It does seem to put them in the same league for indirectly caused deaths as Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

She’s more of a Klaus Barbie.

“That’s a challenging wank.”

RIP Sean Lock.

The tragedy is that more of these rich people don’t test that belief against reality.

You can have all the gold in the world, doesn’t mean someone will trade even a gun with a single bullet for it.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who wouldn’t mind giving you a single bullet for free.

Usually these people mean “profit”. They can’t see how money alone will not enrich a person.

It’s the tech Taliban. Only engineering allowed.

Does he realize the whole world can see him? He is humiliating the USA.

I’d hope no artist or philosopher would be as blinkered as this, or as arrogant. It’s odd how some engineers decide that engineering is the only thing worth bothering with in life, and that all problems are engineering problems of one kind or another. It’s very narrow-minded, and it leads to dangerous political positions with a complete unawareness of the ideology being bought into. I’ve also met engineers who can see more broadly, but it’s definitely a mental trap some fall into.

artists’ ideas are of the least usefulness.

And what is “usefulness”? Who gets to decide? Art is an essential cure for societal narrow-mindedness.

Yes, I think that’s reasonable. The midrange CPU in the Beelink you linked is already significantly more capable than the Intel N150 etc., though it has a TDP of 15W compared to the N150’s 6W. I haven’t dug into which specialized features they support (hardware codec support etc.) but for a general-purpose computer I’d definitely prefer the one you linked to those N100/N150 minis, even if it uses a little more power. Others might have a different opinion but that would be my choice.

The COVID vaccine wasn’t bungled though. It was a remarkably speedy and successful use of mRNA technology, and a great proof of how effective that approach to vaccines can be. If anything was bungled about it, it was leaving it in the sole possession of for-profit drug companies so that rich countries would have better access to it.

What bungling did you have in mind?

I’ve found that you don’t need to go that far above the $200 cost of an Intel N100/150 system to get a mini PC with a significantly more powerful AMD processor. It won’t be the latest generation but it will be capable of a lot more than those low-power Intels, and from my measurements many AMD processors of the last three generations or so are good at saving power when they’re idle, so it won’t use a ton more electricity. Sometimes you find used ones on eBay at a decent price because someone upgraded.

They always tell on themselves, like when they declare that anti-fascists are enemy terrorists.

Seems like you’re well on the way to zero sets of laws. Just corruption and thuggery.

He’s a fantasist, fraudster, grifter and general mess, but he’d still be better than Hegseth the drunk Nazi.

If the Trump fascists hate it, it might be worth checking out.

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They weren’t as young as the Hitler Youth, so they don’t have the same excuse of naivety. Plus these adults have had the chance to learn from history why being Nazis is bad.