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What the hell? Just this week Russia has killed tens of civilians by bombing apartment buildings and passenger buses, for no reason, just because they can.

Since they didn't improve the culture, it makes no sense to buy anything back at a mark-up. We can keep using the one we still have.

Can the Linux kernel be included in the OS?

You're describing a crank. Avoiding cranks is a good strategy even if technically biased.

Non-religious people are also susceptible to the FUD about supposedly or genuinely new things. Whatever innate ick there clearly is, it gets co-opted to demonize much wider ranges of things, and conversely can be suppressed like in the Epstein's circle's case. I don't find it convincing that the legislators passing reactionary prohibitions are just driven by a natural ick rather than particular agenda.

Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?

If you believe salt has to be kept secret, yeah, don't write your own auth.

Are you pairing computers by copying certificates to visit this site?

What a blast from the past, this word. Exactly right. It was a spectrum from a sort of mutual aid to regular corruption to outright mafia.

This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Besides, voting with your wallet, an actual tangible action, is not virtue signalling.

The only people who thrive in a dictatorship are its enforcers. And by the way a dictatorship needs quite a lot of them. That's how, decades after its fall, you get voices saying it wasn't all that bad, there were some nice things actually, or we should do it again.

And also your neighbors absolutely will sell you out.

Are we still talking about massive companies with power to arbitrarily decide how billions of people use the personal computers they bought? Who's doing the feeling? Why would we presume all of their conduct to be moral?

After an album ends Spotify keeps playing some related music. It's expected to include some tracks that are new to you. Then suddenly you notice "artists" you've never heard of with empty descriptions and "albums" from 2025 only.

A person praising Vance and Musk obviously doesn't value due process, judicial oversight and ultimately decency.

There's no indication of any failures of the industrial layer in this story. The train was working, it didn't crash into anything, everyone was safe.