That's not why they are called extrernalities. They are called externalities because they are the external consequences of actions. They are very much in our control, and if you are going to price any commodity fairly, to make it reflect true market and societal costs, then you have to price those in. Otherwise what you're really doing is subsidizing an industry.

they sell themselves.

Either that or they're so unavoidable that people pretty much have to buy them, so crappy AI sales agents are quite enough.

The argument only makes sense if you completely discount externalities. Once you factor them in, the costs of fossil fuels are absolutely monumental.

I mean, a bullet to the head cures cancer, but I'm not exactly seeing this being proposed as a medical solution.

Ah yes, reductio ad absurdum.

Considering that they already announced a month ago that there would not be a Season 3, that's not a difficult call.

Twelve Angry Men must have driven you insane

You know, I don't have a panic attack if Macbeth is set in 1920, or if they recast Hamlet as a woman. I'll complain if the acting is shitty, but if the actors, whatever their gender or skin color, can pull off a good King Lear, then that's the only thing that counts.

Comics aren't even sacred to themselves. Probably the most parodied aspect of superhero comics is just how frequently "canon" is thrown into a blender, thrown out, and how new writers will just ignore established canon. Every decade or two, the publishers will make a big deal of reuniting timelines, and act as if it was part of some grand plan. The complexity of the textual history of Green Lantern, as an example, rivals the New Testament.

Claude Rains and Peter Lorrie both played obviously homosexual men (Raines playing Renault in Casablanca and Lorrie playing Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon), telegraphed in such a way that it would make it past the Hayes Code. Heck, look at Johnny Guitar, with Joan Crawford playing as butch a character as you will find in the films.

But yeah, Some Like It Hot has so much straight and queer visual and dialogue innuendo running around it that it's absolutely nuts. When Tony Curtis's character blurts out in frustration "You’re a guy, and, why would a guy wanna marry a guy?”, Jack Lemmon's response is one of the great bits of movie dialogue "For the security!" Even the closing line, where Lemmon finally confesses he's a man, the response is "Nobody's perfect", which some regard as one of the great closing lines in cinema history.

Hollywood had to handle things carefully back in the day, and Wilder just as much as Hitchcock was a director who had a bag of tricks to foil the Hayes Code, so sometimes I actually wonder how Some Like It Hot ever got made. But this is the guy that directed The Apartment, so Wilder had a talent for getting blatantly sexual content past the censors.

.... according to Ancient Hindu + Buddhist meditafive practices as recently rediscovered by Western modern Positive Psychology

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as recently rediscovered by Western modern Positive Psychology

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Hinduism and Hindu Bharat is not a polythestic nor a warmongering tradition as some Christian missionaries and Islamic hatemongers might have you believe. Idols are our symbols for Universal cosmic consciousness. Much like a photograph that reminds us of our loved ones.

Our oldest Vedic Hindu scripture, the Rg Veda, 5000+ years old says that God is the innermost Consciousness within all creatures. People call Him or Her by different names.

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Islamic religious intolerance and proselytization by the sword + expansionist invader mentality to be exact.

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When everybody's perception of reality is different, nobody can agree on any hard fact and society unravels.

It depends on what they've purchased. Microsoft's basic licenses haven't gone up by that much in five years. The top tier E5 license was $57 per month in 2020, and today it's $54.75 (albeit without Teams, which costs $8 per month with a phone number attached). European prices are probably a bit different, but the price changes in percentages won't be notably different. Even add-ons like Entra Suite or Intune Suite won't add 72%. It's more likely that they have Azure VMs or other services, and that's where the majority of the cost increase came from. If they're not planning on bringing that on-prem, they'll see some savings, but it may not be all that much.

Keeping the home directories in another tree has been a thing for a very long time. I was working with Xenix in the early 1990s with a second hard drive, and kept all the home directories on the external hard drive. When I needed to do an OS reinstall, it just a matter of mounting the external file system on the path. Same would apply if you're using NFS or any other network file system.

What distort? We're running Ubuntu LTS on workstations, and we keep the updates rolling, and have no significant issues. Generally when we want to do feature updates, we don't do in-place upgrades at all, we just build a new image and roll it out. We want complete control over new feature rollouts, including any major new upgrades of key software like LibreOffice.

And honestly, that's pretty much how we were managing Windows prior to beginning the migration. Updates in general are always a risky business, and I've seen upgrades in every OS I've worked with since Windows 3.1 go horribly awry. I've baked Windows systems, Linux systems, BSD systems, and even had to finally give up and reinstall my M1 Mac because the major release upgrade worked about 90%, but there was enough peculiar behavior that it just wasn't worth trying to track down.

In all cases in an enterprise environment, regardless of OS, you don't want feature updates, significant changes to functionality, or installs of major version of updates to software. When it comes to that, you're working in a lab environment, rolling out to a few users to test stability and interoperability, and then pushing them out to all the workstations. This isn't a Linux thing, this is just how an IT department stays sane and doesn't screw up the whole organization's workflow.