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  • Can you get through a working day without a burning unneeded desire to regulate yet another thing that shouldn't be regulated?

    The amount of stuff governments are already regulating is, like, 5000% of what actually should be regulated. The remaining stuff can get by with the 20% of the existing regulation. And don't even begin to play the game of regulating private education into shape when what you need is a working public one.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • It would make total sense if reality matched your description. A regular russian-by-nationality physicist could never just go and apply to a CERN job, thew website immediately rejected then on the basis of nationality (tested in 2018) because Russia never pitched in and paid a fair share proportionate to its GDP. In reality, CERN always sneaky-hired Russians in obscure ways that dissociated them from their governments (at the very same time, my colleague worked and lived there on-site for what, 7 years as least?).

    Thus whatever scheme CERN has terminated was already the scheme that hired people and avoided dealing with the government. One of those so desperately needed to drain Russia of talent. Explain me how on Earth is that helping anyone but Russia.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • True, but having one idiot do massively stupid things doesn't mean the other side doing less stupid things somehow stopped being stupid.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • Oh yeah, expelling those who will then be drafted into the army back at their home country is a brilliant move.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • Yeah, one that they "forgot" to do to Russia.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • Ostracize countries, welcome geople who flee them. Instead, you only piss off people who flee them and trade with countries.

  • CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • That's the second most stupid thing I heard after the idea of expelling Russian students.

  • Does entering personal details in cryptocurrency exchange compromise privacy?
  • No, it makes no sense. Keep looking. Worst case, buy some locally for cash.

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?
  • I just wrote a YouTube scraper and exported to RSS and into my podcast client. Using YouTube any other way is masochism in comparison.

  • I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
  • Convinces clueless FOSS communities to move off IRC. Onto a unusable protocol designed around netsplits they never cared about, yes, but it's n o v e l!

  • Gaming today
  • Oh yeah. I've started Marvel Midnight Suns, and 4 hours of cutscene later they show how you deploy on a mission: by walking on a rainbow bridge or something. I'm like: "brilliant, now that's a way to disguise loading with something I'm doing, even if it's just walking" , and then, at a random place of that bridge, an actual loading screen appears for a good minute. What's wrong with you.

  • What game feels 'timeless' to you?
  • Can't believe Nethack doesn't top the list.

  • Radioactivity
  • If you think that's bad, just look up what happened to her husband.

  • Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat
  • By running it myself, duh.

  • Burrito
  • My last MRI they billed ~$70. No insurance involved, a plain straight "you walk in from the street, you pay this" price.

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