Well… the type of stuff we long for are still around, it’s just that we don’t visit it as much anymore. Lemmy is a perfect example of this - it’s around, it’s better, but people still default to Reddit instead.

Is he talking about Musk?

I… I thought a middle manager is any manager who’s not the very lowest manager, and not the CEO? As in, any manager who has managers above and below them?

No, I did not have to learn that the hard way. I could have learned it another way. You’re objectively wrong. And you don’t always have a backup. Especially not back in 1995, when this happened. Back then, backups typically happened nightly. So even with a backup, I would still have lost a day’s worth of work.

I fell for a similar (but less) obvious joke on my first Linux installation back in 1995. That one used dd instead of rm. I lost a lot of code that I had written. After that, I’ve failed to see the humor in this kind of joke. There’s always the risk that someone new doesn’t understand it’s a joke, and tries it out.

This makes me think of this classic about changing recepies…

They didn’t say scientists are the first target, they said scientists are usually the first target. Didn’t say that they were the first target in this case.

I’m assuming he threatened her as she was going into or coming out of the restroom.

Perfect, thank you very much! That means I’m a lot more likely to back it.

Interesting. To be useful for me, they’d have to come with “unlit” versions, since I always add actual dynamic lights (flickering torches, etc) in Foundry VTT. With lamp light drawn on the floor, it would look silly since that won’t be visible from a distance - only when a PC’s light source shines on it, which makes no sense.

Calm yourself, man. You seem a little bit emotional there. How on earth do you presume to know my political affiliations when you don’t even know which side of the fucking planet I’m on? Get a grip.

Where do they say that they want microphones listening to people? Just because someone doesn’t like some ways of talking, doesn’t mean that they want 1984-style surveillance of everyone.

Unbelievably enough, it might end up being the rich people in the US who end up saving us all, by deposing Trump because he fucks up their bottom line.

“Lalaland” gets my vote, given that they have completely lost any sense of reality.

They dont need to invade to conquer. They already control the president.

Yep. America is now, whether they understand it or not, a vassal state to Russia just like Belarus.

Zelensky should stop the war

Why is it he who should stop it? Why not Putin?

Like so many have said, if Putin stops fighting, there will be no more war. If Zelenskyj stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine. One of these is the better option. I’ll give you a hint - it’s not the second one.

Correct. But being a private company without shareholders, as I said, means that there are no shareholders. :-)

Someone who reads, but does not post or comment. Someone who’s here, but doesn’t really participate.

So a private company without shareholders will be the first, then.

What you’re saying is true, but we must also remember that construction is always slower than destruction. What this means is that slow, steady improvements are not newsworthy - and thus gets no airtime - compared to destruction which happens over night and is thus newsworthy.

So there is also a lot of slow, steady improvements going on in the world that we never hear about. There’s not enough of it, I don’t think, to offset the big evils of greed, climate change, and fake news. But it is there, and we must not forget it.