Not OP, but I think the image and the quote are from this video.

https://youtu.be/iZI4Rh_APFQ

I haven't watched the full video yet myself, so apologies if I'm wrong.

At my current university, I am firstname.lastname-4@university. My previous university, a much smaller one, I was fortunately firstname.lastname@otheruniversity, but the email client informed me there were two other people with my name there. It's wild because I didn't think I had a super common name.

This is an excellent comment, thanks for writing this up

Oh my gosh, I can't believe I never thought of this before, the parody song practically writes itself

I know, right? I bloody love this site and its weirdos

(I realise you may not find such weirdness endearing as I do. This comment is partly a self directed joke because whilst I don't have Opinions on soil like the person you replied to, I live for that niche nerd internet shit (which is one of the things that makes me weird too)

It'll probably be something super obvious and I'll feel silly for asking, but "IS"?

I sent this meme to a group chat of autistics and they loved it.

Yeah, I agree with you. I should have elaborated in my comment. I'm not too opposed to Cloudflare (I even use them myself), but I sympathise with people who are concerned about how widely used Cloudflare is and that this risks making them a gatekeeper to the internet. My beef is more of an "all eggs in one basket" one, which feels especially relevant given that the recent (and in many cases, ongoing) Crowdstrike debacle was able to affect so many because of how the way enterprise level software often involves many eggs across not many baskets.

I don't know how to articulate an answer to this right now, but I wanted to say that this was a great question, OP — there's some really cool answered here

Other freaks love it however

Useful dating advice

Your dog recognises you're trying your best, and is there for you, in the same way that you are there for your dog — one of the reasons dogs evolved to be so in tune with human stress is because often they're more than pets, they're our partners.

"Members of the Recording Industry Association of Japan had taken legal action in the U.S. to demand information on Hikari No Akari's operator from California-based Cloudflare, whose content delivery network the site had used. [...>

"We'll use information that Cloudflare will disclose to hold the website operator responsible and take other legal action," an RIAJ spokesperson said."

Obligatory "Fuck Cloudflare".

That's devastating.

I mourn the exploitation and preventable death of Satnam Singh, whose name I only know because of injustice. I will never know the name of countless like him, though I mourn them too, and takeaway the lesson that if I want to live in a world where this isn't allowed to happen, I must understand what I have in common with farm workers and immigrant labourers.

Like others have said in this thread, it depends on the circumstances.

In addition to that, I would say that the way I think of my own anarchism means that I don't hold myself to strict standards because I'm not trying to build an anarchy, but more anarchists. By that, I mean that in practice, the world is quite far off from being an anarchist world and that if I were to adhere to dogmatic principles, I wouldn't make much progress.

It's a lot less drastic than fighting in the military, but an example of one of the compromises I make is that I have done some activism at the local level regarding access to health and social care services (including accessible housing). I don't necessarily think that these functions are best fulfilled by the state, but also, I can't envision a world without the state (in this domain at least). But also, I don't feel bad about my failure of imagination, because anarchism, for me, is about letting go of grand narratives about myself and the world, recognising that I am such a tiny part of the bigger picture and that I can't do this alone. Along those lines, it's a pragmatic choice to push for better socialised services, even if that means enlarging the state, because it'll help give voices to people who I want to have a say in the world.

It doesn't feel like a compromising of my principles, but a more genuine way of honouring them. Something I like about anarchism is that it's messy, and it's a process. As a framework, it's helped me to grow a lot, and I feel like I need to be open to situations that challenge my principles because I know I'm a better anarchist now than I was a year ago, and dogmatically sticking to certain rules or principles would feel like I have decided I am currently the best I'll ever be. So even though I don't like the thought of it, I need to be open to the principle of having to fight, if it were necessary, as well as possible needing to resist fighting (like Israelis who would rather be imprisoned than be complicit).

This isn't what you were asking about, only tangential related at best, but I really like the work that the guys over at Data Colada do. Example link: http://datacolada.org/104

That sounds extremely cute, thanks for sharing.

What counts as a matching theme?

I see a lot of people who hate her for not being left enough. Whilst I sympathise with that stance to an extent, from the perspective of someone in the UK, the US seems so shockingly right wing that I'm surprised that a figure like Ocasio-Cortez exists at all. That is to say that I wish America had more left wing politicians, but given the current lack, AOC is a refreshing presence.

Eh, I didn't really understand ACAB until I was in my early 20s, and I don't think I was any more brainwashed than the average UK child.

I can see an alternate world where someone like me, who had a strong sense of justice, might have wanted to join the police because of believing that the police can or should be a force for good.

Even though I was pretty solidly leftist in university, I still held the view of "oh come on, all cops are bastards? That seems extreme" and I thought that ACAB was mostly a cathartic but needlessly inflammatory slogan. It wasn't until I actively sought out opinions and writing from people who earnestly believed ACAB that I actually understood that it's not a comment on individual cops, but on the system itself which basically precludes the existence of non-bastardy cops

I know in at least some of the BSOD cases that it was an automatic update that wasn't possible to delay. An acquaintance of mine told me that they have previously complained to their IT support about the disruption of auto-updates at inopportune times, but IT said it's out of their hands for security updates because of regulatory requirements.