Not a truce. An unconditional surrender.

Just for context, this was before Kirk got merc’d

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

If you like that, check out this Immortal Technique track you may have missed: https://youtu.be/yaBE-Oq4y2A

All must bow to the fat and lazy
The fuck you, obey me, and why do they hate me? (Who me?)

Like basically every time someone asks “Why do we not have <this aspect of what we consider a good life>?”, the answer is ultimately capitalism.

Show her a video of a knee replacement surgery.

Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.

Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

In economics, the Jevons paradox(/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancementsmake a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, if demand is highly price elastic, this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise.[1][2][3][4] Governments have typically expected efficiency gains to lower resource consumption, rather than anticipating possible increases due to the Jevons paradox.[5]

Basically: signal-to-noise ratio

Cory Doctorow explains it better than I can: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/communicative-intent/

Okay, question to people on Lemmy: What’s the right community for asking questions about Lemmy?

That’s the 4D chess move of admitting to terrible stuff from decades ago. “So obviously if we’re telling you about it, we’ve stopped doing that.”

And drains our freshwater reserves in order to do it.

The dumbest timeline.

It’s been ages since I did Rails, but I remember that back then memory leaks were just a fact of life and you had to have a system that monitors the server processes and restarts them when the memory usage gets too high.

I truly hope that’s not still the case.

The quote in the headline does not appear in that video.

• Print 1bn in welfare
• Welfare ultimately gets spent into rich folks’ coffers
• Tax that 1bn back out of the rich
• Net cost: zero

What’s “unaffordable” here?

Why you can tax billionaires more and they won’t leave

Depends on the use case, and what you mean by “external dependencies”.

Black box remote services you’re invoking over HTTP, or source files that are available for inspection and locked by their hash so their contents don’t change without explicit approval?

Cuz I’ll almost entirely agree on the former, but almost entirely disagree on the latter.

In my career:

I’ve seen multiple vulns introduced by devs hand-writing code that doesn’t follow best practices while there were packages available that did.

I have not yet seen a supply chain attack make it to prod.

The nice thing about supply chain attacks though: they get publicly disclosed. Your intern’s custom OAuth endpoint that leaks the secret? Nobody’s gonna tell you about that.

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