90% of the work done by US Congress is just brainstorming backronyms for their bills.

Doctors from the “Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War” are absolutely more qualified to report on the risks of nuclear war than a randomly picked person off the street.

He was clear that his estimation is “crude” and “not rigorous”; nuclear holocaust is uncharted territory and noone could truly be considered an expert. I think the average person wildly underestimates how close we are to mutually assured destruction. There’s a natural human tendency towards optimism bias, but it’s probably more likely we kill ourselves off as a species (ie “great filter” solution to the fermi paradox).

The bug is really cute and deserves better than to work for that parasite.

“Living is too expensive”

“Wow that’s an attack on capitalism”

“Powerful people use their wealth and influence to SA children with no consequences”

“Wow that’s an attack on capitalism and a threat to our way of life”

Just a little too on the nose, Feds.

Dems go all-in on AI data centers.

“I’m a white dude so it’ll never happen to me”

They didn’t need your face, they have your digital footprint, and if you aren’t being extremely mindful of what personal information you leak online, they have WAY more data collected on you already than you should be remotely comfortable with.

You would think hippies and immigrants and trans people are too much effort to prosecute for meaningless bullshit too.

'm not really on the systemd hate train that a lot of people are.

Systemd went out of it’s way to preemptively grovel in front of the US Empire before it was even asked to - that’s reason enough to hate it.

it has no visible path towards becoming anything more

The path is visible to anyway paying attention. I fear this is like climate change, all the warning signs are there, but Westerners find it way more comfortable to ignore the problem and bury themselves in treats and online media and kick the can down the road until it grows exponentially worse.

You probably wouldn’t be able to access any commercial, online software or websites using an unverified distro

This would be a significantly better problem to deal with than having the OS compromised in the first place.

I think you’re offering way too much good faith to a government that believes in prisonlabormaxxing and genocidemaxxing.

Avoiding systemd is getting harder and harder though.

That’s exactly why it should be avoided. The vision of the FOSS operating system was that parts were interchangeable, and you aren’t locked into any one thing.

People raised the alarm bells on systemd years ago and unfortunately it seems they were correct all along.

It’s reasonable to assume the next legal step is to outlaw lying about your age. IP logs associated with an age of 126 would be easy targets. You could lie about your age with something more realistic, but then it’s another avenue of device fingerprinting.

A better thing to do would run a script that edits your age every boot, randomly between 25 and 65, along with an always-on vpn that keeps switching locations.

Or just switch to a distro without systemd, like KaOS. That’s probably the direction I’ll head next.

I thought this was c/badposting for a second

So many fucking good users banned or bullied off this site for minor deviations from the party line.

“Minor deviation from the party line” like what?

Most burgerlanders are critical of the war because it’s contributing to a rise in Cost of Treats. It’s only really approved by Christian fundamentalists who believe it to be some kind of “holy war”. And the bourgeoise of course, because war is good for business.

Call me the Woker because this is going into the city’s water supply.

They are constantly pushing the envelope of how evil they can be without facing any consequences.