The only part of this that really bothers me is that nerds are still incessantly quoting Monty Python at each other.

Folks, the docker runtime is open source, and not even the only one of its kind. They won’t charge for that. If they tried to make it closed source, everyone would just laugh and switch to one of several completely free alternatives. They charge for hosting images, build time on their build servers, and various “premium” developer tools you don’t need. In fact, you need none of this, you can do all of it yourself on whatever hardware you deem to be good enough. There are also many other hosted alternatives out there.

Docker thinks they have a monopoly, for some reason. If you use the technology, you are probably already aware that they don’t.

Sirius is an inspired choice

Insurance is, at its core, a reasonable halfway measure towards public control of a critical resource. If you need something only very rarely, but it’s something that needs to exist ALL THE TIME just in case, insurance allows you to pool your resources with other people in the same boat and afford to keep an industry around just in case. Somebody will always be using it right now, and it’ll be there when you need it, because you paid into the pool.

The problem is, as always, the insertion of capitalism into the solution. If someone has to profit from this set of relationships, the motivation to provide the resource is in competition with the motivation to extract more profit. This is what happened to healthcare.

Insurance is only a halfway measure because we already have an organization capable of managing common resources that individuals use only rarely but which the public needs all the time: that organization is the government, or the governments at various levels. We manage lots of things this way: fixing roads, stopping houses from burning down, pulling people out of floodwaters, that kind of thing. You don’t need it all the time, but it’s there when you need it because you’re paying taxes to a government that has no profit motive from it. Insurance should only ever have existed temporarily while government infrastructure was debated and organized, but the for-profit industry managed to capture enough of the government to keep itself alive indefinitely.

In short, insurance isn’t inherently bad, just not meant to be a permanent fix. Capitalism is bad.

Oh wow, I missed this. That’s a fantastic insight to pull out of this.

This one actually demonstrates some flaws in this graph format. Maybe it’s just how it’s expressed this time, but, here are some insights you might gain from this presentation that aren’t actually the case:

• “the police shot the attacker 98 times” which just sounds like a normal headline about how police handle things.
• Very near that branch, you can accidentally see “the police died by suicide 38 times”
• and, similarly, “the police surrendered 15 times” which is a surprise because I thought that only happened at Uvalde.

Like, I get what is trying to be conveyed here but the format requires a lot of work for my brain to parse and makes it harder to understand.

Also: This chart only shows what happened to the attacker. It doesn’t give you a picture of the innocent people on the scene shot by cops, the cops shot by cops, the “good guy with a gun” who shoots another good guy with a gun, and so on. 12/433 may be accurate, but by the time you deduct points for innocent deaths caused by people with guns on the scene, you’re creeping back down to zero again.

Hell, they have a tendency to shoot each other, too. Cops shooting cops and cops shooting security guards are both things that happen.

It seems like it would be super easy for them to close this loophole. If you use the model that free tier listeners (real ones) will listen to about the same distribution of songs as the paying listeners, then just stop counting all free tier listeners and multiply the amount paid out for the pay-tier listeners by an appropriate factor to make payouts the same as before.

You couldn’t make Deadpool & Wolverine today because it just came out and people would not be ready for a reboot this early.

Chloride is the ionic form

Well I’m glad they used KCl, I thought this was going to be a container half-full of chlorine–concerning, if you intend to put it on your food.

I can’t tell them apart because I only have 1 Donald Glover friend. I guess I need to get to know more of them.

I couldn’t find a polite way to ask him to introduce me to more Donald Glovers.

I too, was coming here to say “burn down his house”

I dare Elon to sue World Bank.

Not to mention social security. “Not old enough to retire” is extremely literally true for many people.

If only there were some context clues here to figure out which specific company I was talking about.

If we’re talking about employees, then yes.

If we’re talking about workers, then no, not a worker.

I’m not gonna look it up, but who recently bought Subway and is now cashing in on tanking it so they can sell the corpse?

Yeah, SK definitely credits the coke for some of his stuff but damned if it didn’t actually matter that much. The man writes as much now as he ever did.