NaibofTabr

Also, Chinese tourists everywhere.

And god forbid you ever have to be near any of the Saudi royal family.

All the rules are written in blood.

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki…

Seriously, fuck Pearson. Garbage company.

The other leg is AWS. If both go down, it’s stone knives and bearskins.

*edit: somebody beat me to it

The statement in your posted image frames the interaction in question (“small talk”) as purely transactional. I am working inside that context. You seem to be drawing “understanding” from some external context which has not been presented here.

people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone to value and attempt to connect with

Strictly based on OP, people who value small talk assume every stranger is someone who needs to be assessed as a possible threat, and must “prove that we can get along”. They might be someone to value and attempt to connect with, but that is indeterminate until tested. The small talk is the test.

So… if you don’t live your life automatically assuming that every stranger is a threat, you don’t waste time and effort with small talk.

supagreen

There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.

What could possibly go wrong?

Ooh, that’s gotta hurt!

You must be fun at parties.

Flatpaks are better than Snaps, but properly maintained dependency trees and SBOMs are best, by a wide margin.

Roblox didn’t just “make it easy”, it’s their entire business model, which is the problem. Watch the videos. The discussion isn’t about how much of a percentage Roblox takes, it’s about how kids basically get pressured to work in digital sweatshops to create the content which is what Roblox sells.

It’s child exploitation for profit:

investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

No one should patronize Roblox. They exploit child labor for profit:

investigation: How Roblox is Exploiting Young Game Developers

Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

When you hear “Roblox” you should think “child exploitation”.

You must be using the wrong repositories… try enabling apt --please-dont-track-me-fbi

But a proper package manager is better, and we already had that.