kryptonianCodeMonkey

I don't really see how ceasing to exist is justice, nor how the fact that your naba and Hitler had the same ending is a comfort. But to each their own, I guess.

opiate of the masses

Right. And I wish I could experience some opium sometimes for a bit of peace with the world. But I'm immune.

Sometimes I wish I could be a believer in religion so that I might have solace that evil people will at least face divine justice in death even if they received no Earthly justice in life. Alas, the depressing truth is that evil coasts through life without facing justice all the time, and the good just as often fall victim to the machinations, crimes, and sadism of the evil and never find any justice, retribution or closure after it. It's one of the reasons that I don't believe unfortunately.

It REALLY annoys me when they talk about the DOW or whatever other stock market indicator is at "record highs". Like, that has actually been the default state for as long as the DOW has existed. Look at a graph of its price back to the 80s, and see it has exponentially grown basically the entire time.

Over the last 20 years, on average, it has gone up 10 percent each year. You can see where anomalies take it higher or lower than the trend, like the accelerated growth and then drop of the dot com bubble, the sub prime loan bubble, and the covid dip and post covid tech bubble. They stand out as deviations on the graph that makes it not exactly follow the trend. But it has thus far always returned to normal where it TENDS to be going up about 10 percent a year.

It's not interesting that it is going up or that it reaches a new record price. It does that all the time. And it's really not brag worthy that the rate of growth may be higher now, either, because we are all too aware that that is largely due to the AI bubble that will pop hard. The fact that he is claiming credit for it is hilarious though. When that bubble pops, it won't be his fault though, obviously.

Funny that no dogs made the list, as the anchor no less. Like that was the one that would clinch the point for MAGATS (you know, cuz they are into the child marriage and hatred of women thing themselves)

Heart disease, cancer, etc are part of the plan. Both boring and too close to home. Terrorism and homicide are suitably scary, morally charged, and far enough removed from most people's lives to be mostly abstract fears.

Fucking never. Never ever. I'd sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It's fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.

These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn't exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they'd be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.

Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?

Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators trying to form their own sovereign techno-states. They're not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military... how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it's just Trump but it's not. It's mind boggling.

Proportional Representation is what you need for multi-seat bodies like parliament. It's absolutely the best outcome method for such bodies, imo. For single seat elections, proportional doesn't work as their are no proportions for a single seat and generally you don't want to just vote for party for such roles, but individuals themselves. You'll need something like Ranked Choice or (my preference) Approval voting for those seats to avoid the two party inevitability.

Not encrypted locally (by default). Only on the cloud. The files that are stored locally can be recovered without your account. Files that you have freed up or files synced from other devices that your haven't downloaded to this one are not accessible without logging in and accessing the cloud.

Bloatware has been an annoying problem for decades. It's not a new problem.

I thought the implication of "disabling" OneDrive was exactly that.

One drive creates a local directory that you can save files in, and all the files in that directory are synced to cloud storage. You can free up storage by removing it locally and only storing it on the cloud, and you can pull files from the cloud to use locally, so you can access the same files from any device you log into. But you dont have to save your files there where they are synced. You can save them in normal local directories instead.

Disabling one drive disables the sync functionality, so saving files in the one drive directory are only stored locally and you cant pull or even see non-local files or updates to those files from the cloud. But that doesn't disable the login requirement to access that directory because it is still tied to a specific Microsoft account, not the local device account. So one could use the one drive directory as a password protected directory to prevent access from other users (though there are much better ways to do that). But if that is not the goal, there is no reason to log in to one drive or its directory at all. In fact, it could be uninstalled altogether and then everything will just be a normal directory.

This guy doesn't want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway.

Then he can uninstall it, unless his work computer admits dont allow it. Dont get me wrong, it was exhibiting fucky behavior, and Microsoft is very often "helpful" in ways most antithetical to the word, but the fix for software you dont use is always the same. Uninstall.

And a cloud storage account and a local device account.