For occasional programs, or things like games, I’ll agree. For most software I use, no thanks.

I’m sorry, yeah that must be awful.

It’s even worse when half the population actually endorses the behaviour.

Are there a lot of Canadians who support it then?

It’s handy sometimes, isn’t it ;-)

I mean, if you brush against their spikes every time you walk into the living room, you’d decry them as unsuitable too!

I still like the thought that the Loch Ness monster was real, but died out. That legends grew from the real thing, and occasional real sightings, then popularized with more recent faked evidence.

Of course that doesn’t mean it probably was real, just it might have been.

“center” of the universe can be picked completely arbitrarily.

IIRC there are still theories within the scientific community of the universe being non-homogenous and roughly geocentric. Usually (when I’ve come across them) presumed to be incorrect, but still possible in a, “huh, that would explain the data that we can’t otherwise explain” way.

Made up by lunatics.

Right. There’s a mix in lots of ideas, of interpreting real evidence and experience, and of making up rubbish to sell things. And just of building too big of a theory off minimal data and putting too much trust in it.

So, moonlight being a major factor to change your behaviour to evil or crazy, is presumably nonsense. But, as you say, moonlit nights affecting human behaviour, such as having social events on a moonlit night, or even working later in the fields those nights, is obvious.

And the phase of the moon causing programming bugs? Absolutely real. There’s one or two documented cases.

I’ve heard a few people say acupuncture has helped them. And saw an interesting thread on Lemmy or Reddit sometime with people citing papers against each other that it’s evidenced or not.

My guess so far is that it genuinely helps sometimes - perhaps via the nervous system, which is something scientific medicine still knows little about (compared to many other areas of medicine) - but some practitioners do it well and others not, and sometimes it works and sometimes not, and without scientific analysis and regulation it’s hard to know which.

Especially if you work on a boat, by the coast.

Lots of Stand-up Mathematician?

Just carry a full sized usb keyboard to plug into your phone.

“I wish I wasn’t primarily bred to be food…”

I thought wine on Linux pulls in a load of 32-bit libraries so it still works on 64-bit systems.

And harder to fix vulnerabilities in a linked library, and more bloat in both storage space and memory used.

Trade-offs!

Ah, so the government is your landlord now?

It’s good, because Americans have so much trust in their government right now.

A few comments around saying, “not all landlords are bad; I’m a landlord and I’m pretty okay.” Where are the tenants saying, I’m happy to pay rent to my landlord?

I’ll be one.

I’ve never owned property. I’d like to, and I think there’s a huge evil in the scale and manner of property/land rental that goes on, and I’d much prefer an overwhelming change toward most people being able to own their home.

But not all of us are in a position to own. Nor does everyone want the responsibility and the overhead (ownership can be expensive too!). I’m glad there have been landlords from whom I can rent a place in each of the places I’ve been.

If 4. is too hard (like, if you’re not cool enough), make two versions and send them out to different groups. “Secret files of Trump and Epstein; help us break the encryption!” And, “Free America Foundational Sovereign Data (Crucial For Rebuilding Society Once Trump Finishes Overturning The Corrupt Bureaucracy)”

Ah yes, I remember the German numbers.

Ein, Zwei, Drei, Vier, Wolfen

Nice.

Now, how long till I can get an ebook reader / eink device with proper open source software? Or anyone have any recommendations?