Carl

Been happy with Debian for a couple years now. After spending time on a few other distros I realized that I really value predictability in my daily driver and don't really care about most bleeding edge features. My computer does exactly what I expect it to every time I run it, updates don't randomly break things that were working yesterday, sometimes I have to deal with for example my version of Firefox not supporting something but it seems to me those issues are far less common than the ones I'm dodging.

i get that this is just an edgy joke but the evidence that most computer programmers really wish they were antebellum south slaveowners continues to grow

I only support good things, and don't support any bad things.

The only reason you think this is "frying people's circuits" is because they immediately recognize the dumb game you're playing and either try to shake you out of it or immediately dismiss you as unserious.

They're pretty neat. Since the molten salt core stays hot for a while after the sun goes down, in some high-output high-storage setups they're cheaper than traditional PV panels + batteries while providing the same power.

In the US it's not so much about lyme disease being denied as it is about chronic lyme disease being denied. People who catch the disease sometimes experience long term symptoms that don't go away after the initial treatment which can be debilitating.

That said the "denial" doesn't come from the medical establishment (our CDC has a page talking about it that's pretty informative), it comes from insurers who refuse to cover long term treatments and doctors who aren't up to date.

The joke is that America is the child with the fake steering wheel.

GOD tier sideburns tbh

I've read that ai chips can't be used for anything but ai, but maybe that ram will hit the market and be useful for something.

hel yea my thinkpad t480 is a little younger than that but it's top tier, had to reimage a bunch of windows laptops today and got reminded just how slooooooooooooow corporate hardware can be i can't believe people work with that and just accept it as the way that computers are

simply don't be wrong and cowbee won't argue with you ez

If Donnie actually tries to capture Kharg it will turn into a disaster that makes the bombed air bases and radar dishes of the past weeks look like children playing with toy rifles. These marines aren't ukrainian/russian soldiers who've spend the past couple years learning how to fight with and against drones, they're totally green on the kind of battlefield that they're being sent to.

Marxists of all types have spent the past hundred years critiquing the Soviet Union from every angle imaginable, sometimes with good data and on-the-ground information, often with bad data and completely made up cold warrior nonsense. While Parenti was pro-Soviet throughout his life, he was nevertheless a fish swimming in that river, being pulled by those currents. I would suggest bearing Parenti's thoughts in mind as you continue reading about Soviet history and synthesize his views with those of other Marxists who also criticized the same system.

One thing I also want to point out: Stalin himself argues in Economic Problems of the USSR that many aspects of capitalist economics cannot simply be abolished, but must be learned and taught like physical laws so that the socialist economy can use them to its advantage. Mostly he's talking about commodity production and the law of value, but I think it's fair to extrapolate this framework to other things such as perverse incentives, alienation of labor, etc. From the point of view of the worker, what difference does it make if the assembly line is state owned or capitalist owned? You're still a cog in the machine - until the means to completely automate this type of drudgery away have been invented, the best a socialist economy can do is give their workers incentives to do good work, something that every economy objectively struggles with (see both America's "quiet quitting" and China's "lay down" movements).