Funny how so many people took that. Pointing out that people are, as a whole, racist, and that it influences how they think about the homeless gets turned into a “here’s my bigotry coming out to tell you why it won’t work.”
I guess I could have framed it more clearly, but once the mods removed it, I figured people would just move on.
Others have covered the main bits. But as someone else who has often been treated as young… it’s also possible to roll with it. Talk less and when you do talk, make it more about reflecting what someone says back to them. Then you’ll be perceived as young and smart instead of young and naive.
But I personally enjoy the fact that at over half a century, I can still hang out with people of any age and they feel like they can be themselves with me. Even if people in their 70s still treat me like a child.
If it works, why not? Better than what most places are currently trying.
I’m pretty sure ALL reasons are bad reasons? It doesn’t stop humans from generally being racist when it comes to housing. Which is a shame; you grow a lot more as a person when you live next to people from other cultures.
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Not sure about that; the current majority leader comes from extremist roots.
Completion suggestions have been a complete fail. 18 has forgotten my earlier usage patterns and refuses to suggest contractions when I miss an apostrophe — and text entry STILL can’t do quote completion correctly, always leaving a space before the quote.
They also have a relatively small monocultural population and really cold winters.
For sterilization, you need to boil something for a minute or more.
Generally, the boiled water is poured into a room temperature container over top of room temperature tea leaves. The tea itself is never supposed to boil.
So, since it hasn’t been boiled to sterilization, no, it’s not sterile.
But if the container is sterile and the tea/teabag has come pre-sterilized, you’ll be pretty close.
Let’s put this another way: why are the same routines from the 70s still relevant today? It’s like all the movements of one generation have had almost zero effect on society as a whole.
Should we? At that point, the real decisions are made by those with the most charismatic performance.
What pure democracy assumes is that the competent decision will be more popular.
Matrix is essentially secure XMPP.
For fast and secure communications, I’d expect Fediverse mods and admins to be using it, as it doesn’t take much more to set up and use than less secure XMPP variants, and lines up with the ActivityPub worldview.
But I guess people go with what they know, and some people know standard XMPP or Discord.
Only if I save a penny in your shoes.
Interestingly, my SSDs tend to fail due to reaching their maximum writes (takes roughly 15 years).
My HDDs fail due to shock or overheating. Tend to last roughly 9 years.
The big thing is whether people are behaving in a manner that brings them to the attention of the government.
It’s not like you have to give your SSN to a carrier to get a phone; the government needs a reason to be tracking you.
Now, they very much could put in a warrant for all phones crossing the border at unusual times/locations. But someone who snuck in with family and is working cash-only jobs to get by is unlikely to get tagged by the government unless they’re going somewhere or doing something the government is already watching.
I have to admit; I suspect that some of the Reddit bots are calling from inside the company.
I never tossed my Reddit account when I left, so I still get notified of replies to my posts and comments; I’d say there’s a third type of bot - an “engagement bot” that takes high karma comments on old posts and replies to them in a manner that adds nothing but could trigger the original commenter to reply.
At first I thought it was actual people, but it’s always young accounts with high post volumes, all the same type of post that nobody who had actually read the original thread would have written. And the accounts seem to target high karma comments, and aren’t limited to any particular subreddit.
Because we’re detached from WWII; the story of what actually happened is largely settled. With current events, you’re going to find all sorts of people defending indefensible acts because they’re still too connected to them.
We’ve seen it in movies; we’ve seen it in gaming; we saw it starting in music right around when Apple stepped in with the iTunes music store, and then the music execs saw an uptick they didn’t want to lose. When Apple pivoted to streaming, they no longer had much of a say; ClearChannel/iHeartRadio had already consolidated OTA streaming and they had nowhere left to go.
It’s much easier to prevent the likes of Netflix than to stand up a united opposition to it and succeed — especially with the spectre of monopoly regulation sitting back stage.