jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago

The through line in this kind of thing is always people being selfish and reasoning poorly.

It's like when someone says "I need to own a car! What if I need to move furniture??" It's just emotional sludge that doesn't stand up to reason with fair axioms.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

This conforms to my preexisting belief that deregulation means more profits for private owners, more waste, and more expense for the customers.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean it's horrible but the only way people change their mind is from social pressure.

I had a coworker that was very right wing and months of talking I got him to accept queer people can be filed under "live and let live". That was a big improvement from where he started.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

It's pretty heavy here but it's like perfect fluffy snow.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

This is in line with what I already believed.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

That's the version I heard as a kid

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

PragerU is awful right so I infer they mean this as a bad thing.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Most developers I've looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that's not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 15 hours ago

I really liked the Shadowrun games and would have liked more. I'd especially like something more open ended like the Sega Genesis Shadowrun game, where you take semi randomized missions and pursue your own goals.

I think there might be a mod that does something like that, but whatever one I tried was kind of janky at the time (years ago)

Also I never thought I'd like the rigger archetype, but they're very effective in these games. Little robot buddies go bang bang!

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 18 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Law was a good read

The book documents the history of state sponsored segregation stretching back to the late 1800s and exposes racially discriminatory policies put forward by most presidential administrations in that time, including liberal presidents like Franklin Roosevelt.[2] The author argues that intractable segregation in America is primarily the result of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels, also known as de jure segregation — rather than the actions of individuals or private companies, or de facto segregation.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 18 hours ago

I do the package update stuff every session or so. It's not a priority for me but the GUI has a little notification, so I just click it sometimes.

Bigger updates like moving to a new LTS of the distro- I put off. I'm on pop!_os now and mint previously.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 19 hours ago

I'm pretty sure conservatives axiomatically have a problem with women. That's part of conservatism.

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