I’ve seen this movie I think.

“Carbon monoxide” is just another phrase police use to hide supernatural events a la “gas leak”.

Ah but we’ll never run out of electricity. We will run out of oil.

Furthermore, adding new electric capacity is easy in comparison to adding more oil infrastructure.

What they do every day:

• Generate 8 social posts across platforms

Ew.

Yeah like… What the hell did we build our embassy out of that a great big explosion outside merely cracked some glass in the doors‽

There’s not even pock marks on the frame!

Sharing the trauma makes things better?

They should do a study about teams that really know each other! The “kiss to make it better” thing might be even more effective.

“My doctors and nurses were being all lovey dovey with each other… They started making out, suddenly! That’s when I noticed the pain had gone away… It was just… Gone! Precious moments between nurses became real relief. They noticed me watching and I told them not to stop!”

I didn’t watch the video but… Why TF did he choose Pop! OS with Cosmic Desktop‽ That’s not something a non-technical user would choose. That’s like… Beta software (Cosmic) running on a Linux distro made and tested for very specific hardware sold by System76.

That’s like trying to put wheels made for a truck on a random sedan. Like, yeah you can do that with a bit of effort but why? It makes no sense.

If you’re going to put a Linux distro on random hardware pick something universal and stable that was made to run on random hardware like Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Especially if you’re new to Linux.

Also, if you’re going to do something ridiculous like this why not just start with Gentoo? Don’t use the GUI installer either! Go the LFS+ route and take care picking your file systems and compile flags 😁

BTW: Out of all the random people I’ve ever known to “try Linux”, the ones who had the best first-time experience all used KDE (Plasma) as their desktop. That means Kubuntu, Bazzite, or SteamOS. For newbies, always go with KDE. Seriously: Its interface for settings and the launcher are familiar enough to both Windows and Mac users that they don’t have a hard time while also being different enough that they don’t make bad assumptions about how things work (which is a problem for Gnome).

Want gas to be cheaper? Get more people to buy electric cars!

That remote is missing the power button and it’s kinda creeping me out.

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Ah yes, that land has surely had the same exact demographic for at least 200,000 years. A rare ecosystem of religion-based slaughter could be irreversibly changed into a new kind of slaughter that no longer follows the ways of old.

Yeah, I don’t think so. The only way any demographic will permanently change in that region is if global warming makes it impossible for humans to live there. Otherwise, human populations will come and go and people will hate and kill each other. Just like forever.

Maybe if everyone gave up religion it might slow down…

A dog can’t withdraw affection strategically.

Oooooh no. No. I’ve adopted many dogs over the course of my life and this is absolutely untrue. Especially of really smart dogs.

Example: If my dog wants me to take her for a walk, and I go to pet her instead, she’ll pull away and grunt, then literally punch the closet with the safety vest inside. She knows that I always put on the vest before we go for a walk and knew exactly how to communicate what she wanted, haha.

Another: On pizza night, I go get a hot bag (everyone should have one!) from the garage and then leave to go get the pizza. Not only does she know what day of the week this happens, she knows the relative time. She will bark at me to get my attention and then lead me to the bag!

“I guess it’s time to go get the pizza.”

Furthermore, she will not try to get out when I take the bag to the front door like she often does. If I’m holding the bag, she will stand far back from the door and if don’t move fast enough she’ll try to shoo me out!

She will not be passing up free pizza crust, thank you! Move your ass, human!

Here she is, the other day, lying directly on my chest, slowly inching her face closer and closer to me, indicating it’s time to get up:

How lazy are they that they think it’sn’t already taxing enough‽

Not even X rated‽ I guess only boring people buy such things.

“Hot librarian” must be having a downturn.

I mean, if you bought the glasses at least put on a show for your watchers from time to time! The employees at Meta should also be required to give each hour a ⭐ rating.

If it relies on SIM cards that means it doesn’t work at all with regular computers or when the device connects over WiFi, right? Seems kinda useless.

Of course, all age verification checks on the Internet are useless regardless but this Japanese method seems extra useless.

In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.

TVs, thermostats, “smart” anything, android phones, 3D printers, industrial equipment, routers, sensors (e.g. soil monitoring where there’s millions), and zillions more categories.

Remember: Just about every “smart” device that’s connected to the Internet is running Linux and isn’t getting compromised anywhere near as often as embedded windows devices did (which is a big reason why companies stopped using embedded windows!). There’s vulnerabilities that crop up from time to time (e.g. cheap routers) but that problem can often be attributed to shitty practices on the part of the device manufacturer. Example: Using the same default credentials on every device, expecting the end user to change them.

Don’t forget TVs, thermostats, “smart” anything, etc.

The solution to this is simple! Each college should put out an official policy statement that says, “we will not use any textbooks selected by a majority committee of white people.”

Legally, what could the board of governors do about it? The discussion of the existence of racism is barred by Florida law!

Tell them to cite, in the sociology textbook they manufactured, precisely where racism or any sort of discrimination like this is mentioned. Ask them to give a historical example of how this could possibly be a problem!

The Waffle House Index needs to be updated to add a new code: Swastica Red. Locked Doors Due to Presence of Conservative Politician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

One thing to think about with Linux—where I think you’re getting the wrong impression—there’s something like fifteen billion Linux installations globally. Compare that to Windows where there’s about 1.9 billion.

Yet for some painfully obvious reason, Windows has about an order of magnitude more serious, actively exploited vulnerabilities than Linux. For every serious, actively exploited Linux vulnerability (which includes basically anything in the tens of thousands of packages + kernel that are available and ready to install in any Linux install), Windows has vastly more. And that’s just the stuff branded by Microsoft!

There’s a whole lot of reasons why you’re much more secure in just about every way on a Linux install, but believe it or not, you know what the single most important factor is, that prevents malware from being much of a problem? Default permissions!

It sounds silly, but whenever you download something on a Linux desktop you can’t just execute it. You have to take an extra step and mark that thing/malware as executable before you can run it. It’s a step where everyone stops to think, “hmm… Maybe I should double check this.” 😁

This doesn’t stop the truly careless, of course. But it’s easily the biggest factor in preventing the sorts of “drive by malware” that people often get suckered into running.

Contrast this with Windows where literally everything is executable by default. You can change a .txt to an .exe and BAM! Windows will now attempt to execute it when you double click on that file (that would throw an error, but you get the idea).