The majority did and do, tho the majority weren't allowed to vote until 1994! (Only whites were allowed to vote [except for a sham tricameral system since 1984 for mixed-race people and people of Indian decent].)

Nelson Mandela was released from jail in 1990.

Musk emigrated to Canada in 1989, and went to Pennsylvania in 1992.

While Musk is a narcissistic, psychotic, white supremacist (supporter of Republicans, televised nazi salutes at Trump victory party, AfD and similar support in many other countries, lying about a white genocide in South Africa, ...), and there were signs in South Africa that the Apartheid regime were having trouble with the growing international boycotts against it, it's not clear Musk left because Mandela's ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations were to be unbanned soon. He probably did it knowing that in the USA psychotic, omnicidal greed is rewarded, and ethical behavior is punished.

Side note: In 2009, the majority of South African voters elected, and later re-elected their own Trump-lite narcissistic, psychotic, openly corrupt, racist president: Jacob Zuma. His party eventually prepared a motion-of-no-confidence against Zuma, so Zuma resigned.

"But the reason it was not crazy for me was that I actually don’t have any system running PHP myself." - Ondřej Surý

LLM code can be committed with "written approval by core." https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=written+approval

Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, ‘Everybody Gets Health Care’

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-kamala-harris-wins-everybody-gets-health-care-1235081328/

August 15, 2024

that it should only change anything when explicitly asked to.

Does that work?

Bad slaves! Why act out while locked up in a tiny space?

Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:

1. Start
2. regedit
3. Backup registry by exporting it
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
5. right-click Policies, New, Key
6. Google
7. right-click Google, New, Key
8. Chrome
9. right-click Chrome, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value
10. GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings
11. right-click newly created key, Modify
12. set value to 1
13. OK
14. Restart computer. https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

Or, you know don't install software from companies owned and operated by psychopaths, like Google and Microsoft.

Adding some sources, in case people think these quotes are satirical.

Edits: some longer quotes (which takes away from the punchy format by Linken) and non-chronological groupings.

• 2026-02-28 "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take"

• 2026-04-01 "We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death — they're all dead [...] The new group is less radical and much more reasonable."

• 2026-04-01 "We are in this military operation so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries, for 32 days,"

• 2026-04-01 "We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong."

• 2026-04-04 "48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them."

• 2026-04-05 "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

• 2026-04-06 "Every bridge in Iran [...] every power plant [...] I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock"

• 2026-04-07 "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
• Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
• Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
• Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

22% inflation vs 700% increase for the CEO between 2016 and 2022?

I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.

Biggest sources:

• 7.6 Mt from macro plastics breaking down
• 1.3 Mt from paint
• 1.0 Mt from tyres

10-40 Mt released into environment/year, and increasing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/ :

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has.

• rejection sensitive dysphoria
• pathological demand avoidance (PDA)
• autistic burnout, inertia
• sensory processing [disorder]
• alexithymia/emotional blindness
• hyperlexia/child's precocious ability to read
• connective tissue [disease]

More likely to be local phenomena than stars, because non-polar stars won't stay in view of a stationary telescope due to diurnal motion.

Wouldn't an honest title state that a certain flu variant now seems extinct? Why spread a title that makes it seem like the vaccines are unsafe?

Please downvote distortions like this.

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That's very Linus of them:

The mass-extinction causing orphan-crushing torment nexus is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

There are other questions around it, like if we should be complicit in killing billions of people, and making more than 50% of genera go extinct, via its CO2e releases and water use, but “is it useful” is no longer one of those questions.

The Debian project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the people who use it is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that’s a side benefit, not the point of the project.

In the Debian community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of ethical reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of causing a mass extinction.

/s

"The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. [...] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce."

Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:

• Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
• Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
• Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).

Why is it called "drink driving" and not "drunk driving"?

"Drink driving" sounds like something a very drunk person would say.