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he said. “You don’t even have to talk about you’re in a mass firing, a mass exodus. Just tell them they have to come back five days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.”

Even with a 1 hour lunch, 8am to 6pm would be a 9 hour work day. So, bro is expecting folks to just accept a 45 hour workweek along with a complete return to office. Pretty sure he’s going to get his 25% reduction. It’s just going to be all of the most talented people saying “fuck that”.

Your choice of OS doesn’t help when your IAM provider’s tech support happily resets your admin passwords for the attacker.

More like “Get scammed”

Cruise missiles are usually self-guided. Drones are often remotely piloted with some autonomous functions (loitering, station keeping, return to base). No idea what the case is for these new AQ400 units. Given the usage of the term “drone”, my guess is that these will be remotely piloted.

The worst part is, the more that is done to debunk the Daily Fail’s stupidity, the more traction it will gain. Should the fish kill be investigated? Absolutely. But, jumping to conclusions like they did is incredibly irresponsible. But, it’s also about what one expects from a tabloid.

I’d really like to see an honest assessment of the costs and benefits of a city hosting the Olympics. While I can see that a focused burst of spending on the infrastructure to host the games could provide a positive short-term boost and some of that infrastructure could be a long term boon for a city (e.g. transit upgrades), it seems like a lot of the infrastructure is just going to rot or have to be torn back down. And any transit upgrades or infrastructure is likely not well aligned with the city’s residents. Instead being hyper-focused on the Games. The tourism income during the event is probably spectacular for both the government and local business. But, if businesses expand to meet the surge in demand, what happens to those businesses as the one time boost dries up? And are local businesses really benefiting or do non-local businesses flock to the area for the short term and then close up shop as soon as the event is over? I’d expect a major city is much better equipped to deal with this sort of event, but it’s still likely to face an overwhelming number of tourists. But, if what they get is a short term economic boost, useless infrastructure which either rots or costs ongoing maintenance, and a bunch of debt to pay off, then the whole endeavor doesn’t seem worth it.

While it seems easy to make fun of HarmonyOS, I’m not so sure it won’t be able to achieve some of it’s goal of over taking Android in China. The main reason being direct backing from the PRC government. In the US, EU or other Western Countries, we’re used to this sort of choice being very much at the mercy of the Free Market. And there is really only one factor you need to win in that game…take it away, Mr. Sweaty Balmer.

Jokes aside, unless and until any new OS gets enough developers making apps for it, that OS is going nowhere in a Free Market. But, in China, the PRC government has a few levers it can pull to force the issue. For example, the PRC could require Baidu to stop making WeChat for Android. Or simply outlaw Android phones all together. While these things seem far fetched, keep in mind that this is the same government which decided rolling tanks over protestors was a-ok. Heavy handed tactics in the market, to insulate the domestic market from US sanctions, is all kinds of reasonable by comparison.

Do I expect HarmonyOS to take off outside China? Fuck no. No one in their right mind, outside of the shadow of the PRC’s boot, is going to choose it. But, that doesn’t mean there won’t still be an insane number of devices inside China running it.

Ya, it’s pretty bad when you can look at Nixon as a “stand up guy” compared to Trump. He at least had the decency to recognize that he had been caught in his bullshit, resign and go away.

If we could harness the energy of Regan spinning in his grave, we’d have a limitless supply of energy.
Imagine telling any conservative, during the Cold War era, that we could completely fuck Russia’s military power and readiness, for years to come, by sending weapons to a relatively small country. They would be rushing to arm anyone and everyone they could, unintended consequences be damned. And yet, here we are with the GOP blocking exactly that sort of activity. And even better, there is a very real possibility that we aren’t arming future terrorists this time around. Maybe that’s the GOP’s problem, Russia losing in Ukraine won’t create an excuse in 20 years to kill more brown people.

What if I told you that dog slaughter is commonly done at the height of adrenaline, which intently means violence, due to the belief that it changes the flavor of the meat? Because that’s part of the practice. There’s nothing humane about it.

I stand by my previous post, that the farming of dogs for meat isn’t any more morally objectionable than farming of cows, which I do not find morally objectionable. However, as I stated, it should be done in as humane a way as possible (yes, I did have a typo and wrote “human” rather than “humane”). Taking what you claim at face value, the practice of killing an animal “at the height of adrenaline” strikes me as inhumane and that practice, in particular, I would be against.

While I largely agree with your post, I did want to argue with:

On the other hand, we understand we are causing suffering to other beings in order to sustain ourselves. No matter how humane out treatment of such animals may become, it’s still something that we will struggle to accept, or that we will ignore outright to not have to struggle with the thought.

There is a third option. We accept that our continued existence is predicated on the death of other life forms and stop being bothered by it. You seem to have a foundation premise that people must be bothered by killing other living things. That’s an assumption on your part and one which doesn’t hold true for all others. This also comes up again in your post when you state:

I’m unable to kill, and I’m convinced I’d first die than kill even a chicken to survive (or if I do, the guilt will eat me alive), but I eat chicken every day and I will continue to do so until the day I die, even though there’s a strong cognitive dissonance there, since I can’t really do much about it without compromising my own nutrition in some way,

This is an expression of how that foundational assumption builds your moral system. You have drawn a line at the direct killing of another animal while being less clear about the line of allowing an animal to be killed. This isn’t a terribly surprising distinction, and is often explored via The Trolley Problem. Most people end up viewing allowing harm as less morally problematic as causing harm. Though, any hard lines are then exposed to be less hard by pushing the parameters of the problem about.

This is also one of the places where your base assumption clashed with one of my own assumptions: that outsourcing the killing of an animal for consumption is tantamount to killing it yourself. I don’t expect to convince you of that, nor do I expect that you’ll convert me any time soon. However, it’s useful to try to understand the positions of others and how they likely arrived at their beliefs. And this why I pointed out the line at the start of this response. You created a false dichotomy by which one must either give up meat or give up morality. There is a perfectly valid third option, which is, I don’t agree with your moral premise and therefore do not face such a dilemma.

it’s okay to aspire to change antiqued cultural norms that, through a modern lens, we no longer find ethical. By setting the bar so high that it’s effectively “your objections to killing any animals are only valid if you eat no meat at all,” there’s no reasonable approach to reducing meat consumption.

You do you. But foisting your religious views on others isn’t ethical either. If you want to view me as a horrible person, because I don’t view eating meat is inherently bad, that’s ok. But, do realize that I don’t agree with your premise and will mentally lump you in the same boat as the Christian nut jobs trying to control other peoples’ bodies.

You get used to big booms. I spent some time working on a military post where large caliber guns were tested regularly. The first time one went off while I was outside, I was in a crouch looking around before remembering where I was. By the time I left the contract, I would notice when a boom happened, you really can’t ignore it, but it was just a “oh, they are shooting again” reaction and not a “holy fuck, what was that?” like the first time.

While it’s not my thing, and I view dogs as pets and not food, it’s pretty hypocritical to complain about the farming and consumption of dogs for food, while many of us still eat pigs, chickens, cows, turkeys, etc. If Korean culture places dogs on the list of eaten animals and it’s done in as human and sanitary condition as possible for farming the animals, then it’s not my place to try and stop them.

While I would certainly love to see us replace FPTP, I’m not sure it would change much. Democrats have had two good bites at the apple of picking a progressive candidate in the last two Presidential Election cycles. The second bite even had several options across a spectrum of progressiveness. The moderate, old, white guy candidate won overwhelmingly both times.

We need more than a change in voting systems. We need a change in views.

Tell me you didn’t read the article, without saying you didn’t read the article.

Probably down to factory quality control and parts sourcing. Sure most of the parts are coming out of China. But, companies can get better or worse quality parts for more or less money. And once those parts are put in a car, you can have differing levels (read: costs) of the work being double checked.

Same. Owned a Volkswagen previously and seeing the ratings difference makes me glad I changed. I was also affected by the diesel emissions scandal at VW. So, that was fun.

Let us celebrate the achievements of the world’s nations, in the middle of one of the most oppressive, authoritarian dictatorships on the planet. But hey, they are the nice dictators, with oil. So, we’ll overlook little things like murder.

No, Ukrainians score well on the color chart:

/s for the blindingly stupid