Open source isn't struggling. It's a struggle. People have high expectations, and expectations go awry in open source and profit models.

Well, we're all afraid of your government, and we don't even live there.

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Imagine life without concern and high expectations your dreams will be profitable. No wonder money makes money.

English speakers: In the first car of the first race in the first tournament.

US: In the first race's first car in the first tournament.

So, it's an unattended concentration camp, and they hope everyone dies there.

Relying on people's apathy is a business model with eras of success. Most people have never changed a setting other than dark mode, and even then that's probably your average superuser.

If anyone should be allowed to experiment with mushrooms and cannabis it should be her.

Putting people on autopilot. The MS way!

Yeah, I don't drink because I'm a seriously happy drunk in a far too gregarious way. It gives off the wrong impression to people, and I can't back it up with my sober personality. It usually leads to regrets, and I sort of despise overly familiar people in my daily life. I also get adventurous with vehicles and go on side quests in a Hangover movie way that scares me and causes problems. Never again.

I bought the best bamboo pillow I could find and haven't looked back. All the pillow problems I ever had just disappeared. I hate going anywhere without it.

Quitting drinking was a bummer. But mainly because most of the people I'm drawn to are sociopathic alcoholics. I don't know if I hate the game or the player anymore :(

The USA has 157 million workers, shuffling 140,000 years of work a day. One in 4 has an idea. One in five of those is a good idea. Two thousand stakeholders can make it an innovative idea. So, they can pump 3.5 years of brute force innovation into the world every single day. That's well over a thousand years of advancement per year.

Critical mass populations that can keep up with their own development are a serious creative force to be reckoned with. And human evolution has been exceeded by innovation, dramatically.

Battery farms for humans, basically.

As aggressive as the US is, they don't regularly traipse over their own neighbour's borders to attack them.

China on the other hand, Tibet, India, Vietnam, ... and most of their disputes aren't even settled or beyond dispute yet.

Verdict, China can't manage stable borders and do away with further disputes.

Point out a country that the US has hostilities with that isn't destabilizing or in a border dispute?

(Disclaimer, we don't have to like America to point out the obvious.)

If anyone starts smoking or vaping I'm probably done.

I've lived in a communist country before. It's not really an issue for me.

They join banter in a comfortable way without using character assassination as an authority/persuasion grab.

Two men destroy a 7/11. The police throw both in jail. Nobody cares if they were fighting and double daring each other to destroy more 7/11 which will get them in trouble. Both are committing crimes.

We need more of these balanced accusations.

I was happy with a handheld CB radio hoping to catch a conversation with passing truckies, so yeah, you're good with me.

Fire up the Linux POSSE and it happens all at once!

Why does Microsoft buy up patents and pull monopolisation tricks?!

Nah, China and Russia lost respect for the US when they elected Donald Trump. Imagine having to treat that baboon like a peer. International hostilities is the obvious outcome.

In practice it doesn't work that way. There's as much chance a Green elevation is going to work against Trump. People in Republican states aren't going to vote for Biden, but they might be persuaded to vote for Green candidates over Earth conservation issues. Farmers and hunters can usually see green problems despite not being able to see progressive issues.

Some of the greatest conservationists in the world have come from hunting groups that have become disillusioned by the loss of game to aggressive corporations and destructive hunting practices. Similarly farmers see the breakdown of the ecosystem.

None of this needs to involve liberal and Democrat viewpoints.

Start flamewars on robotic astroturf accounts about how dumb Donald Trump is until Instagram starts and people try to prove he's not an idiot, but in protesting they protest too much and nobody believes them by 2016.

So, I need a robot chatbot algorithm cookbook for the naughties and beyond.

Eating. It's such a drama story tbh

Fool me once. I ran away from anything redhat when they clamped out on my free OpenShift with whatever they are doing now. Too brutal for me.

Alternative. Music, politics, food cars. Mainstream never came back.

In the tropics your problem is heat and rain. Any material in the tropics will be taking in water, and when it rains it rains so hard your eyes will hurt from all the rain rubbing against them. Thin clothes dry fast, and no clothes is twice as good. If the sun is too hot just take a siesta.

In the desert, wind is your enemy because it sprays loose matter everywhere. Hence tents and flowing clothes for protection.

If you're farming in the tropics you want long sleeve thin clothing to limit Sun damage. Broad hats are also ideal.

The Bible as a Manga series by non-Christians or Christians with no need to soap it over. Raw and gritty in the way it was originally described. Old Testament level action stories.

So people strangely know the entire Bible without a hint of religion being demanded. Post-theology, post-religion in a way that people might understand the idea of an egalitarian world coming out of an absolute quagmire.

Well, they better woo them because Putin was there last month trying to do it! The world doesn't need a psychotic Africa.

Is the Telegraph a good source for info on this?

A lot of blind courage is also missing. People used to answer to a lot of blind requests in a way that demanded a leap of faith and an effort to establish their own character. It also had a healthy dose of just wait and see. These days people can weasel out of uninformed situations quite a lot. So, we lean to shallow decision models with fewer good intentions accordingly.

Paywalled for me.

Resolution from the 90s!

Having many loving disciples can never be spoiled by an occassional traitor.

It does make sense in terms of working in a box for military awareness of enemy combatants. No expert, but that is something we've seen before.

A local hero was saving women from Windows by installing fresh Linux distros on their dated machines. I wanted this superpower.

Teen suicide rate multiplies after the police destroy youth culture with constant surveillance.

Which is why they're calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate, no?

Yeah, I'm slipping after 3 days. It's like putting on beer goggles.

Facebook is reported to be using a shadow profile of non-facebook users. Mastodon stated that whenever you interact with a Threads user it will be recorded by Facebook. All they have to do is join a conversation as a lurker, and your data is sent to Facebook. Given a few more points such as time of day and topic they can start to narrow downwho you are. Add your profile picture, and manner of speech an AI, which they have a multitude of, can generate a probability of who is communicating. Over numerous interactions the law of six degrees of separation will have you nailed down. In some countries this is potentially a problem over data retention, but they'll have lawyers looking night and day for a way around those trifling laws. Willingness to federate might be seen as consent by default in some cases.