Sinonatrix

joined 2 years ago
[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For one, you can have a second screen and Google the answers. It's a little bit harder in person.

I'd really like to see a system of online learning where extension offices are built out into testing center networks. This still disenfranchises people sadly, but staves off some existential questions about what passing an exam even means now.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anything can be learned online, with enough drive and determination

But if you're that powerful: why bother learning from others? You could simply leave and create your own community called name's Gulch.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

My only experience with this is the bootloader is just as locked down as the OS. It's been a while, but I'd sooner buy a x86 netbook instead.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The problem is you legally don't have the right to "terminate for any reason" when it comes to a number of protected classes, but these laws make it so we have to rely on you being stupid enough to create a massive trail of evidence (easy part with small business tyrants), but also litigate it for potentially years on end - harder

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

If you live in a state with a bottle deposit. The $0.05-0.10 is paid with the government aid, but returned as cash to the redeemer. It's a poor and laborious return on investment, but doesn't require actually hustling to sell water like that to tourists.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Every cold war era fear over sleeper agents has been realized with COVID-addled losers having their brainworms activated by rainbows and self-destructing their meaningless lives with nonsensical violence

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I've seen this first hand a good few times - believe me or not because I don't want to be too specific about my experience. You've got to be super desperate to pour out a 40 count of bottled water for $2-4, but people with nothing else but SNAP/EBT/etc funds will do it.

It's sad and wasteful, but it's also such a marginal thing compared to the Sacklers making the opium wars look like a prank that I don't see how it can even brought up in the same conversation - except as deflection.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm sorry but this is definitely shit you only say when you're very far from the action. Would you want your grandpa drafted and sent into a minefield to "dissuade the aggressor"? Grandma and the children too apparently, better dead than governed by another neighboring authoritarian shithole?

I think I'd rather just flee with my family to a country right next door that has a nuclear deterrent and NATO membership. Literally why would "they need to all fight to the death instead" be your first thought? I can't imagine it coming from a position where you think Ukrainians are as human as you are.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have to imagine direct intervention would've happened already if it was going to. Why let the Ukrainians get shoved into a meat grinder first? If you're America: it's good business and sells more guns. If you're actually reliant on the buffer zone then it's really not a game, as you say.

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

If you want a picture, imagine a spicy op-ed stamping on a trotskyist newspaper forever

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is good bait but I almost totally believe it, the kind of person who spends a decade being told they're a very smart math boy at a top university is extremely susceptible to believing every whim of theirs is genuinely brilliant

[–] Sinonatrix@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

GitHub has been handing out a lot of free Azure time to open source projects, maybe they thought keeping "Open" in the name would work for longer?

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