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smart water bottle.... i can't even....

most spies are highly efficient and useful to our governments goals / protecting people from bad things. the hand-full of derps we see in the news are unfortunate but shouldn't be taken as the general state of spying / intelligence work.

people like to make an elephant out of a mosquito, but in reality, without spies crime / terrorism and other things generally bad for our society (which we do all cherish and want to keep, admit it. you want your house, tv and job safety, and to go to work without having too much worries if you will be able to go home at end of the day safely) would be able to cause much more disruption.

i'd agree that in recent times, especially in the cyber / internet domain there have been grave mistakes / misjudgements made on all sides of the fences, but the evilness / incompetence etc. etc. is by far overestimated by the public.

this is the same idea as that 'all banks are bad' just because some bankers misbehave or make bad calls. you still want banks and use them, so perhaps try to see that people arent inherently bad or incompetent, and are trying their best to avoid such calamities.

be sure that for any 'incompetence' which comes to light, internally these agencies are much much more critical and taking action than what you 'see' them doing.

most of this work (99.99999999%) is still not in the public eye and will never be. saying spying is inherently bad due to some mistakes is grosly underestimating what good they do, and overestimating the incompetence / bad intentions of these actors and agencies.

you never hear it if a spy does a good job, he'll just submit some intelligence, or prevent some calamity, and remain anonymous. these people should be praised, not shot down due to some of their colleagues missing the mark.

remember you are observing MEDIA, not actual reality. if the media speaks about most topics, you will take their words with a bucket of salt, but if they speak about corporate or goverment mishaps, suddenly their word is absolute truth? get real.

that is actually much nicer on the eyes. nice one.

im 100% sure western agents don't contact chinese citizens on chinese social networks. that would NEVER happen. no way.

nuclear planets sounds amazing

it is hard to do without a subshell). It is probbably just plan a Bad Idea to call in anything setuid, or executing remotely. */

laughing so hard :')

good pick. it's not quite the flower of life as suggested by the article. this one is a bit simpler, often referred to as the 'egg of life'.

it resembles a bit the first stages of embryonic development which is common between all humans. i think it would be a nice fit due to that as to me it's a good representation of how we all have a common start in life despite human diversity once it develops further. It's a stage from before we have our differences which separate us.

green or blue as backdrop is a good natural colour also non-specific to certain cultures. white would also be good, perhaps better as it represents light / all colours, with then the symbol being green or blue perhaps.

that utility always amuses me. as BSd is the only distro i use where i don't run into the need for it so much :D goo call though. name collisions on packages can be painful.

However, you run this thing as ./wtfutil though if i look at the documentation, so no worries on the package name in the cmdline really.

i'm bad at math, lets say that first.

but for basic things, funny enough i feel like some of these math games / apps and math puzzle apps help me recognise patterns in numbers etc. better.

that being said, i hardly use maths ,certainly not advanced maths. but i do feel things like that are somewhat fun way to keep your senses a bit sharper.

in the end, practice makes perfect, but doing maths straight up is boring as hell to me, so i try my hand at little puzzle and maths games / apps to combat the boringness.

they could of been named after halfgods offspring of jupiter and his mistresses :D then the moons would be the kids of jupiter :D

google says this: Jupiter Consort Juno Children Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Juventas Parents Saturn and Ops Siblings Roman tradition: Juno, Ceres, Vesta Greco-Roman: Pluto and Neptune

pehraps they were taken already for some other celestial bodies. idk too much about that.

super cool for the dude though that his names got picked :D must be feeling like a champ :D

always everyone only looks at few examples such as these companies. who actually do make decent products. (good luck making better OS than them for example... )

but look at things like ZOOM. they make product which has no new features. it just works better and that's why people use it. it does exist. just not in the minds of people who numb themselves with clickbait.

is it hip now to try and ban competitors from doing business :/ . grow up. where are the days of trying to beat competitors with a better product?

because this search functionality has not been implemented

mv universe.info /dev/null

i see no issues there

i'm with you, despite that fact i've never in my life seen a kitchen island. i was opening the article to find an actual island :< got greeted to this dribble. :'D

"I never regret keeping my mouth shut and letting them speak." love it. even though i like to annoy people with my dumb comments, this is sound advice for sure. :)

let me lift the curtain. "they all shot people, and are all nuts" :D

Thanks man, that's really nice insights :)

agree. both have various definitions in different cultures to be honest, but generally they refer to the same differences between the two.

i can imagine though, that a shaman in old times Europe, could have been identified by the church as a witch. (as confused we are about the definitions today, they probably were even more so back then.)

love this, cool little project and nice write up!

looks like china is also pretty much on fire or is that pollution? :'D

people read through their own lenses. some people read conspiracy, others see that it is generally due to circumstances and human error. perhaps, it might be somewhere in between, or perhaps both overlap in ways. i'd say people generally overestimate how 'on purpose' these things occur, but then again, with lack of clear information, both sides of the coin hold equal value...

it is really difficult to get people to 'admit' mistakes like this due to the long term human costs often involved. Even, people will do a lot to avoid any additional financial costs incurred when such an admission is made. Hence, academics and interested non-academic parties are often boycotted from releasing such information, or if not possible ,ridiculed / discredited to avoid such financial costs to the responsible parties.

it's a shame, and i'm not yelling conspiracy, but this is how business and politics works, and that's a shame / sad.

If anyone was interested to follow up and research the current status of this valley you note, most likely they would meet similar resistance to publish their findings.

people still had sense of community then, because there were challenges that needed cooperation from everyone. In areas of the world where this still holds true, often there is still more care for each-other.

block youtube on all your networks / devices. it's liberating to do that with sites you feel suck up to many of your time.

going another route, you might want to be more mindfull of what you spend your time on in general. if it's a surprise to you that you do X for an Y amount of time, then it seems you are not aware of your own schedule?

it is OK and a good idea to make a schedule for your own time, to manage it better / spend your time on what you want instead of what you do out of habit.

If you want to stop completely and are certain, just implement option 1, its easy and will make sure you can't watch it anymore. (https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/features/how-to-block-any-... this might help to sort it out on your devices if u don't know how yet.)

the results are indeed relative. the smarter one gets the same thing still applies. it's a theory not to point at others and say 'he's on mount stupid'.. but rather one to be wary of yourself being on this curve, which in some sense or aspect one always is, as one is never a master of everything in their lives. it's a theory about evaluation of self only applicable in that domain.

nice, over here in my country we just burn it :D good stuff, separating trash to have it re-combined at the burners :D

wow, shocker. always when i see guns i think of love peace and unity :s

i agree with you. this is just like being a little weighted is 'bad' or having crooked teeth is 'bad'. people should appreciate all of human spectrum, not just some TV ideals.

happy for you that you are happy with yourself and got over it :) good on you! - i know a lot of people can end up in a struggle due to this kind of pressure on 'image'

i love how people impede on freedom in the name of freedom.