Obligatory https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

Thanks so much

I must be stupid, could you elaborate?

Just went thru a big (unrelated) homelab restore

Top quality comment right here. Way to hit on so many disparate yet crucial historical events. I’d read a history book this person wrote.

I thought that could be the meaning… Wonder if Sam Altman knew that when he described ChatGPT’s recent extreme fawning in reply to every message as “too much glazing”. Jesus Christ. Edit: as if any metaphorical amount is desirable, btw. Just our current leaders, that’s all.

Of course there are medical service ads on the Paris [Texas] Metro 💀

Well, in Dave’s CEO’s defense, it was just Google Ads.

Just, you know, that thing that largely provides the income for a world top-ten company.

Not to mention Pepe the frog or whatever alt right thing that is/was

Been watching Band of Brothers (then of course the sequel, The Pacific) and gameplay from The Darkness for this very “no particular reason”. The Darkness feels more cathartic.

Do not taunt them or they will further erode their meager anti-bird flu measures and bring us a 2nd pandemic with Trump as “leader of the free world”

Worse, it’s quentin tarantino

Esp those pushed to devices with the form factor of a remote control, running the official reddit app

Been looking for a Ralph Nader Radio Hour episode I once heard for years now where they lay out how absolutely dwarfed global need is by global charity. For me it was stunningly eye opening. I suppose it was basically a billions vs trillions thing.

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas is famous for similarly detailing how philanthropy among the uber rich is in many ways doing more harm than good.

As another reply said already

Imagine cable tv! (in the US at least, and, it seems, Canada, too)

It is so absurd until you realize people already accepted that shit… wtf!!!

Holy fucking shit, Accuweather?! TIL

And to be clear you mean the original UN article, not the article from the libertarian think tank “Foundation for Economic Education” (“FEE”)

And the UN article link (archive) is in the comments

FEE is an American Libertarian think tank.

Let that help you figure out what’s actually happening here.

Great answer thanks for sharing!

What two pieces of software, if you don’t mind sharing?

I ask because a relative who is a software developer could somehow barely finally leave windows, because of WinSCP, which is, afaik, a GUI for secure copy commands. Why rsync or sftp commands cannot be enough for a software developer without WinSCP was beyond me. But perhaps there is something I don’t know about each of these pieces of software.

0 sympathy. Lockheed and Martin. “Yes hello I would like to help you bomb people since you are paying well”