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Rocko can't have kids, because Rocko is just a stupid rock.

Possibly a reference to A.G. Cairns-Smith, who speculated about evolving clay crystals. (They can sit in a stream and accumulate minerals, and reproduce that way.)

Crystals catalyze their own expansion in a suitable solution.

Microsoft is not some plucky upstart company with 12 employees and an unexpectedly popular product. We do not, in fact, need to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

From having worked at abd four startups and massive companies, the company being massive actually might make some things harder.

Like, philosophically? Because companies on Microsoft's scale can move heaven and earth to accomplish whatever they please regardless of difficulty. If it's difficult that just means it costs more money. Microsoft is planning to put ML infrastructure in space, but you're saying that building a support org, which Microsoft is very familiar with, is too hard because they're so big?

If there's one thing I've learned over 2 decades of using gnome, it's that it is very much not worth internalizing whatever model they're using this 3-5 year period, because it'll be ripped out the next.

From somebody who has been through this 3 times before: the moment gnome becomes “done software” is the moment they decide they need to throw out everything and start fresh.

learned it all from Microsoft

Beats the current state of owning nothing and not being happy.

Was that an N scale train?

Smaller than N.

It's closer to a cousin you used to be close with despite some moral failings, but who has now has a substance abuse problem and is lashing out at family and friends.

Not an enemy, just a danger.


I'm relaying a poll of Canadians, their word choice, not mine

"plurality" would have been accurate over "half" on my part

https://www.commondreams.org/news/canadians-us-enemy-poll


Eh, that's pretty misleading: in that poll, Canadians weren't asked for an adjective to describe America, they were given a list of three options “Ally/Neutral/Enemy”.


I don't think that's that.

Last time I went to a club and the place just stank of piss, poo and sweat. This was at so called world class clubbing venue in London.

Then the prices. Nobody can afford that.

Then people don't fancy drinking anymore and if you prefer weed, then likely it will get confiscated and you get kicked out.


If google can't provide an ad-free product, they shouldn't be selling an ad-free product.

That's the point: filming should be opt-in.

This opens a huge can of worms.

Dash cams would effectively become illegal.

Someone just wanting to record themselves and some friends doing something would need to ask explicit permission from everyone in the background.

It's just not a tenable option.


Perhaps one should look at the laws in place in the regions of the world where this is already true to see examples of how these worms can be handled.

What does that even mean? You have to opt in to film?

If you meant to say "to being filmed", how do you implement that? People have been filming crowds since the 1950s; "Candid Camera" famously made covert filming mainstream.

"Should be" is a dream of the Good Ship Lollipop. Here IRL, laws and regulations are the only thing that will discourage it.


You can't do it with technology alone (or really at all). It has to be the law that does this.

Yes, laws and regulations are how you would make something opt-in. I don't see the problem, but thanks for the downvote I guess?

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