It's implicit. If consent was given, it wouldn't be exploitative. (And obviously, that's contingent upon non-coersion.)

I've got to agree with this. I love Linux and have run it on my servers for years. That said, I've got Mint on my laptop and tried to print an image over wifi at a friend's place and could not for the life of me get it to print properly.

For the most part things do just work, but there are a lot more "obscure" scenarios that are handled correctly in windows but not Linux.

I also find that when things go wrong on Linux, they are harder to fix. I've had several times I've had to deal with circular dependency hell to get something to install properly. I did eventually get those problems resolved, but it was often a single person having a tangential problem that hinted me to how to solve it.

Edit: I think if your usage patterns are straight forward enough, it is by far and away the better choice. If you do the same stuff all the time, it'll pretty much never break, which is not something I could say about windows. So for OP, it sounds like it would be a good fit.

This is a meta-discussion about beans though. We're not talking about beans, we're talking about talking about beans.

I first read this as:

Policeman stole new car from Lansdale Library, drives to police station to ask for drugs back

It did seem a little weird, but still believable.

It looks to me like the back of his chair. Ghost arm is much more entertaining, though.

Yep. The only way to taste wine is to do it blind so you don't have preconceptions of quality based on the price. Doing this really exposes that there's not a ton of rhyme or reason to wine pricing. There is a general trend that you get a better wine for more money, but there are so many outliers, especially expensive wines that just aren't anything special.

I suspect the mountain to die was the admin actions removing moderators. Vegan cat food is pretty rarely discussed amongst actual vegans. It just happens to appear to be a "wedge issue" that kind of looks like a gotcha if you squint, thus it's beloved by anti-vegan trolls.

That was indeed what I was thinking of. I didn't realize it was rejected. My bad, and thanks for the letting me know!

Do you accommodate non-vegans?

That's because they don't consider non-veganism a morally acceptable option.

As a thought experiment, pick any action that you would personally find morally repugnant and ask yourself if you should accommodate people who do that action.

Not to mention that their orbits degrades over time so they have to be continually replenished. ~~That comes at a huge cost which is highly subsidized by US tax payers.~~

It's honestly hilarious how badly being called "weird" gets under their skin.

Like, normal people are pretty weird. If someone called me weird, I'd be like "Yeah, true." But these guys are so out there that they feel a need to deny their own weirdness so that people can identify with them. It's just weird, TBH.

The problem is systemic IMO. The whole VC model requires the enshitification cycle to work. Any technology that should reduce human labour and be a net positive for society instead always ends up in the hands of capitalists who'll use it to extract maximal profit.

Like, on a fundamental level, automating people's jobs is a good thing. The problem is all the benefits are going to a very small number of people.