1. Get all the Pro-Iranian-Government people right on top of important infra
2. USA blows them all up
3. ???
4. PROFIT!?

Make it three downvotes, because this thread is about least logical fears.

Mad cow disease is also caused by prions, which is why the cow’s body gets destroyed, not just buried.

Swimming pool drains.

Not irrational; I’ve seen a crab get sucked through a tiny slit into an underwater pipe, shell and all. There’s YT footage I won’t post to save your sanity.

Delta P (difference is pressure) can be absolutely terrifying.

Some recommendations:

• baobab -> QDirStat
• qalculate -> speedcrunch
• ncdu -> gdu (“I am you, but faster”)

I prefer lsd to ls or eza/exa (RIP exa).

Some applications I’ve not seen yet:

Terminal

https://ntorga.com/gzip-bzip2-xz-zstd-7z-brotli-or-lz4/

• lz4 - fastest compression/decompression (several GB/s); compression is good, but not amazing; very little CPU usage
• zstd - very fast compression, fast decompression (few GB/s compression; ~600MB/s for decompression; better or equal compression compared to zip, depending on level)
• cloc <folder> - gets lines of code for a project/folder
• gdu <optional location> - like ncdu, but faster (written in go) - think TreeSize/WinDirStat for the terminal
• stat <file> - built-in application to show the modified, created, etc stats for a file.
• hyperfine - benchmark for binaries - run this in front of a command to have it run multiple times, and show some statistics.
• jpegli - great to recompress JPEG files into smaller filesizes, with only very few/minor visual effects.
• just - used with a Justfile in a project so I can run just to see the commands, or run just test, just clean, just ... to run project-specific commands.
• msedit - ye olde edit.com, reborn! Feels a little bit cursed to use an MS text editor on the terminal, but it’s better for beginners than nano or micro or whatever.
• oxipng - lossless png compression
• pngquant - lossy png compression (it forces the file to use a palette of n colors, which reduces the colors used, so it will affect your files, unlike oxipng.
• upx - compress binary files
• visidata - analyses csv files, and shows some stats. Like Data Wrangler for the terminal
• oxfmt - think “oxidized prettier” (file formatter for programmers)

GUIs

• Whatpulse - I’ve been tracking my keypresses since 2005. not a terminal application, unlike the rest.
• fsearch - Linux alternative to Everything by Voidtools. It will be a little bit different, but it does the job. mlocate package, with the sudo updatedb and locate commands, if you prefer the terminal
• keepassxc - password manager
• speedcrunch - best GUI calculator, IMO. Just a bar for input, and a bunch of stored results above it. Use the ans variable to use the previous answer in the current calculation, like ans*2 to multiply the previous answer. Or use variables, like x=5, y=2, x+y: 7.

There’s also zigfetch, but that doesn’t have a Nix logo :/

That’s the point of government: the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.

That’s from “Politics as a Vocation” by Max Weber. It’s also why the population needs to beat back if that violence isn’t legitimate (i.e. it’s abusing the population in the first place).

You extend your right arm horizontally in front of you.

Uh oh…

You rest your left hand, palm down, on top of your right arm, next to your antecubital fossa (the opposite side of the elbow).

Oh, phew! I thought this was going to get dark for a second.

College degrees just ensure we’re specialized.

Or becoming better just ensures you get more work done, and thus more work shoved onto your plate.

I know a guy who was smart enough to go to University, but went to a basic college instead (or rather, a Dutch equivalent). “I don’t want to do all that” is his defence in not going to Uni.

I use mermaid or PlantUML, so I can write it out in text and get a visual render inside vscode (just get yourself a mermaid or PlantUML extension)

Note that the .svg (or .png, for that matter) contains the metadata for draw.io itself, so you can basically have a regular .png that you can also open in draw.io.

Just don’t optimize the .png for filesize - the metadata will be removed, and you won’t be able to edit the file anymore.

Same for the .svg with https://svgomg.net/

And I convinced myself that using non-free software is haram and I shouldn’t do it… In Muslim communities anywhere, no fatwas about it.

WTF I love Islam now?

Libertarians hate minorities, Liberals love Nazis? That’s what I gather from the background-colouring anyway. I wonder that the Communists and Monarchists think.

I think that’s just a “happy little accident”.

on the internet or in documentation

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.

“In capitalism you just gotta work hard to get rich”

Hm. Well, here’s my rebuttal:

“Under Commusim everyone would just be a drone with no individuality”

A rebuttal:

Biologically female

That’s just redundant. “female” generally already refers to biology. Only silly people use “female” to refer to gender identity.

if someone asks to be called she/her/susan then just do it.

In my life I’ve only met one person who noted her pronouns, and none (including her) who ever asked for specific pronouns use. That’s shit is such a weird Americanism. You’re weird if you do that.