Surely you can think of some cases in your political life where you had to choose between a bad and a worse option?

Simple things, like voting strategically for the least bad of two options in FPTP voting systems, even if the candidate isn’t perfect. Like voting for Lincoln (racist white supremacist) over Douglas (enslaver).

Promoting and voting for the best candidate possible who is likely to win their election, even when they aren’t as good as you wish they were.

Realists (who sometimes appear to be centrists) wish many leftists would value actual harm reduction over purity.

Come on journalists. It’s not “protests leave”. It’s “federal agents cause” or “police cause” residents to suffer because of the escalatory practices of the police.

The only way a chatbot can accurately answer basic level questioning is if staff has put in time to do the documentation. If they have, you frequently don’t even need the chatbot because simple web searches will show up the question and answer or one of the major chatbots will have already indexed the documentation and can answer the question for free.

So trains then. Got it.

Case in point, look at the LA county sheriffs. Known to be home to multiple gang members from at least 1970.

Police are rarely under the strong (or even weak) control of elected representatives in the United States (and probably anywhere.)

Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) voted for it. They should be primaried and vilified. Jefferies didn’t whip the vote, but he did vote against it.

Now it’s important to pressure senators to not pass the bill.

There is a set of warnings for apt which run those calculations and warn the user if there isn’t enough space.

And if this was a teacher with a real incident in a public school, you’d expect their response to involve a parent/teacher conference with administration, possibly a behavioral intervention plan or other outcomes. Email isn’t enough.

So close.

It frequently is just some of the people in those countries doing it.

This doesn’t mean that no one is responsible, but that not everyone is responsible to the same degree. Trump and his enablers? Totally responsible. Everyone else? Lesser responsibility depending on what they did to enable in the past and what they’re doing now to reaist.

The cost of energy inputs for desalinization and mitigating the environmental impacts of saline outflows make it impractical for many users of water (many irrigation, agriculture, and industrial users.) The Sun still operates the best desalinization plant on a global scale.

I’m a fan of the new and notable feed on the main page myself. KEXP is also a great source of new acts which are typically not on major labels.

Snaps are ok, but zippers are my personal preference. Bonus points if I can unzip the entire outfit when it inevitably gets soiled with some bodily fluid or solid.

This is a challenge all distributions have which want to keep stability, which means shipping older versions (ideally with long term support) with only security updates for the lifetime of the distribution. It’s totally ok for upstream developers to not support any of those old versions too; they’re not being paid either.

The openssl change was communicated with upstream at the time, but no one from upstream pointed out the issue (not surprisingly, because the change seemed like an innocuous fix to an unassigned variable.)

We (Debian) fix bugs and send upstream the changes all the time, so this kind of thing happens. (Upstreams introduce these kind of bugs too; it’s the nature of software development.)

Those suck. Even worse are the calendars that force you to scroll by month (or hide the secret menu to pop up the year selection.)

Just let me enter a date!

No safe amount means that any exposure increases your risk of bad outcomes. The increase may be negligible, but if it’s detectable, it’s there. There are many compounds that do have a safe level (like water) but may be hazardous above a specific level.

A more useful metric is often the number of excess cancers (or deaths) caused by different levels of exposure. But that requires nuance which is hard to communicate effectively.

Ploopy trackballs and mice are awesome. Get one!

I use a bunch of sabbath covers for switches that either do nothing or shouldn’t typically be switched. Easier than installing blanks.

You probably already know this, but there is a collectors market for player pianos and other automated musical instruments. See AMICA in the US. (Not sure about non automated ones; heavily depends on the instrument.)