100% estate tax over 1 million.

Inherited wealth is fundamentally against American values of individualism and self-made hard work.

Like, a thousand times over. Why does he keep reposting that same shower thought? Why is he so obsessed about that? Is there somewhere else he wants to kiss himself in the mirror?

I think this is satire, based on his ‘humans also use a lot of energy’ statements.

Or, perhaps not even as much of a ‘job’ as just an activity. Like, let’s get the lads together and go a-viking.

Comparable to, say … camping. You could gather some friends and go camping. And while you’re camping, you’re a camper. But that doesn’t mean being a camper is your job, and it’s definitely not a hereditary title.

Supposedly, sure. I don’t think they really make much of a difference, though.

how much energy is devoted to stuff like advertising

And stores and businesses leaving the lights on inside, even at night when the place is closed and nobody is there. And lighting up their entire giant parking lot all night as well, all night every night, even though they’re only open during hours of darkness for a few hours each day.

I know it’s not that much energy in the grand scheme of things, especially now that everything is LED. But still, their complete disregard for energy savings – such that they can’t be bothered to install a simple timer circuit – irritates me.

(I suspect that they’re also leaving the HVAC running at full capacity overnight as well. That might be a more significant waste of energy.)

Why did it take so long for humans to get to Madagascar? Even Australia was reached much sooner, and that’s so much farther away and separated by wider oceans.

Not really. Along most major roads, if trees are close enough to even potentially be a problem, they will be trimmed by road crews.

It’s not because they get hit by trucks, it’s because they’re deliberately trimmed back to keep the road clear.

Really hard to build an empire without it.

Because to have an empire, you have to rule over a lot of people. Many of those people would rather not be ruled by you. If you want to force them to accept it anyway, you’re going to need some of that genocide, slavery, and especially bloodshed.

Though, I suppose, maybe 2/3 of those aren’t really necessary.

• Genocide probably isn’t absolutely necessary to empire-building. Definitely still have to kill lots of people, but there’s no particular reason you need to do so on the basis of race or ethnicity. (Though if you count cultural genocide as well, that may very well be necessary to build an empire. Difficult to bring diverse peoples under one banner without suppressing their cultural differences.)

• Slavery is a big probably. It certainly does help – after all, your growing empire will need lots of labor, and it’s unlikely you can afford to pay the going market rate for it. Plus, if you don’t use slavery, you’ll probably be out-competed by other potential empires that are using slavery and/or slavery-adjacent labor practices. But I suppose it’s not technically absolutely necessary. Theoretically, at least, you could build an empire without slavery.

but I use it on Windows at work also.

Huh… And here I was, never even considering that somebody may have ported Kate to Windows. I should try it, for the rare instance I’m editing something on Windows!

when I want something I can paste into on the screen right now as Kate loads a little slowly

Fun fact I just learned recently: If you have text in your clipboard, you can paste that directly into the file manager (or the desktop background). It will prompt you for a filename, and then create a file with the pasted text in it.

If all you want to do is paste some text, you can actually do that without using any text editor at all.

DM should consider being a Halfling.

For a Halfling size queen, the world is your oyster!

The others – including two of his appointees, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch – drew his derision.

Can’t wait for his posts asking who put those people on the Supreme Court and saying what a bad and stupid person it must have been who did that.

I am looking forward to essentially all Linux desktop users being on Wayland so we can stop acting like it is not already the norm or even pretending that it is not going to happen.

Yeah … about that…

As long as X11 still works and does what I want it to, I’ll keep using it.

(And hopefully, by the time I’m dragged to a new system, kicking and screaming the whole way, Wayland will be fully mature and complete and it will be a painless transition.)

At some point, though, you have to come to terms with the power usage.

One or two modern machines could do everything a dozen shitty old ones do (even if you have to emulates some of them as VMs), and with a lot less power usage than running a dozen shitty old computers.

You’ve been a very busy man…

Ideally, you’d also first talk to the developers in charge of the project to see if your changes would be wanted in the first place.

(Or you’d start by reviewing existing bug reports and feature requests and addressing one of those.)

What I mean is, it’s generally better to not just throw code at them and hope they’ll like it. If you check first to see if they want it, you can save yourself from wasting effort on writing code that they’ll decline.

There were a lot of sentient dishes during that one song and dance number… What are the odds that this is one of them?

Are those dishes sentient?

And if so, how do they feel about this?

Joke’s on you – after you fight your way past the robots, you’ll find that they deliberately poisoned the water on the way out, just so you couldn’t have it.