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Comment · 1 month ago
> We need a new KISS: keep it simple, stupid, secure.

Maybe KISSASS: "keep it simple, stupid! also secure, stupid!"

Comment · 2 months ago
> Who cares if a small burger pollutes more than commuting with a SUV.

This affirmation only holds up for factory farming / intensive animal husbandry.

Extensive pastoralism (aka free-ranging grazing animals) don't pollute per se, and if certain conditions are met (regarding population density), they can have positive effects on (already anthropicized) ecosystems by linking ecotopes.

Comment · 6 months ago
> Ukraine is "receiving money from others"?

Factually correct.

> We are benefactors of the Ukrainians' bravery and sacrifices.

Who's we?

> How much money could we have not spent if Hitler had been stopped in Czechoslovakia?

Very different situation, in all aspects.

Comment · 7 months ago
Awesome resources, thank you for linking them!
Comment · 9 months ago
But people check shell scripts before running them... right?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The historical criteria for Spain seems dubious. It posits the ahistorical existence of a "Kingdom of Spain" from 1479 on, when this political entity didn't come to be until several centuries later (despite some monarchs using the title "King of Spain". For that matter, the current Spanish King holds the title of "King of Jerusalem", but to my awareness no Kingdom of Jerusalem actually exists today).
Comment · 1 year ago
This is an interesting take. When I taught low-income Muslim students from North Africa I was told that having a beard (which I already had) would help to establish myself as a figure of authority, as they would associate it with their conception of what a "scholarly figure" looks like. Similarly, women in both Academia and the corporate world have told me that they had chosen not to dye their graying hair in order to consolidate their image as a "serious, professional woman".

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