A good quote I remember hearing from somewhere is “when you vote with your wallet, the people with more money get more votes.”

I’ll make my own path! With blackjack!

We’re talking about those PPP loans that businesses and the wealthy abused, and not student loans that people are stuck with due to systemic causes… Right… Right…

“Keep it simple” says the project that decided it would be great to program in YAML…

I’ve tried using it to manage a few home servers and parameterizing anything was painful and boilerplate-ridden

God: I will fix everything

Also God: I can’t/ haven’t fixed evil because then there’d be no free will

Re blue sky, is anyone actually federating with it? I don’t know of any other instances besides the official one.

To put it into perspective, the fine was 0.8% of that net income.

Misinformation wants to be free

Well you see, the oceanfront properties we already sold will be underwater, so we can build new ones and sell them again!

Anything with enough access to block malicious programs has enough access to block any other program by mistake.

Security modules like this usually get very invasive with the OS, to be able to monitor everything and so that malicious programs don’t have the ability to shut it off.

Low competition industries

Like most of them?

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

Damn why does all the software I want to use end up being developed by bigoted assholes. First nix now this.

“Can’t media format X run arbitrary code” is almost never an issue with the format itself and virtually always a bug with a particular decoder/player.

FWIW the cyber truck is a luxury option - if you can choose a cyber truck, you can a bunch of other, more reasonable options. That’s not true of cheap food and many other things.

My interpretation is that companies will spend a lot of effort analyzing human behavior, to find underlying motivations and trends, but won’t apply that analysis to themselves as a business and ultimately just pursue the line going up no matter the consequences.