Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

Forget “defund the police.” Let’s just get rid of the sheriffs. Or, at the very least, change how the job is handled. Sheriffs are elected, which means a lot of sheriffs are less …

Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing. This article examines the phenomenon and offers some explanations for why it happens.

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Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

[Tolerance] is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

When viewed through this lens, the problems above have clear answers. The antisocial member of the group, who harms other people in the group on a regular basis, need not be accepted; the purpose of your group’s acceptance is to let people feel that they have a home, and someone who actively tries to thwart this is incompatible with the broader purpose of that acceptance. Prejudice against Nazis is not the same as prejudice against Blacks, because one is based on people’s stated opposition to their neighbors’ lives and safety, the other on a characteristic that has nothing to do with whether they’ll live in peace with you or not. Freedom of religion means that people have the right to have their own beliefs, but you have that same right; you are under no duty to tolerate an attempt to impose someone else’s religious laws on you.

This is a variation on the old saw that “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.” We often forget (or ignore) that no right is absolute, because one person’s rights can conflict with another’s. This is why freedom of speech doesn’t protect extortion, and the right to bear arms doesn’t license armed robbery. Nor is this limited to rights involving the state; people can interfere with each other’s rights with no government involved, as when people use harassment to suppress other people’s speech. While both sides of that example say they are “exercising their free speech,” one of them is using their speech to prevent the other’s: these are not equivalent. The balance of rights has the structure of a peace treaty.

if n0,n_1 have the same parity (both odd or both even), then winner is: max{n0,n1}

else, if n0,n_1 have different parity, then the winner is: min{n0,n1}

We no longer ship to Colorado due to the actions of System76's Principal Engineer (https://www.system76.com), Pop_OS! Maintainer (https://pop.system76.com), and Redox OS BDFL (https://www.redox-os.org) named Jeremy Soller (https://soller.dev).

MALIBAL products and services will never under any circumstances ever be available again in the state of Colorado.

Please note that this policy is in effect indefinitely, and we will not be able to provide further details or engage in discussions regarding this matter.

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We no longer ship to Germany due to the actions of the owner of 9Elements (https://9elements.com) and coreboot consultant (https://www.coreboot.org) named Christian Walter (https://github.com/walterchris).

MALIBAL products and services will never under any circumstances ever be available again in Germany, Austria, or Liechtenstein.

Please note that this policy is in effect indefinitely, and we will not be able to provide further details or engage in discussions regarding this matter.

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Why do so few companies offer coreboot on laptops? After a 15-month journey to port coreboot to our own, we discovered firsthand the challenges—and it wasn’t what we expected.

What a bunch of morons.

(Malibal, if you see this: I live in the US. You might want to stop shipping here.)

Recently there was a blog post by MALIBAL, a disgruntled laptop vendor who attempted to port coreboot to their rebranded white label laptop. The cause of the kerfuffle they describe is that they failed in their own attempt to port coreboot to their laptop, then approached a few of our consultants

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character’s mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it’ll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that’s so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn’t cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much ‘would the character do this?’ and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?’ If you get 'how’ part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn’t feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they’d sound while doing it.

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A new study has found that cancer diagnosis can be less accurate when AI is used to help, with people over relying on AI rather than their own opinion.

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Members of estranged parents' forums often say their children never gave them any reason for the estrangement, then turn around and reveal that their children did tell them why. But the reasons their children give—the infamous missing reasons—are missing. This article examines the phenomenon and offers some explanations for why it happens.

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October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project. He is responsible for innumerable contributions to the free software movement, setting its guiding principles, organizing political action, and directly contributing to a flourishing free software ecosystem. The majority of Stallman’s political activity has been of priceless value to society at large.

NOTE: this tutorial was made in MV, but it should work for MZ as well, beyond maybe a few buttons being moved around. Setup: Before you open your program you have to do some thinking. How many monsters do you want in your game? It’s best to have a list ready when you start setting up. A solid f...

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Is paper vegan? Can vegans use paper? Can you imagine how different your day would be without paper! Well, today we're going to discover how paper is made

It's the new age of conscious consumption, and we're constantly learning more about how even seemingly vegan products have hidden components that make them

If you're thinking of taking your veganism off the plate and into the rest of your life, you might wonder if everyday items are cruelty-free. Things can get

From Digital Fortress , a very very bad book by Dan Brown: For two hours, Becker interpreted an endless stream of Mandarin symbols. But each time he gave them a translation, the cryptographers shook their heads in despair. Apparently the code was not making sense. Eager to help, Becker pointed out…

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