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"After an extensive three-year study, I have discovered that touching a hot element with one's bare hand does, in fact, hurt."

"That seems like it was unnecessary..."

"Do U even science bro?!"

Not everything automatically deserves a study. Were there any non-rando people out there claiming that ChatGPT could totally generate legit cancer treatment plans that people could then follow?

Dude I was at this concert, but there was another guy there who was on his phone doing something weird...the whole concert was ruined!

That's not reparations for slavery, then. That's just redistribution.

He's absolutely been practicing his mug shot in the mirror at home for weeks now...

I, uh...I think they've been building the case against Trump by getting convictions, confessions, and plea deals from his underlings. Which is what I said in response to the initial question: why isn't Trump in prison, even though a lot of his underlings are? Because that was a necessary prerequisite to making the case against him, since he probably wasn't involved in the day-to-day activities.

I never said anything like "these are things they aren't doing". I'm just explaining the timing.

You can go to jail for being head of a criminal organization or conspiracy. This requires that 1) prosecutors prove that the conspiracy was in fact illegal, and engaged in illegal activity, and 2) that you were in fact the head of that conspiracy. That all requires cooperation from other defendants. So it takes time to build a case like that.

Oh, they're not going to stick with him! He's finished, IMHO. But the question was why it took so long. It's because the other conspirators had to go first to build the case.

I've been using it on various desktops, as a PM but mostly the full OS for 6 years or so. I would hate to switch back.

Disk space is an issue... I've seen the OS take as much as 100 GB. But in a world of 2TB SSDs for $100, is that a big deal?

I don't see why NixOS would be any worse for the lifetime of a disk than other distros.

I've only hit binary cache missed for packages I created, or where I changed build options. IOW: a binary cache miss means Debian wasn't gonna have it anyway. And on the flip side: you can change package build options! Neat!

Broken packages are, if anything, less of a problem with Debian. Debian has lots of packages that are...not broken, but incomplete, requiring lots of manual config or whatever. NixOS is way better at that stuff.

User error? Yeah, fair. I'm a programmer by trade, but I can definitely see how it'd be a bit much if I weren't.

But oh man...you should've seen how trivial it was to switch from PulseAudio to PipeWire (including Jack support etc), leaving no trace that Pulse was ever installed... Or switching from X to Wayland, on a system that I've been doing rolling updates on since 2017, all with a clear conscience... It's beautiful.

Yeah, I think that's more or less right. Musk has gone off the rails, and is using his fortune as a cudgel in a fit of pique.

It's our own fault that our "town square" was so easily taken over by a rich bully, though. I was warning people back in 2007 that depending so heavily on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, was a bad idea. People did not want to hear it. It's hard to picture now, but people used to love those companies, and couldn't imagine them doing harm. But like...it was inevitable.

We need to build on things like Lemmy, Mastodon, Diaspora, whatever. If you hand control of the town square to a corporation, they're gonna control access and charge fees, and they'll happily sell it to someone who wants to turn it into a mud-wrestling pit. That's not the fault of the corporations--it's our fault.

This take is exhausting. It's like the political version of narcissism: here's how everything that happens in the world is actually a conspiracy against me!

If Musk was a plant to sabotage Twitter on the behalf of the 1%, why would he have done it slowly with a series of increasingly bad decisions that caused a mass migration to distributed open-source platforms? Why not just flip the switch and kill it in one go? Or: why not start a program of bots to talk about how awesome Teslas are, and make Trump seem cool, while shadow-censoring criticism of Musk's friend's companies or governments?

You think They are competent and dastardly enough to plan a takeover of Twitter, but then too bumbling to make better use of it than slowly discrediting it with a series of half-baked ideas from a deranged and detestable front man?

Right. So to start out you prove there was a conspiracy, and you convict some of the members, and then finally you have enough evidence to go after the leader.

Trump wasn't directly involved in illegal stuff (in most cases), he was doing it through underlings. So you need to start with the underlings, and roll him up last.

Yeah. But RICO charges require that you've got cooperation and guilty pleas from lower-ranking members of the organization, and they're willing to point the finger at the leader and say "he's the one who told me to do it". So, yeah, that's part of the reason why he's the last one in the group to see the inside of a courtroom.

Yes! He stepped right into that one.

I know that. But so what? There's YouTube videos of guys making half-decent-sounding techno tracks in minutes, and on the other hand some artists spend months on a single track. If people listen to their tracks, they get paid, regardless of how hard it was to produce.

This is that principle taken to it's logical extreme: tracks that are effectively effortless to produce. But that...doesn't really change anything, does it? Aside from the fact that the 'artists' should expect a hell of a lot of competition (including from Spotify).

Well, aside from what others are saying...

Try to picture Trump on the phone with the Proud Boys, giving them explicit instructions or discussing strategy. Even if he did talk to them (which I doubt), surely it'd be his usual "We're going to do great things, great things, we're all great people, we're gonna turn this thing around, it's going to be beautiful!"

When Russia collaborated to help Trump get elected, do you figure they talked on the phone in person? Or emailed back and forth? Motherfucker couldn't make it through a one-page intelligence briefing, I'm not even sure he can write. Surely it was Trump's people working with Putin's people (several levels down in both cases).

You need to prove that Trump personally and intentionally violated the law. It's not enough to show that shady shit was going on around him. And that's hard to prove, since he generally was working at a remove. And this is a guy who's been in and out of courtrooms his entire adult life; surely he has some instinct for what kinds of things to avoid.

Are we going to try paying artists by the level of effort it took to create a track?

I think you're doing a much better job of arguing against yourself than I could.

Damn, if that's their 'real' job, they're doing a terrible job of it! You're wrong, actually, I live in a major city I know a lot of Chinese and Indian people, including my wife, and an easy majority my coworkers at work are the same, including the CEO--hell, the CEOs of most major tech companies at this point...and the police haven't done shit to stop them! Hell, there's a bunch of black families that have moved right into my neighborhood--which is a pretty nice neighborhood, I might add--and they're walking around here like they have the same rights as everybody else!

Somebody really ought to remind these cops what their real job is, cuz they're failing at it pretty horribly.

What it shows is that inflation goes up, and the population is both growing and urbanizing all over the world.

"There isn't even a single good cop in the world" is one of the most edgelord 13-year-old takes I've ever seen, and you're acting like his take is oversimplified?