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mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

You mean like getting "the only democracy in the region" to be our ally in supporting America's wars in the region? This is the most often touted "benefit" but to say this actually has value to the average American is farcical. Most of America's support for Israel is rooted in religion and ideology, not any tangible benefits to America.

mcpackiehon Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

I knew you wouldn't.

mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

The idea is to report all the facts that at least a substantial minority of the public believe to be relevant, regardless of which way they swing politically. All of those facts qualify under this standard, and also the ones I suggested as well. If you leave out the part about Chicago being a Democratic stronghold city, half the American public are going to be yelling that fact at the article and concluding that the writer is biased. And if you leave out the comparison of American gun violence to other countries, you'll have the same accusations of bias coming from other readers.

If you want to preempt those accusations of bias, then you need to cover your bases and present all the facts that the public may believe to be relevant. Even those facts which you personally believe to be irrelevant distractions from the narrative you prefer.

mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

If you break it down by religion and ethnicity, support for Israel in America is the highest among white evangelicals. Young white people are leaving religion in increasing numbers and aren't going back to it. Your average white evangelical church crowd today looks like a nursing home field trip (and this demographic trend is very much on their minds. They're trying everything they can think of to reverse the trend but none of it works.)

America's support for Israel will never recover to the heights it once enjoyed.

mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

3.3 billion dollars is a substantial sum of money. If it's as insubstantial as you claim, can I then safely surmise that discontinuing that funding would be a political nothingburger? Would American zionist politicians shrug and say it doesn't matter if we don't give Israel that 3.3 billion, or would they cry and scream about it? Probably the latter. And Israeli politicians, would they shrug and say it doesn't matter, or would they echo their American counterparts? I think the latter.

mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

Why not all of those facts? It's only four short sentences, it won't take up much space on a printed newspaper let alone an online article. Throw in some more facts about American gun crime rates vs other countries for good measure, some facts comparing Chicago to other American cities, etc.

mcpackiehon The dead children we must see

Children with cancer seem to get more than their fair share of coverage and attention already, although that attention generally doesn't include attributing their cancers to industry.

mcpackiehon Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice

I trust my observations of people I know more than the claims of celebrities. The vegans I've met have pallor skin, very low muscle mass, and look 10-15 years older than they really are. Vegan diets are very often deficient in various nutrients so their bodies start to cannibalize muscle mass and skin tissue, leading to weakness and premature aging. That's what my observations and intuition tells me.

If you don't want to eat cute animals that's fine, I think you can be reasonably healthy eating a mostly vegetarian diet with some eggs and small fish. But complete veganism is slow death, I won't go there.

mcpackiehon Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

They did. Will you retract your insult?

mcpackiehon Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

That wouldn't count as a medical error. Medical error is when the doctors fuck up, not the patients.

mcpackiehon Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...

> Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.

> The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates.

mcpackiehon Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice

The Vince Gironda diet.

mcpackiehon Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer in mice

I've given up on 'scientific' nutritional advice and now go with my intuition informed by my personal observations. What I have observed is that people who eat lots of carbs seem to get fat, people who eat lots of processed foods look terrible all around, people who are vegan tend to look like cancer patients, people who are vegetarian but also eat eggs and/or fish look reasonably healthy, and people who eat lots of roasted meat, vegetables and eggs seem to have the best outcomes.

mcpackiehon PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

Yes exactly, tiling window managers frequently ignore applications trying to set window geometry. It need be no different for exotic VR wayland compositors or whatever else anybody has in mind. The existence of a protocol for setting window geometry and positions obviously does not mean every compositor must respect those requests.

mcpackiehon PipeWire 1.0.0

Your comment is entirely factual and fair. Unfortunately the Lennart camp is never here to discuss.

mcpackiehon PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

In other words you want to facilitate the bad user habits of Windows, iOS, Android, etc on the Linux desktop. Why do you even want to use the Linux desktop in the first place if you prefer those systems? Stick to what suits you instead of trying to assimilate the niche holdout systems like some sort desktop borg.

mcpackiehon PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

I think it's coming from developers with proprietary backgrounds who want to normalize the running of untrusted proprietary software on the Linux desktop, probably from some appstore with abysmal quality standards like Android and iOS. Contrast this mentality with sticking to Free software you downloaded from the official Debian repos.. why do I need to be protected against that software? I don't. These mobile-like desktop protection schemes are designed to facilitate mobile-like software consumption habits. Fuck all of that!

mcpackiehon PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

> The concept of "window position on screen" makes no sense, since a compositor is allowed to display windows arbitrarily, and doesn't necessarily display them as 2D rectangles (for instance, they could be displayed in a VR environment at arbitrary 3D positions, or they could be warped arbitrarily, etc.).

This is a poorly thought out objection (sounds more like a rationalization), neatly addressed here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

> No problem! For window managers like this, it is perfectly legitimate to just ignore the client’s positioning requests. The API specifically mentions that clients should not rely on absolute placement to happen. It is merely advice to the compositor to choose a sensible initial spot to put a window. Same goes for weird form factor displays or specialized compositors, of course (but those may not even implement xdg-shell at all).

mcpackiehon Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

There's no need to rope conspiracies into this. The structure of incentives in corporate environments have people in the company not looking for something they don't want to find. Managers would rather not know about violations and be able to tell their boss that their team are pros who got the job done fast, than investigate their reports for violations and quite possibly find a big mess that needs to be cleaned up.

Point is, shit that shouldn't happen routinely does happen anyway. "That wouldn't happen because it would be illegal" is generally bullshit.

mcpackiehon Audiobooks Are Books and They're Also Practice

> If you have tried listening to audiobooks before but find it’s hard to pay attention [...]

What works for me is setting a timer to pause playback every ten minutes. If I'm actively paying attention I can unpause it again by pressing the play/pause button on my headphones. But if it pauses and I don't notice it, or if I realize I don't really know what was said in the past 10 minutes, then I can rewind 10 minutes and resume from that point later.

mcpackiehon Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

How many managers need to be in-the-loop with the theft before we can fairly say "the corporation knows"? As far as I'm concerned, even if no managers are aware of it, they should have been aware of it (it's their job to know what their reports are doing) so the corporation should be liable for the theft. Otherwise it's trivial for everybody to play dumb and turn a blind eye to what's going on.

mcpackiehon Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

What does it mean for "Nvidia to know" something? Does it never count as a "corporation knowing" unless the executives are aware of it? Obviously this cannot be the standard by which companies are held accountable.

mcpackiehon Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

How can you know that?

mcpackiehon The Bond villain compliance strategy

> > Creating a currency

> Shouldn't be illegal.

This is exactly where the bullshit should stop. Creating currencies should be the sole privilege of sovereign governments.

mcpackiehon The Bond villain compliance strategy

Yeah, let's get a ban on video games (waste) and video game achievements (proof of waste.)

mcpackiehon Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now

The best option may be to sell the business to one or more of the employees. Of course this is contingent on you paying your employees well enough for this to be viable, as well as your employees believing in the business, but I've seen it work well once before. A diner near me was sold to a waitress who worked there for 20 years, who's now been running it successfully for about 10 years. Obviously she knew the business inside and out, understood the customers and the business side as well.

mcpackiehon Minosoft: Open-source Minecraft client, written from scratch

Looks like it's trying to get some asset files from the bixilon.de server? I can't try this out right now because it crashes with:

    java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 502 for URL: https://gitlab.bixilon.de/bixilon/pixlyzer-data/-/raw/master/hash/ae/ae844d6a7949f9e70a3ce0f7a12d455c4bcb96c4.mbf?inline=false

I'll try later, looks like a really cool project.

mcpackiehon Fire TV now also displays full-screen video ads on its homescreen

You can get mini PCs or laptops that idle at 10 watts or less. If you suspend it when not in use it will be truly negligible. And there's no reason you can't use a remote with one, although I'd argue a wireless mouse is basically a remote.

mcpackiehon Fire TV now also displays full-screen video ads on its homescreen

The abuse will continue until you wise up and throw it away.

mcpackiehon Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme

Women aren't plants; there's no such thing as kidnapping a plant and making it a slave. Your analogy is trash.