This is my favorite, mainly because it's been well argued by some respectable scientists.

Another is that we're in a simulation, and aliens aren't part of it. There are also some very good statistics pointing to the simulation theory, from just sheer scale.

She doesn't look too thrilled about getting married to Junkie Joe; it looks more like he's got a gun stuck in her back.

This is a huge point. My wife made an off-hand comment about Boeing looking like a good take-over target for Airbus, and my response was, "never. Then there would be only one airline maker in the world."

There are exactly two manufacturers of large passenger jet liners. It's not even a question of too big to fail; it's far worse than that.

Personally, I think they're going about this the wrong way. You could prosecute executives for past decisions, but they were just doing the job they were hired for: maximize profits over every other consideration. The ones that didn't, got replaced by ones that did.

For companies like Boeing, we need a different model of capitalism. One where engineers can be in charge, and the metrics for success are dominated by something other than sheer profitability. I don't know; it seems as if we used to know how to do capitalism better. We had a functioning, funded, effective NASA, which operated almost entirely outside of The Market and which was a national pride; now it's overshadowed by SpaceX. Boeing made good planes.

I don't have a solution, but I can tell that we've gotten lost somewhere along the way.

I get as frustrated as anyone else at the often glacial pace of justice. I've been told that it's all in a good cause, that slow means careful and the best chance at just outcomes.

While I mostly believe this, my doubts stem from the fact that "justice" seems to be awfully stern and quick when the accused is poor, or a minority, and seems to only really becomes slow and careful when the rich, and especially the rich white, are accused. And the rich get to live in "house arrest" while the system cautiously, and protractedly, protects their rights. I have a difficult time reconciling that.

PS, I know you're talking about Crowder, not the public. It just got me thinking.

Of course not. Aliens don't use slavery.

Yeah, me neither. I've liked some horror genre stories, like Clive Barker's Book(s?) of Blood, Rawhead Rex and all; but I wouldn't say it was because it made me afraid.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say a lot of people do, or else slasher flicks wouldn't be so popular. Hell, some years it seems as if that's the only genre of movies released.

But, I also loath the cringe inducing reality shows many people love; and I'm so very tired of every show having to be nonstop angst and tension: GoT was the pinnacle of this, and I absolutely hated it. Books and TV. Boardwalk Empire was so frustrating, because it so well written, acted, and produced, but I just can't stand the unrelieved tension. Obviously, a took of people do, or else there'd be more diversity in media. It's like, the one tool media writers know how to use, anymore.

I say all this because I wonder if there's a correlation: what's the overlap between people who don't like being jump-scared or otherwise frightened and the people who don't like watching people being made uncomfortable (a-la Borat); or constantly bickering (The Kardashians). I love action movies, and a good adventure sci-fi or fantasy, so I'm not adverse to conflict, but I won't watch Breaking Bad because - while I'm aware it was an excellent series - I also know it's going to be a non-stop angst-fest, like The Sopranos.

It'd be an interesting survey. Maybe a list of shows and movies with a simple "enjoy/don't enjoy", and secretly ranked by dominant emotional manipulation. Is it an endearing love story tinged with bittersweet? A slasher? A torture-tension (what's Saw? Not a slasher). See how people are grouped.

I'm afraid you've angered me, Sir!

So, which order did they violate, according to the Israeli leadership? Trying to give the guy medical attention?

I especially liked your comment further down, though, about how you immediately characterize the guy, in civilian, strapped to the hood of a jeep like a fucking trophy deer, as "a murderer." You've got shit-all knowledge about this person; they could have been a journalist, a medic, but since it's Israeli soldiers driving the jeep, he's immediately a "murderer."

Your biggotry is showing, there, Rambo.

(I didn't downvote you - it wasn't me!)

Yeah. I think anything that passes time by giving you dopamine hits qualifies as a game. However, that wasn't my point. I was saying, you declared a statement, and then when given counter-examples, declare they aren't really games because they don't meet your previously declared statement. It's a logical fallacy.

I would argue those are not really games though.

You were doing well until the No Real Scotsman fallacy.

Doesn't it steal control flow? More like a break point, except you define where execution continues.

I wonder if it's a compile error to have multiple conflicting COMEFROM statements, or if it's random, kind of like Go's select statement.

How awesome would it be to be able to steal the execution stack from arbitrary code; how much more awesome if it was indeterminate which of multiple conflicting COMEFROM frames received control! And if it included a state closure from the stolen frame?

Now I want this.

At first I read "Portland," saw my mistake, shrugged and thought, "either way."

I've never been to Poland. I'm sure it's nicer than Portland.

Aww, 'cmon, man! At least add a "spoiler alert!"

Jeez.

That only means there are whole generations who haven't yet seen it!

Few abilities will protect you from muggings as the ability to squirt substances from your ass on demand.

I love this idea so much.

When I was in the Army, shaving was the bane of my existence. Well, shaving in the field was; I hated it so much. Never enough water, more shit to carry, winters are the worst because getting hot water is hard enough, and shaving with cold water sucks.

So, like OP, I found hair remover for men, and I'm like, "WTH why do men shave when we have this??"

The answer is: because these are all noxious chemicals, they feel like noxious chemicals, they smell like noxious chemicals, and they leave your skin raw and red. They really are only useful for guys for whom normal shaving is even worse, usually because of a tendency to ingrown hair problems from shaving. Or maybe there are guys with sandpaper skin; I don't know. But there's a reason why men (at least) still shave.

Someday maybe there will be a depilatory that's as gentle as it is in sci-fi, but right now it's just a caustic, irritating hot mess.

I really feel for OP. :-(

Minnesotan here. This has obviously been in the local news a lot.

The story is that the university received some complaints saying the university shouldn't be hiring an anti-semite in this position; that coupled with the board resignations caused the university to pause the hire to give time for a review.

I don't know how this will play out. The university is between a rock and a hard place; if you think they won't be absolutely blasted if they proceed, I think you don't understand the amount of heat that can and will be brought to bear. On the other hand, Dr. Segal is extremely qualified for the job and had indeed already been extended - and had accepted - an offer for the position.

Defenders of Israel's actions still have far more firepower and political capital than the people who accept the UN's findings that what Israel is doing qualifies as war crimes and genocide. I do not envy the university; they lose no matter what they do. I think they'll take more damage if they continue and hire Dr. Segal, but I hope they take the ethically right path and being him in board.

You don't know much about how universities work. I don't mean that as a dis; I don't know how else to say it.

Universities very much depend on donors. They depend on alumni. They depend on people going to their football games. This is one of the most succinct charts I could find:

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39% of a public higher ed school's income comes from donors and alumns. Someone's doing the math right now and trying to figure out what percentage of their donors are going to stop their donations to the school; how many of the rich alumni will terminate their grant plans. I doubt if any are expecting aniki@lemm.ee to step in and make up for the lost millions. And, when they're shitting down programs because they can't afford to run them anymore, or they're giving out fewer grants to kids, those same people will be there to point the finger at the administrators and accuse them of causing the loss of revenue because of this decision.

You can be righteously furious all you want, but there will be a cost to the intuition. Personally, I'm getting sick of people who, like yourself, ignore the sheer power of Israeli lobby in the US. It's not even a conspiracy theory; Israel, and people who support Israel in the US, have invested a lot of time and effort into building effective lobbying organizations at all levels. And the Palestinians have not. Mainly because Palestine has never been able to afford to, but also since the US is clearly in Israel's pocket, there's also not much political will to follow suit.

I hope they make the right decision and hire him, but it's stupid to think it's an easy decision. Doing so will likely cost people their jobs. Or did you completely miss the recent furor over university presidents being called to resign because they didn't crack down hard enough on pro-Palestinian statements on campus? Fuck, even the new outlets labeled it "not taking a strong enough stance on anti-semitism." Supporting Palestine is being defined as anti semitism.

Christ, take a look around, man. Taking a stand against the genocide in Palestine will you get crucified.

[^1] https://www.case.org/resources/giving-us-colleges-and-universities-increased-125-fiscal-year-2022

Another good source is Statista, but it's harder to directly relate the categories to donations.

The ribbon is what makes it classy.

Gotta love the Satanists. They're fighting the good fight.

Everyone is saying they're harmless, but we read house centipedes cam leave painful bites. I've never been bitten, that I know of, but when plagued with centipedes, I'd sometimes wake up with one of two types of mysterious bug bites: itchy, and painful. I know from prior experience that most North American spider bites are only ever itchy, so I always put the painful ones down to house centipedes. I can't prove it, though. Here are the facts I do know about house centipedes, from empiricle evidence:

• They like damp. You'll find them in damp spots, drains, around toilets, around damp areas in basements, etc. Not exclusively, but predominantly.
• They wage a secret war with spiders. Sometimes the spider wins, but usually the centipede does unless it gets trapped by a web.
• Alive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.
• When smacked, they explode into air and legs. So many legs, and not much else.
• Despite reports that they control other bugs, they are useless against real nuisance bugs like soldier and stink bugs. And for fly control, spiders do a better job. The only real thing we ever saw centipedes hunting were spiders.
• Small glue traps work really well at controlling them. I caution against large glue traps, as they might catch small rodentia, and if you want to know true horror, find a YouTube video of a mouse caught in a glue trap.

I'm team spider.

Man, the good news just keeps coming in today.

May 30, 2024. A very good day.

This cannot be emphasized or repeated enough. Before the acquisition, Boeing was led and run by engineers. After the acquisition, MBAs and Finance people were put in charge.

This happens at all large companies, eventually, and it's why they all inevitably shit the bed. It's just in this case, it's killing a lot of people in the process.

Swimming. It could save your life.

Psh. "Cardiovascular concerns." Fucking read the side effects for the drugs you've already approved, FDA. You've allowed an autoimmune treatment drug that has a high chance of giving terminal fucking cancer, you dumb fucks. Fucking Viagra has "cardiovascular concerns."

Biased, bought, dumb-asses.

Hah! My ChatGPT bot did 60 slides in 90 seconds, and submitted it hours before yours. See YOU in court!

Don't underestimate domestic pro-Israel agents' ability to assassinate a US politician's political career. Lemmy is not the American media, and the latter is still largely supporting Israel's campaign.

Put. Engineers. Back. In. Charge.

All of the C-suite, except maybe the CFO, should be aerospace engineers. That's how it was back when Boeing made great planes; how to fix the company isn't rocket science. Just get rid off all the MBAs.

Humans. Where is my snow?

Do you speak Russian, or Chinese? B/c you won't be very effective doing it in English or high-school level Spanish.

The thing I think is the most irreconcilable, incompromisable, consistently demonstrated behavior of The Right in America is the blatant hypocrisy about nearly all of their planks. It's the thing that, when the next civil war comes, will allow me to pull the trigger on anyone wearing a red baseball cap with little remorse.

• Everyone needs guns to defend themselves from The State, because 2A! (Except for black people defending themselves from no-knock entry cops who got the address wrong)
• The government shouldn't be allowed to tell us how to live! (Except for LGBTQ* people, women's choices about their own bodies, or homeless people)
• The Constitution is sacrosanct! (Except for the part about separation of church and state, we just ignore that part)

It's the same for their every. Single. Position. It makes me weary, and furious, depressed and pessimistic.

Master and Commander. It's atmospheric and fun, and I'm sad they didn't make more with that cast.

We have LG washing machine, fridge, and dishwasher. All of our original appliances crapped out within 2 years of each other, and were all around the same age and original to the house. LG was the least shitty, review-wise, in the price range with the features we wanted; they all of them came with WiFi modules. It appears modern appliances are now like cars - if you want certain features, you're forced to also get features you don't want.

In any case, the marketting justification for each was:

• dishwasher: download additional washing modes, like rinse-hold. Alerts when the machine is done. Remote start.
• washing machine: alerts when the machine is done. Remote start.
• fridge: I don't recall (it was the first to go)

None of ours has been given access to the WiFi, so I just count it as a tax.

We also replaced our garage doors recently; the contractor literally didn't carry any opener models without WiFi. I had to source those myself.

The most frustrating thing about all this wasn't the WiFi, though; it was that the cost to repair each of them was 80% the cost of a new appliance, and most of that was parts. I'd do it again the same way. For comparison, the one appliance I'm trying to not replace is the oven, and we've had to have someone come out twice in as many years to fix it. In retrospect, it would have been cheaper to just replace that, too.

I get furious just thinking about the waste. Sure, the new appliances are better - the dishwasher is far quieter, is larger inside, and has better drawer geometry, for instance. But we would have been happy in our ignorance if it would have been cost effective to fix rather than replace.

None of the originals were LG, BTW. I don't know how robust these will be. The old appliances lasted 20, but I'm not naive enough to think modern appliances will last that long. If I get anywhere near close to 10 years without a major repair, I'll be thrilled.

That may be what they meant, but that's not what it says.

That's how they got Capone. Tried and true way for getting crooks that rely on henchmen and ambiguity.

Trump's modus operandi includes a lot of implication. He makes ambiguous comments; henchlings that interpret his ramblings the way he wants get promoted; those that don't, get fired. Prosecution is difficult when they can't get a good, direct quote proving intention and direction.

But crooks will be crooks, and there's always the IRS to save us from the worst of them.

I think he's walking a line. On the one side are people who want the US to stop all support until Israel stops, want the US to stop threatening the international courts seeking to hold Israel officials accountable for war crimes - essentially, want the US to treat Israel like we are treating Russia. On the other side is a powerful, well-funded pro-Israel lobby (which the Palestinians don't have) and a traditionally fairly cohesive and influential pro-Israel voting block. Plus, Israel is our Ally, like officially; Palesteine is not.

He's slowly, slightly shifting from full-throated support of Israel, but so far all he's doing is withhold some ordinance. It feels as of all he's doing is pissing off both sides, rather than shifting some support.

Honestly, I think he's in a no-win situation. It's critical for the USA that he win this next election - Trump is an existential threat to Democracy in the US. There's a lot of money and influence he loses by not getting the pro-Israel lobby on his side, and who does he lose by continuing support? Are the disenfranchised youth going to vote for him if he pivots on Israel? All the folks who've been complaining (rightly) about the cost of living, housing prices, healthcare costs, loss of rights over their own bodies - all these folks who protest-voted in the primaries and are threatening to protest-vote in the general election... they're all suddenly going to jump on Team Biden if he cuts off Israel? In enough numbers to counter what he loses from the pro-Israel lobby?

So I think the irony is that if standing with Israel means he can win the election, it's still a better outcome for Palestine than if he loses. If he loses the election, Trump will tell Israel to just go ahead and glass the area.

Edit: Came across this article here today, which I think has basically the same view.

Israel is following the Nazi Germany playbook rather closely, isn't it?

1. Just visited the site with FF, and got no such error. It's a Shopify site, and I'm sceptical.
2. If it's a typical Shopify SBO, it could easily be a single person - the owner - working out of their house. There is no developer, except those employed by Shopify.

The owner probably populated the store themselves; the entirety rest of their computer experience brobably consists of browsing Wiccan forums, Instagram, and Twitter. And yet, they figured out how to open an online shop and start a business doing something they're passionate about.

Educated guesses, but poking around a bit on the site & following links gives good evidence this person is a person, not a company, and doesn't employ anyone, much less programmers.

And I've never had a Shopify site pop up a message like this. I think OP hit a fluke, or a MITM, or (most likely) has a virus.