Nakba

First time encountering this term, so for those also like me:

The term is used to describe the events of the 1948 Palestine war in Mandatory Palestine as well as the ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by Israel.

Usually I respect the honesty more than the subterfuge.

But when it’s Nazi’s. Nope. Wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

I’ve known someone responsible for the accidental death of another, it screwed them up entirely, permanently.

I have complete and unconditional sympathy for both these people.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

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Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

Queensland: Gold coast and sunshine coast

NSW: manly (Sydney)

West: Perth

There are probably better ones but I’ll have to defer to locals.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

I smell a scapegoat.

And not encoding any data. Well a laser pulse is kind of datum.

They are introduced in NZ and have destroyed the native bird populations.

We trap and hunt them here.

Charleston chew!

I forget that possums aren’t pests in some parts of the world.

That’s exactly the kind of scenario I can buy into.

Especially the communications: couriers become the norm again. In-system lightspeed comms are feasible, but interstellar? You’d better send a package that hard way.

I especially like the gravity constraint. Iain M. Banks’ novel The Algebraist works on a similar principle. Pairs of portals can be created, but you need to po physically tow the other portal to its destination in real space/time.

Distance. Almost every SciFi completely fails to represent distance even remotely closely.

This isn’t a gripe about FTL, it’s a gripe about non-FTL! Fancy FTL avoids the problem.

Star trek does it quite well in most cases, it takes days at warp foo to get anywhere. Voyager took years.

New Star wars butchers it; e.g. The Mandalorian episode with the no lightspeed/hyperspace plot device: oh no it took hours/days to get between star systems. Days! Imagine taking days to travel unfathomable distances!

New Dune (KJA’s books) inexcusably get it wrong. Claiming that “slow” travel between systems took months.

The mote in God’s eye does it extremely well with its pairs of jump points (shoutout to Mass Effect here too). Sometimes it’s quicker to use a jump point to another system, crawl to another (nearer) jump point and then jump back to the first sytem rather than crawl directly across the original system.

It takes light very long time to travel across our solar system, let alone interstellar distances. It’s like these writers have never even considered how long a container ship on earth takes to travel and still be viable.

Doing the Dark Lord’s work!

You’re only ¹/₁₆ of the way through your fascist end game.

Dumbest shit in the world.

So far.

Bread, circuses and two minutes of hate.

Get COVID, go back to the neander valley and cough.