That was unnecessarily wordy to express only two complaints:

AI causes environmental damage and AI was created by scraping content that the AI companies didn’t own.

Mainly Danish, Swiss and European citizens are eligible to study without stressing over student debt

Yet only 47% have a college degree. It’s better than the US at 38% but then that figure is an average over the entire country. For example Poland in the EU is at 28% while DC in the US is at 65%.

I suspect that it’s a difference in presentation. In the US college is free for anyone with high grades because of scholarships. In Denmark school is free for anyone with high grades. If you don’t have high grades, you aren’t allowed to go to college in Denmark.

EU schools separate kids out at an earlier age into Trade and College. Whereas the US sells the idea that everyone should try and go to college. So kids take on debt to go to college when they shouldn’t have ever gone. If they had been in the EU, they would have never been presented with the idea of college- they would have been forced into trades like manufacturing and repair.

There’s a big difference from rigging in some games and fiction where it is always rigged by design. Yes watching sports is filled with ads but the game itself wasn’t preplanned in a writer’s room to sell ads for the next game.

It seems to say you would be unclean to touch a dead animal. That means you need to take a bath and wait until evening to be clean again. No harm, no foul.

And Christians can always pull out their get out of jail card, “Jesus fulfilled the law so OT rules don’t apply.”

So I think only true Christians could morally have sex with a dead deer.

Back in the Athlon days before heat spreaders everyone wrote about lapping the heatsink on glass so less thermal paste could be used.

No! There’s no way to measure 50km accurately in your house. He obviously meant 50kg.

Is it sinning? Is there a specific prohibition in the Bible about dead animals?

Yes and it’s completely valid to do so. The electronics of a quartz watch will fail if subjected to water just like the more complicated IC in an apple watch.

Again I fail to see how that’s “worse” than watching sports.

Do you believe that studying history as a a hobby is better than watching Game of Thrones?

Sports isn’t just the team winning. People that are into it follow the lives of the players. It is a real person where the drama is from overcoming their personal challenges and inherent skill in the sport. Whereas fantasy is contrived drama. It’s invented by the author or by committee in the writer’s room.

I personally would rather watch a Trek rerun for the 10th time than a live baseball game. But I’m aware that the baseball is real rather than fantasy. The ending isn’t scripted to create the most drama to get viewers to watch and sell ads.

Moss is a cultural touchstone

If we both knew more about sports or history I could have used a real person instead of a fictional character created in a writer’s room.

They are all hobbies. They don’t need a point just like sports fans. I still don’t have any interest in sports. I currently follow world cup because my children are into it. I’m still Moss. But I understand that it’s ALL hobbies and saying that someone is “lost” because they follow sports is ridiculous.

Sports stats are better than Movie/TV aficionados or even D&D munchkins. Because at least behind Sports is a real person. It’s a hobby. Everything doesn’t need a purpose.

And I say this as someone who was Moss from the IT crowd until I was well over 30.

The VFW probably used AI but how could you tell? They have the right number of fingers. I don’t see anything immediately out of place. I want to improve my ability to spot AI.

I’ve never heard of an immediate physical condition referred to as “illness”. No one says a broken arm is an “illness.”

Wow! I heard about wifi for tracking “in the lab” or as a hack you could do yourself but I had no idea it was already commercialized.

He was touring a Ukrainian weapon factory, healthy as an ox the day before it was blown up by Russians.

What “illness” kills in 8 hours when you have the best medical care in the world second only to Trump’s? If it was a heart attack, they would have said “heart attack”.

No, you don’t have to install a different distro.

Ubuntu ships with Gnome. That you can change it is actually the point I was making.

I replied to this:

respect for the user, consistency, customisability,"

With the statement that consistency is often at odds with customizability.

Your claim was this:

It’s almost like any app on any operating system is going to have a different gui!

Windows apps do not have as much inconsistency as apps on Linux because of the lack of customizablity. A Windows developer has to go out of their way to avoid the standard Windows libraries to make their app look unique. Linux apps are all different because there is no way to make them consistent. Even if you try to make your app consistent in say Gnome, someone is going to be running KDE.

Consistency is almost always at odd with customizability.

Guess what, Linux also doesn’t “come with” multiple DE’s, it just gives you the ability to install and use a different one.

Oh come on. Your restatement means the same thing. Install a different distro and you can have a different DE.

And yes Windows doesn’t give you the choice. I said that in my initial statement that customization is often in conflict with consistency.

Having choice is always better.

Yes but you can’t then also claim that all Linux distros are consistent.

Sudden RDX poisoning.

I have argued that vlans do very little for home users.

Vlans with firewall rules mean that every room in your house has a rule that you have to go out the locked front door before going back into another room. But if an external threat can bypass the front lock, having a rule that everyone inside has to use the front lock does nothing. Either the front lock works in which case everything is safe or it doesn’t work in which case the rule to use the front door lock every time you go from inside room to inside room does nothing.