I wish there were more M.2 cards beyond just SSDs and wireless NICs. The idea of a small form factor PICe interface is underutilized and things like hardware codec accelerators can keep laptops with older processors usable with new standards for longer. It’s sad how PCMCIA had an entire ecosystem of expansion cards yet we somehow decided that the much higher bandwidth M.2 is only for storage and networking. Hell, do what sound cards in the 90s/00s did and have M.2 SSDs specifically designed for upgrading older laptops that also have built in accelerators for the latest media standards. Hardware acceleration is energy efficient and can probably just be bundled into the flash controller like they’re bundled into the processor, and unless you have a top of the line SSD you’re probably not saturating the M.2 interface anyway.

100% the latter

Worldbuilding. There are communities for it but they’re not very active.

Plastic wrappers/pouches when the tear points don’t work.

Fuck plastic packaging they need to be banned. Not just for this reason obviously.

And when the animal kills them, claim it’s a tragedy when getting killed by your prey happens all the time in nature especially to apex predators who hunt large animals.

You played nature’s game, bought cheats, and still lost. No one should feel bad for you.

Probably because this is one of the places where you can actually get reliably human interactions. Really important to keep models healthy.

Pre-installed distro needs to support one-click installation (like .app or .exe).

This defeats a lot of what makes Linux secure. The main reason you don’t get malware is because you never run untrusted binaries from the internet and you install everything from trusted sources like your package manager. A non tech savvy person doing this will inevitably hit one of the super rare Linux malware in the wild. Clueless person downloads the wrong installer is the model malware entry case. I also don’t see a benefit of just having an app store, you can even show proprietary software by default as long as they can be turned off (I suspect the main reason for one click installation is for downloading proprietary software).

Burgers are so easy to make at home. Like 15 minutes. And you get to control what goes in it. It’s fast food because it’s literally fast to make. Do it yourself.

You’re right, and furthering the cause against exploitation of humans will help those values to be applied to animals as well. Both are exploitation and come from similar motives and perceived hierarchy. I’d say that a society that has completely ended exploitation of humans will most likely be one that has also ended exploitation of animals because the values that drive the former will also drive the latter. There are very few cases where it’s human lives OR animal lives.

“Fascism is capitalism in decay”

– IDK

Edit: I think it’s also the reactionary response capitalists have to left wing momentum in the population. Hitler leveraged the threat of communism to gain power and the first people he sent to camps were German communists. Sound familiar with this whole woke thing? When a population is stressed they will generally lean either far left or right and the right wing is in power and want to suppress the left wing.

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Is this not murder? There’s no way he didn’t contribute to her death even if she was already terminally ill. Stabbing a terminally ill person is murder, putting a newborn baby on the street under the guise of “it’s in my property and it’s not my kid” is murder, why isn’t this? At least criminal negligence no?

Also, is Nanimo doing okay? Like, just in general, but is the housing situation as bad as Vancouver?

Wasn’t there also a really egregious part where they were estimating how many children the average young adult woman had in Tsarist Russia vs the USSR, and because the birth rates were lower in the USSR, they counted the supposed population deficit as victims?

Gonna make like a goose and ask them why women in the USSR had lower birth rates. Couldn’t be access to contraception/abortion, sex and family planning education, equal rights as men, or better career options, right?

In the eyes of the US, if you as a soldier end up surviving to retirement, you’re doing it wrong. The US treats them like tie fighters.

I mean, if a foreign army is fighting for you you’re probably going to praise them regardless. What are you going to do? Diss them in front of the whole world, potentially offending the country the army belongs to causing them to cut relations with you, while sending the message to every other country that help will not be appreciated? I know very little about the Russia/Ukraine thing but whatever your opinion on it is, IMO this means very little one way or the other.

Absolutely. And I further submit that if we’re to think of ourselves as an intelligent, enlightened, civilized, and technological species, moving beyond our predatory instinct is one of the first prerequisites. Only once we completely stop exploiting animals can we in good faith say we’re actually materially better than any other animal species. Until then we’re just lions with computers.

What’s the first thing we claim sets us apart from every other animal? Oh right, how humans aren’t beholden to natural instincts and have advanced beyond mindless killing machines. We say while buying another hamburger because we can’t even get past the primal urge to keep eating animal meat as soon as we taste it because that urge literally evolved in a time where the only choices were to hunt or starve. With all our technology you’d think we’d embrace more efficient ways of nutrient delivery.

Isn’t a drawing tablet just a fancy touchpad that works with a pen? What excuse do they have not to work with tablets past a certain age when they all use the same USB signalling standard mice and laptop touchpads have used since USB came out? (We all know the real reason, but I’m curious about what they pretend is the reason?)

Anti LGBTQ+ bigotry in general.

This kind of bigotry has led to suicides of LGBTQ+ people and terrorist attacks against their communities. This is beyond “offending” someone.

Companies reporting price increases as “adjusting for inflation” when the price hike does not match inflation should have the entire C-suite going to the gulag. We need to unironically do what China does with its rich, terrorize them and make them walk on eggshells and hand out ridiculously harsh punishments to management when a business commits a crime.

Also, campaign promises made by politicians running for office should be legally binding. If something they said would happen did not happen, they should be tried for treason and the burden should be on them to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they tried everything they possibly could to keep the promise but forces they could not possibly overcome prevented them from succeeding. Maybe then they’ll only promise things they actually intend to do.