Yeah. It really started with Reagan, that amoral fuck. But I’ve read that it started immediately after RvW.

Shouldn’t the French Baby have a little white flag?

I kid! I kid!

Psyche

Khan Blues

How You Like That

In Maidjen

Lots of good music from other countries.

My distain for Jill stems from her complicity in being a spoiler pawn, and mostly spouting nonsense. Nearly all of her attack rhetoric was aimed at the Democratic party; she said relatively little and the Republicans and consistently went after Democrats, just like a good asset would. Her messaging was overwhelmingly negative, and she associated with all of the worst people. I haven’t seen her do anything productive or positive. The fact that her campaign received significant funding from Russian-backed organizations is incidental; it only explains what she really stands for. I’m opposed to all external financial influence in US politics, whether Russian or AIPAC.

Hah! I’m fortunate to not really be much of an anything guy, which seems to have the advantage that I get to have favorites. I’m in [email protected] which I enjoy immensely, and I love the photos, but I’m not really an owl guy so to speak, so I have my 2 favorites. Same with spiders. And dogs. I guess I am a cat guy, but while I love all cats I still prefer certain breeds. Maybe I just have an inclination to bias.

Those were taken with my Canon 10D. I’ve always stuck with SLR interchangeable lens cameras, so for any given time period my picture quality gives me a technology edge. I didn’t really switch from film to digital until IL SLRs were available. Anyway, thanks for the compliment. I have several more of her, but I figured those were enough for an ID.

And no kidding - that’s one of our lady’s cousins, right on the cover!

It’s the easiest retort, but no, Stein is loathsome for many more reasons.

I’ll consider the Green Party again once they DX Stein, although they’re going to have to purge a lot of their current Stein-supporting leadership to right their ship.

And I’ll stop hating on Russia once they get their bitch asses out of Ukraine and release their occupation of Crimea, pay reparations for the illegal invasions, and withdraws from occupying Georgia. Putin also needs to be tried in international court of the criminal invasion of Chechnya; a death sentance would be appropriate for that one, as it was predicated on a false flag in which he killed a bunch of Russian citizens to foment.

Petty little dictator; the only thing more pathetic is our cheap, knock-off, wanna-be copy cat puppet.

Words are cheap; actions matter. Judging by behavior and not rhetoric goes a long way to a more realistic perspective of the world.

Oooh! Oooh! Are we being brigaded? So exciting! Many of the posts seem to have been of critical, fascist bent, but I wasn’t sure until now.

Yeah, good cause, but not with a Russian stooge there.

Whenever I see this picture, I like to imagine that the parents also closed the window behind it, to get some peace.

Yes! I always think about the fact that the Hebrew law against eating pork is because the ancient tribes were migrant herders, and their competition was farming communities. You can’t herd pigs, but you can herd sheep, and you don’t want to enrich those other people so you make a dictate against eating pork. Not politics, but economics, although in a lot of ways that’s a distinction without a difference.

That’s a bold assertion, and I’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean.

Are you saying happiness, health, equality, and justice are quantifiable? Because economics plays an enormous factor in all of these, and ignoring them ignores the most important factors.

But, I agree with you about the theory vs practice part. It’s why I don’t think Communism can work: because - I believe - humans are fundamentally selfish. It’s natural for us to care about ourselves. It’s easy for us to care about our tribe. It’s hard for us to care about our greater, regional community, and it’s really hard for us to care about the entire world. Every time the group gets larger, then the more one has to sacrifice things that benefits only themselves, and the more selfless people have to be. Functional Communism requires people are selfless, to give up immediate self-benefit for people they don’t even know. I think, evolutionarily, we haven’t gotten there yet.

Capitalism “won” because all it requires is people to be selfish, and that’s easy. There is no better evidence for this than Atlas Shrugged, a story about thee justification of being selfish.

I think the MSC certification may only apply in the US. The UK probably has different certifications.

I wonder what percentage of Medicaid recipients voted for Trump.

I have a spelling checker enabled for most non-compiled files. Sometimes it really annoying, but sometimes it catches stuff like this, so I leave it on.

Yeah.

I know enough to know I don’t understand economics, so I try to not confuse my opinions with knowledge, but for a while now I’ve had the feeling that the main defect in capitalism is that it allows things like the stock market.

Companies are beholden to shareholders. When the shareholders aren’t the employees, this creates a conflict of interest, and the shareholder profits are always prioritized over employees.

Allowing investments by anyone other than employees could be made illegal; you leave the company, you get cashed out. I don’t know if this would have perverse effects, like allowing CEOs to accumulate stock and become robber barons, but maybe regulatory charters could address that.

Again, I don’t know, but my observations over the course of my career always lead back to the stock market.

• CEOs aren’t necessarily evil. They’re driven by shareholders to increase profit, at any cost. If they don’t, they are replaced by someone who will. Source problem: the stock market.
• Companies are driven to grow, and growth translates into bonuses. Shareholders, however, get paid first, so even if there’s growth, many employees will still see no bonuses or salary increase. Source problem: the stock market.
• Most companies get squirrely when discussing bonuses, performance, and such because it does at some point come down to: “yes, the company grew, but no there’s no benefit to the employees because we have to pay the market first.” This makes employees unhappy, frustrated, and confused, and really pushes an immoral burden onto managers who have to essentially lie to the people they’re managing. Source problem: the stock market
• People can literally make fortunes doing nothing more that working the market. They produce nothing. They contribute nothing. This just seems fundamentally wrong.

But without The Market, how do we do fund retirement? Maybe when people leave companies, they don’t forfeit their shares. I don’t know. There’s so many questions to address, and the answer isn’t simply “make investing in companies illegal.” Not simply that, but increasingly I think that’s at least part of the solution.

I’m a moderate capitalist. I think laissez-faire economics is criminal, and I don’t believe that communism is an answer. But capitalism, as it exists today and especially in the US, is clearly broken.

I suppose that, even without the stock market, we’d have Elon Musks and Jeff Bezoses: robber barons. So there’s something else needed, maybe regulation about how much more the top paid employee can be compensated than the least compensated employee. Maybe we do away with salaries, and everybody is awarded stocks and receives their stock percentage of profit for the year. Employees can vote to reduce some return on their stocks to grow the company. At least it’d be simple and understandable: we had a shitty year, so everyone gets less return. We had a great year, everybody gets a bonus.

Like I said, I’m not an expert or the right person to propose solutions. Solutions are needed, though.

Is your server a dedicated server, or a VPS? Because if it’s a VPS, you’re probably already running in a VM.

Adding a VM might provide more security, especially if you aren’t an expert in LXC security configuration. It will add overhead. Running Docker inside Docker provides nothing but more overhead and unnecessary complexity to your setup.

Also, because it isn’t clear to me from your post: LXC and Docker are two ways of doing the same thing, using the same Kernel capabilities. Docker was, in fact, written in top of LXC. The only real difference is the container format. Saying “running Docker on LXC” is like saying “running Docker on Docker,” or “running Docker on Podman,” or “running LXC on Docker”. All you’re doing is nesting container implementations. As opposed to VMs, which do not just use Linux namespace capabilities, and which emulate an entirely different computer.

LXC, Podman, and Docker use the underlying OS kernel and resources. VMs create new, virtual hardware (necessarily sharing the same hardware architecture, but nothing else from the host) and run their own kernels.

Saying “Docker VM” is therefore confusing. Containers - LXC, Podman, or Docker - don’t create VMs. They partition and segregate off resources from the host, but they do not provide a virtual machine. You can not run OpenBSD in a Docker container on Linux; you can run OpenBSD in a VM on Linux.

If you buy more expensive tuna, you’ll get cuts that are clearly from one fish. Albacore, for instance, I’ve never seen come in that shredded form.

Also, if you’re interested in sustainability, look for line-caught tuna. It’s not the only sustainable fishing practice, but it’s an eat one to remember. In the US, there’s an MSC certification on the can that’s a reasonably indicator that the company practices sustainable fishing.

If you’re getting cans full of flakes, it’s probably not all from the same fish, or even the same kind of tuna.

Nice. Jelly.

Man, where do you live? I’m in Minnesota, and our kiwi have to come from halfway around the globe. $1/lb sounds like a fantasy to me.

I once dated a girl who grew up in Hawaii. She used to mock us mainlanders for buying starfruit. First of all, because she thought they aren’t a very good fruit, but second because apparently where she grew up, they were something of a pest plant: they were everywhere and dropped their fruit on the sidewalk and you’d step on them if you weren’t careful and it’d make a mess.

It’s all perspective, huh?