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We are weeks into Omicron obsession and I’ve yet to see panic about the death rates. So you have reason to be optimistic, although I know plenty of people still yearning for this to be another round of horrors.

It’s less confusing to me because I specifically do not want to live in a society where people willingly cover half their face. And I most particularly have no interest in living in a country where I am shamed, ridiculed, or outcast for not doing so as well.

Im ok with the repercussions that society may face (eg, higher covid counts etc) to avoid such a society. Call me a monster but I want my daughter to know a world much more similar to what I knew 2 years ago than the one in black mirror, which I believe we tend to be accelerating towards.

What I want is iMessage on my Linux desktop so that I can still text via my computer while I'm working and barely break concentration.

Then I'd never use Mac or Windows again.

I'm not sure we should assign monogamy as the culprit for the bad things that have happened to women. There are plenty of men who don't ignore, oppress, control or frequently rape women who are happy to be monogamous, and women seem to prefer it if you haven't noticed.

We're not out here trying to convince men that being able to have sex with multiple partners throughout their lives is a good idea -- that part comes naturally to us.

You would call out to JNDI in a logging statement. That would cause the remote class to be loaded and executed during the log statement evaluation.

A nefarious attacker could inject such a JNDI reference in a field (like username or whatever) and if you wrote your log statements in a manner that didn’t expect such injection to happen, it could become part of the log format instead of a log field value, and this would be executed.

Think of it like SQL injection but with log statements and way worse because it calls a class that can be hosted on a server of choice. And the code that can execute is arbitrary and not limited to the database.

Maybe this will hasten the demise of Java

Porsche, 2014+ BMW. 2020+ Audi.

What can I say? I have a liking for the German brands.

In this case the library is using JNDI to go get a class from an LDAP server to execute.

> But it's actually important to "do your own research", and not just listen to authority. Provided you actually know how, i.e. you can find accurate sources and distinguish fact from fiction.

And to know if you’re only seeing narrative-approved sources, when contra-narrative sources have been suppressed.

Lots of folks got fooled by Iraq WMD because you couldn’t say anything to the contrary without being fired. Other examples, some more recent, are available.

> This means that SARS-CoV-2 is destined to become the 5 th circulating coronavirus, with which everybody is eventually infected.

I don’t think they mean 5th most common, but to say the 5th coronavirus circulating worldwide, which everyone has been exposed to.

It has nothing to do with ERCOT presence, despite the social karma of referring to the “grid disaster.”

There have been literally hundreds of other grid disasters in New York, Chicago, the entire state of California, and yet no one would be surprised if the plant showed up there. Why?

I too have always found this argument to be a non sequitur, for the exact reasons that you identify. If you attribute the emissions and pollution of the entire fossil fuel economy to the people who refine the products that go into the fossil fuel economy, there is nothing that can be accomplished with the analysis.

On the other hand, if we are serious about global warming and pollution, we need nuclear energy immediately (including the safe nuclear fission technologies which we've had for a few decades now, as well as continued research into fusion).

Plenty of us agree on what is “good”, including people who can objectively see that government officials are the root cause of inefficient spending, as they are the root cause of inefficient tax systems.

It’s not a debate about whether it’s “good” to end world hunger, it’s a debate about whether it should cost $700 a meal to fix the problem, and who should pay for it.

On the subject of tax systems, I won’t sit for lecturing how the billionaire and political class evade $500b of taxes, and therefore this is some rationale for raising taxes on everyone who isn’t a billionaire.

Now let’s do the amount lost to governments squandering and obliterating our tax dollars under the pretense of doing good, which is never enough.

I remain unconvinced that living outside of a city has a larger than normal share of environmental externalities.

I get a lot of these types lecturing on Europe, despite living quite frugally and efficiently.

The ones who spend all their energy babbling away at me about how much better it is in Europe generally did their absolute best to leave there and come here (to the US). And I generally consume less than they do.

Not really. Maybe we can live the way we want to and not pollute and use Zoom meetings. We don’t all have to live packed into cities.

> prevent building things by any measure possible

> yawn when we say we can build new things and to wake you up when we have them

These actions aren’t compatible with progress.

I would imagine the group-think enforcement in this community rivals most totalitarian regimes.

There are 3 artists that Spotify continually play to me and I preemptively will fast forward them even during the crossover play because I dislike them so much. I’ve submitted requests before to have a “don’t play me this artist” feature. I don’t know why this is so hard for them.

Mussolini has entered the chat room.