sylver_dragon @ sylver_dragon @lemmy.world

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they will find escape goats.

Well now I want to stick around. Who wouldn't want an escape goat?

I don’t quite understand, what do you mean by “KISS is not available via pacman”

I was making a joke about Arch not being simple and pacman not having packages one would expect, often having to turn to AUR to find such packages. Seems the joke failed to land and now we're in "explaining a joke is similar to dissecting a frog" territory.

And, it would appear that there is more coming in 2025.

IT installed a firewall between the legacy environment and everything else. Devs threw a fit and so the firewall was configured with a default allow rule. Security was last seen crying into their beer.

arch-based distros are more noob-friendly

I'll take some of whatever you are smoking. And I am typing this on an Arch Linux system.
Sure, I love that I have a high degree of control; but, if I were planning to ask a new user to install Linux, I would not be handing them Arch. The Install Page may look nice; but, it's a minefield of "oh go chose something" and you come back three hours later having read way too much detail about bootloaders.

Arch is fantastic for choice, but the KISS principal is not available via pacman. It may be available in AUR. So, go learn what AUR is, spend way too long picking an AUR package manager only to learn it's not available their either and you need to build it from source.

Joking aside, I do need to try the SteamOS install. That might actually be a noob-friendly Arch distro.

This is what I am using. I have a cheap USB bluetooth dongle and use an xbox controller. Playing Lords of the Fallen with it and it's been perfect. It really is a "it just work" situation.

If the party didn't want to get immolated, they shouldn't have stood so close to the flammable, whatever that was that I just fireballed. Also, I cast fireball at it, again.

This is only true for quantum computers.

So, you're saying more big bad guy lairs need fire suppression systems? Or was only ever my players who restored to fire as a first, last, and often only, option?

I join at exactly the designated time. If you wanted me there five minutes earlier, then schedule the meeting five minutes earlier. Don't jerk me around with some expectation that I'm going to do anything other than what you asked for. Also, most of the folks I work with tend to be booked with lots of back to back meetings; so, no one is showing up early anyway. We all show up at the designated time and anyone late can catch up when they show up.

The "early is on time" mentality makes some sense for physical meetings and appointments. For virtual meetings, it just demonstrates that the person has no understanding of how technology works.

Every site has a dev environment, some are lucky enough to have a separate production one.

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic reached its peak in 1923

One thing about this, is that inflation peaking or stabilizing does not undo the previous years of inflation. Just because prices are no longer rising out of control, doesn't mean that people's wages suddenly catch up with the price hikes which have already happened. It's part of the reason consumer confidence can lag so far behind top line economic numbers. While the hyperinflation of the 1920's may not have directly caused the rise of the NSDAP, it's lingering effects and resentment caused by it, likely played some role.

I notice path of exile has sucked xi xinpings cock exactly zero times

In 2018, Tencent became a majority holder in GGG, acquiring 86.67% of the company's shares.
-source

I enjoyed Path of Exile, and may give PoE2 a go. But ya, GGG looks set to deepthroat some Xi Xin Pooh cock,

the FDA actually has less than 10 employees. Everyone else is an outside contractor.

You can search for FDA employees here (the US Government has a lot of transparency around employees). Also, it wouldn't surprise me to find a lot of contractors in scientific and technical roles in the FDA, the FedGov uses a lot of contractors. I actually spent time, at a site, first as a contractor and then as a direct employee. The only thing that materially changed was whether or not my badge said "contractor" on it. I literally sat in the same seat and did the same job. Pay was pretty close, but the benefits were way better. The line between contractor and govie was pretty blury and more of a running joke than a real wall. Maybe that was just the departments I worked for, but I suspect my experience was more typical.

Again, show your work. What traits are those and how did you come up with the list? And why do those traits only exist in specific types of societies?

To contrast such a claim, the first nation to reach space was Nazi Germany. The USSR also did a fine job of conquering the vacuum of space under Khrushchev. And, no sane person would look at Khrushchev's USSR and describe it a system which "maximize[s] the potential of all individuals". In a more modern context, China is doing a pretty good job in space exploration, having landed a rover on the moon and built their own space station. And, at the risk of provoking the wrath of the tankies, China isn't exactly a free and open nation.

So again, I'm just not seeing a basis for such a claim. And the example we do have, human history, seems to disagree with it.

Can someone take them on a tour of the ice sheet, and then accidentally forget to bring them back?

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not require any specific test which defines “insurrection”.

Ya, the real problem is that it doesn't. As specifically stated by the CRS:

Determining who has engaged in either of the two disqualifying activities—that is, engaging in insurrection or rebellion or giving aid or comfort to an enemy—is likely to be a difficult task given the scarcity of precedents and lack of clear definitions

And that difficulty is why that whole document exists, there isn't clear legal guidance. And the historic precedents on it are a mess. Yes, either house of Congress has the power to refuse to seat a member of their respective house and have used the 14th Amendment as a reason in the past. Moreover, Congress could pass a law which sets out a legal framework; but, that's not really happened either. The whole reason that this is even a discussion is that lack of clarity.

Republican strategy has long revolved around the targeted devolution of norms. They hide in the cracks between definitions which assume good faith participation in the labor of mutually consensual governance and shield themselves in perpetual faux-victimhood. If Congress does not pursue the execution of Section 3 it is nothing less than an abdication of their duty to their Oath of Office.

Arguably, Congress did try to do something, the House Impeached Trump. The Senate dropped the ball. And the American people then buried that ball far enough to interfere with Satan's daily activities by re-electiong Trump. It's a bad situation, but also not one we're going to solve by misrepresenting the law. Especially by handing The House the sole power to determine what Presidential Candidates have engaged in insurrection by a simple majority vote (the requirement to impeach). If you want to bring up "devolution of norms", that sort of power is going to take the cake. Anytime we have a split government, we're going to see impeachment and barring from office on the flimsiest of excuses. What we need isn't half-baked ideas but an actual, well considered framework.

Your last paragraph is a result of misunderstandings and assumptions on your part.

I think it's down to you moving the goalposts. You specifically stated:

The language of the 14th doesn’t require an impeachment or other formal conviction to apply. The fact that Trump was successfully impeached for inciting an insurrection is enough. The Senate’s failure to execute its duty does not erase reality.

You are arguing that the House Impeaching is enough to trigger Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Which is what I'm calling ridiculous. Trump being convicted by the Senate would have clearly barred him from holding office again. The reality is that he was acquitted. That's the part which is actually important.

What the fuck did Greenland do to deserve this?

It likely has a lot of mineral wealth. It's best to get control of that wealth, before some dirty locals try to setup their own government with rules about respecting them, their culture or property.

/s on that last bit, for the terminally stupid.

In fact, any civilization capable of long distance space travel would have to overcome such idiocy and maximize the potential of all individuals, regardless of the wealth they were born into.

I'd be curious what you base this statement on? Historically, the societies which did the most long distance travel and exploration were the opposite of this. Spain and Portugal were absolute monarchies, with well defined feudal systems which exploited anyone outside the noble class. Yet, their efforts to "explore" and dominate the Americas were incredibly successful. The UK's greatest exploration and extent was a direct offshoot of Mercantilism, with the East India Trading Company being both the primary actor and beneficiary. US Westward expansion was predicated on theft, war and genocide. Though, as a counter-point, the modern US system does a better job of providing opportunity to most people (with some notable problems), than it used to. And the US has been a hotbed of advancement in the last century.

In modern times, space exploration was originally driven by the desire to find new and interesting way to kill other people. And it's only been recently that peaceful sharing of information has been normalized. Even there, the cutting edge of space exploration seems to be back in the hands of mercantilist forces. I mean, I love me some SpaceX, "let's catch a rocket" shenanigans. But, we also shouldn't pretend that SpaceX is anything other than a for-profit corporation under a leadership which would be happy to harvest organs from people for a profit.

I know it's popular to think that space exploration must be a Star Trek style "space communism". But, this doesn't really align with the examples we have from history. And while that is certainly a human centric way to look at the problem, it's also the only real world example we have to look at. Everything else is just philosophers sitting around, passing a bong and saying, "man, what if..." It can be a useful exercise to think about other possibilities. But, I'd tend to focus more effort on what we have evidence for, than made up ideas.

I wondered why Samsung, a company that literally produces military weapons, wasnt on the list.

The PDF you linked: Designation of Chinese Military Companies.
Samsung is Korean.

And while I'm sure the Chinese Government would love to dig out a map from the Han Dynasty, claiming rule over the entire Korean Peninsula, I doubt Samsung is making weapons for them.