lolcatnip

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lolcatnip,

Is there a joke here other than “haha he murdered his wife”?

lolcatnip,

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

lolcatnip,

If by “came from” you mean “was hijacked by”.

lolcatnip,

Are you proud of yourself for arguing in bad faith?

lolcatnip,

Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.

lolcatnip,

Historians of the medieval era hate the term “dark ages”, even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.

lolcatnip,

Richard, is that you?

lolcatnip,

I’ve literally never had that problem.

lolcatnip,

I’m not into men so maybe my opinion doesn’t count here, going by visual appeal, I’d take Geralt over Pike any day. OTOH Pike is definitely who I’d want helping me out of a jam.

lolcatnip,

IMHO the bigger gotcha on the “states’ rights” lie is that the Confederate constitution gave states no more rights than the US constitution, while specifically denying one: the right to abolish slavery within their borders.

lolcatnip,

I, too, enjoy undermining game developers’ efforts to entertain me in the way I’ve paid for.

lolcatnip,

Sure but I think they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

lolcatnip,

Don’t worry, it’s documented on the second tab of options in an unrelated dialog box, so anyone who needs it should know where to find it.

lolcatnip,

Personal ownership is just as bad. That leads to OG feudalism.

lolcatnip,

That and hunter-gatherer tribes tend to get genocided.

lolcatnip,

They’re as real as property is.

lolcatnip,

Wealth inequality trends to increase over time. Without some system that actively redistributes wealth, eventually a few people own everything of value, and ordinary people are obligated to do whatever the lords want in order to gain access to the material resources they need to survive. That’s feudalism.

lolcatnip,

Every pre-agricultural society? I’m not saying they didn’t have their own problems, but feudalism wasn’t one of them.

lolcatnip,

Tangential anecdote: when I visited San Luís Potosí, I ate several meals at a place called Café Tokio. It was good but there was nothing Japanese about it beyond the name.

What's the difference between package manager and why are there so many?

Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager

lolcatnip,

I think a lot of what drives the creation of redundant open source tools is that the urge to address a matter of personal taste meets the urge to start a new project, so people create new things that are different in key ways from older ones, but not necessarily better, and not necessarily even different enough to justify the amount of work that goes into them.

In some ways it feels a lot easier to start a new project then to build off an existing one:

  • You don’t have to familiarize yourself with the old code, which may be in a language you don’t know or don’t like
  • You don’t have to deal with the existing maintainers, who may or may not be supportive of the changes you want to make
  • You don’t have to support use cases that don’t matter to you personally
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