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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago

The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.

Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I for one am glad this demographic got exactly what they voted for.

Emphasis mine.

The problem is that "they" did not all vote this way. Yeah, I too am glad that the Trumpers are getting their comeuppance


fuck them. But your rhetoric is a bit extreme and devoid of empathy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For some (most?) of us, we don't have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 6 months ago

I miss the days when that X font was only associated with Xorg...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This is all based, most likely, on Griffiths' textbook. Quoting here from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1b97gt/magnetic_fields_do_no_work_but_magnetic_cranes/ :

The statement "magnetic fields do no work" is incorrect. Griffiths has mislead a generation of physics students on this. A correct version of the statement is that "magnetic fields do no work on objects with no magnetic moments" which is rather trivial. One could also correctly make the same statement about electric fields. However, electric monopoles are very common, so a situation in which there are no electric moments never occurs in normal circumstances.

tl;dr: use Jackson ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Or it's rage baiting/humor 🤷

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

Unity centered around what?

Participation. Making things a tiny bit better when possible, and if not that, then minimizing damage.

Making things better nationally is hard. But locally, change can be efffected


my city (San Francisco) has ranked choice voting for local offices. It's awesome, and I vote for who I want first. It's small, but it's a start.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the person


when the pandemic hit I was a grad student, we didn't have kids, and our living situation was nice (tiny studio but it had a wonderful, if small, outdoor space). Scary times for sure, but life


at least the day to day


was...pretty good!

Now we have kids, and my god, I can't imagine.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Jobs created toxic work environments.

...and so did Linus Torvalds*


he's certainly not the embodiment of capitalism. But I absolutely have a huge amount of respect for Torvalds, even if I don't approve of his way of interpersonal/professional style.

(I used to run Arch btw [but I run Debian now].)

*He's supposedly taken steps in the right direction here and has made improvements.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not sure if trolling or not, but googling around and it sounds like Sensory Processing Disorders can cause this level of passionate hatred towards bananas...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 7 months ago

On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root

That's not true at all. You generally can't use your distribution's package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you ./configure'd it properly make install will put it under your home.

Standard Linux distributions don't place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you'll need to sort that out.

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