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They completely fabricated the official report they turned in like it wouldn’t come out later that they absolutely lied about the report.

These fuck sticks in a just society would be looking at prison time under 18 U.S.C. § 1621, 18 U.S.C. § 1505, and 18 U.S.C. § 1001. But it has become so routine to just look the other way.

Stressful situations are what they are, but reports are filed LONG AFTER the situation happened. There should be no reason ICE lies the way it does on a regular basis. People need to be going to prison to understand that these laws under Title 18 mean something.

A representation of a binuclear compound of element 10^(56) with an average bond length of 100 quintillion angstroms.

Okay that was funny.

If my years have taught me anything, it’s the latter.

My favorite is SQuirreL SQL. Something about that 1990s Java look is always claiming to me.

Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown.

Actually it’s the investors that wanted some gimmick to sell a billion brand new iPhones that’s the letdown. AI is just a bunch of bytes that can’t do anything unless someone’s greed gets it to do something.

I hate these kinds of articles because they keep making excuses for the actual problem. I mean right there, it was right there in the story and CNN buried the lead.

The real reason companies are doing this is because Wall Street wants them to. Investors have been salivating for an Apple “super cycle” — a tech upgrade so enticing that consumers will rush to get their hands on the new model.

It’s right there and CNN and many other media keep handing out passes on it blaming something else. Investors are greedy ass bastards and will use literally anything from magic beans to snake oil if it means they can make five extra cents. The investors, the Wall Street bastards are the problem. THEY ARE THE FUCKING LETDOWN. Never forget that.

I bet my fucking left kidney, that if there’s a “victory” over AI and it goes away. Those bastards will be back with some new flashy thing nobody asked for. I bet both my fucking kidneys, that’s how sure I am of it. Nobody solves shit, unless they solve that first.

An operating system with a poor text editor.

Copenhagen-hosted DistroWatch says it has tried to appeal against the Community Standards-triggered ban. However, they say that a Facebook representative said that Linux topics would remain on the cybersecurity filter.

Nope, this one isn’t ignorance, it’s actual malice. They fully intended to start blocking Linux topics.

When you take this and pair it with what Larry Ellison just recently said:

AI will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior”

There tends to be a pattern forming that I really don’t want to draw because I like tinfoil on my head.

Oh look, the folks who said they weren’t going to create a theocracy are doing just that. I’m totally surprised.

Too filled with rage to starve to death.

Article gives zero reasons. I’ll add my opinion. Newness factor. Not having the meta settled, the lack of map knowledge, etc. Just all the things that circle the “new” of such a game drives the folks at the moment. It’s got the feel of early OW when you just picked your person, got on a map, and did the objective not really knowing anything.

It’s yet to see how the balance patching goes for the game and how new characters for the game go. I’ll say the game does one thing out the gate better than OW2 and that’s the reduced FOMO in the game related to battle pass. You buy the battle pass, you have infinite time to complete it. Now you can’t sit the fence on if to buy the BP or not, hence my “reduced FOMO”, but this is one of those things they’ve started doing in a lot of other games like Halo and what not, and it’s something that I think Blizzard should do for OW. But I don’t think that alone is going to turn the tide massively.

But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.

Again, all my 2¢, and I’m not claiming to be some scion of knowledge in the gaming industry. Just letting you know my feels.

Not exactly related to this, but I find it incredibly interesting the sheer level of media coverage on the shooter, when compared to media’s supposed new rule of trying not to linger too much on the shooter least copy-cats get made.

The last five days has been a deep dive into this person’s hunt, social media accounts, and a complete life bio. Like cops are going to toss him into jail, but this guy hit rock star status and it’s got the feels of we’re going to see this again down the road.

I don’t condone the dude’s actions, but goddamn has everyone including law enforcement made this man shine brighter than any shooter that has come before. If law enforcement plans on having some sort of backburn narrative getting out but shit like this, where the guy acted on pain.

That starts transcending the guy himself. That makes it a lot harder to prevent McVeigh style inspiration for retribution. We had the Ruby Ridge / Waco spawn the OKC Bombings because those events stirred ideas, so the people themselves became less important to the narrative. Columbine’s major memory was one that was alluring to disaffected youth that continued to be largely ignored.

The toothpaste is coming out of the tube on this shit. If law enforcement is going to get a handle on this situation, they’re going to need to start picking up the pace. Senator Fetterman’s hot take of “news media is just shitty” on a story about how this was inevitable has been largely seen as clears throat:

Wow they’re all fucking disconnected from reality

Like it’s not some new science that if you back into a corner a wild animal, it’s likely going to strike. The fact that Senators are THIS blind to their failures to address this issue that both of them continually indicate they want to solve, is unsurprising, but holy shit that’s the kind of shit that turns words into gasoline on an already raging fire.

No shortage of shitty takes on the 2024 election or on this assassination

— Sen. Fetterman (via Twitter)

Yes, excellent choice of words to ignore how Congress for the last three and a half fucking decades has continued to FAIL over and over again on fixing this problem. No need to look at this event as yet another failure of Congress to do their fucking job correctly or anything like that. It has to be the various shitty opinions at fault here.

But the media has stories they need to hype up so that you’ll put money in their pocket and Congress will just continue to do their favorite past time of pointing fingers until the heat death of the universe. All the while they’ll look at each other befuddled on how the next one of these could have possibly happened?

I find all of this wildly interesting in how most of them professed not too long ago that they had learned their lesson to only show, yet again, no they didn’t. But that’s about par for people who have long since become comfortable with their positions of wealth and power, there comes a point where feelings and the emotions of the masses just no longer appear on their radar. When you stop giving two shits about anyone else but yourself, every wrong looks like someone else’s fault. For Fetterman, I hope his ass gets primaried, one can only hope.

It is, the police are trying to save face by finding someone dumb and innocent to scapegoat into “he was totally resisting arrest”. They’re going to murder someone, call it him, and promise that anyone else attacking the rich will meet the same end.

As a liberal I will feel so fucking owned if Trump gets rid of selects the Governor of Florida.

Oh my goodness. I have a hard time getting folks to stop using QRPGLESRC and QCBLLESRC and start using the IFS so that we can put source in places like /home/devname/src. And don’t even get me started, we still have DDS defined files even after IBM deprecated them in favor of SQL DDL tables.

The newest IBM i machines (formerly AS/400) even come with git but can’t use that because that’s too confusing for some still. And oh my goodness, RPGLE now comes with a builtin %upper() and %lower() but folks still using %xlate(), which doesn’t work with things like UTF-8. I can’t with some of the older devs at my place and I’m not exactly a spring chicken.

All these tools IBM packs in to help people make more modern software and convert the older stuff to more modern implementations, but biggest problem I have is getting others to learn the new stuff and getting legal to be okay with major changes.

That’s the fun thing about some of the older systems. Program names were limited to eight or ten characters so you had to get creative with naming within a library (basically the equal of a folder on AS/360 … AS/400 systems) if it got large.

      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. YOURWRNG.
      ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
          DISPLAY 'YOU WERE WRONG MOM'.
          STOP RUN.

but Trump might test limits by forcing a Senate recess using a rarely invoked constitutional provision

I highly doubt Trump can use Section III here. This whole story is predicated on a process that’s a massive maybe.

If Section III was a possibility then it’s likely that the Senate would just suspend confirmation hearings and just floor vote instead. No need for Section III to be invoked.

It just makes no sense to even pitch this idea.

It’s wild that no one ever had a problem with this with email

Do you work in IT? I couldn’t imagine sitting there trying to guide people through IMAP and SMTP settings. Like email has been made a lot easier on that end because most people use an app on their phone that allows them to select from one of the three major providers, they click it, poof all done.

But imagine someone calls you up and is like “hey how do I setup mutt for gmail?” “How do I set up Canary for Microsoft?”

Then imagine someone who has 1/10 of your knowledge trying to set it up. We have to remember that a lot of people are unaware of the file/folder metaphor in computers because a lot of people just “put it in a cloud” and call it done. The tablet/phone era has really eroded a lot of knowledge about systems. I know that seems hard to believe on the Fediverse when we’re all surrounded by incredibly knowledgeable people.

More importantly. Farmers can’t just stop planting Johnny-on-the-spot and they can’t hold their breath until day of. At some point, the United States is going to have a shit ton of food on hand. This is a very big problem when you have way too much food.

There’s a cost to growing food and loans are usually taken out to cover those costs, repaying them when the items are sold. But every American cannot just buy all the food that was going to be sold to foreign countries. Not all food can be repurposed and some of the food that will be repurposed for something like fuel or animal feed, all of those have dramatically decreased return on value. So having too much food massively depresses the price of the crop. Which means those loans taken out by farmers come a calling, causing farmers to default and lose their farms.

This is exactly what happened with the American Farm crisis of the 1980s. Many local agricultural banks collapsed, the Farm Credit System took some of the largest losses ever since the Great Depression, grocers began consolidating leading to the handful of grocers that we have today, the industrial farming industry moved in and took a strangle hold that the US is still dealing with, and land speculation in the wake of the massive foreclosures shot through the roof escalating urban sprawl. Having a surplus of food isn’t a bad thing, but having way too much food can be the thing that triggers a massive collapse in several economic industries that can have decades long effect.

Even the small rural town I live in used to have four FCS accredited banks, that employed nearly fifty people. All of those banks went defunct in the wake of the farming crisis. The farms out here have all but been completely changed from the independent growers that they used to be, to being contract farming industry owned/family operated. Where there used to be a thriving sorghum farm, it has all but changed into a Tyson contracted industrial chicken farm with long red barns as far as the eye can see.

LOL!!

I moved somewhere, where the local government owns the majority share of the teleco that provides the Internet in the area. 30% ownership is co-op, which leaves something like 15% that’s private interest. The ISP runs amazing, 1Gbps fiber to the house for $45/mo and the co-op just forwarded a motion to the local government for consideration to upgrade to 10Gbps.

I moved here from a place that was a Comcast monopoly zone that gave max 350Mbps for $70/mo.

In a better society the CEOs of AT&T and Comcast would have already been dragged out into the street, long before we got to this point.