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It’s only crunchy peanut butter if it’s from the Craunhxeau region in France? Otherwise it’s just sparkling nuts…

I cannot make certain teams at my work give a shit about known security vulnerabilities in libraries they use, since they don’t trip our internal scanners. People have their own priorities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I built a LFS system in the 1990s. It was cool and informative but I decided to switch to Gentoo to ease my compilation pain. Eventually I switched to Debian after waiting a day for KDE and Star Office to build in on day. 😅

Surely you need to make a cron job to do this on changes? 😅

The moral of the story is to always just write the damn SQL and stop fucking around with ORM and frameworks and all of it. 😅

My very fundamentalist first boss and I agreed strongly on this, although with opposite conclusions.

My feeling was whatever one or more consenting adults want to do in private is fine.

His feeling was if God tells you not to do something that you shouldn’t do it, even if you really want to, even if you were born wanting to.

In Europe:

In the US:

Not exactly the same years, of course, and comparing data sets is tricky.

I don’t think that we see the same increase in pedestrian fatalities in other countries though, which do have smart phones but do not have massive personal trucks.

The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They’re not incompetent, they’re doing their job just fine.

If you live in a country with 19th century banking where people still pay each other by IOU on little pieces of paper, then sure. In modern countries a lot of places only take electronic payments.

I just download and install games.

In the US in the 1980s there was still existential dread from the cold war… nuclear war was very much a concern, although less because, well, it just hadn’t happened. We also had a terrific “war on drugs”, which was used to oppress minorities and in general stoke up fear and funnel money to militarized police. We had massive inflation at the start of the decade. Iran had just had a religious revolution, and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Trump declared war on unions and basically ended the successful policies preventing the worst excesses of capitalism that were put in place after the Great Depression (which Clinton gleefully continued). The AIDS epidemic began, and we had no idea in the beginning how bad it might become. It stoked already rampant homophobia.

As far a daily life in the US, we had the dominance of malls as a place where people went to buy stuff. It led to a lot of neighborhood businesses dying, and eliminated any place where people could meet without a commercial purpose. And because they were private property, people could be controlled. No protests allowed on private property.

We did have a few good things of course! The split of AT&T meant cheap phone calls and the ability to buy cool phones, like a hamburger phone of whatever. Computers got cheap enough that there were 8-bit microcomputers, like the Commodore 64 or the Apple II. Piracy was rampant - you could go over to a friend’s place with a box of blank floppies and come home with 20 new cracked games. We got rap and break dancing and synthesizer music and music videos.

The Internet was only available at a few universities, so if you wanted knowledge you went to a library. Urban myths and misinformation were everywhere, but unamplified by any algorithm. You could shop by calling a shop or even sending a fax.

It’s been fascinating seeing tech workers being reminded that they are working class. They still haven’t achieved class consciousness yet, but I remain hopeful…

Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

That only works if it kills people (or makes them infertile) before they are 40 or so (for women) or 60 or so (for men), right?

I’m so sorry. It must be terrifying knowing how many of your fellow drivers are zipping around with worn brake pads or broken turn signals. 😬

Presumably your car has an annual safety inspection. The inspection could include writing down your milage, right? I’m pretty sure there are already laws against tampering with your odometer…

“Internal combustion engine vehicles also lose range in extreme cold weather,” points out Ed Kim, the chief analyst with the research group AutoPacific, who was not involved in AAA’s research. The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weather, depending on the type of trip. “This isn’t a problem that’s exclusive to EVs. This happens to basically any kind of vehicle when it gets really cold.”