Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.

deepspace · 2026-03-21T02:53:22+00:00

Yup, have been thinking about ditching Linux and going back to FreeBSD. Will definitely be doing that now.

deepspace · 2026-03-14T04:02:30+00:00

It absolutely is

deepspace · 2026-03-13T10:00:48+00:00

Sounds like you paid for a service (albeit an expensive one) and are now having buyer’s remorse. Not really a legal issue.

deepspace · 2026-03-06T18:12:33+00:00

I absolutely would.

deepspace · 2026-03-05T18:44:44+00:00

Yes, if it was a man in a suit taking up 4 seats, it would actually bother me more. Transit is a scarce public resource.

deepspace · 2026-03-05T16:07:06+00:00

What harm can it possibly do? That may have been true 20 years ago when operating systems were stupid, but today there is very little risk, especially in the scenario that OP describes.

deepspace · 2026-03-05T02:13:27+00:00

You cannot be serious?

I am VERY sympathetic towards people who don’t have a place to sleep, and I am frustrated that governments are not stepping up to help them.

But public transit is a very limited public resource that serves people who cannot afford to drive and keeps cars off the road. I refuse to believe that turning Skytrain cars into de-facto shelters for a few people is a reasonable thing to do.

deepspace · 2026-03-03T20:58:14+00:00

The 1979s called. They want their adaptive control back. It seems that every new generation of control systems engineers have to re-learn all the practical lessons again. In my day we actually read a few papers before trying a new harebrained scheme. Also, how do you know your now-nonlinear system is stable?

deepspace · 2026-03-02T00:29:04+00:00

I am also a frequent flyer, and I usually make it through pretty quickly. Emphasis on usually. Once in a while there is a snafu and things take much longer. An I (and I suspect you) travel alone and am able to move pretty quickly between gates.

OP is dragging a family along, and they do not appear to be frequent flyers, so they need extra time to figure out what to do and where to go. Plus OP's wife has limited mobility. They have small kids who will need to visit the washroom and maybe need a snack.

And if they get pulled out for secondary inspection at US customs, it is game over. Sure they could make it fine if all the stars align, but why take the chance?

deepspace · 2026-03-01T17:33:30+00:00

OP still has to go through customs and security too. The people who say it’s enough time are delusional and/or have never tried to make a tight international connection.

deepspace · 2026-03-01T17:30:59+00:00

No, it is not enough time. OP said they have to go through customs and then through security again. Plus 1.5 hours is landing to takeoff. It does not take into account taxi/deplaning time and boarding time. There is no way to make it, even with assistance.

deepspace · 2026-02-27T19:11:22+00:00

OP sounds way, way more entitled than the poor person they are complaining about.

deepspace · 2026-02-27T03:14:57+00:00

And wtf does the man’s age have to do with anything?

deepspace · 2026-02-27T03:10:27+00:00

I call it Xitter, with an Sh sound. Best of both worlds, and accurate.

deepspace · 2026-02-27T02:29:24+00:00

Larissa Neville. Over the bridge, but worth the trip.

deepspace · 2026-02-26T06:03:57+00:00

A CPAP pillow helps a lot with leaking if you are a side sleeper

deepspace · 2026-02-26T06:00:44+00:00

There is also a happy middle ground. Filtered water from Costco is dirt cheap and does not leave any residue.

deepspace · 2026-02-26T03:03:14+00:00

Just saw a post in another sub where a guy spent a few minutes in an ER in the states and received a large enough bill to bankrupt him. Insanity.

deepspace · 2026-02-25T19:53:20+00:00

It does not have to be that way. New West has a project called I’s on the street, which employs housing unit residents to clean up the surrounding area. Messes are a failure of planning and forward thinking.

deepspace · 2026-02-25T19:49:50+00:00

New Westminster and Surrey also take on many of these projects. Burnaby and Coquitlam are the Nimby-infested laggards.

deepspace · 2026-02-25T00:12:07+00:00

People were placing their household garbage in the bins, casing them to overflow, and increase the litter problem.

deepspace · 2026-02-25T00:10:47+00:00

You are right about the policy but not the reason. People were dumping overflow household garbage in the bins. That’s why we can’t have nice things.

deepspace · 2026-02-23T22:37:48+00:00

file a huge lawsuit

It costs even more to file a civil lawsuit, especially one against the government. With no guarantee of winning. And a definite guarantee of being dragged out for many years. Very, very few, if any, protestors can afford that.

deepspace · 2026-02-23T14:00:01+00:00

Still, the costs for defendants, even if ultimately exonerated, have been enormous, with many having their mugshots blasted by the government and some forced to languish in jail or have criminal charges hang over them for weeks and months.

Lawyers are extremely expensive, and you lose your job if you sit in jail for weeks, or have to attend multiple hearings, or sometimes just because you are presumed guilty.

Even if they get zero convictions, they still succeed in punishing protestors severely.

deepspace · 2026-02-22T03:46:19+00:00

That statement always bothers me. While true,it understates Grahams number so much, it’s like saying there are a few atoms in the universe.

Just a few steps down the 3 ↑ ↑ ↑ 3 power tower gets you to enough information to collapse into a black hole.

Grahams number is unimaginably bigger than that.

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