MystikIncarnate

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I was forced to learn the vim basics. Mainly because I really started with dd-wrt, which I used on my Linksys WRT54GL.

The image was too small to package anything fancy in it, like nano or something, but vi (or vim, I forget) was included. So when I needed to check something over ssh at the command prompt, vim was my only choice.

My skills in vim have not expanded beyond the basics. Getting into edit mode, exciting edit mode, saving, quitting.... Mostly.

I don't spend a lot of time editing files in the CLI, so I haven't needed any more than I already know. Now, when faced with a Linux cli, and needing to check/edit the contents of a file, my go to, is vim. It's pretty much on every system, and it works perfectly fine for what I need to do 99.99% of the time. I like vim, it's been there for me through thick and thin, and helped me out of some serious jams. I won't hate on nano (or any other cli file editor), they all have their pros and cons.

Use what you like.

I get what you're saying, I really do.

I'm from Canada and I support our position. Please don't take this the wrong way, but I don't know enough about what going on to make an informed decision on the matter. I don't live there, I'm not a part of any of their culture or religion, regardless of which side you're referring to. Fact is, any information I get won't tell the full story, and having zero stake in the matter, I could not possibly know what to say.

A ceasefire sounds good on the surface, people should use their words when trying to solve their problems, not guns and bombs. However, some situations can become impossible to escape without violence, and putting an end to the violence prematurely, could allow an unreasonable situation to thrive. I purely do not know what's happening, so I don't want a vote in what happens. Further, I won't be affected by the outcome, good or bad, so whatever I would vote, I wouldn't experience any consequences from that.

At this point, I'm not even asking anyone to tell me about it because there's a lot of misinformed people and/or people with an agenda that are going to just jump at me to tell me one way or another; simply, I cannot differentiate someone speaking about the matter from bias, from someone who is simply explaining the facts, because I have so little context.

Additionally, news media have not helped the situation. They go for the catchy, attention grabbing headline, regardless of what it may imply. So even the news could simply be putting something up that will drive engagement without telling the whole story (and bluntly, they often do).

At this point the issue seems to go much deeper than the actions of the current conflict, and as far as I can tell, this, or something like it, has been brewing on and off in that area for entire life.

I don't know what's right or factual, I don't know what to believe for correct information, I'm not involved, nor is my country (not like we have any significant military to enforce anything anyways), and we have no stake in the outcome.

Why would we vote on this?

To be clear, personally, I don't like conflicts, especially large scale ones. I don't want anyone to die for "the cause" at all. I don't like warmongers, and I don't want anyone (especially the innocent) to suffer and die because of some warmonger. I recognise that sometimes it's required, but I am not in favor of violence in any form. Same as self defense. If you're defending yourself against someone, violence is sometimes required, and legitimate.

To reiterate: I don't know about the conflict, and I don't know if I can trust anyone, even here, to give me accurate information about what's happening. Please don't lecture me about it.

I'll finish with this: I am hoping that the innocent in any, every, and especially this conflict, to be safe, and sound. I know not all of them will be, but I'm hoping for it anyways.

Same with a bartender. In many places you need to get specific training for serving, so you don't over serve, and know when to cut people off. On top of that, there's a long list of drinks and cocktails that you're expected to be able to put together at a moment's notice. It's far from unskilled IMO.

I mean, if you're just pouring beer from a tap to a glass and not much more, maybe? As soon as you need to mix, it's much more involved.

Don't get me started on bricklayers/stone masons; definitely not unskilled.

Most of these jobs are benefited by skills. Even a cook or dishwasher, having prior cooking experience or training, even if you're working at a fast food place, having food safety and good kitchen habits and etiquette, so you don't walk into someone standing at the fryer or something - it's still a learned skill.

IMO, the "unskilled labor" title is not accurate, it implies anyone of any skill level (including zero skills), can do the job, which is completely incorrect. There's no way. What it should be, and what it means in my mind is that this is labor with no specific prior knowledge required, which is any task you can learn on the go. If you can show up, never having done the job before, and learn as you go and be not garbage at doing it before the end of the day, then it's a job that doesn't require specialized skills or training to get. It should be marketed in job ads, more like "on the job training" and that the job does not require any college/university, or prior experience.

Anything referred to as "unskilled" is always going to be wrong in my mind.

False comparison. Blaming oil itself as an object, for the climate crisis would be like blaming farmers for obesity.

To reverse it, blaming the energy industry for the climate crisis is like blaming the manufactured food industry for obesity, which is accurate and true on both counts.

Food processing companies want to make their food tasty and desirable to keep people buying it, and do that cheaply enough to stay process competitive and turn a profit, so they cut corners and use heavily processed source materials, which may have little or no nutritional value compared to the fresh-from-the-farm items that those processed items replace. They add sugar, usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup to sweeten up dishes that have had all their natural flavor and sweetness reduced to nil by the processing of the source material, and now you have a high sugar, low nutrition meal that tastes decently similar to the product you were trying to make, but at a reduced overall cost.

Bad nutrition leads people to eat more, since their body isn't getting what it needs. With all the added sugar, and increased consumption, we get obesity. The best thing you can do to fight obesity is to eat more raw and natural foods like fruits and vegetables, also buy your meat from a butcher and learn to do some basic home cooking; avoiding the problem altogether.

To transpose this idea into energy, we can:

1. Identify the issue

2. ?????

3. The world is saved from the climate crisis.

Obesity is as much about personal choice as it is about the industry itself. You don't have to eat at McDonald's every day (as an easy example). You can buy ground beef and make your own burgers, with fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, etc (whatever you like). I'm not going to shame anyone for what they eat, it's entirely your choice. Going back to energy... You are generally connected to the "grid" via one company. It's the only option. You can get third party "wholesale", but it's still coming from the same source. The power company doesn't want your opinion on how to generate the power you use, and even if they would listen to you, it doesn't mean that they would act on anything you say, you have zero ability to force them to act any differently than they already do. If they only use coal, well then, go fuck yourself I guess.

Auto manufacturers, as demonstrated by Ford with the EV-1, have actively refused to sell electric vehicles. Even now, taking an example from Honda, they have not released an EV, at all. One of the most popular vehicle manufacturers with the civic, accord and other very popular vehicles, and zero of them are EVs. The closest they came was the Honda clarity, a plug in hybrid. It has enough battery range that unless you were commuting more than ~20 miles (one way), you could run in EV mode indefinitely. They discontinued the clarity in 2022 or with the 2023 model year, I'm not sure, but they've canned it. To their credit, almost all of their vehicles are some form of hybrid (the E-CVT they use is essentially a gas engine on a generator with an electric motor driving the wheels, 90% of the time), but none of their cars are even PHEV now. The story is much the same with Ford with the exception of the F-150 lighting. Chevy did the bolt and later the volt, discontinuing the bolt PHEV when the volt came out. Bearing on mind these cars make up very little of their overall market and sales, and the other many dozens of models are either hybrid (with no plug in option) or just straight ICE engines. Toyota stands out a bit with the Prius, but again, the same story.

There's few, if any options for anything other than gas/diesel vehicles, and the oil industry has worked hard to keep it that way (IMO, one of their biggest sources of guilt). So most people are stuck buying ICE engine vehicles, or non-plugin hybrids, which are almost as bad.

Unless you're swimming in money, you can't exactly buy enough solar and battery to maintain your home energy needs. I've looked into it and a sol-ark 12k solar charger is nearly $10k, and alone will only put out 9000W. At 120v (North America) that's around 75A. Less than most homes are wired for. So you need two or four to even get close the same amount of power you would from the grid (150-225A @120v, most homes have a max draw of 100-200A @240v, which is easily double). Four sol-ark 12k's will put out a nominal 36kW, where 200A of 240v from the grid is 48kW. So you have a $40k investment for just the power management units and probably another $10-20k in solar panels and god knows how much more for batteries to keep you powered on while the sun is down, just to get away from these assclowns. Easily $50-100k cost for a 10-20 year system.

My point is, unless you have $100k+ to set on fire, your personal choice in the matter is next to zero.

Then they have the gall to say shit like this? Fuck you.

I've seen pirates put in a modified version...

This. It's like "Let's wreck the paying customers! Ha ha, that will show those pirates."

WTF?

I feel like this is what bungee was going for with Halo infinite. Multiplayer is free, but if you want the story/campaign, you have to pony up for it.

Too bad infinite was not the strongest game for Lanning.... And that it's requirements are kinda silly... And that it's huge, even just the free version.

It looks great if you have the hardware for it, but the guys I usually LAN with are all working professionals with bills and mortgages and stuff... No time or money to keep up to date on the latest gaming hardware.

I thought Alanis Morissette was god....

Mint

You mean "green Ubuntu"?

I'm not sure the mods are going to care honestly. I think most are in agreement that the Orville is basically star trek adjacent, and close enough that.... Honestly as long as it doesn't take over, nobody will bat an eye at the occasional Orville meme.