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  • Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why?

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  • Absolutely none of this is true.

    1. Alzheimer's is only one specific disease that leads to rapid mental breakdown. There are many forms of senility, all of which including Alzheimer's become more likely as you get older, which means that
    2. There is absolutely a strong correlation between age and degraded mental facilities. If I gave you three citations I'd be leaving out hundreds more citations.
    3. There won't be a scientific breakthrough that doubles the average lifespan of every human on earth. There are so many flaws with this idea it's exhausting just to think about it.
    4. Mandatory retirement ages are in use all over the place. Judicial appointments have this in place already in 18 states. Executive boards can legally have this rule in place as well. Any situation where old age in a job is a safety issue creates an exception in the form of an unmet bona fide occupational qualification. I would definitely argue that old men who create policy for hundreds of millions of people create a safety risk for those people if they aren't mentally qualified to do the job.

  • Would you support a mandatory retirement age of 75 for US House, US Senate & US Supreme Court Justices and if not why?

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  • Not just retirement, put them in a machine that extrudes protein paste and use that to feed the next crop of legislators.

    If you retire early, you don't get put in the machine.

  • US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden

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  • Sure but the point is, after months of pithy quips about how the Democrats will support genocide of the Palestinians and the Republicans will support genocide of everyone including the Palestinians;

    here we see that even on this specific issue, the parties have differences. So make the right choice.

  • Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'

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  • The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

  • Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap

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  • I chuckled at the first commenter's description of this as a boulder, but honestly the metaphor is pretty robust.

  • Conservative author Ann Coulter heaps praise on GOP rising star Vivek Ramaswamy - then tells him she wouldn't vote for him because he's Indian

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  • Monopoly

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  • Both of those things are part of the joke. Monopoly is a parody of capitalism, intended to make you hate rich people. The luxury tax is tiny, reflecting how there's no real cost of living for rich people. Rich people can "go to jail", but it's trivial to get away again.

  • Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio

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  • You're right but let's be clear here: Microsoft doesn't care if it changes the industry for worse, so the only calculus that matters to the execs is whether it works

  • The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

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  • You're right, the toll roads should be collected by the government, and the amount collected should be based on income so it's not regressive.

    Also, they should be placed every 15 feet, so people stop driving altogether.

  • Trump Posts -- Then Deletes -- Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying

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  • Maybe he pulled it back to proofread for spelling, grammar and clarity

  • Astounding absurdity

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  • I don't usually read walls of text (attention span) but this was a good one, worth reading to the end. Well said tbh

  • SSH login without user name?

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  • EDIT: Noticed you're talking about Gitlab in the question, and I responded about Github, but I'm certain that gitlab does everything the same way, because that's all the technology is capable of. (I have no way to test the ssh -T command at the end for gitlab, though, so ymmv.)

    To clear up some minor confusion here:

    1. Github knows nothing about your private key. There's very little metadata stored in the private key, and github.com has access to none of it. That includes email address or identity.
    2. Github has identity information stored for you, and then, separately, you uploaded a public key. The public key also contains no information about you, but github knows it's part of your account. Additionally, github enforces a requirement that your public key can't be uploaded to any other account, for the reason I'm about to state below.
    3. Github has an index built of everyone's public keys (or more likely their digests, although the technical details of the index are not something known to me--and it doesn't matter). When it sees an authentication request, it looks up the digest in the index, which maps to a user account.

    At this point it already knows who is trying to authenticate. Once your authentication request succeeds with your public key (the usual challenge-response handshake associated with asymmetric cryptography), github interacts with your ssh client (most likely git) applying the permissions of your user and your user account.

    BTW, github has a documented method for testing the handshake without doing any git operations:

     
            ssh -T git@github.com

    Depending on your ssh config, you might also need to supply -i some_filename.pem to this. Github will reply with

     
            Hi aarkon! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

    and then close the connection.

    Note that the test authentication uses the username git and, again, contains no information about who you are. It's all just looked up on github's side.

  • Voyager 1

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  • Imagine any internet company lasting 50 years.

  • Voyager 1

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  • I think the term "metal" is overused, but this is probably the most metal thing a programmer could possibly do besides join a metal band.

  • Fraternity Boots Bro Who Made Monkey Noises at Black Ole Miss Protester

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  • They were chanting "hit the showers" (to prove how pro-Israel they are?? I guess???). So exterminating jews is fine, but getting in trouble for racist slurs is not.

  • Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board.

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  • Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board.

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  • Let me get this straight. Jack Dorsey is:

    • not on the Bluesky board,
    • no longer the owner of a Bluesky account, and
    • heavily posting on Twitter.

    Did Elon make him some kind of offer?

    I can understand him bailing on Bluesky if he wants to focus on billionaire "philanthropy" or he's just fucking tired of working (wouldn't you be?) but it doesn't explain the Twitter presence.

  • Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too

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  • Guys, I wouldn't vote for her if I were you. I'm pretty sure if she wins she's going to kill everyone's dog

  • Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two

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  • You can infect a hospitalized patient with MRSA by paying off one (1) nurse, and I guarantee you can find a nurse who will play for cheap. At this point I'm 50/50 on whether the second whistleblower was murdered.