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This isn’t in the summary above, bit the article says Massey called the police about a prowler, that’s why they were there.

Then they showed up and shot her.

Both cops made so many mistakes here. Obviously Grayson just shouldn’t be a cop nor own a weapon, but it’s also clear that these 2 haven’t had any training.

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No way. Top button kid has stolen the show.

He looks like a chihuahua that the wicked witch turned into a human.

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Everyone is talking about radiation but IMO having food and water is more important.

In a large city, things would turn to shit within hours. There would be violence.

Honestly, if you don’t have a relative on a farm within a days walk, then your best bet is a refugee camp.

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If cities are being nuked it probably is the apocalypse.

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I think this is a misconception.

In the 90s it may have been true - windows was focused on user experience on the desktop. Pre- internet, security just wasn’t relevant.

Even in that era though, Linux was running on servers in universities et cetera managing many users.

I guess this is where the reputation arose.

These days I don’t think either is inherently more secure than another in a general sense.

For specific uses cases one might be more “reliable” than another just because it’s used more and therefore has more people looking at it. For example, the vast majority of Web servers are in a Linux environment, but the vast majority of on premise email servers would be Windows.

What I’m saying is, in 2024 the general security of each platform is going to be comparable, and only a very small component in your chain of reliability. Like if you develop a threat model, and write policies, and maintain behaviours in practice, the underlying security provided by the environment isn’t really that relevant.

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Is it really too much to want enough resources to respond appropriately to all cases?

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I’m absolutely ready to admit that I’m probably just too old to embrace this cool new thing but I’ve just never really been that excited about it.

To be absolutely honest, the idea that a corporation can control what I’m seeing in some altered or virtual reality just makes my skin crawl.

I understand that most people won’t feel the way I do. I understand that my preferences may be unusual.

It’s just not my thing.

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in order to cause hurt on others

Actually that’s not my experience. This might be a really simplistic view but in Australia it seems the left supports the working class, and the right favors the corporate class.

My parents, now in their 80s, have been firmly “working class” their whole lives, and are now retired and living on a government pension.

They’ve voted for the conservatives their entire lives simply because of conservative values around social issues. They don’t seem to realise that their preferred party is also reducing social benefits like their pensions.

I see this exact dynamic a lot. As in… “my life is so hard because there are no social services or financial support, it must be the fault of immigrants, so I’ll vote for conservatives who will be mean to immigrants and poor people, and make me feel better about my hard working self”.

Which leads me to the next category… a lot of Asian migrants are deeply conservative, and the conservative party is constantly seeking to make migration from non european countries more and more difficult. My partner is a first generation migrant from Asia, so this is something I see a lot from her and her compatriots.

That said, I guess there’s a strong undercurrent of, as you say, people just being so miserable and beat down they feel like someone must be to blame, and if a conservative govt is going to put some minority under the thumb then that might feel pretty good.

IDK. Shit is fucked.

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Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but here in Australia there’s no benefit to not having a contract.

With our largest telco the contract is really just repayments on the phone. 24x monthly repayments is always the same price the phone is retailing for outright. You could cancel the sim and just keep up the phone repayments if you wanted.

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