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The blog writer got his account on SO restricted.

As I said elsewhere earlier today, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they've made a mistake.

Here the mistake appears to be treating Mangione's account differently to those of other alleged and actual felons, but secondarily, taking retribution against anyone having the absolute audacity to point that out.

We should all be praising the Emperor's new clothes and none of that truth stuff.

She probably figures that what they're doing isn't as bad - as terrible as it is - as whatever their retribution would be if she did that.

What she needs to do is cook them all a nice meal with no poison in it whatsoever.

Depends where you are. In British English, it's "strik(h)-neen". If you're not sure what it is where you are, it probably ends the same way as how you pronounce "iodine".

(And you probably pronounce iodine's siblings "chlorine" and "fluorine" with "een", not "yne", which is kind of strange when you think about it.)

Oh yeah, mine has that as one of the options, but they've beefed it up a little. You also have to enter your date of birth and then they send a text to a pre-arranged number with a further 6-digit PIN that also has to be used.

It doesn't help that some of the duplicates aren't duplicates at all but some SO admin or mod hasn't read or understood the question properly and points the asker at something that's actually only vaguely related or irrelevant.

I'm pretty sure I've also heard of askers providing links to other questions that are similar to but not quite what they're interested in, explained why their question is different and yet it's one of those linked questions that ends up being identified as being identical to the asker's question.

There may also be at least one pair of questions that each point back at the other as being the original, and there's no useful information in either. (I don't know why this idea is in my head though, so maybe it was a joke I read somewhere.)

Either way, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they've made a mistake. Unfortunately for them, stories like this get out anyway.

Petty little overlords of the toxic waste dump of their own making.

You could, and I'm just spitballing here, start sending your compiled executables to the anti-virus provider and only continuing work once they've been added to the upstream exceptions. Bonus points for compiling hundreds and sending them all. Do that for a day or two and there is sure to be a number of communications many levels above you.

If executed perfectly and all goes well, you'll get your exceptions access.

Worst case... uh. Maybe this isn't such a good idea after all.

They're referencing this character: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Reginald_Barclay

Thanks for the sensible and in-depth response. I was reaching hard for any reason to set them against each other, and maybe went for too clumsy of an idea... That said, I'm not sure I would have been capable of a better one.

Oil doesn't go off if you store it properly. Or don't extract it in the first place. The fact it has been in the ground for millions of years is testament to that.

And, there's that whole Putin thing I alluded to. Europe might well be interested in surplus oil.

Yeah, we should be using renewables, not fossil fuels, but a lot of the old infrastructure is still here. There's bound to be some interest.

I do feel for the oil workers who might be affected by all this, though, which might be what you're getting at.

So how do we convince each of Kickl and Orbán that the other wants to re-form the Austro-Hungarian empire and get rid of their counterpart in the process?

The thing is with right-wing parties is that they're more easily led to be at each other's throats than for others. Not much more, because, well, humans, but maybe it would be enough.

I hate that I understand this.

Satire may have been instrumental in its own demise.

People see satire and are either smart enough to understand it - maybe even find it funny, or are offended by it. Those who are offended generally become more entrenched in their beliefs and those who aren't either don't see the satire for the warning it is, or do, but mostly choose not to do something about the subject.

And since people have seen what the satirised subject could be like, and they didn't take action, the subject might take the opportunity to move a little closer to the form it took in satire.

Given this and enough time, satire and reality can become indistinguishable.

And here we are.

Star Trek's 24th century Earth sounds like a reasonably nice place. I doubt I'd qualify for Starfleet, and wouldn't try.

I just want to see what life is like for the average broken neurodivergent in that reality. Also, what's at the location of my current house in that reality? Same construction? Did a version of me live there? Was it there but replaced in the intervening 350 years? etc.

Yeah, that whole "???" part wouldn't be pretty.

"US and Russia spearheading the new axis in WWIII" levels of "wouldn't be pretty".

Pipelines can be shut off. It's a Putin-approved tactic.

This is actually the correct way to do it in JavaScript, especially if the right hand side is more than 1.

If JavaScript thinks i contains a string, and let's say its value is 27, i += 1 will result in i containing 271.

Subtraction doesn't have any weird string-versus-number semantics and neither does unary minus, so i -=- 1 guarantees 28 in this case.

For the increment case, ++ works properly whether JavaScript thinks i is a string or not, but since the joke is to avoid it, here we are.

Need you be reminded that German carmakers were among those who rigged cars to cheat on emissions tests?

They got caught, but it proves they've been willing to lie and cheat and there's no reason to believe that they're not still willing, even if they fixed that particular problem.

When something is stated simply with an "all you need to do is...", it's not much of a reach to imagine that the person who said it has either no understanding of how difficult that would be or that that person has some simple solution in mind.

I was trying to cover all bases with my response to it, but I guess I made it sound like too much of an accusation. Sorry about that.

Relevant, but also not relevant at all: The North Pacific Deckpecker

[Preferred refugee destinations] have to make the home countries of immigrants attractive enough to stay there

Most governments take a very dim view of other governments interfering in their region's affairs, and further, the aforementioned destinations generally used to be colonial powers and don't have a good reputation in that regard to begin with.

Sending boatloads of cash to the migrant source won't fix the problems either, because it will just end up in the pockets of a small, corrupt few as it does literally everywhere else in the world, and nothing will change.

If you're in favour of abandoning ethics for a quick fix there are two or three "solutions", but there doesn't seem to be any easy ones otherwise.

FWIW, I'm very much not in favour of abandoning ethics.