NaibofTabr

Oh come on, there’s nothing irresponsible or creepy about wanting to collect retinal images of every person on the planet into a single, Internet-connected database. You’re just being paranoid.

I’m not sure that I agree… a family is a lot more than a source of economic support. No amount of less hostile world can substitute for the social, cultural, educational or psychological functions of a family, and becoming a self-supporting adult has a lot to do with mental well-being (in addition to the economic aspects).

Maybe if there were less economic pressure overall there would be more functional families and ultimately fewer children in the foster care system… but that’s really just conjecture and I’m not sure how you’d go about trying to support such an argument with research.

I’m also curious how you define “hostile” and “normal humans” in this context.

The statement about billionaires is true, but also the reasons that people end up living on the streets are extremely complex and I’m not sure this sort of thing helps us actually talk about the real problems.

For instance, a lot of homeless people in the US are foster children who aged out of the care system:

Nationwide, the data show that an estimated 50 percent of the homeless population spent time in foster care.

reference

Money could maybe provide more resources to care for people, but the core issue here is that adults who were foster children lack the support of a family - which no amount of money can fix.

A more useful question to address homelessness would be “why do so many foster children struggle to become self-supporting adults, and what can we do to prevent that?”

Not Telegram. Signal is a better choice which has been audited by third parties and produces internal transparency reports.

Is it free if you have to conduct geological surveys to find the material, then do a bunch of digging to pull it out of the ground, then run a massive refining operation to get a moderately useful amount?

Or, gun ownership will just become more expensive.

Wait why are we killing bears?

Donald Trump isn’t going to get rid of the FBI, he’s going to purge any non-loyalists and turn it into his private secret police and use it to persecute his political rivals and journalists who tell the truth about him.

Anyone with more than 2 brain cells they can knock together is worried about what Trump plans to do to the FBI.

Hahhh… well really, the only way to test backups is to try to restore from them. VMs are extremely helpful for this - you can try to restore a VM mirror of your production system, see if it works as expected, wipe it and start over if it doesn’t.

what in the name of AI-generated gothic horror is going on here?

It’s even reflected in the water.

objectification and sexualization

The Trump administration will resolve this by ending teaching of geometry.

or not enough

A fecal transplant is cultural appropriation.

I second this - virtualization is the easiest way to branch out and try new things. You can keep the working system you already have, and also experiment with other systems.

A further advantage is that you can run services in separate VMs, which helps if you need isolated contexts for security, privacy, or stability reasons. And, if you break something while you’re learning you can just delete that VM and start over without affecting your other working services.

The comment above demonstrates that non-ml members perceive ml members as claiming anarchy among their values. If that impression exists, there must be a reason for it - which is that ml members do in fact claim to be anarchists.

Therefore, in the context of this thread, it is valid to point out the existence of self-styled anarchists claiming that other self-styled anarchists are “not real anarchists”. The existence of this thread demonstrates the truth of the statement, regardless of whether you personally like the conclusion or not.

ha ha billionaires buying up media companies ha ha no problem here, funny joke

Not with this Congress!

I feel like we could use a modern-day Winston Churchill, or Walter Winchell.