senseamidmadness @ senseamidmadness @beehaw.org

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Have you considered that you might have Bad Vibes? Maybe the installer is afraid.

I'm not attempting to victim-blame; nobody is completely immune to propaganda and it's not the fault of the working class that we're bombarded by it constantly. Often people have no clue they're being lied to all their lives. When they make decisions based on faulty information that's shoved at them for decades by the rich and powerful, the working people are not to blame; the people who make the propaganda are.

Propaganda is incredibly powerful.

You say that, but just like with XP, Microsoft announced a paid subscription to Windows 10 security updates for up to 3 years after the EOL date. There are probably a good number of companies who haven't switched yet or will not be able to switch easily.

I think you're massively over-generalizing here to make Linux look like an unstable mess. Rolling release distros are the ones that want you to read the patch notes. Arch is the poster child for those. Stable distros like Mint and Ubuntu and elementaryOS don't brick your system with every update. They hold back updates and stick with older kernels to ensure stability. Linux is, already, very good. It sounds like you haven't used it for any length of time. Valve's work on Proton has made Linux gaming viable for a whole lot of people, but the majority of computer users don't play intense video games. They want web browsing, email, office software, that kind of thing. Linux does those just great on almost any device all the way down to Raspberry Pi boards.

Just based on the article, these "reforms" are clearly aimed at harming the working class. I'll give you one guess as to which other class of people will benefit from them.

I have an older touchscreen, non-backlit e-ink Nook, and I don't use any of the Web interfacing or store to buy books. I do all my library management and acquisition on desktop and then USB transfer it. Mine freezes and stutters occasionally, mostly when browsing menus or waking up from standby mode, so it's not perfect. But it's acceptable and I've done plenty of reading on it. Mostly it was cheap. I think I paid less than $40 for mine used. My last Kindle was a Kindle 3G and it behaved pretty much the same after I jailbroke it to read epub format.

I knew those cars were bad, but that article is terrifying. Tesla continuing to use defective parts after knowing that those parts made the wheels fly off cars, and suspension assemblies collapse? That should be criminal. According to the article, China forced them to recall parts, but in the US it was somehow avoided...just astonishing.

Personally I just abandoned my Kindle library when I bought a Nook. That's not particularly helpful, of course, but it's what I did as part of kicking Amazon out of my life entirely. I started buying my books from non-DRM sources.

I will say this: you may have paid for "licenses" for those books, but you don't actually own them. Amazon can rip away your access to them at any time. Were it me, I'd simply pirate DRM-free copies of the same books. Though if you can successfully strip off the DRM and convert them to open-source formats, that's just as good and carries less risk. Every time I've converted ebook formats with Calibre it's done weird stuff to the text: letters incorrectly interpreted, missing punctuation, page breaks in odd places, and enough of them to be annoying. Something to consider. Maybe that kind of thing can be corrected but I haven't yet figured out how.

Business as usual, really, for the CIA

That right there is the dumb part. He should've owned up to it.

"Yes, I had killer sex in the Senate hearing room and all you senators are jealous you didn't do it first."

We can only hope that, like the citizens of Rapture, the rich tech-bros go insane from their own fumes and start eating each other.

The rights listed in the Constitution have always been a joke, selectively enforced in favor of the ruling classes, and this is yet another example of that. Completely blatant overreach by municipal and state authorities.

I hate it here.

Nazis are ontologically evil with a documented history of genocide. They deserve far worse than just doxxing.

If you're not comfortable with anti-Nazi activity, you need to ask yourself why.

Maybe it's because you're uncomfortable with the idea of hostility in general? If so, you need to understand that fascist ideology is in and of itself hostile, and any action against it by the people it targets is self-defense.

I'm queer and the people in that list would kill me or worse if given the chance. Do you understand that?

I wonder just how many donations Jeffries has gotten from warmongering weapons companies.

The Republicans opposing handing away more money for a foreign war are doing the right thing, even if it's for the wrong reason.

Because abuse and racism are their job

Motorcycles are not as dangerous as people think. What they are is unforgiving of mistakes.

My opinion is that the crash and fatality statistics are heavily inflated by the fact that risky people are drawn to motorcycles, and the evidence backs me up on that somewhat. Studies like the Hurt Report and subsequent NHTSA studies on fatal crashes show some absolutely baffling things, like over 20% of all fatal crashes involving unlicensed riders and almost 40% involving alcohol consumption in some way. Hell, in a shocking amount of US states, helmets are not required and every time I'm in one of those states I see people riding around on the interstate without any head protection. Absolutely terrifying and an incredibly stupid thing to do. I never ride without a full-face helmet personally.

There are plenty of ways to mitigate risk but most of the riders who die in crashes don't do them.

Oil processing is definitely bad for the environment, but think for a moment about the scales. Just in raw materials, ignoring the massive impact of battery manufacture alone, the average motorcycle weighs less than 600 pounds. The Prius weighs about six times that. That means six times the amount of shipping, forming, refining, finishing, et cetera...

The Prius still has an internal combustion engine that burns gasoline, and requires a significant amount of rare-earth minerals for the construction of its catalytic converter. Most motorcycles now have catalytic converters, but they are smaller and thus the environment suffers less damage per vehicle.

I agree that a Prius will burn cleaner while running than probably any motorcycle -- but the total amount of damage done just by being built has to be a whole lot more than almost any motorcycle and it can't be close.

Must be something pretty modern with fuel injection!

I was very heavily generalizing; there are so many different kinds of motorcycles and they vary so widely in fuel efficiency that it's really hard to average. Here in the US, the average new motorcycle sold is a 700-pound monster with an engine larger than 100 cubic inches of displacement. (Again, generalizing a bit, but Harley-Davidsons still make up over 4 out of every 10 new motorcycles sold here.) Harley-Davidson's largest model, the Electra Glide Ultra Classic, gets less than 40 MPG and weighs well over 800 pounds.

My understanding is that the motorcycle/rider combination in most cases has a very poor coefficient of drag and that's the largest issue at highway speeds.

Depends strongly on the motorcycle, however, as there are so many different kinds with varying amounts of bodywork. Some are absurdly efficient, like the Honda Grom, which routinely achieves over 100MPG.