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frezik, (edited ) to risa in Just a little bit

The dictionary isn’t a legal framework or international organization. The UN has a convention on genocide:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Item (c) comes the closest to what Sisko did, but he did it in a way that gave them a chance to get out, so it’s not a perfect match. Forcing conditions for removing a group probably wouldn’t qualify under any of these. That said, it can be a factor in Ethnic Cleansing, but the Maquis aren’t really an ethnic group.

frezik, to memes in Every goddamn time I'm trying to make something for my DnD game

JPEG will never die. Too many things support it at a very basic level. A random CCD camera module on DigiKey probably has an option for direct JPEG output. An 8-bit Arduino will know how to take that JPEG and display it on a cheap 4" LCD screen off Bang Good.

Formats that sprawl everywhere like that will never, ever die.

frezik, to memes in Beautiful

There’s an entire corpus of books and documents critiquing the current system and on how a society based on mutual aid would work. None of them “expect everything to be provided for free”.

frezik, to memes in They aren't, and I'm sick of being told they are

I’ve peaked inside large private companies. They’re no better than public companies. Turns out, being large means you can’t move very fast.

frezik, to mildlyinteresting in "Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report

It’s a fact that it’s self reported.

frezik, (edited ) to memes in 6÷2(1+2)

1 2 + 2 * 6 /

What’s the problem?

Also, you forgot my inlaws, one of whom believes the answer is 5.

frezik, to programmer_humor in Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

Who is “you” in this sentence? I mean, I could probably write security camera software, but I don’t, and have no plans to. I imagine most of the people here are the same.

frezik, to asklemmy in Mickey Mouse is now public domain (Steamboat Willie specifically). What do you think we will see this year?

Doing that for Trademark law is why they didn’t bother lobbying for longer copyright this time. They could protect their Mouse trademark without relying on Steamboat Willy like they did before.

frezik, to programmer_humor in Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive

Right, you can make that kind of money when you have 40 years of Cobol behind you. But even for new entrants, $90k seems low. There had better be a premium for dealing with old bullshit, especially when you’re probably damaging your resume in the long run.

frezik, to programmer_humor in Bill is a pro grammer

That would be the type of people attracted to programming, yes.

frezik, to risa in It's true.

She was Commodore Paris in Star Trek Beyond. She might be the (great?) grandmother of Tom Paris.

frezik, to memes in Bastards. SHARE YOUR TECHNOLOGY

Double paned windows are basically standard.

I looked at getting trippled paned windows a while back, and the benefits were marginal compared to double paned from the same company. It seems that once you’re already in the higher end of the market, they don’t do much over good double paned.

frezik, to risa in Sorry Ezri

Best thing about Voyager was that it kept Berman busy on something else so he could only fuck up DS9 a little bit.

frezik, (edited ) to memes in What nice vibes

In the Foldgers Cinematic Universe, these two are siblings. They also give each other looks at the end that said “after we’re done with this coffee, we’re going to fuck”.

frezik, to comicstrips in BEST DAY EVER

There’s a microbe that eats silicon and is a bitch for CPU factories. At some point, it had a conversation just like this.

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