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lung , 5 hours ago to Asklemmy in Do you like America? Why or why not?

America is the center of the world, hate all you want. This is the cutting edge today. Hollywood is the dominant music/media power. Silicon valley is the dominant technology power. NY is the dominant financial hub. The hippie cultural revolution was largely here, and the civil rights revolutions that inform modern morals. America spends more on military than the rest of the world combined, and therefore has massive influence

So that's my context for being here. I was born pretty far away in Europe, which is great in its own ways. But if you really want to play the game at the highest level, America is the place to do it. Everyone else is just trying to catch up. Or they are enjoying a happy low stress life of wine and women with a high standard of living and low inequality — which are definitely unamerican ideals XD

lung , 18 hours ago to politics in The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies

Well im kinda opposed to the supreme court as a concept, it didn't even exist early on in American history, but it is what it is. The other laws will have to fall in like or Congress will have to act

lung , 1 day ago to politics in The Supreme Court just lit a match and tossed it into dozens of federal agencies

Idk overall more jury trials sounds better than judges just getting to decide. I know it's less efficient and longer, but seems to increase the chances of decisions being made with some humanity, rather than political bias in terms of appointments

(Not that I really know what I'm talking about)

lung , 7 days ago to World News in Europe and Australia both back down on CSAM scanning

Oh wow, I really didn't expect this, and aside from all the problems with sex trafficking, this is a huge win for privacy... for now

lung , 9 days ago to Linux in “Systemd is the future”

I guess reading the history, systemd did a better job of dependency resolution and parallel loading of startup services. Then some less interesting stuff like logins, permissions, and device management - which definitely seems out of scope. There's been like 15 alternatives since it was made, but none of them got critical mass, and now pretty much every mainstream distro can't run without it. Sad face

While I'm here complaining, I really miss the days when Arch was configured from a single global file that handled many things like setting your hostname, locale, etc. I think it was dropped bc of maintenance & being not unixy enough. Kinda ironic

lung , 9 days ago to Linux in “Systemd is the future”

I mean that argument is ridiculous, saying that things are "documented" when the thing is literally called tmpfiles.d and the man page starts with the following explanation:

It is mostly commonly used for volatile and temporary files and directories (such as those located under /run/, /tmp/, /var/tmp/, the API file systems such as /sys/ or /proc/, as well as some other directories below /var/).

So basically some genius decided that its a good idea to reuse this system for creating non-tmp directories. Overall my opinion of systemd is reluctant acceptance though I always wondered why the old way was a problem. Need a service started on boot? Well, we had crontab and sysvinit with some plain files. Need a service shut down? Well that's the kill command. I guess I don't really know why systemd was made

lung , 10 days ago to No Lawns in fuck lawns (fuck lawns) fuck them very very much

I used to think lawns were dumb but then I moved to a place where if you don't take care of your yard, it's just overrun with bugs and weeds. Planting too many trees makes things damp and miserable, open areas are key, but that's where stuff grows. Most plants can't survive being mowed, but grass loves it, and the birds can pick out insects when it's low. So now I like lawns, it's the human version of a meadow. And I don't see an alternative, other than growing an extra long beard, converting myself in mud, and becoming a druid

lung , 11 days ago to World News in UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief

Well, US is doing exactly this too. It doesn't appear so incoherent - from a perspective of achieving objectives while attempting to reduce casualties. (And making a ton of money in the process)

lung , 18 days ago to > Greentext in Anon discovers .NET

I guess I need glasses bc I can't C#

lung , 19 days ago to Cool Guides in A Cool Guide to Protein Sources.

Absolutely terrible way to compare foods. The fact that many veg proteins are incomplete means they only have some of the amino acids we need, and must be paired with other foods to get a complete set. Generally that's "rice and beans" kinda combos. Though some plants have complete proteins

Also there are obvious downsides to many of the foods on the right side, like high cholesterol/saturated fats that will kill you from heart disease, and red meat being linked to diabetes/cancer

lung , 20 days ago to World News in Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain

Cool info, thanks

lung , 20 days ago to World News in Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain

Well not really @ last part bc the president can declare an emergency for ~any reason and appropriate funds. Yaaay demoncracy

Generally, us presidents fall into the do whatever they want, "move fast and break shit" philosophy. And as the world's arms dealers, the USA has every reason to be involved in every conflict. That's our greatest national industry

lung , 28 days ago to Cool Guides in A cool guide The Decline of the Simpsons

Thanks for the recs, though I thought season 7 was pretty boring and do not remember the episode you're referring to haha. But 1-3 I know basically line for line

But yeah krapopolis and lower decks seems cool

lung , 29 days ago to Cool Guides in A cool guide The Decline of the Simpsons

I mean how much new shit can you really come up with at this point? R&M ran dry after like 3 seasons and latest one was just gore porn and callbacks

What would you do if you're the writer? I think I'd pat myself on the back, milk a paycheck for a while, and find more fertile ground to impregnate

lung , 1 month ago to Linux and Tech News in Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features

Damn dawg sucks that duckduckgo is bing under the foreskin