This supreme Court is bad

Yeah I don’t like ai stuff. And I certainly don’t need AI to group my tabs. I can do that myself just fine.

Republicans are not fit to govern.

I was going to say something smug about living in a walkable city so I don’t need to drive, but I still have to deal with idiot drivers being a danger to pedestrians and bikers.

Even when it gets it right, you have to then check it carefully. It feels like a net loss of speed most of the time. Reading and checking someone else’s code is harder than writing your own

The police are not effective at dealing with school shootings.

That’s unusual, I think. Every computer I’ve had that had it on, I was able to turn it off when I went to install Linux.

I don’t think I understand it, then

I think you can reset a bios password by taking the CMOS battery out or something?

If you have physical access you could go into the bios and turn off secure boot

Criminal penalties, “go into their office and cut off their hands”. Tomato, tomato.

Is this a bit? are you demonstrating the meme on purpose?

And yet a big chunk of the country are still republicans, and another big chunk think doing anything to stop this is simply too gauche (pun intended) to consider. We can’t fight back or be at all disruptive because then they’ll do the bad things they’re planning to do anyway!

Feel like ads in cars should be illegal, but the US doesn’t have a government that believes in good things.

Many conservatives only care about in-group and emotions. They don’t all justify it with as many words

When I got in an accident and was on the ground with a broken bone, the EMT asked if I had a preference about which hospital to go to. Like I was going to check out reviews with one working arm, from the pavement.

The US is a dystopia

One problem is there don’t seem to be a lot of strong left wing candidates. There’s Zohran for NYC mayor, and… AOC I think is a mixed but on the whole good bag, I think? Sanders is like a million years old, but could be worse.

Republicans are the worst of all people.

Democrats are everyone else

There are some pretty shitty people who aren’t the absolute worst of humanity.

I’m reminded of the heinz dilemma (nothing to do with ketchup)

Google and Microsoft have competing services, but those companies also suck. I think they’re less popular, but I don’t know much about why.

I’m not aware of any smaller competitors, though some probably exist. It would be a big risk for a company to go with a new provider. There’s a lot of library support for the big players, for one thing. If you want your python application to talk to AWS, the boto library is just right there.

You could run your own hardware somewhere, but that has its own host of problems, if you’ll pardon the pun. I worked somewhere a long time ago that had its own servers in a data center. The place got flooded in a big storm and we were down for a couple days.