moobythegoldensock

On linux, you can do what you wish. You can use a desktop environment with a GUI software center that pops up a notification that prompts you to install updates. Or update by opening the software center and selecting the ones you want. Or use the terminal commands. Or write an alias so you can type “update” and have it execute all your commands in the right order. Or script it to run silently in the background on an automated schedule.

And you can use your computer during updates, there’s no mandatory update during shutdown/boot.

Calling women athletes “non-competitive” tells us what you think of women athletes.

There are competitive sports where gender literally doesn’t matter (like darts.) There are sports that require subdivisions within them to allow equally skilled athletes of different physiological builds to compete (boxing.)

The thing is, sports regulatory bodies were already making the decisions of how trans and intersex athletes can compete. To say that trans athletes should be kept out of all competitive female sports shows that you either have it in for trans people or you just don’t understand sports.

And no one yet has given a coherent argument for why the government should be involved.

Oh, I misunderstood. My apologies.

Hepatitis B takes 60-90 days to incubate. Because of the slow incubation, the vaccine works best if started within 24 hours of exposure, and can still work if administered up to 7 days after exposure. Newborns are typically exposed during birth, not while growing in the womb.

Compare to, say, the COVID-19, where the incubation is 2-14 days. The vaccine takes about 10-14 days to set in, so if you take it post-exposure in most cases you’ll be done with the actual infection before the vaccine even starts working.

Would you prefer to test your smoke alarms by:

1. Pushing the “Test” button on your smoke alarm?
2. Lighting your house on fire?

The entire point of the vaccine is to prevent the virus. If you wait until you’ve been exposed to the virus, you’ve defeated the entire purpose of the vaccine.

Jake Sully must become the master of every biome.

Hahaha they caved. Disney’s more afraid of the shareholders than they are of the FCC. Suck it, Trump!

Exactly. If you’re an Ubuntu user and don’t mind snaps, great. If you’re an Ubuntu user and hate snaps, why not just use one of the thousand other distros out there that don’t have snap?

“Or involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill ‘em.” —Brian Kilmeade, on Fox & Friends, September 10, 2025 (in response to another host saying the homeless should be jailed.)

All you had to do was phosphorylate the damn ADP, CJ!

Kirk’s pushback sparked an online torrent of racist death threats against me, the likes of which I have rarely seen.

Forgot about this part pretty quickly, did we?

Which is fine by me, as I’ll just recommend all my patients get it.

Seriously, on older games pushing up to look forward was the default. It was only later that they decided to call it inverted.

I just don’t get why anyone would use non-inverted. Why would I tilt my head forward to look up?