Cylusthevirus

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What the fuck? The CCP is no more Communist than North Korea is a Democratic Republic. I don’t give a shit about the CCP’s ideas because there’s only one they seem to care about: power. You can tell because of how they treat their own people. Corporations operating out of China are either controlled by the CCP behind the scenes or their leadership gets disappeared if they get too critical. It’s happened a number of times; ask Jack Ma and several others … if you can find them.

The fucking CCP is every bit as bad as the damned Nazis and anyone that simps for them should go live under their regime. I’m sure you’ll have a great social credit score. Just don’t depict Emperor Xi as Winnie the Pooh or watch the fuck out.

Hey, it’ll be ok. Let me show you a reassuring article. https://simpleflying.com/2023-aviation-safety/

It was actually a pretty safe year for aviation. Yeah, there have been problems, but you’re more likely to be inconvenienced than anything. Hope you have an excellent vacation!

Well you see, the shooter runs through the detector, their guns are detected, and then we ask them politely, but firmly, to leave. Mass shooting averted!

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My workplace has a nepotism policy. It generally applies to managing or hiring people who you know personally (household members, close family, etc). It does not refer to name recognition.

You’re misusing the term.

Well being President is sort of like being a Star. And as well all know, if you’re a Star they let you do it. Orange Julius was talking about underage pageant contestants at the time, but I think the same principle applies here.

They can’t man, it’s the only thing keeping out the vampires.

Cool, I’ma go tell my wife something we disagree on is idiotic and we’ll see how it goes. Should be fine, right? It’s not combative!

What an idiotic comparison.

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…is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

Be the change, homie.

In any case, do recall that many of us are in enterprise environments where we’re not the only decision makers. Plus, FOSS without reliable support contracts isn’t workable for many use cases. If something in FOSS goes tits up none of my customers will be satisfied with the great discussion I had with the devs about it and how they’ll totally get to it after Furrycon.

You might not be paying for software in money but you’re going to pay for it, one way or another.

Sometimes I wonder if the admin is just … waiting for the Israelis to finish it. Like, they’ve decided that this is going to be an eternal conflict until someone decisively “wins.” Unfortunately the winning condition for both Likud and Hamas appears to be 100% enemy casualties.

Everyone’s backed into a corner here. The various Arab nations that have hated Israel since its’ modern inception and hated Jews for a LONG time before that want Israel gone, Likud seems to want Hamas and most Palestinians gone.

There’s no way out of this until everyone agrees everyone else gets to live.

If the US just washes its hands of the whole thing tomorrow we might have another regional war that could escalate unpredictably. If they pressure Israel to cease-fire, the various PACs start throwing money around (though I think they have less power than politicians are afraid of, honestly - money can only do so much).

I have no idea how you even begin to negotiate with Hamas or whoever’s running the show in the West Bank. The whole thing is a massive clusterfuck and anybody with a neat, simple solution is either a genocidal maniac or delusional.

I’m feeling stupid this morning, what were they doing with the thumbnail?

How would you be “pushed?” Who would do it?

What does a random surgery being “pushed” on you have to do with this conversation? Did it have anything to do with gender? What do you mean by this?

I’m asking all these questions in attempt to discuss this in good faith.

They’re still in Europe, and I said Europe, not the EU. Also Brexit was in 2020 and I’m relatively certain those pipes were there before that.

You obviously don’t understand

I assure you I am fully aware of the many ways lead has made its way into water in both Europe and the US including literal lead pipes. Actual lead pipes have been banned in the US since 1986 as per my link but of course many remain.

Denmark appears to be ahead of most of Europe, but it’s not just former soviet countries that struggle. England and Wales have lead pipes running to an estimated 25% of households and don’t expect that problem to be cleared up by 2040 or later.

At what level though and how was the lead content assessed?

High levels of lead has been illegal to use in US water systems since 1986. Regulations have gotten more and more strict since then. The EPA’s current goal is ZERO lead, but we still have too much in the water.

It just doesn’t appear to be that much better in the EU, if at all.

Aren’t most farms corporate operations now?

Prepare to be even more shocked.