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Sure, if the guy voted for a pro oil candidate and drives a massive 10mpg lifted diesel truck some of that is surely on him. But there's still the massive media machine owned largely by billionaires, decades and billions of dollars of lobbying and propaganda by the oil and car companies, and foreign interests (some of which sell oil, some of which just want to see the US fail) that influenced him along the way. If we turn it around, how many people would still vote for pro oil candidates if these weren't there?

Most people weren't voting age 70-50 years ago when public transit systems collapsed, so mostly they didn't vote on this. Even in places that have consistently voted pro transit for decades at this point, they quite literally still have decades of baggage to get rid of in the form of antiquated or hostile laws that were designed to slow them down, require workarounds or blow through their budget. You can't undo all of that even over multiple terms in-office.

And there's the whole thing about the US political system, which discourages any more than 2 parties, which disincentivizes members of those parties from actually following through on campaign promises vis a vis lobbying money for their reelection campaign and future positions on the boards of companies whose laws they decide on. Then the information who to vote for comes from media companies owned by...

Plus, some people's votes are simply more equal than others’. And sometimes we can ignore some people's votes by cheating just a little bit (see Bush vs Gore).

There are simply so many factors at play here that I still think twisting this as an "individual choice" problem is disingenuous at best. There are people who have the power to make changes, but it's not your average Joe on an average salary.

It would be a bit of a dishonest question in my opinion. Take the oil and car industry in the US for example. They've spent the past 70 years or so dismantling alternative transport infrastructure (among other things...). So how are we now going to assign the blame to the guy driving his car to work, instead of taking the bus that takes 4x as long, requires 3 transfers, and has people openly taking drugs on it? In the ideal world, sure, there would be a fair and even playing field of alternatives and the blame would 100% lie with the consumers who choose from this totally even field of possibilities. But we don't live in that ideal world.

I use Zen as my work browser but weirdly the developers seem to have a few Arc features they are actively opposed to despite ... let's say taking heavy inspiration from Arc otherwise. Two examples I can think of off the top of my head are the auto closing of tabs, and preventing websites from taking over certain keyboard shortcuts.

Plus sometimes these apps have specific requirements. One thing needs Postgres 16, the other needs Postgres 18... maybe it works to point both at 18, maybe it doesn't. Easier to just give everything its own instance and use whatever the recommended Postgres version is. I doubt there is any major difference in resource usage

Livestock guardian dogs and other methods are common around the world where predators still exist in the environment. Why can't the Dutch use them?

For me it's the other way around. I tried darkroom and C1 but I found both of them a lot harder to use and less feature-rich compared to Lightroom. If I was a pro user using it every day I'm sure I could justify learning either of those programs (and learn them relatively quickly) but as a hobby user I wanna take photos, not learn photo library management and editing from scratch. The quality and quantity of free tutorials and presets for Lightroom on YouTube and other platforms is also much greater. Granted I haven't tried these vibecoded versions, but I barely trust the Adobe products not to corrupt my library, I probably wouldn't trust these either

I do think there's a point where introducing different failure modes is harmful. Say they end up causing more pedestrian crashes and more head-on & angle crashes (such as the one in this article), but less loss-of-control and fixed-object crashes. That would make it safer for occupants but less safe for non-occupants of the self-driving vehicle. Since the occupant is the ones engaging self-driving mode they should be the one carrying the risk, so IMO even if it reduces number of deaths overall it should not be allowed

I have an LG OLED as well, and to be honest I don't care. It is pretty obvious that every TV manufacturer does it by the fact that they all have to make their TVs "smart", perhaps save for the tiny/unknown ones that don't have an ad department or a contract with an ad company. Five minutes of using any smart TV interface should be able to dispel the notion that it somehow exists for the benefit of the user, and not for other reasons. My TV simply never goes on the network, which makes this a non-issue

Isn't the whole point of UBI that it is universal and equal, e.g. everyone gets XX$ no matter what? If it is tied somehow to behavior then it is not UBI anymore, but more like a tax credit

Maybe I don't remember the names, dates, and others correctly but I don't think they had things like

> Wi-Fi and Ethernet clients are equivalent peers on the LAN. > Wi-Fi and Ethernet clients aren’t equivalent peers on the LAN.

To be honest I don't know what this is supposed to be telling me. They can or can't be on the same VLAN? They could have different or the same QoL? If we hammer traffic on both at the same time bad things may or may not happen?

> Only IPv4 is running on my LAN. > Only IP is running on my LAN. > Okay, only IP, IPX/SPX, Phase IV, AppleTalk, VINES, NetBEUI, or SNA are running on my LAN. > Seriously?

Practically I'm not sure how this affects someone writing a networked application. Sure, IPv4/IPv6, but if I get a bug report in the year 2026 that my application is broken because it doesn't work on the AppleTalk network, it gets a WONTFIX.

Sure, maybe if I'm writing a low-level network driver or maintaining a mainframe application these are things I have to care about. I think that may be the difference between the other posts and this post - non-experts in Onomastics and Chronology deal with names and dates all the time, hence resulting in issues like government websites not accepting Ng as a last name because it is less than 3 characters or not allowing entering February 29th as a birthday.

I've had my code editor's configuration set to auto save for at least 15 years at this point. I've never had the problem of not being able to throw something away that I wanted to throw away - either it's in the git history (broad edits), or it's in the undo-history (fine edits). It helps to have an undo history that survives restarts and that preserves branches, which I guess may not be a default for every editor

We don't have carpet, and I use the grounding armband from my iFixit set. I've never had an SSD die either even when swapping them between various systems over the years. My oldest M.2 is about 10 years old, a 120GB that I now also use as a boot & VM drive for my NAS. Maybe I'm just unlucky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though if a component dies due to ESD from an imperceptible spark then the manufacturer skimped on ESD testing