Fracking is used for oil and for natural gas. And it absolutely pollutes local water supplies, aside from also using a shit ton of water, causing tremors, and wrecking wildlife habitats.

If there’s one benefit for it, it’s that it improves energy independence because it allows us to tap more difficult wells cost-effectively.

But that’s a bit of a stretch, because divesting away from fossil fuels also improves energy independence.

Maybe try typing the word you’re talking about into Google before speaking so confidently out of your ass. What are you, Ace Ventura?

To that I would say society is failing them either further.

How much does it cost to criminalize homelessness? Between enforcement, jailing, feeding, clothing, trials, lawyers, DAs, etc. It’s a fucking fortune.

Why do we go right to the stick, when the carrot is cheaper and more humane? Why aren’t we helping them instead of spending more money to strip away whatever shreds of dignity they have left?

God forbid we help people down on their luck. Much better for us to exert even more effort and capital to dehumanize them. Surely that’ll keep everyone from choosing a vagrant lifestyle and make them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

I’d think that if society fucked me over enough to the point that I had to sleep on her streets, I’d proudly violate all the rules too.

You expect people to respect the institution that bent them over until they broke? Fuck that.

Respect is reciprocal. I’ll give it at first but if it’s obvious I’m not getting any back, then there’s no sense in continuing to give it.

SPAM is underappreciated.

I remember a long time ago as a fat kid on keto, eating spam right out of the can with a spoon. This is not the recommended way to serve.

But, grilled, either on a sandwich or as part of a breakfast plate? Chef’s kiss.

Because it’s a bad faith argument.

There’s no candidate that opposes Israel’s actions.

It’s certainly okay, even preferable, to be critical of our administration, but it serves no point to bring it up in a discussion of the election, because it serves only to de-rail the conversation when any candidate who matters supports the genocide.

Hitler wouldn’t have been shit if he wasn’t celebrated by German media during the Beer Hall Putsch trials. And he would’ve faded to obscurity pretty quick if not for Goebbels.

Fascists are bad. But they only get dangerous when they’re given a platform.

I don’t think the fascism would exist if it wasn’t profitable to give it a platform.

It’s like My 600lb Life.

Trump is the bedridden 800lb lump of a human. And the news cycle that brings him hamburgers by the pallet is the enabler spouse.

Trump is an outrage machine, and we have a media that deals in an economy of outrage.

Trump gets outrage. Outrage gets clicks. Clicks get money. It’s a pretty simple chain to follow.

We need to wake up and realize that a profit-driven instantaneous news system that leverages strong emotions is not good for anybody. Truth is subjective nowadays, (always has been, really, but it’s especially evident in the current media climate) and all that matters is getting information and narratives (not necessarily facts) out and people consuming it (and all the ads embedded with it) there, first, and right now.

I’d been meaning to try out atomic distros. I’m not an expert on Linux by any means but I’ve been using it on-and-off for about 25 years, and exclusively (at home, at least) for about 7. So I’m a bit more than a noob.

I do worry if I’d feel restricted inside of an atomic distro. Might throw kininite on a laptop I’ve been meaning to give to my kid, tho.

Why are they still so hung up on 8.3 long after Win95?

I get not wanting to have spaces in a filename. Those suck.

Is there something low-level that still doesn’t like long filenames?

Being incel isn’t just about not getting laid…the important part is blaming everyone else for it. The term then gets co-opted as the people who blame everyone else for not getting laid.

Huh. So they were sending their best.

Did you read the rest of the post? Meetings and phone calls are a time sink nowadays

Honestly that was the norm pre-COVID at my office.

So glad that ended.

I greatly prefer asynchronous communication for a few reasons…chief of which being able to craft a thoughtful reply instead of being on the spot. 30 quiet seconds to think about something is a hell of a lot easier in a chat than it is on the phone. (I’m not talking about general conversation, a lot of times I’m asked to explain complex topics or provide ideas on how to fix things).

I also find it a hell of a lot less distracting. Especially when it replaces meetings. I’d gladly have a few days-longs chats going to work things out, versus a few hour-long meetings. It makes the actual project itself the focus of my attention, not the meeting, and makes it a lot easier to maintain a flow.

I dunno. Maybe I’m just a special breed of Inattentive ADHD + Social Anxiety + Millennial. But I also think that probably describes the largest slice of neurodivergencies among millennials.

ETA: also fuck everything about video calls. Maybe it’s just because I’m in IT that we don’t do them…it’s just not a part of our work culture. We’re a sausage-party of ugly nerdy recluses, we know that and don’t need to see each others faces to confirm it. Of course they always come on for the sales calls…ugh. Making me put on a clean shirt and have to think twice about standing up so I don’t do it in view of the camera. Hate 'em. And having to tidy up behind me. It’s not a mess, and I’ve got the blur filter on, but I don’t need my boss asking about my White Claws or my bong.

The problem is really all the undiagnosed autists who aren’t picking up on the sarcasm, treating it as fact, and then bringing it to the ballot box.

They had to know this would happen, right?

Like, they didn’t think to test with a dual booting system? Wtf?

Where do they even get off fixing a bug in grub?

I had thought about that, but also thought about how that would be spun by conservative pundits.

Clearly, women will get pregnant once a year for the tax benefits of having a child, and then abort it.

I love your choice of the word “advertised”. Like there was a billboard, it was on sale, and there were coupons in the Sunday paper.

Definitely think you should be able to claim fetuses on taxes if you are pregnant pregnant more than half the year.