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AggressivelyPassive

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  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

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  • We've had the same recommendations in Germany for decades. Food and water for several days, ideally two weeks. When these recommendations were renewed a few years ago, people lost their shit, even though nothing changed.

    It's perfectly reasonable for a government to recommend keeping some food and water.

  • Gotta use all those brain cells

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  • You can absolutely blame the schools, if so many other countries manage to do better.

    You're basically blaming the children.

  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

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  • Absolute non-story.

    Every sensible government has recommendations like this. Not because of some evil conspiracy or impending doom, but simply because natural disasters sometimes happen.

    Sometimes, there's a flood and supermarkets can't be stocked. You don't want food riots just because baked beans or out of stock for a week.

    It's astounding to me how many people (including op) lose their shit, just because their government reminds them, that sometimes bad things happen. A mandatory health insurance doesn't mean government goons will go around and break your legs.

  • Gotta use all those brain cells

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    Teen rapper accidentally kills himself on social media video after pointing gun at his head and pulling trigger

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  • I'm not sure, a bullet in the head is - among all the others - one of the better ways to go. Maybe preferably at 70, not 17, but still.

  • The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

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  • It's actually astounding, how weirdly unmaintained Windows is in many areas. Just look at the settings chaos. There are three completely different settings trees, and at least for me, it's impossible to know which one to choose for a given task.

    There's constantly stuff going on in the background for no reason and updates take forever and require 7 reboots. That's not okay.

  • Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

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  • You forgot quantum! We're developing super duper plants that suck the carbon out of the atmosphere harder than a crack whore and make everything great for everyone (with money)!!!

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • I could see those as an option for rural areas without much traffic. A full train might not be economical, but a small pod is. It could transport people to the closest proper train station where they can hop off.

    But that would mean you'd have to maintain a ton of tracks for a handful of people.

  • Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard

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  • (((THEY))) don't want that, though!!!!

  • Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard

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  • Well, we have already.

    The Internet was designed to be resilient against nuclear war. Most protocols are resilient, it's just been the last few years that some companies abused their positions (Cloudflare, Google) and it also came to light, that some protocols have been designed with a tad too much trust (BGP, SMTP).

  • Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix

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  • Rather the wrong ones.

    95% seem to be essentially professional box tickers. They don't care about security, but only about process compliance. As long as the scanner finds no CVEs, the app is secure.

    I want people who actually know, how I can improve my code. I'm pretty sure I screwed up security stuff, but will never know.

  • Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women

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  • And then - poof! - all the evidence disappears!

    I'm starting to wonder, do you have to be willing to rape women to become famous or does fame make you a rapist? It seems like half of the celebrity sphere has some form of allegation against them.

  • Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard

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  • 747s are designed to lose an engine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and still be able to return to land safely. Literally.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

    90m isn't ideal, but perfectly fine.

  • Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards

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  • I also promise, to pay you back, if you give me 10 million. No contractual obligations, but I totally promise!

  • The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing

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  • Again, because enshittification refers to the exploitative monopoly.

    Vegas as a whole never had a monopoly, no individual casino in Vegas had a monopoly, and today's online gambling has certainly some larger players, but none of them have the market power to squeeze both sides as much as Amazon does.

    What you're seeing is simply a shift within the market. Nothing else. Yes, people are being exploited, but not because of some monopoly that forces them to do so. There's plenty of competition in the online gambling sector.

  • The Mirage casino, which ushered in an era of Las Vegas Strip megaresorts in the '90s, is closing

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  • No. Enshittification specifically refers to a business slowly squeezing everything out of its monopoly position and making life worse for everyone involved.

    This here is just a failing business scaling (or shutting) down. Nothing more.

  • Germany: Money-laundering probe into far-right AfD lawmaker

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  • He received bribes in 200€ bills and then complained that it's really hard to actually pay stuff with it because hardly anyone ever uses anything larger than 100€ bills and it will draw attention (and suspicion).

  • Germany: Money-laundering probe into far-right AfD lawmaker

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  • Yes.

  • Germany: Money-laundering probe into far-right AfD lawmaker

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  • Well.....

    The other parties in Germany are not less corrupt, they just take money from German lobbyists and are a lot smarter about it.

    The real irony is that the self proclaimed patriots are literally traitors.