Lighting the night will be bad for plants and animals.

million satellites to serve as orbiting data centers

There are ~8 billion people on Earth. Elon wants to have something like 1 data center per 8,000 people. Not to mention all of the other data centers.

Sounds like Greenpeace needed to be organized as a million separate legal entities. Just like an insurance company, or a multinational.

“Sport Nuts”. Yeah, they are going to hell…

“So Called Christians”, sounds like the sorta person the sign holder is.

They are a bit rather literalist, but they have a point.

Only “do less and consume less resources” won’t end suffering. It will limit certain kinds of suffering.

Feeding those without enough healthy food may require more resources (many reasons people don’t have enough food, sometimes those reasons are “war”.)

There are other kinds of suffering as well. Bad governments abusing people. Weak governments not protecting people. Not enough medical care, or the wrong kind of medical care. Unsafe neighborhoods, and unsafe homes.

Undoubtedly, there are hundreds of ways humans are suffering right now that I am not touching on.

For those wondering, yes, that was a real issue submitted. There are other issues, and they are great.

As one would still need to return home, so the costs have got to be easy to add up at that point (3x more than was spent already, assuming a constant cost). I just might have a “vision” telling me whomever was sorry or died.

Shouldn’t have take that elective emergency heart bypass…

Yeah… Maybe expand it a bit and include mandatory therapy and a beer league softball club (they don’t need to drink, but it is very okay to be terrible at the game).

Edit: My anonymity and brevity edits may have gone too far. This is not just about filesystem developers, but several kernel module developers I have interacted with.

Yay! Extra mental load of having to ask the AI “correctly” and then keep up one’s skills to be able to review the AI’s work! Extra bonus for being blamed for letting anything slip past.

At least the junior that fucked up will learn something from the experience and can buy a round of beers (if the junior is paid well enough, otherwise the seniors have to buy the junior a beer while talking it out).

“Sign Kid” is trying to run a Paradox of Tolerance.
“Punching Kid” is right on. Though one should not do such things at school, nor on camera.
I have the feeling “Sign Kid” is going to change schools soon.

Nah. Just declare the rollbacks never happened and penalize the violators.

Funny story, some of the rollbacks Trump has done in other areas are legally mandated. Trump used executive orders to limit their enforcement, but the laws are still on the books. The violators can fight this next sane president in court over it, but the next sane president can also do all of the “trump” things to them.

Thank you. Not a funny headline day.

If anyone wants to know how that turned out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising
In Summary: Not good.

One can get paid and advance through a career producing slop.

Good engineering is hard, and lots of that no longer happens.

Bit hard to pull that one off. Unless 9/11 were an inside job and the White House was informing the music industry.

Well damn.

Nicely encapsulates the “The poor deserve it for not setting up the factories.” They did.

DoGE?

I started just to point out that the 7 point drop was big in 1988, but then wondered if this was a real event. (When the movie came out, I remember thinking that really happened.)

Looking at it again, I don’t know if I am finding real information , or movie publicity

https://www.cyberdelianyc.com/www.nytimes.com/1988/08/10/business/wall-street-plunges-computer-crash-hackers.html, which in part says:

Delaying the sell-off slightly the mayhem appeared to stem from a computer virus rendering key exchange systems inaccessible with NYSE registering a 7-point drop. Initial reports put the number of systems impacted at 1,507. This would make the havoc one of the biggest computer crashes in history.

A ‘‘hacker’’ believed to have instigated the turmoil from beyond state-lines in Seattle is a prime suspect. Known only by an alias or ‘‘handle’’ on computer bulletin boards as ‘‘Zero Cool’’, Federal prosecutors hope to have them arraigned quickly sending a message to other potential electronic trespassers.

Looking up “Zero Cool”, only locates a 1960’s book about a Doctor.

Yeah, at they approach 9999 surely they will start using larger variables to store the year, and all of the 2000’s code will have moved out of production (2000’s and not 1970’s because we may have fixed the 1970’s code by now.)

Insurance companies in Des Moines, Iowa, USA tended to be heavy users of COBOL near the year 2000. If you want a job writing COBOL, I suggest looking there. I am sure at this point they will do some training.

Is the “NewsWire” headline posted by “onion person” real? On a search, I only find references to a proposed policy in 2023 to encourage repairing roads over expanding roads.