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Dear Google: we wouldn't have to do this if you weren't such a shit company.

Oh, you weren't aware that you're a shit company? You legitimately believe you're a positive force for the world? Well that's your own damn fault.

What a great idea! Just claim your product is healthy to people that don't care about their health!

I had the same idea to write my CV in Latex, but then realized it's not such a great idea. I wanted to keep it down to 2 pages, so I ended up having to do a lot of manual formatting (font size, margins, spacing), and the whole point of Latex is that you're supposed to let the typesetter do the formatting for you. So I switched back to Libreoffice.

But if I had a long-form CV, ie. an academic-style CV where you list all publications, conference talks, etc. with no regard to length, then Latex would be ideal for that.

I haven't read through the other responses in the thread, but I don't think it's the slightly old software that's the problem. I think it has more to do with using older kernels, meaning that the latest hardware won't always be supported (on the stable branch at least - there's always testing and unstable too of course which may have better hardware support).

That may have changed with recent releases though - I haven't used Debian for several years now. But if your hardware is supported then it's a pretty solid choice.

Some other people sometimes mention that Debian isn't as beginner friendly as Ubuntu or Mint, but my experiences have been similar to yours - I found Debian to more user-friendly than Ubuntu for example. Assuming that the hardware works of course - if it doesn't then it obviously is a worse choice.

It's so hard to understand why people don't want to have kids

I also don’t get why they seem to be popular with people who like to act scientific, because they seem very unscientific to me.

They absolutely are. And it's very aggravating to see people immediately invoking it without a second thought. They just assume it to be some absolute universal truth that should be accepted without question. But why?? How is that any different from religion at that point?

Somehow, I already knew something like this would be happening.... We simply cannot have nice things in this world.

Phew! If Nutella ever goes evil, I am so utterly fucked.

Butyric acid in case anyone is wondering. Literally a product of digestion, so you taste it when you throw up:

Highly-fermentable fiber residues, such as those from resistant starch, oat bran, pectin, and guar are transformed by colonic bacteria into short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) including butyrate, producing more SCFA than less fermentable fibers such as celluloses.[13][21] One study found that resistant starch consistently produces more butyrate than other types of dietary fiber.[22] The production of SCFA from fibers in ruminant animals such as cattle is responsible for the butyrate content of milk and butter.[23]

They literally put vomit flavor in their chocolate!!!

I utterly loathe Hanlon's razor. It's peak naivete, especially when it's applied to groups of people that have ulterior motives - like business interests. It essentially gives companies a carte blanche to do evil shit, and when they get caught, all they have to do is blush and say "oops, how could that have possibly happened???!" But in reality, they were just doing some sort of self-serving behavior and hoping they could get away with it. And of course, they'll just end up doing it again a few months or years later on when the attention has died away.

Moral of the story: Hanlon's razor does not apply to corporations or other business interests. If it's your neighbors, well maybe give them the benefit of the doubt. If it's a multinational conglomerate, hell no, fuck that. Assume guilt 100% of the time.

I could be wrong, but it's my understanding that, under the terms of EU membership, this would require Canada to adopt proportional representation.

Of course today, it looks like a long shot, but the more this gets talked about, the more likely it could happen. So keep up the conversation, and maybe it will someday!

It's a publicly traded company, isn't it? Most likely there is some investor in the CEO's ear asking him to push this down on all staff... so they come up with bright ideas like putting silly "requirements" like this in their job descriptions as well. And in any case, AI investors are so desperate these days, chances are that they're doing everything they can to create general LLM FOMO in a similarly desperate push to increase adoption.

That's what I'm guessing at least. Even to me it sounds a little like a conspiracy theory, but then again these people have a lot of influence.