If it was guaranteed to be annihilation, I think I could accept it. The problem is, it’s not a guarantee. People might live, and they might not even get radiation poisoning. That leaves them alive in a wasteland. That’s the issue. Death is preferable to a life of suffering.

It wasn’t even a full Leeroy Jenkins. He always went in for full, unrelenting DPS and would go until he was dead unless protected. This was barely poking the (Pooh) bear, and then running like hell the moment it doesn’t look great. The full Leeroy would be a full embargo backed by the Coast Guard.

So basically we’re admitting that we lost the trade war, and the whole world is going to belong to China. Isn’t that swell.

Why is everyone insisting on specifically calling it fascism instead of authoritarianism, totalitarianism, or dictatorship? Because really, it’s using a specific term for something just as easily defined by the general term.

I mean, I have a Thinkpad and an HP Elitebook. So… what’s the problem?

I wish I could say that this upset me at all.

Now I want everything science related written in conspiracy voice. Then again, with the current US government, that’s how our leaders read them anyway.

The thing is, a large part of what got this government selected was their ongoing discussion around industrial deregulation. The basic position on that in the Republican party is that this isn’t a problem for the government to address. To them, it’s a problem for consumers and businesses to handle in the marketplace. If consumers want to do business with companies who make climate pledges and carbon pledges, then things will go that way. If, instead, the majority of people vote with their wallets and their choices that they don’t care, then this admin and the party behind them say that’s the way it should be.

That’s part of why I said that the USA has made it perfectly clear as a country that we don’t give a damn. We’ve regularly protested public nuclear power (to the point that one of the most effective nuclear plants was shut down after a small incident, and is now being bought for private use by Microsoft), along with the construction of new hydroelectric dams, solar farms, and wind turbines. We’ve even had some protests against urban cogen (energy recapture, etc). Those protests cut across the political spectrum, too. Entire states have voted for government officials on the basis of “bringing back” coal power (and thus coal mining, processing, etc.).

Most of the discussions between government delegates and officials at summits like these are around regulation and government policy restricting corporate pollution and changing energy sources away from coal and the like. If, as the host, you are already certain based on previous discussions and public statements that the answer from one nation will essentially boil down to the idea that governments should not legislate or regulate industry, and their delegates and officials will actively discourage others from doing so - to the point of putting the two nations on a more antagonistic footing than they already are over mere discussion, why invite them? It’s just going to be an upsetting waste of everyone’s time.

Okay, and? We’re out of Kyoto. We’re out of Paris. We’ve made it perfectly clear as a country that we simply don’t give a damn about making the changes that the rest of the world want us to, or the changes they’re offering to make themselves. Why should the US be forced to be involved in a discussion that will go nowhere?

Then why should it allow me to save different expressions of the same meaning ever? If it’s going to let me search for it case-insensitive, just head the matter off at the pass and save it that way. Either that, or automatically create link files for every case permutation to the same folder as soon as the file exists.

I did, because they’re different ways of expressing the same meaning. They all mean (apologies for borrowing mathematical notation for linguistic applications) |file|. I don’t care what the expression of a thing is, I care about meaning. And as a result, when I save a file and then search to recall it, it should not matter what case it’s in - only for the meaning to match. The state of my shift or capslock should be totally immaterial.

Ah, one more reason for me to despise NTFS.

Good for him. I hate case-sensitivity, and it’s what keeps me going back to DOS & Windows. FILE, File, file, and FilE should all be the same thing at all times.

There are many people who appreciate a double bang.

God’s final temple on Earth,

Honestly, I think the biggest question with FreeDOS nowadays is whether you want to use FreeDOS or DOSBox-X. That’s been my situation for a while now, and I go back and forth.

Oh geez, I never realized how deep into the rabbit hole I go. But for me FreeDOS & ReactOS are just because… I was there when they were first relevant. I started with FreeDOS because of the DR-DOS scandal. I’ve never really gotten I2P to work. TempleOS is still ambitious. And I actually jumped on here because I got annoyed that I can’t use Lynx, only Links (I’m on Linux Mint).

I only touched Plan 9 From Bell Labs when I was in or around Lucent.

Tails USB should be in my go bag with a machine that has no HDD, XMPP/Jabber - don’t use it anymore because everybody left it for other things.

And yeah… from there up, I have pieces too.

That’s how it should go, yes.

Absolutely not. If we’re going to be on the aggressive path, we need to stay the course. There are demands in place. Either they’re met, or it keeps going - up to and including a complete embargo on Chinese goods, while we continue to discuss the situations with HK and Taiwan ROC separately.

No, but have you ever had a typo?