, a member of his dissertation committee, said, "I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 men in the country understood or appreciated it."

Wikipedia

People can be incredibly intelligent in one area and absolute idiots in others. Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess grandmasters ever ... and a holocaust denier.

Barring getting the truck towed this is probably the best "illegal" response. It's proportional, inconveniences them in kind, and doesn't involve property damage.

VPS + Wireguard is great. And my DNS provider allows private range IPs as "A" records, so I have subdomains for my different home servers.

... are you from one of those cultures that doesn't use spices?

Anxiety, stress, and modern blueish, bright lighting/screens are a huge part of the problem. Humans didn't evolve to deal with overstimulation in the evening.

I had insomnia and stress issues for years to the point I had a panic attack -- I thought I was having a heart attack or stroke. Dealing with the stress and light were major steps towards resolving the problem.

I cut way back on the news and doomscrolling to no more than an hour a day before noon. I set my house lights to dim down with the sun, and no TV, phone, or computer screens for at least an hour before bed. If it's unavoidable: dimming them and a blue light filter help.

By going to "Sort Type" in the community and choosing "Top All Time".

La fête est à quatorze heures.

Which is French for "I expect you'll show up some time between 15:00 and 19:00."

I hike, and I've notice the "ultralight" crowd has more than it's fair share of gatekeepers and snobs.

Lighter gear is fantastic, but people take it well past the point of diminishing returns. There are a lot of vocal hikers that spend absurd amounts of money on less practical, ridiculously expensive "ultralight" gear and think anything else is "wrong".