Maya S. Trojan

I hate what the hacker ethos of “routing around bad legislation” has become “routing around all legislation.”

A lot of self esteem really does just come down to being willing to build yourself up and see the best in yourself

you know you could also just let people use what works for them

Hastings also was asked about Netflix’s decision to remove an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” in Saudi Arabia after the government threatened the company over a segment in which the comedian criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) and the regime’s role in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“We’re not in the news business,” Hastings said. “We’re not trying to do ‘truth to power.’ We’re trying to entertain… We don’t feel bad about [pulling the ‘Patriot Act’ episode in Saudi Arabia] at all.”

• Former Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

it means the CLI has about 70% of the same stuff that Linux has in its CLI

i personally find it very useful as it makes scripting for macos easier since its so much closer to bash

first time in my life I was relieved to see a site down for maintenance

I didn’t mean to be evil, what’s wrong with the sweet n sour??? I mean I understand what’s wrong with mayo and ranch but I’m still a white people so you know, it’s part of muh culture.

“When people think you’re dying, they really, really listen to you,”

My main takeaway is always going to be that the people who are actually suffering are the only ones really willing to listen to others who are suffering. He thinks this, but he’s proof of otherwise, he isn’t really listening to any of them.

Ask me how I know after three years of cancer proving to me people could give fuck all about listening. Sorry, just grinds my gears, because the people “really, really listening to you” are the people who are fucking dying.

still certified Unix, tho.

I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar!

Yep, my Firefox mobile hasn’t updated yet either, gonna see if there’s an update I can grab.

That just dawned on me.

Oh of course, I’m not speaking about the average jabroni’s interpretation. Pretty sure Chuck Palahniuk didn’t intend Tyler to be read as a hero. Yet, here we are.

…while management did fuck all.

They even tap Peter for management material when he stops giving a shit, like it’s an expectation that you stop caring about things to be in charge.

I thought the whole point of Fight Club was the narrator realizing he was a terrible person, with or without Tyler.

I mean the film starts with him exploiting dying people so they will listen to him. Not recognizing that the only people open to listen are those dying, and he’s exploiting their openness to lie to them and get the “crying” he needs. He doesn’t give one flying fuck about what is happening to any of those dying people, he only barely stands up for Bob.

Sometimes, though, they make more sense than they used to.

When I originally saw the Matrix in theaters, I fucking hated Cypher and his willingness to exchange the comforts of the Matrix over reality.

Now… Fuck, give me that steak, Agent Smith. I’m with Cypher, I’m not wasting my life saving all these jagoffs who would rather live in the fucking Matrix anyway. Can’t beat em, join em.

Ah yes I’m sure the author intended for it to be clear that she’s just being an asshole and the guy definitely wasn’t listening to music. She’s not the main character of the strip or anything. Jesus christ. It’s a comic strip, it’s not that serious, grow up.

I think the point other people are making is that this can set precedent in German law and allow other people with similar issues to bring suit and win on merit and not have to fight as hard for their case to be considered. It could also end up inspiring similar cases in other countries using similar frameworks, adapted for local laws.

If suddenly Alphabet has thousands people taking to them to court in jurisdictions all over the world, that can indeed hurt them, although it will take longer than injunctions on Google now, I fully agree.

That’s not what I suggested was the solution at all. My point was simply the systems as they were designed to never carry this much weight because no one predicted the massive leaps in life expectancy in under a 100 years. The point rather is that the systems are broken, and it’s not the fault of the people who are living longer. It’s the fault of the people (generally politicians and older folks who benefit from things as they are) who refuse to change the systems to adapt to a modern world where people do live longer, and the only way to functionally do that is to tax the wealthy appropriately. That’s a nonstarter with most politicians, sadly. Further, it can’t really be denied that Boomers did vote for these policies that kept their taxes low and shunted the burden to the youth.