PhilipTheBucket

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"Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself."

This one is a wonderful concordance of pissing off the military because it was stupid orders they had to follow, pissing off law enforcement because they were placed directly in danger, pissing off state government because it's obviously illegal and designed to threaten their citizens directly, and being an unambiguous example with absolutely no kind of excuse "oh we're just deporting the rapists that's why we took your neighborhood's ice cream man away never to be seen again."

Personally I would like to assure Trump that I'm super triggered and intimidated by this kind of show of force, and would really like to encourage him to order the Army to drive tanks around at random on blue state suburban streets next, just so I can be really triggered even harder and lead further to his great success.

Also, remember that this is cherry-picking the worst possible way of phrasing the worst possible excerpts they can pick out from over ten years of random shitposting. You have no idea what the context was for any of this stuff. You don't know if the part he "agreed" with was the same as the part of the whole other person's message that said white people were racist and stupid. And so on.

1. "Rubber" bullets are a massive metal ball wrapped in a thin sheet of rubber. They carry about half the kinetic energy of a bullet, they can still crack your skull or destroy a part of your body that they hit. There is a reason people started pushing for the terminology "less lethal" instead of "nonlethal."
2. That said you actually raise kind of a good question I think. I suspect that a lot of the reason is nothing more than that the guns that shoot "rubber" bullets effectively are big and cumbersome. You can't run fast while holding one, carry one around on your belt and then pull it out in a fraction of a second, et cetera. They actually do try to do what you're talking about with Tasers, there's a whole process, except that Tasers are unreliable so they have to have a second cop with a gun drawn most of the time.
3. Replacing guns with "rubber" bullets... a lot of the time when they are shooting they are thinking in terms of a gunfight with an armed suspect, so they don't want to be in a situation where the "rubber" bullets aren't penetrating a car but the bullets coming back at them are penetrating their car, something like that. If it is deadly force involved they don't want to be at a disadvantage.
4. Replacing Tasers with rubber bullets... IDK, I think "rubber" bullets are probably more lethal than Tasers and you're definitely going to fuck somebody up any time you hit them with one. The vast majority of the time, the Taser just sucks and then you take the probes out and you're done, you don't have any cracked ribs or destroyed eyeballs or anything. Most of the scenarios where they would be using a "rubber" bullet, US cops at least will use a 40mm "beanbag round" which won't cause nearly the same type of injuries.

I won't say your suggestion is automatically a bad idea but I think those are some of the reasons you so rarely see them except in "crowd control" type of scenarios where some of the existing nonlethal options aren't viable, and also where they have some additional desire to cause injuries in the people they're "control"ing. Basically you can choose a Taser which is unreliable, pepper spray which is short range and will fuck you up too sometimes, or a 40mm or rubber bullet which needs a big cumbersome launcher (and the "rubber" bullet may cause significant injuries anyway).

That was a lot more satisfying than I expected it to be

It was removed. Not accepting future merges isn't how they do things (they actually have to have fights pretty regularly with hardware vendors who do want to do one-and-done hardware drivers without thinking through the plan for how to update them in the future which isn't how it works).

They did do what you're describing in 6.17, but it was in preparation for removing it (they didn't want to chop it out immediately so as not to break stuff). In 6.18 it was taken out completely.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bcachefs-ousted-mainline-kernel-move-dkms-and-what-it-means

I literally came in here to say that the world is divided into people who have poured themselves cereal + water, found out how terribly unpleasant it is, and had to just eat it anyway, and people who have never gone through that experience.

I've also tried heavy cream + cereal when I was trying to use it up and also didn't have any milk. That was incredibly unpleasant, I actually threw it away.

Here's what you're want to do: If you wind up liking "Little Fuzzy," then follow it up with "Fuzzy Sapiens" and then "Fuzzy Bones." Skip the third novel actually written by H. Beam Piper, read instead the one they hired someone else to write before they found his third manuscript.

The reason why it needs to be that way is actually really interesting, but I can't tell you without important spoilers. Sorry. Anyway, that's what you should do, if you get done with them all then send me a DM and I'll explain about what's in Piper's third novel that makes me recommend it that way.

Yeah. It used to own up that it wasn't an "AI" but just a demo of a large language model. Those innocent days are long gone now, and they still haven't figured out how to make an AI, it's just that a whole industry has decided to make ever more cunning rigged demos for people to buy into.

I think it is (at least) two populations.

There are clearly people who are just walking typing Dunning-Kruger effects with bad political opinions, but don't show any kind of signs of being employed to spread disinformation and honestly seem self-consistent and high-effort about it in a way that makes it seem a little unlikely that they're being fake about it.

But then, also, there are people who constantly spread the same little handful of talking points, don't really seem to be putting much effort into making it believable and don't seem self-consistent about it or even to be reading stuff that people reply to them with, sometimes make weird little errors which clearly indicate that they're not from the US even though they care deeply about US politics, and so on and so on. That second population, I think it's safe to say are deliberate mass-scale propaganda. It's different on Reddit (and a lot more transparent, and they have populations of them like the pro-Israel propagandists who are not present on Lemmy), and to be honest I am also a little surprised that they have elected to spend effort on a tiny platform like Lemmy. But it seems obvious to me that they have done. And some of the nature of what they like to push makes it particularly interesting (as does the concordance that a lot of them seem not to be US-based which is very interesting to me.)

Best way to do propaganda

As of this writing, though, bcachefs is included in the current Linux kernel, and support could continue if the antagonists resolve their differences.

Tell me you're not familiar with Linus without telling me lol