Quick reminder that the "Nobel prize in economics" is not actually a Nobel Prize.

(I didn't know this for a very long time, so this may be news to some people reading this.)

maybe someone once performed a command like "for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them" and didn't exclude subdirectories from that

no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that

Ubuntu supports a wider range of devices than Debian? Since when? I was under the impression that Debian supported all or nearly all architectures the Linux kernel supports, Ubuntu only a few popular ones?

seasonal affective depression... if you are going to move somewhere remote, move into a desert or rainforest (i.e. near the equator), not places like Canada, Alaska, Siberia, or indeed Greenland

Abolish copyright

lmao bleien

Freely licensed works will be preserved a lot better because there will be more copies of them.

Likewise the fediverse is a step in that direction: this message will be federated to hundreds of servers so is more likely to survive longer than if I posted it to reddit.

When public transportation was first introduced in most places, it was run by private companies for profit. This changed mostly because it wasn't profitable to compete with cars when those became popular.

Of course there still are private companies running public transport: long distance buses and trains in many places, and commercial aviation is really also a form of public transportation.

So there is nothing novel about buses being run by private companies for profit.

It is supposed to believe that climate change is a … scam?!

You can believe that climate change is not real, but a "scam", how does that even work?

That then is one third party, one fourth party, one fifth party, …, and one 768th party, amirite?

Yes, I guess so. I have no interest in becoming any kind of celebrity. That sounds stressful and can make you a target for harassment.

I prefer it when I can post my thoughts anonymously without anyone knowing or caring who I am. If a thought is good, it doesn't matter whose thought it is.

That is pretty much exactly the goal of the Wikimedia Foundation which runs Wikipedia and its sister projects.

But by now we figured out what wikis can do well and what not. Wikis are suitable for crowdsourcing objective facts about the world (all it takes is one person to add any given fact), they are not a universal remedy for everything, especially not contentious issues or useful instructional materials.

I have made more than 100000 edits to their projects. I don't participate there anymore. The time when they were a force for good in the world is long past.