Country music.

Having worked in tech for two and a half decades, and in places that were this direct - no thanks. There’s a fine line between being clear and direct, and being toxic - what Torvalds did here was toxic, and in many workplaces of today would be classed as bullying. Being subjected to this ‘directness’ for any given amount of time will do a number on most people’s personality and self-esteem. People don’t improve themselves if all you do is shit on them.

Noting that he wants this to apply only to trans people, where the name or pronoun are ‘incompatible with the person’s sex’.

That leaves himself nicely and neatly out of scope for a bill like this.

A bagel is a bagel. Two halves of a bagel with something on between are still a bagel. The same goes for a roll. A sandwich is two slices of bread with something in between.

Precisely this. American terminology applies in America only.

We were even going to kill Johnny Depp’s dogs at one point but settled for the “hostage video”.

That was just Barnaby Joyce grandstanding and making a big deal out of ‘we apply the rules to everyone, no matter if they’re rich or famous’. No fucking way he would have ever laid hands on those dogs. The man was and still is a fucking embarrassment to politics and Australia.

I’m having a hard time figuring out whether this guy is a fucking moron or a fucking idiot.

Any place of discourse that incorporates the term ‘master race’ in its name is a place I give a wide berth.

These people keep talking about Jesus, but if the Jesus they talk about and describe in their holy book ever actually had to come back, he wouldn’t last ten minutes until they’d call him radical leftie, an SJW and a ‘danger to the world’ and crucify him again.

“i always thought there couldn’t possibly be a God, with all the evil in the world. But perhaps… all this evil exists because there is a God. Perhaps, yes, perhaps this God just isn’t a particularly nice guy. It’s possible that God isn’t a DJ, but an arsehole.”

“You know the saying that God created Man in His image? Well, look around. If you assume that God is an arsehole, it suddenly makes a lot of sense.”

Freely translated from The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling

The Second Amendment is possibly one of the most frequently and wilfully misinterpreted pieces of writing in the history of humanity. Right next to the bible.

I haven’t played Starfield - Bethesda open-world games are generally not my thing. Throw procgen into the mix and I’m out.

Elex is one of the most un-fun games I’ve ever played. Sure, it looked nice. But that doesn’t help with weak gameplay and bad writing.

Tell them they’re not getting paid until they have elected a speaker. Watch how quickly they’ll sort themselves out.

So you’re telling me that blanketing cities in CCTV over the past decade or so has failed to stop crime? And you’re telling me that you need more of it to stop crime?

As someone who has tried soldering with the wrong equipment (and thoroughly stuffed it up), it’s both. Learning with the right equipment however is a lot easier than with the wrong stuff.

And 3D printing externally can also be a bit of a trial and error process if you’re new to the whole thing.

I’m from Germany, and frankly, you’re talking shit.

If it’s so unclear as you make it out to be, how can you be so certain that it will be all the bad things you’re harping on about in this thread?

They have effectively weaponised division.

They created division by spreading lies, uncertainty and fear. Lies were repeated over and over, and became increasingly outrageous, despite being refuted again and again.

Then they pointed at the division they created and said “this is too divisive, we shouldn’t do it.”

This is completely false, but unfortunately that is the type of lie that has been spread and amplified by conservatives and their media, and caused a lot of uncertainty and fear in people.

It is clear what the voice is going to be. It is clear what powers it will have. It is clear how it is going to work. Everything else is FUD.