I don't understand what you don't understand about propaganda and hypocrisy.

The reason you don't understand is because you've been inventing a position for me to hold.The reason that doesn't make any sense is a you problem not a me problem.

The western narrative is that communism/Russia was and is bad because of this one famine,

The "western narrative" is that Russia is bad for invading its neighbours, particularly Ukraine at the moment.

For the same reason you'd be annoyed in 2025 if someone was still going on about the Iraq war being over WMD's and Saddam planning 911.

Are you saying the Holodomor didn't happen? Or The USSR wasn't the cause?

I've driven on the best roads England has to offer, and they are a joke. The regular highways there would never get past safety studies here.

I think your safety studies my be flawed. From Wikipedia:

Traffic deaths per billion km (USA): 6.9
Traffic deaths per billion km (UK): 3.8

Traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (USA): 12.8
Traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (UK): 2.61

Anywyay, this is why America is bad at stuff like this: you are convince you're the best and never allow reality to penetrate any further.

You drive your car at 200mph on the roads? I don't think you're car is faster than a train.

Anyway at least you've tacitly admitted that size has nothing to do with it, it's all just performative political nonsense. Nonetheless it's funny how a "brokeass" country can actually afford the thing your are apparently quite jealous of. And socialist isn't really the insult you seem to believe.

I'm not really sure either why you think I'd get a burst of hurt national pride over the most boring, utilitarian roads in the country.

It's relying on LLMs being able to search the internet for things. It goes somethign like this:

LLM searches for something, ends up on a site.
Site has multiple links embedded in it with said DNS payloads.
DNS lookup occurs.
LLM 'reads' said payload.

It actually is that hard, sometimes.

Often, jobs have a culture which have become structured so that you must be responsive, if not 24/7, then at the least during your work hours, to IMs. Step away from your desk for 30m to eat lunch or whatever? People are going to start calling you in many of these (IMO toxic) environments.

And frankly, it's required for some jobs (like in support roles). You've got to be available and IM is used for coordinating on the ground.

I've told people I am simply not available on IM platforms on my phone, I won't even install them if I can avoid it. This has caused some backlash, admittedly, but it's sanity worth preserving. If it's important, think it out a bit more and send me an email.

There's no good solution for this, unfortunately, particularly when everyone's set on using Slack for everything.

No, but I'll anticipate the incoming "the US is so backward because it doesn't have a dense national rail system like my $TINY_DENSELY_POPULATED_COUNTRY does!!1!!!11!!!" comments.

Ah yes, the old excuse that Alaska is huge and empty therefore so therefore LA (which is much smaller and much denser than the UK) must also have a shite public transportation system because Alaska!!!! Eagles n' shit! Guns! America Fuck yeah!

Thing is this pathetic excuse repeats ad nauseam across the whole of America. No one cares or expects Alaska or the vast tracts of sparsely populated farming country to be well served by trains, but there's no reason why many towns, cities and metro areas which are dense and rich don't have decent rail.

Spain isn't wildly different from California. A bit bigger and a bit bigger population. And it has high speed Rail. France is a bit more dense but not a factor of 2. And they have an amazing high speed rail network too.

Your excuses don't hold up to scrutiny.

Why drive that far when it's likely cheaper to make that trip by sea? Or by train?

America has loads of goods trains too. And the longer the distances, the bigger the gain, since they're more fuel efficient and need fewer staff.

A stopped clock can be right twice a day. And two wrongs can make a right.

I am not sad about this. Vance is still a deeply sketchy person. Starmer is still a petty authoritarian and a hypocrite (and yet still better than the last lot), and back doors are still stupid. Political pressure over commercial laws is dubious too. Also fuck the police they can't be trusted with this sort of thing either.

I'm not sure exactly what we would call an F-150

I don't know what we call an F-150, but I know what I call someone driving one of them in London. Sounds a bit like with ducking brat.

You realize that's worse, right?

Neither hating Russians nor being raised to hate them is worse than what precisely? Blind hatred?

I really am having a lot of trouble even understanding what you're so angry about.

The only one going on here about "hating people" is you

So what the ever living fuck are you banging on about then?

You keep spewing stuff, sure, but it has no apparent connection to reality. You dragged "Iraq" into it too. I'm sure you feel you just made a devastating point, but I have literally no idea what your point is.

You may wish to try engaging with me as a person, rather than a cardboard cutout of what you believe feel that people who think Russia is in the wrong should look like.

I do agree people started to obsess on it more at that time, to the point of throwing away some of the useful function in the pursuit of "thinness". But the size/weight/dimensions were always important

Size and weight was, but Apple obsession broke the laptop market. Having been blessed with a bad back I've always been somewhat obsessed with weigh, much more so than many here. I remember arguing with people over specs who simply would not consider weight to be a specification. Buy you know what was lighter than contemporary MacBook airs? My EEE 900. I loved that machine, so awesome. It was relatively thick but I always loved the form factor. That style of laptop vanished sadly. I found the small overall size more important than thinness.

Though id say relying on rank pseudoscience like lie detectors isn't exactly a good thing.

English doesn't need confusing synonyms, we relish them!

It's a very mongrel language, based on a Germanic grammar, a large number of Norman French imported words, then we just started grabbing vocabulary from every available source. Also we spent about 600 years with educated people obsessing about the purity of Latin and trying to impose Latin rules on a Germanic language. There have repeatedly been attempts at imposing regularity, none have worked.

Funny things about genders though is they are in the middle of undergoing a shift and have noticably changed during my lifetime.

When in the 80s it used to be common (if a little old fashioned, in, day the 50s it was ubiquitous) to refer to groups or individuals as default masculine if unknown [*]. In the 80s you'd have sounded a bit fusty for doing that, but it was not uncommon. Now that's basically gone with neutral words being used instead, and you really sound like your making a point if you speak in the old way. The one that's currently in progress is words with gendered suffixes dropping out of use, like waitress and actress is becoming less common with waiter and actor becoming greener neutral terms.

That's one's ongoing, no one will look at you weird for saying waitress today, but it's a noticeable shift. I reckon in 20 years it'll sound weird and old fashioned.

Anyway, English has been slowly losing gender for about 900 years, it's interesting to see one bit being chipped away in real time rather than reading about it. I wonder what's next?

[*] Funnily enough "man" in old English is gender neutral person and the apparently gendered phrases like "mankind" derive from a non gendered root. At some point Wer for man vanished and man was coopted to mean, well, man. Wer remains only in "werewolf". So you shouldn't really have a female werewolf, it should be a wyfwolf. Anyhoo...

Gentoo is always an option. funroll forever!

Also in practice, most things aren't CPU bound. If you're doing any heavily computational stuff it's probably a relatively small number of packages which could be rebuilt.

I wasn't raised to despise "the Soviets", not as individual people. I didn't even know about Holodomor until relatively recently.

I wasn't even raised to despise the Germans, even though the attitude of my grandmother was "the only good German is a dead German". American History wasn't really covered much anyway, and for done inexplicable reason British history sorry of skipped from Henry VIII to world war 2. Can't imagine way. Can't say the British have a great reputation during them empire days but then again my family was allowed to settle here which they did to avoid Pogroms in eastern Europe and Tsarist Russia.

We didn't cover the famines and mass deaths under chairman Mao either. For some reason neither do you since you appear obsessed with capitalist.

You seem obsessed with being taught to hate the right kind of people. Have you tried not hating instead?