If someone is claiming God is on their side, then absolutely they should not be trusted.

A good example was Huckabee’s message to Trump where he says he shouldn’t listen to humble old Huckabee, but he should listen to God, who, coincidentally, is saying exactly the same thing as Huckabee.

If you have your faith but make no assertions about it’s validity over other opinions nor that it confers divine authority to the words or deeds of any person, cool, I respect that faith. I’m inclined to have some faith myself, but I’m not about to claim any of it is more than my personal wild guesses and hope.

However organized religion is generally exploitable and bad people take advantage…

That’s one pair of philosophies that creep me out both ways. Both the anti natalists and pro natalists.

Deciding for yourself is one thing, imposing your choice on others is maddening.

I don’t know if the comment quite raises to the level of anti natalist though. Maybe it’s grading on a curve of reading some more hard core anti natalists, but that comment felt tame and felt like they wouldn’t necessarily object to a couple having one child or even two, being somewhat below the replacement level…

They will require the requester to prove they control the standard http(s) ports, which isn’t possible with any nat.

It won’t work for such users, but also wouldn’t enable any sort of false claims over a shared IP.

If you can get their servers to connect to that IP under your control, you’ve earned it

I mean, it’s one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

Why should that be bundled with peripherals… doesn’t seem to be a good “synergy”.

That is your use case, that relative to your individual usage only one application uses the framework. In that very specific scenario, sure. However with electron it’s forced to be that way for every single application no matter what your scenario is.

If electron packaged as a dependency, then it would be similar. But it’s always forcibly bundled.

Ok, I’m going to make a new nutritional supplement: “oops! all electrons!”

On this specific point, I’d say that neither side seemed poised to pull that again. GOP has historically kicked off the biggest conflicts, but Trump’s rhetoric and even his first term seemed consistent with “it’s not worth risking American military over foreign crap” in a break from the broader GOP.

His second term seems to have shifted that and you can see it as it fractured his base, to the point where Trump supporters threw “America First” in his face and he petulantly declared HE gets to decide what “America First” means because he "invented’ it.

Conversely, you can’t have a house, you have no credit.

Fine I just paid off a 1.50 loan for a hot dog.

Ok, now you can borrow 500k because you proved yourself responsible with $1.50

Reality isn’t too far off, back in the day I couldn’t get a loan because I had zero credit history, but then could get a mortgage after a few months of getting a credit card with like a 500 dollar credit limit.

Who am I, Parker Lewis?

Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.

Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.

But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels

Unfortunately the Pentium 60 botches your blockchain with some bad floating point operations.

Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.

Time to install to OneDrive.

This sounds like a whole lot of convoluted bullshit to use Plex locally and “looking local” through VPN solutions when you could just roll a Jellyfin instance and do things a more straightforward way…

If a protest of a billion people happens, then it cannot be ignored by the media.

I know, it was hyperbole, but the point is that if 12 million people are on the street, it’s not that the 12 million people need to get people’s attention, they are indicative that the people already have that perspective and are showing it in the streets.

A small protest has a goal of getting attention on a problem that people may lack awareness. A multi-million person protest isn’t about a need to raise awareness anymore, it’s about showing the awareness and commitment that is already there. For whatever volume of people actively protest, you can be sure there’s a singnificant multiple of that number of people who agree with the protestors but didn’t take it to the streets for one reason or another.

Well I meant the more rhetorical “pushing”, but yes, some of the activity of the claimed non-violence seems a bit violent.

I would say that I doubt you can have millions of people protest and manage to be completely non-violent. Some folks will take it to violence in the name of the cause, some will opportunisticly do it under the cover of the movement, and finally some might “false flag” to try to discredit the movement.

On the one hand, most of those incidents cited were in the face of a regime that also didn’t want to care. Just hard to ignore circumstances if 3.5% of your people are out on the streets and likely most of the people off the streets agree with them.

On the other hand, they base this on very few instances, so it’s hardly a statistical slam dunk, it’s vaguely supportive of some concepts, but anyone taking note of specific numbers is really overextending the research beyond what it can possibly say.