LOL, no they are not! If there’s one thing I know about Evangalion, it’s that.

Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.

Criminalizing homelessness is basically Black Codes 2.0

Whenever I do, someone will point out that houses today are, on average, bigger.

Houses are bigger because lots are bigger, so developers have to build bigger houses on them in order for the improvement value to be high enough to turn a profit.

Lots are bigger because the zoning code was designed to make them too expensive for minorities to afford, once the Fair Housing Act came through and de-jure segregation and restrictive deed restrictions were outlawed.

In other words, not only is “the houses today are bigger” not really the rebuttal people saying it think it is (because it’s not driven by genuine market forces), they’re also defending institutional racism.

Sigh… but when you try to go through on a bicycle, everybody loses their minds. 😡

First of all, this is great and deserves its own thread.

Second, there’s a fatal flaw: authoritarians and capitalists (same difference) are predisposed in favor of fascism, and that’s why the behavior of fuckwads like Trump keeps getting free passes and attention. When leftists try the same thing, they get ignored, censored, COINTELPRO’d, or even just straight-up murdered.

In other words, it’s a good strategy and should work, all things being equal, but all things are not equal and that makes it a high-body-count strategy (even if there’s no better one available).

Turning things up to 11 just gets you discredited as “radicals” in the media.

Radicals need to exist in order to make the less-radical activists look reasonable by comparison. Otherwise they just get painted as radical no matter how milquetoast their protest is, and the Overton window moves away from their cause.

If I see something packaged like this, I expect it to be really fruity, not just vodka and lime.

Je suis en retard dans la discussion, mais tu as raison, les ordinateurs ne tiennent pas compte du contexte.

Doesn’t matter; I still get triggered by it every time anyway.

In other words, they’re Hell-bent on crashing the fish population lower and lower down the food chain.

Why the fuck does a survey need a loading screen with a progress bar?

Holy shit, people, some HTML with input fields and a submit button does not need to be this over engineered!

Yeah, now, and only because they lost and gave up. Some of us don’t forgive past misdeeds so easily.

Besides, even to this day, most (if not all) of their “support” for open source is about getting it to play more nicely with Windows or trying to prevent people who insist on using open source from jumping ship to Linux, not supporting it for its own sake.

I’ll believe Microsoft actually supports open source when they start porting things like Office or Flight Simulator to Linux, not before.

https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/

https://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/

Hmm… the Amazon description says “for ages 13+”. I guess my search for an RPG suitable for my six-year-old continues.

Research papers should be typeset with L^AT_EX.

If Emacs keybindings are good enough to be the system default for Mac users, they should be good enough for anybody.

So “some other bastard system” it is, then.

That’s a shame; a GNU project should be consistently GNU-like (i.e. adopt Emacs key bindings).