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  1. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    Clearly, the government of Turks and Caicos disagrees with you… as do I. Be well.

    Clearly, the government of Turks and Caicos disagrees with you… as do I.

    Be well.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    My bad. I assumed you were unfamiliar with containers… and I have dependency hell PTSD. You clearly know what you’re doing more than I do.

    My bad. I assumed you were unfamiliar with containers… and I have dependency hell PTSD. You clearly know what you’re doing more than I do.

  3. Comment on ‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth in ~movies

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    Hot Damn. I was super skeptical about this movie. Following up a masterpiece like FR is so often disappointing, and for whatever reason the trailer didn’t do it for me. Hope it’s great.

    Hot Damn. I was super skeptical about this movie. Following up a masterpiece like FR is so often disappointing, and for whatever reason the trailer didn’t do it for me.

    Hope it’s great.

  4. Comment on ‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth in ~movies

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    Agree to disagree. I’ve been actually afraid to go back and rewatch 1-3 because FR was a frigging masterpiece IMO. I’m sure they probably don’t hold up as well as my teen-self remembers.

    Agree to disagree. I’ve been actually afraid to go back and rewatch 1-3 because FR was a frigging masterpiece IMO. I’m sure they probably don’t hold up as well as my teen-self remembers.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on ‘Furiosa’ fires up Cannes with six-minute standing ovation for Anya Taylor-Joy and teary Chris Hemsworth in ~movies

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    So, can you elaborate or put it another way, because I felt like I needed a shower and a nap after Fury Road - in the best way - and I’m trying to see what you mean.

    So, can you elaborate or put it another way, because I felt like I needed a shower and a nap after Fury Road - in the best way - and I’m trying to see what you mean.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    I have been entertained by this thread. Thank you. There’s only one lesson here, IMO, and it’s about respect. (For countries and guns.) Now for my jab. All the explaining away and minimizing and...
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    I have been entertained by this thread. Thank you. There’s only one lesson here, IMO, and it’s about respect. (For countries and guns.)

    Now for my jab. All the explaining away and minimizing and reframing and subject-changing and straw-man arguments that the gun/hunting enthusiasts are blowing up this thread with… well, draw your own conclusions- but I’ll pull out my only Shakespeare reference.

    Methinks thou doth protest too much.

    I was gifted an NRA membership at 14 by my grandfather who took me to the range regularly. My guns are stowed in the closet across the room. I’ve hunted small game and deer. I’ve cleaned a deer and ate the liver that night.

    And I feel very strongly that gun culture is bloated with fetishistic displaced impotence and anger. It’s not a true representation of any kind of heritage, it’s a poor choice of hobby, and it is very attractive to the people most in need of something else… very much else… but there are few comparable alternatives.

    Where else is there an extracurricular that offers the low cost, the thrill, the benefits (meat, pelts, trophies, awards), and the identity?

    It’s a “culture” for “men” who feel as though they have no agency in the world. They get to join a group that offers the seductive drug in the power to kill… while having an identity that rationalizes feeling like a maligned minority.

    The closest I can think of is sports, but that falls way short.

    People ruin lots and lots of things. Hunting and guns and that culture is a bastion of people of poor character clinging fiercely to that identity. It’s a wellspring for so many of the worst parts of US culture. I grew up in it and pulled away from it and clearly I have a hard time not judging those that throw themselves into it. This has nothing to do with the morality of hunting. I’m absolutely fine with that, and in fact it’s a needed thing for proper herd and population management sometimes. There’s a part of me that wouldn’t mind going hunting actually… except for the hunters. Most of them probably shouldn’t have a gun, let alone six.

    I’m going to hit publish on this, but am aware it’s pretty damning and negative. I’ve made a few passes to try and balance it, but it’s difficult because I’m thinking about the hunters I know- most of them are the worst of my family members and their friends and clubs… and I just don’t like them.

    I know some incredibly kind and responsible hunters as well. They struggle with many of the same issues I’ve outlined above as well when I’ve managed to talk with them about this topic. As evidence of this, I personally know of other former hunters that don’t hunt because of the hunters that are out there hunting these days. It’s straight up not safe in most of the state lands above the 46th parallel in Michigan on the opening day of deer season.

    14 votes

  7. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    Unfortunately, I think it is. It’s a “gun culture” thing. Or some probably think of it as a “hunting culture” thing. I have family that hunt, and there are regularly shells mixed into bowls with...

    Unfortunately, I think it is. It’s a “gun culture” thing. Or some probably think of it as a “hunting culture” thing. I have family that hunt, and there are regularly shells mixed into bowls with loose change, or rolling around in the back of junk drawers. When we start questioning the weird shit we normalize… well… the rabbit holes to fall down might just surprise a lot of people.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Fifth American tourist arrested at Turks and Caicos airport after ammo allegedly found in luggage in ~travel

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    I’ve read this whole sub-thread and just wanted to add- be more careful, man. Carrying daily normalizes it to you, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. Keep your ammo secure. Always. Don’t try and...

    I’ve read this whole sub-thread and just wanted to add- be more careful, man. Carrying daily normalizes it to you, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. Keep your ammo secure. Always. Don’t try and explain away why it’s fine. It’s not. Swap out like if there was loose powder on the floor of your cab, or a big pile of knives.

    Being around and using firearms and rounds a lot means you have to be more vigilant, not less.

    16 votes

  9. Comment on The West doesn’t understand how much Russia has changed in ~misc

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    Sure, I agree in theory- except Russia and Eastern Europe are already fully entangled… and the rest of Europe is more entangled with Russia that we here in the US would I think like to admit. I’m...

    Sure, I agree in theory- except Russia and Eastern Europe are already fully entangled… and the rest of Europe is more entangled with Russia that we here in the US would I think like to admit.

    I’m no globalist by any stretch, but I do fear the insanity in DC has created enough brain-drain that our economic strategies are outdated and we’re now being played by the powers that we used to play.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    This sent up a little red flag for me. I’ve not been on Linux excepting cloud servers in many years- but I managed to Bork a MacOS install with v. 2 & 3 of Python and their libraries and Homebrew...

    This sent up a little red flag for me. I’ve not been on Linux excepting cloud servers in many years- but I managed to Bork a MacOS install with v. 2 & 3 of Python and their libraries and Homebrew way back when.

    Learn from my messy ways and containerize all your dev from the jump. It’s really not hard to pick up. So long as you’re using some kind of containerization that you can throw away to keep your system pristine. Don’t sleep on it like I did.

  11. Comment on California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry in ~food

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    I read an article years ago about a restaurant opening a second location that didn’t allow tipping. The owner referred to tipping being “a parasitic economy” on his business- what with certain...

    I read an article years ago about a restaurant opening a second location that didn’t allow tipping. The owner referred to tipping being “a parasitic economy” on his business- what with certain amounts of tips being paid out to kitchen staff and some wait staff using this to leverage the kitchen. He offered benefits to employees, had substantially lower turnover, and claimed it was much easier to foster a team-like atmosphere and was easier to manage.

    Conceptually I wonder if this kind of operation isn’t more empowering to the business than restrictive? It might even offer up opportunities to move even more toward equitable employment via some kind of profit sharing or something?

    8 votes

  12. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    Fully agree. This reminded me of how long Linux sucked at being a daily-driver workstation. Maybe the real issue is just that collaborative open systems just take years to fight through the...

    Fully agree. This reminded me of how long Linux sucked at being a daily-driver workstation. Maybe the real issue is just that collaborative open systems just take years to fight through the hucksters? I like that idea.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    I might have a new favorite YT channel- I’d heard of the channel before- I bookmarked that thread on YT recommendations a while back and this was on there, but never looked into it. I like him....

    I might have a new favorite YT channel- I’d heard of the channel before- I bookmarked that thread on YT recommendations a while back and this was on there, but never looked into it. I like him. And holy crap was that damning of DAOs. Now I’m not sure what to think. A good chunk of that criticism is justifiably aimed at scam culture, and it sure sounded on point. I can’t tell anymore whether the arguments about added layers of complexity outweigh the benefits is just a temporary issue or if it’s a full stop dealbreaker. I do believe the startup and scam economies are definitely not helping to get any real-world implementations off the ground.

    Does anyone know of ANY blockchain implementation that is part of real world work- like verifying logistics in distribution channels or any of those early-day startup pitches?

    5 votes

  14. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    After a quick look, that seems like the same old “how do we trust anything on the web” issue, not a failure of the core idea of checking against a blockchain. I can fully see how it limits dapp...

    After a quick look, that seems like the same old “how do we trust anything on the web” issue, not a failure of the core idea of checking against a blockchain. I can fully see how it limits dapp development… but of course any app or dapp is only as good as the data fed in. So I’m failing to see how it’s wrong in any sense of it being a blockchain tech issue.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on For those involved / interested in Web3, what do you make of the near and long term future for it? in ~tech

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    TL/DR - Still nearly fully untapped potential long-term, and I dare you to convince me otherwise. I’m no Web3 engineer, just a nerd who still believes the internet is a net positive and has and...

    TL/DR - Still nearly fully untapped potential long-term, and I dare you to convince me otherwise.

    I’m no Web3 engineer, just a nerd who still believes the internet is a net positive and has and will make the world a better place. So, at risk of restating the obvious here, I’d like to kind of flip some of what @unkz was talking about on its head. Can someone here break my hope in the promise of blockchain by explaining why blockchain ISN’T a massive groundbreaking shift in technology with huge potential to do good?

    Setting aside what I believe are short-term innovation/technical issues (financial transactions, scams, speculation, and environmental impact), below is a basic summary of my understanding of how blockchain (and smart contracts) work, and why it’s a.huge f***ing deal and ultimately will do real good. Please keep in mind I am nerdy, but no engineer, so while I have a limited understanding of Level 2, gas prices, and rollups, I don’t know what validators or RPC nodes are.

    Here we go… as I understand it, the fundamental innovation of blockchain/web3/smart contracts is that it brings the capability of what I believe is called a “trustless” system in computing to the internet itself.

    It enables global, programmatically-created, math-based, perfectly trustworthy 3rd entities against which we can verify conditions and base decisions. At the most fundamental level, internet communications that have been going from A to B can, with blockchain, be VERIFIED using the internet itself (or more specifically, data shared/viewed/verified to be true across the network by all parties involved in said blockchain, thereby making it a perfect truth to check against). This is an entirely new ability. Previously there was a need for some human-led third party.

    This is why It’s a major paradigm shift. It’s also some of the same fundamental concepts that have made BitTorrent unstoppable. This core concept is why I still am buying the promise of it. It’s such a fundamental “add” to the internet - turning it from a communications protocol into something more by way of the unique collective nature of networks - that I just can’t believe it’s not a major net good.

    Forgive me for that long basic-bitch retelling of the crypto-bro’s songbook, but it’s this core idea that I want gunned down, if anyone can put it in a way I can understand. Consider this a gauntlet thrown. ;-)

    4 votes

  16. Comment on The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” in ~humanities.history

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    I guess my institutional skepticism antenna started quivering when Ken Griffin’s name came up. This, and the long history of land shenanigans that the city of Chicago has been known to pull-...

    I guess my institutional skepticism antenna started quivering when Ken Griffin’s name came up. This, and the long history of land shenanigans that the city of Chicago has been known to pull- consuming suburbs, redistricting, certain aldermens’ and general financial shenanigans… coupled with the historic nature (being the last structure of the World’s Fair)…

    I was wondering specifically if the land and building are actually owned by the museum or not?

    I was kind of just expecting something about foundation support, benefactor or partnership with the city or some sort of complexity. It’s really this absence of detail/disclaimer/explanation that made me suspicious. In essence all this is just cynical speculation and laziness and not really looking into it myself. There’s probably nothing there.

  17. Comment on The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” in ~humanities.history

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    Yeah, it was an unjustified reach on my part, readily admitted. That said, maybe I’m an idiot (some might say likely) but I didn’t see on that link where ownership is explained. I see trustees, a...

    Yeah, it was an unjustified reach on my part, readily admitted. That said, maybe I’m an idiot (some might say likely) but I didn’t see on that link where ownership is explained. I see trustees, a president’s board, but no real overview of the structure of the org or ownership? I’m not trying to attack anybody- just seems like there should be some clear explanation somewhere of who owns what.

  18. Comment on "Civil War" discussion thread in ~movies

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    Thank you for saying this. It’s something. I was considering seeing it again in a theater, but it’s too intense for me. I’d buy someone a ticket who was considering going though. I really want the...

    Thank you for saying this. It’s something. I was considering seeing it again in a theater, but it’s too intense for me. I’d buy someone a ticket who was considering going though. I really want the ideas in this film to be a conversation that’s held widely.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” in ~humanities.history

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    Here’s hoping. I noticed that entry didn’t mention who or what entity owned it though, so I went with what was most dramatic.

    Here’s hoping. I noticed that entry didn’t mention who or what entity owned it though, so I went with what was most dramatic.

  20. Comment on The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” in ~humanities.history

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    Absolutely weird corporate vibes. Fully agree. No worries- and sorry if I got snippy. I wasn’t happy to learn that that guy owns it and is the reason it’s such a great museum. So annoying. Public...

    Absolutely weird corporate vibes. Fully agree. No worries- and sorry if I got snippy. I wasn’t happy to learn that that guy owns it and is the reason it’s such a great museum. So annoying. Public spaces don’t have to suck, unless you’re in the US.

    edit: okay - I take that back. Not all our public spaces, just most that involve humans in numbers doing things. Our national parks rule. Best in the world if I'm not mistaken.

    11 votes