ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.

Well, they’ll deform. ABS won’t melt at 150°C, it’ll just become soft and flexible. But yes, it’s a bad idea for your earbuds.

There is a philosophical difference using Open Source software. To compare it to religion is pretty shitty honestly, even if you find it amusing. Linux is not faith it is logic.

Hoooooly fuck. I was just riffing off the other guy using the word proselytizing. I wasn’t trying to make any sort of point.

Go outside and leave me alone. Fuck. I’ve already explained this multiple times.

Linux is fucking awesome. But you all take yourselves way too seriously. You’re making the community look like complete tools.

I promise I wasn’t trying to make any value statements at all. I wasn’t speaking in favor of Windows or of the Catholic Church. Just something that made me chuckle. 🙄

I'm not sure I get the analogy here... Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?

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First, do you think Microsoft would do less shady shit if there were more Windows users? I’m sort of confused about where you’re finding that interpretation of the metaphor.

But more importantly, as I explained in my other reply I was just riffing on the proselytizing comment. It made me chuckle to think about someone being advised to change religions after voicing a (legitimate) frustration with their religious leadership.

It may be my perspective comes from western civilization, but do Buddhists have similar child abuse scandals?

I have no idea, that wasn’t my point with the metaphor.

I was riffing off the “proselytizing” comment and comparing someone complaining about some shady shit Microsoft does and then being advised to change to Linux, with someone complaining about some shady shit the Catholic Church does and then being advised to change to Buddhism.

It’s not a perfect metaphor, but it gave me a chuckle when I thought of it.

I picked those religions because Catholicism in its singular “what the Vatican says goes for everyone” approach mapped well onto Microsoft and Windows, and I thought Buddhism, a religion with many flavors, some of which are more structured than others, mapped well onto Linux and its various distros.

“I see you’re worried about abuse by priests in the Catholic Church. Can I interest you in Buddhism?”

Ah, you’re going to visit Hell, Michigan.

George Soros, maybe?

Just remember, every accusation is a confession. Musk pays protestors, so he believes others do as well.

"about a meg" because it's almost unthinkable anyone cares about 3 tenths of a meg much less 2 hundredths.

Tell me you never used floppy discs as a storage medium without telling me.

I love Easter Vigil.

homophonic

I think he was the first Pope Francis. But even if he were the second, that wouldn’t make him a homophone.

I guess all popes are homophonic in some languages, like in Spanish “la papa” is potato and “el papa” is pope.

Also yes! And they’re very important!

I would love to be able to replace the teeth I broke in elementary school with regrown teeth, rather than crowns on posts through a dead root that I have now. I’d like to be able to bite into an apple without fear.

They fixed the MCAS issue a while back. It now requires data from multiple sensors, is only able to activate once per flight, and has a dramatically reduced strength on that one activation.

Mentour Pilot did great videos about the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines incidents that go into detail about that system and its flaws.

You can’t put a huge ass spoiler on your 737 to have it stick better to the ground

Just to “um akshually” a bit because I found this fascinating when I learned about it ages ago.

A spoiler on a car doesn’t help it stick to the ground better. Rather it “spoils” air, reducing drag and allowing air to flow around the car better. Like damming up the air between the roof and the spoiler, allowing other air to just flow from the roof to the spoiler. This means there isn’t a vacuum created behind the cabin, so you have less turbulent air and less drag.

A wing on a car increases drag, and forces the car down to the ground by creating lift (though since the wing is upside down compared to a plane, we call this lift “downforce”).

We often use the terms “spoiler” and “wing” interchangeably when referring to cars, but they’re very different beasts!

Yeah, sure reminds me of borderline. But also not a professional.

Because, similar to blackface in its time, people love to point and laugh at exaggerated caricatures of something different from themselves.

And CBS airs lowest common denominator garbage that the masses devour.

When the goal was stopping Hitler, Stalin was a friend of the West. Sure that friendship ended when Hitler did, but adversity makes strange bedfellows.

Don’t let ideological infighting prevent us from fighting MAGAts.

My enemy’s enemy is my friend.

he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).