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This is legit the movie I shit on most. I hate it so very much. It's not the plot exactly, it's two things:

• The tech accuracy is so bad. I won't go into everything but they go out of their way to say shit that doesn't make sense. My favorite example is that the AI is just a big floating orb and they feed it data through infrared, the slowest communication method available. Like they didn't have to say infrared, they chose that.

• The product placement. Again, a lot of examples but my favorite is how at the end he shows up with Guitar Hero and the kids are like "Yay Guitar Hero that's the best game ever."

People are constantly underestinating Germany. Like half the food is fried in butter and is delicious.

You are correct that a reboot will trigger a full rescan. I'm always on the lookout for better sync. I just don't think it's out there right now for easy bidirectional sync.

Basically, if you want to set and forget, Syncthing is the best option. If you want more control, you'll need to look into setting up rsync scripts or similar, which will at least better let you control how often to sync.

For a long time, I've just assumed this was a weird way that my bipolar and my bisexuality interacted. Is this just a normal human thing?!

I like async but dislike await. I spend entirely too much time on everything I build trying to maximize how much I can do in parallel because I find it tremendously satisfying.

It's basically the only type of jobs program that both sides of our broken government can agree on: petty nonsense that looks like it might do something useful, but really doesn't, and only inconveniences the poors.

The cheaper options aren't even cheaper, we're just ignoring the cost and subsidizing them. Suppose that a gallon of oil cost how much it took to produce, but also how much it costs to scrub the resulting CO2 from the air, clean up any spills and scrub any CO2 made during production and transport, plus pay the additional medical bills of the people who's health is affected both in production and from the resulting air pollution? That price would be a hell of a lot higher, but we instead just pretend we aren't paying those costs (even though we are and will).

But yeah, the people with the most money and the ones making the laws don't have to pay those costs now. They can just pretend nothing is wrong til they're dead, let someone else hold the bag later.

Just an American browsing c/all here. We have 30 and 40 year mortgages and no one can afford a house. I wish Canada the best of luck with it, though.

There's a lot of hypocrisy around. The issue isn't pronouns, the issue is: Does a child have a right to keep secrets from their parents?

The ones saying "no" are probably keeping or kept a fair amount from their own parents. I mean, the ones who say "yes" probably did too, it's pretty universal, but they're not being hypocrites about it.

I wonder, if you changed this question to some other hypothetical secret, how would the responses change? What about... "Does a teacher have an obligation to report if a student is dating someone?" Or maybe, "Does a teacher have an obligation to report every book a student reads (on their own time) in case it's a book the parents don't like?"

I get it, too. I'm a parent. The idea that my kids might have secrets kind of bothers me. I want to be a part of their lives, I want to help them with any problem they have. But they have a right to their own lives, and the only way I could even try to prevent it would be immensely damaging to them in the long run. I can only do my best and hope they'll see that and be comfortable talking to me about the important stuff.

Video games. Don't get me wrong, there are still some great games, but the entire experience has degraded on average.

• The inclusion of obnoxiously long, often unskippable, intro sequences with studio credits and such. There used to be maybe a logo, maybe a very short sequence at worst, and almost always skippable.
• Most of the big budget games are intended to be a grindy slog, often to get you to spend more money on micro transactions. Fun takes a back seat to intentionally addictive but objectively less enjoyable experiences.
• Others are intended to be cinematic experience. Some of that can be fun, but sometimes I just want something like the old Sonic or Mario games that I can just pick up, play for a bit, and put down.
• Enjoy a game? You could talk to friends about it at school, or buy a magazine that talks about it. The experience now is largely an unregulated online wasteland... If you find a community, it may quickly be beset by people that you really don't want to associate with, posting crap that no magazine ever would have published. Except for some of the funnier magazines, which may have published it just to rightfully mock the person.

The graphics have improved. In some cases the gameplay has improved. I don't want to downplay those. I'm just annoyed with how the overall experience has gotten worse on average.

The thing about all the doom and gloom is that I don't think anyone is seriously expecting the end of humanity. We're not talking extinction, at least not yet and probably not for a very long time. We're talking really hard times for people, though. Some previously habitable areas becoming uninhabitable, reduction in how much food we can produce and therefore how many people can be fed, things like that.

There's this idea that we're making Earth unlivable but, short of large-scale nuclear war, I don't think we're really capable of that. And humans are smart, when they have to be, and very adaptable. As a species, we'll survive. But how many of us, and in what conditions, is very much up in the air.

Generally when people bring up some personal detail, my immediate reaction is to assume the opposite. Especially if it begins with "as a." For example: "as a woman," this person is a man. "As a black person," this is the whitest person you will ever meet. "As a 60 year old," definitely ten.