There’s some 0.0001% theoretical possibility that a billionaire could be a non-sociopath. If they literally dedicated their life to extracting money from the wider economy or top crust, not spending any of it on themselves or their descendants, but instead solely redistributing to the most needing people in the world. Monetary wealth at the end of the day is just economic control - it doesn’t become evil until it’s actually used for your own benefit, i.e., the economy is being rewired for you to live in luxury.

Assuming of course (big fat assumption) that you don’t screw people over to get it in the first place - and, even if you are giving it all away, it’s questionable why you’d end up with a surplus of money that large, if your goal is to donate it, why would the rate coming in exceed the rate going out, unless the goal was to purchase some institution or something, i.e., purchase Walmart and turn it into a cooperative. Probably not to invest the money to grow it to have more to give, because the return on investment for the money also has to come from somewhere, i.e., has its own ethical ramifications.

But I mean, name a single person in the last century who fit that profile. I can’t name one. So. And at the end of the day the best situation for the society isn’t to have single people controlling things and hoping they use their power responsibly, it’s to democratize that power and have everyone use it responsibly.

It’s nearly universally learned behavior, and it’s just a metric of people’s disposition to act selfishly or malevolently versus selflessly and benevolently.

If they would do evil given the chance, that makes them evil. It’s like a poorly forged piece of metal with a crack built in, that holds together until put to the test. The crack was always there.

There’s more angles to it of course - mistakes, temporary dispositions, the average of all behavior, etc.

They’re trained to.

Generalizing against an entire ethnic group based on the actions of a single former CIA agent, classic behavior of totally not racist jackoffs.

“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”

The female lions do kind of have a more tiger look. What with no mane.

You could argue it was an allegory, but then what the fuck would that even be an allegory for. The work of a zoologist?

The minute I no longer need it.

We need platforms where AI content is just banned. We’re past the point we need to start systematically excluding all this crap.

The more you want it to work your way, the less you want a prebuilt solution, and the more you want a rock solid package management system and repo setup. Debian derivatives work in a pinch, or for a server, not so great for a PC you want to do a lot of things on.

Rescue partition?

Not sure I was following the rules, tbph. Box of laptops and I grabbed some promising looking ones.

I got two laptops from local electronics recycling this past month. One of them is 2020 spec and just needed a charger and some dents smoothed out. Can’t beat rescuing something that’s going in the trash, sustainability wise. If you’re going on the actual used market, Thinkpad like everyone else said.

Because the political machinery is captive to the ruling class.

Different topic but ewaste today is absolutely insane. People throw out working post-2015 “gaming laptops” - maybe a dead battery or something equally simple to fix.

“No expectation of privacy in public” is a legal doctrine. I do have an expectation of privacy in public. Stop filming me and shit, mind your own damn business.

Can’t imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. “Israel” gov doesn’t need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.

It’s a manipulative fallacy. Humanity has the total ability to control its destiny within what’s physically possible. People presenting two options and demanding a choice of one discount every possibly out of an infinite set of possibilities except those two.

See: horse image

I’ve done this. One of my favorites was fixing a project where a guy had managed to implement two separate backends without realizing it.

It’s my primary but Google unfortunately is often a fallback. And Google is tracking the shit out of us these days. Certain obscure searches don’t work well on DDG, sad to say.