What’s the percentage on transgender people? 1% or lower? Way lower, even. I say we open the gates and accept as many as want to come in. Couldn’t be more than a couple million people.

Thank goodness for distro repositories with somewhat-vetted software.

He also wrote the webcomic Casey & Andy, which holds up. Imo.

Holy shit, that really underlines it. So like a full city block. Down.

Dude kicks a bunch of rocks down a hill and complains that the avalanche isn’t going the way he wanted? Fuck him. He gets the metaphorical guillotine with the rest. Or maybe the literal one, if the avalanche goes hard enough.

That’s the trouble with revolution, you can’t predict the outcome. The fundamental flaw of accelerationism. Your side might come out on top, but it might not. Big ole reset button drenches everyone in blood.

Hugs, sweetie.

How is that different from martial law?

Walk into computer lab. “DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FORMAT C DRIVE”

Well, that’s one way to create a murderous AI. I suddenly understand why Hal wanted to kill everyone. I would, too.

Neutrons?

Not all DNS hosts support that. Webnames.ca, looking at you…

Also my workplace hosts their own dns and I think it will be a cold day in hell before they let me do automated updates.

It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

But for some situations, it’s indispensable.

Yeah, we’ve got on-prem cloud hosting at a university, and moving away from VMware is an ongoing process. Still. Two, three years after the writing was on the wall. They’d rather pay the Danegeld.

Or they’ll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.

Bisected, trisected, quartered… What’s a word for cutting something into 5 pieces? 6?

Yep. Every 3 years work lets me buy a new computer on their dime. Old one gets gifted to my partner or friends.

I imagine he’ll throw one or more of the kids under the bus.

I mean, yeah. We buy our eggs from a local farm. It’s pretty great, they deliver it straight to my partner’s workplace every week or two. Most eggs are torture-eggs, and we won’t buy the Costco egg whites on that basis. However, my point is that “eggs by the gallon” is not farfetched!

I’ve seen Costco selling egg whites by the litre carton. Gallons wouldn’t be farfetched for restaurant supply.

Oh, sweety. If you think there are no abortions in Texas now, I have a great deal on seafront property in Florida for you.