ahelwer

loren , 8 days ago to random

do drives still need to be defragmented?

ahelwer , 8 days ago

@loren if you have a SSD it does not need to be defragmented

loren , 1 month ago to random

Sometimes when I look at a snail or something I think “I could be the only human to ever see this particular snail” I think that’s kind of cool. And then I take a picture and many more people could potentially see it

ahelwer , 1 month ago

@loren as a kid I would pick up rocks, declare "never to be seen by human eyes again" and then hurl it out into the middle of a deep lake

futurebird , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

It's like we all decided that imperialism is bad, which it is, so the solution is no one talks about imperial ambitions or power unless it's to insult a bad guy.

So in the US press you might hear Russia call imperialist, but you'll never get an honest discussion of the vectors of American imperial power, this means that US foreign policy is inscrutable to most Americans.

"Why are we giving Ukraine so much money?"

Like we are handing out gift cards, Benjamins and Obama phones.

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18+ ahelwer , 4 months ago

@futurebird I don't think it's true that it would never end. History is filled with a lot more two-countries-sharing-a-border conflicts than is filled with expansionist empires. The thing that's getting to me is the sixty billion dollars we are conjuring out of nowhere and dumping into weapon manufacturing just for Ukraine, which I disagree is a good thing, and also just the unbelievable scale of that number; that's nearly $100k per homeless person.