chimpansteve

I can remember a time when the internet wasn't widely available, and I'm not that old. Are you saying that everyone should just go back to how things were done in 1990, and the only impact would be the fault of the people using it?

A primarily affluent small minority of the global workforce switched to working from home. Literally everything your lifestyle depends upon requires actual people doing physical labour.

An overwhelming majority of children have had basically no education at all for close to eighteen months.

This seems prone to trouble to me.

Twitter is already very groupthink heavy, and I can only see this amplifying that problem. You see it in Reddit all the time - people don't actually read the comments, just upvote the upvoted ones and vice versa.

I worry this will just make an already very narrow set of acceptable opinions even narrower.

I've got a hardware Link - it's still being supported now. It had an update a couple of weeks ago.

I'm not from the US, though I have spent probably a quarter of my post university life over there. There is a hell of a lot to love about your country and your people. I've never felt more welcome in any other country anywhere.

However.

Saying that Thanksgiving "acknowledges your privileges" is possibly the strangest and most disconnected thing I've ever heard an American say. And that's a pretty high bar.

I'm not sure I understand this. Those shells only have 90% of bash functionality, but are somehow more portable?

I get the POSIX argument, but I'm not sure I agree. In my experience at least, POSIX is less supported than bash.

I'm pretty confident that any random terminal I have to ssh into will have a bash shell. I ssh into a lot of terminals.

I know where you're coming from, it just doesn't chime with my personal experience.

I've been in one of the chase cars as they talk the plane down. One of the most memorable experiences of my life. This was over 10 years ago, but they were using Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubushi Evos then (this was in Cyprus, btw)

To be fair, the NYT's reporting of Macron's limited and perfectly reasonable attempts to combat rampant fundamentalism might give an uninformed reader a reason to believe he was some authoritarian nutjob. But that's yet another symptom of the NYT's habit of lashing out at any perspective other than their very limited one.

What a bizarre statement. Religion is not banned in France.

I'll absolutely agree with this. The Discover Weekly playlist seems to know my musical preferences better than I do myself, and i'm certainly not sticking to just a couple of specific genres that I listen to