If only Democrats would put the same effort into attacking Republicans as they do their own party.

Not that what Schumer did was good, but what Thune, McConnell, and Cotton do daily is an order of magnitude worse.

Yay! I get to repost my comment about Disco Season 5 that got me banned from Ten Forward:

Regarding how the writers failed with their Spore Drive conclusion in Season 5:

The idea of the lone inventor wasn’t even true a hundred years ago. When I took a history of technology class at University over 30 years ago, that fact was driven into us. All discoveries are the result of researchers standing on the shoulders of giants. Destroying all Spore drive research is meaningless because there are hundreds of billions of people spread across thousands of planets. The Federation isn’t even the entire Alpha quadrant so there are hundreds of billions of other people with no restrictions. So someone else is going to almost immediately re discover spore drive because the technology and knowledge base for its discovery are built into society.

I hope the above opinion doesn’t get me banned here too.

But that’s why thermostats have a range and turn on/off cool/heat as needed?

If you were gone for a day with everything off then it would make sense to not overshoot. But when you are home it’s not like it goes from 30-60F instantly outside. As the outside gradually changes, so does the amount of heat or cooling on the inside.

Too late. It will be decades, if ever that Musk isn’t synonymous with Tesla. The brand is destroyed.

Why do you care about outdoor temps for your indoor setting?

No amount of wipe on surface treatment will help against child damage because the underlying wood deforms. It’s like putting Saran wrap over a chicken breast before pounding it with a mallet- the Saran wrap will be intact.

If keeping it intact is really important, you need a 2 part epoxy to provide a rigid coating.

Otherwise just let the damage build up and sand/refinish after kids are older.

The OP states it is justified to use violence against the right people to achieve your ends.

“The ends never justify the means.” is a statement that violence is never the right answer.

Her mental block on affecting people was mentioned in the last episode.

I’m not sure it would be different enough to matter. Otherwise diseases like the bubonic plague wouldn’t be consistent throughout the past thousand years.

You are using the talking point that the method of killing is more important than the actual killing.

How many total people did Bush Jr kill?

But even the subset of drone attacks doesn’t stand up to scrutiny because as I already showed, Trump did far more drone attacks than Obama. Yet it’s never Trump the drone killer.

But “make sure your motivation is to help the system” isn’t related to “the ends justify the means” at all.

The OP is claiming that if done correctly, the ends justify the means.

I’m not criticizing your idea that the ends don’t justify the means. It’s only that your reply is a non sequitur to the OP.

The title doesn’t do it justice. I almost didn’t click the link because what’s the big deal about open source command line utilities in 2025.

But this is important. It’s the tools needed for Android to be self building.

??? This is about targeting the correct audience instead of what’s easy.

That picture is the opposite of everything Saitama represents.

I have a Retroid 3 plus. I’m not buying another Android handheld. They don’t make any sense. You have long boot times, and if you rely on sleep it needs constant charging. A game controller on an Android phone is a better experience in every way.

I have had several Anbernics and a Miyoo Mini. My favorite is the Miyoo because you turn it on and in seconds you are where you left off. When you turn it off, it auto saves and goes completely off so the battery isn’t dead the next time you want to play.

Linux Anbernics can do this too it’s just the Miyoo boot time is faster.

Your link is for something else altogether than the campaign of murder by predator drone that Obama conducted in Pakistan

My link is total murders by President.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207

Frankly I don’t care if he was the worst, the 2nd worst or the 3rd worse

Making 10 deaths equal to 10,000 deaths is the same bullshit logic that Israel uses to justify their murders.

By repeating the Obama drone striker propaganda, you are acting as a mouthpiece for Trump.

I’ve been playing Unreal Gold from 1998. I never finished it.

Obama was the President that ordered the highest number of drone murders

Drone murders was a right wing lie. Obama killed fewer than any modern President except Carter.

Drones were not yet available in mass production during Bush Jr so Bush killed hundreds of thousands with regular bombs. Obama killed only hundreds of civilians. So to twist Obama’s record into something bad, right wing media talked endlessly about drones, while completely ignoring the drastically lower number of deaths. It would be like calling Bush Sr the Stealth bomber killer because Bush Sr was the first to really use Stealth fighters in the first Gulf War.

Trump killed more in his first year with drones than Obama did in 8 years.

https://airwars.org/research/civilian-deaths-by-us-president-in-iraq-and-syria/

But as Joseph Goebels proved, if you repeat a lie long enough people will believe the lie.

Why didn’t Eve destroy Conquest’s robot hand? It’s not sentient.

Not much. IA was avoiding the copyright laws that affected everyone else. They got away with it because they were so well known. The current law is bad and should be changed. If IA won, it would have been a huge boon for libraries and schools. But having lost only means everything stays the same.

IA can lend books that copyright holders haven’t yet issued a takedown.