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Oh, also, it’s a common misconception that publicly-traded companies are required to maximize profits. They can have whatever goals their shareholders want. It’s just that the way modern publicly-traded companies work, most of their shareholders are people quickly buying and trading shares based on who they think will earn them the most money this month, so that sort of inevitably becomes the goal of any publicly-traded company.

It’s not really direct cause and effect, but yeah. The incentives for a publicly-traded company make enshitification far more appealing then it would be for most other organizations.

Apparently it’s okay to commit genocide of an entire ethnic group if a few of them are Nazis, I guess. 'Cause, you know, swastikas made all Germans evil, and it wasn’t all the war and genocide making the Nazis evil, right?

I don’t know why people keep saying that flatpaks don’t support cli apps. They do. I know it’s awkward to type out flatpak run io.github.zyedidia.micro or whatever every time you want to use a text editor, but aliases fix that pretty neatly, and that example wasn’t hypothetical.

Yeah, it would still be loud, but that does solve the other problems.

Sadly no. The screws hold the sections they’re made of together. The supports don’t always have to be on those joints though. They tend to be. It’s better to support a joint when you can, they just don’t always have to be.

Even if you did find a ventilation shaft big enough to crawl through, it would still be a terrible idea. First, they’re made of hollow metal. Banging around in there would be incredibly loud. Second, they’re not really designed to hold up the weight of an adult human. You’d just destroy it if you ever put your weight in a spot that wasn’t supported, and you can’t see where it’s supported from the inside.

Because it’s by area, not length.

A shockwave can travel along the solid structure itself as the medium. Any ship that is actually directly hit would be vaporized. It’s just the whole point of nuke is not needing a direct hit. I doubt any realistic space vessel with anything even remotely similar to plausible near future technology could survive a direct hit from even a moderately sized conventional explosive.

Was that what it was supposed to be? Don’t quit your day job.

Nah, that was all you. Nobody said smoking was a good idea. Just that it’s stupid to create a fire hazard to make a car 0.0001% more profitable. You barged in with a weird non sequitur. I was just pointing it out.

Driving off a cliff is even dumber still. Its not a dumbest thing contest though

If Trump won, it would mean Joe Biden could declare himself president for life, since his presidential immunity would protect him from any consequences of ignoring elections.

Fair.

Fedora has always been where Red Hat goes to force the adoption of not quite finished software. If you are not okay with that, you shouldn’t be using Fedora. This is not the first time they’ve done it, and it won’t be the last.

Yes. That is in fact what I am arguing. I would also argue that the harm is tiny and can sometimes be justifiable, depending on the circumstances, but yes. It absolutely does do some non-zero harm, and yes there is no thing being stolen. That is the argument I am making.

Maybe, but it’s also closer to the price saved on less wear and tear on the turnstile than it is the price of the ticket.

The employees don’t get paid less if some jumps the turnstile, the fuel cost to carry a single person is completely trivial, and I didn’t say nobody should care about turnstile jumpers. I said its not stealing. If you damage the tracks and cause the train to derail you’re a monster, and there are financial costs, but you still didn’t steal the train. Your argument doesn’t make any sense.

Depends on the circumstances I guess, but no matter how I feel about it people jumping the turnstile aren’t stealing the train.

Ugh. I hate it when people say that you can use something to cut diamonds like that’s impressive. I get it, diamond is the hardest thing, so that makes it difficult to “cut”, but that’s a very highly technical definition of cut that doesn’t really have much to do with how normal people use the word.

I mean, glass is harder than steel, but if you throw a steel ball at a window it’s not the ball that will shatter. Tensile strength matters way more than hardness for most practical purposes, and diamond doesn’t have a particularly high tensile strength.

The video talks about a neat tool. I just don’t like the weirdness around diamonds. The flammable, easily shattered rocks are not in fact the most durable material in the universe just because they’re hard. That’s not what hard actually means.