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Fuck 'em

is a first fucking step to that gun being useful at all.

Except you are not talking about the use he had in mind for the gun. There can be more than one use for a thing. As an example, here's a very useful car:

salvage yard sign

Where'd all those digits come from?

I guarantee the temperature variations in that plaza alone were orders of magnitude larger than one part in ten thousand of one kelvin.

It's the virtue of the left.

Bears are not monsters, and there are much better ways of mitigating their threat. ICE and Donald cannot be mitigated. They must be met with overwhelming force. If you don't have the option of overwhelming force, resort to subterfuge (if you are a hero).

He's not doing whatever he can to not get murdered. He's doing whatever he can to expose ICE's hypocrisy and prove that they are the lawless murderers.

By not loading his weapon he has made it clear that there is no circumstance in which he would take another's life. Not even to defend his own.

Is he putting himself at grave risk? Yes. Absolutely.

Is there a way to accomplish the same thing without risk? No.

That man is a definitional hero.

Even against a legit bad actor, lethal booby traps are illegal. To have a "castle doctrine" type defense you have to knowingly assess the threat and take action. It can't be automated.

These days this could be any day. No need for a date.

That's just FUD.

Test it under Wine. If it's working, you're good to go. Wine can't make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn't.

I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

(note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)

Billionaires are why we can't have nice things. And also why we have LLMs.

It's correlation, not causation.

I've struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.

They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.