troyunrau

One time, many moons ago, when I was a young a naive student: I dared to counter protest a student union led protest that I disagreed with. I was polite, non-distuptive, and some distance away from the group.

I got reported to campus security for irrational behaviour by someone, which then caused them to go digging. I had been writing editorials for the campus newspaper and they were in the newspaper offices trying to dig up dirt (my editor let me know).

I have no idea whether there is such as thing as due process and such when dealing with campus security (they aren't really police), but at the time I felt violated. I was expressing a political opinion in the most democratic way I could, and someone gunned for me in response. I don't blame security for doing their job, I blame whomever maliciously contrived a report to make them act.

That said, this story is clearly written slanted towards the ACAB angle. I think more digging is required by the journalist here. What was the actual perceived threat.

(And yes, ecoterrorism is a thing, so perhaps there were concerns, real or imagined.)

Ah shit, a switcheroo!

I'm actually surprised it has taken this long.

What surprises me even more is that organized crime hasn't gotten on board much (yet). Like, screw drive by shootings -- drone dropped grenades on rival gangs and such.

Or that drones haven't been used for "school shooting" type mass casualty attacks.

Or that foreign countries haven't snuck in with a sea can full of drones which fan out and attack infrastructure.

Imagine a cruise missile as a drone carrier that just scatters anti-personnel drones along a flight path, each just finding a person indiscriminately.

If there's anything that Ukraine is teaching us, it's that we don't have countermeasures (yet). The autonomous versions are even scarier.

Is this unmodded? I've never played it, and this screenshot alone intrigues me enough...

As a bandcamp flac lover, I concur. I've spent so much supporting small artists it's actually insane. I make two copies after I download an album: one to giant memory stick which I can plug into entertainment systems and such, one to the microsd in my phone. I currently have 1TB microsd in my phone for this reason, but I can see it possibly running out one day :D

I have this Tshirt

I get groans

Even more amazing that it was found in the era it was. People were pouring over the skies looking for the next big planet, and instead they found this little guy.

There are still some orbital dynamics suggestions that something large and dark is lurking out there -- an ice giant. But it's still largely conjecture. It'd be interesting to see how they define it should they find something very large (say Neptune mass), but it hasn't cleared its orbit. Is it a planet or not? :D

See, I'd argue that it requires a human element that is empty. The image you just replied with is perfect :)

Not counting unfinished series (looking at you GRRM)...

Gene Wolfe at the end of part four of Book of the New Sun. It threw me for such a loop that I couldn't decide to read part five (Urth of the New Sun) or start again at part one armed with my new knowledge so I could reframe everything.

Is that even a thing? Would all "empty" landscapes this apply?

As a former slackware aficionado, I'd have to say that the general mood of the users and development team was super chill. Hell, the name slackware comes from "slack", the goal of the Church of the SubGenius. The whole thing is a meme that's been going steady for decades.

I had the privilege of meeting Patrick and much of the core Slackware group at the KDE 4.0 release party. They are all awesome.

I can expect that users that tolerate the Slackware style are also those that are pretty laid back to begin with. Probably they were happier people already, and using slackware just vibes with them.

Parking lot?