it also causes loss in bone density causing osteoporosis, debilitates fat absorbson causing heart disease, causes men to grow breasts and women to lose them, and can cause anemia, infertility, depression and diabetes.

These side effects can be permanent after stopping the medication

it is. everyone knows it. including his supporters. They’re just in on it.

The shareholders. He holds 20% stake.

eh, every time there’s a referendum it gets plurality of support. A bunch of people like the pomp and circumstance. And although I disagre I can understand.

I can’t tell if you’re joking but it’s an abbreviation of patriate not patriot > same root but patriot implies liking or serving the country and patriate - from patria - just means “from that country”

Should we ban [cars]

I mean, disregarding the feasibility, political polularity and media optics of it, for the continuation of earths ecosystem… probably yeah

1987 smoking banned in London public transport following the deaths of 31 people in a fire

2005 banned in nationwide public transport

2008 banned in enclosed public spaces

2018 banned in prisons

I’m curious do you think they’re all stupid or just this one? Isn’t this one just an extension of “please don’t smoke directly in front of the hospital doors” for other public places?

What about the proposed plans to raise the smoking age year on year every year?

she crashed the economy by saying she was going to reduce taxes on the rich, so much so the bank of England had to step-in to shore up bonds.

I would also add that you need to explain out-of-home steps, too.

I’m not an idiot but I didn’t go to school for compsci or similar and I don’t do it as a job. So frequently the instructions will go

• Get your IP address by entering this command
• Type your IP address in this line
• Now forward any chosen port to your proxy of choice and don’t forget to check your firewall settings!

My sibling in Eris, most people dont know any of those words.

different guy here. It seemed to be fairly useful for software engineers to solve quick issues where the answer isn’t immediately obvious - but it’s terrible at most other jobs.

And part of why it’s bad is because you have to type into a text box what you want and read it back (unless you build you own custom API integration- which goes without saying is also a terrible way to access a product for 99% of people)

Another part of why it’s bad is because you’re sharing proprietary information with a stranger that is definitely cataloging and profiling it

Very few people interact with language in a way that is bidirectionally friendly with AI, and AI just isnt very good at writing. It’s very good at creating strings of words that make sense and fit a theme, but most of what makes “very good” writing isn’t just basic competency of the language.

.top is cheap right now and much easier to make into a phrase

I am commenting this from a terrible strip club with friends who dragged me here. I wish I was in your position.

I’m curious about comparing this to say - the white phosphorus scene in Spec Ops: The Line, or the airport scene (“no Russian”) in COD, rescuing Ellie instead of giving humanity the cure in The Last of Us…

All things that are arguably a lot worse than pulling a leg off a stuffed Elephant and all require on-rails player action in a game.

To take the devils advocate position: is conflict not necessary for drama, and effective conflict is one that affects its audience?

I wanna ding his little hat like a hotel reception bell

it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).

Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.

Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.

Ah, the perfect keyboard for a quiz on queztals and caziques.

they should call it Definitely_notMalware.db for safety

because I googled what distro to use and ubuntu was the one I picked randomly and I can’t be fucked to change it

I assume I am a prototypical user in that regard.

I fucked something up and installed pihole and adguard at the same time both in a container and bare metal and received a massive load of error messages that after 2 hours of trying to unstick just formatted the SD card and started over. So then, installing and configuring ssh, fstab the external drive, set a static IP address on the pi took up all of my time so far.