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Re:Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:57AM (#50324073)
A more puzzling aspect of it is, if you show up at a rural station near Akita, they'll sell you a multiple connection ticket to a rural station near Nagoya in seconds, using some hyperoptimized mainframe-terminal-style green-on-black text UI. A system that only requires you to know where you want to go does exist, maybe the problem is that every rail company has built their own version of such a system and there is an agreement to not compete online.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:00PM (#50298974)
You take not being subjected to say Marxism-Leninism at every stage of your life for granted.
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:47PM (#50298479)
These are crimes specific to their line of duty where they are attacked or intimidated into not doing their job.

Balancing transparency with not exposing LEOs to another Operation Snow White seems like common sense to me.

Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:55PM (#50297389)
Because of course it is sometimes, despite state level agencies typically dealing with somewhat lesser crimes and not-so-controversial topics, and don't attract neither as much organized crime attention nor a movement to dox and harass its members.

https://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2016/12/14/tbi-charges-mur...

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/indy-man-charged-with-intim... - note the state won't disclose who the victim was

Also it seems like states tend to hush it down to not expose their agents further.

Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:54AM (#50285352)
No, of course no drug cartel, gang or disgruntled citizen would ever do such a thing, they are definitely not doing that in Mexico already after all.
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:47AM (#50284676)
Same reason that FBI agents' identities are classified - so that people who disagree with what a democratically established agency is doing to uphold the law don't go out intimidating or killing them.
Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:10PM (#50284136)
But oil, gas and coal are indeed cool, you get some of the highest chemical energy density substances on Earth for the price of digging. It sucks that burning them reverts the atmosphere to something life isn't really adapted anymore, but the substances themselves are still pretty cool.
A survival guide won't answer a question, you need to search it for some sort of keywords, you might not be using the same term or not know what a particular thing is called, and might end up having to read all of it to find the info you need, or not find it at all.

Navigation is a closed task, A* will always find an optimal route as long as your street info is current, you can't do better than that.

Pretty sure some warnings are just verbal and don't even get recorded.
Every tech giant that fell behind was once regarded as very technologically adept. DEC, Intel, SGI, many of them.
How do we know they don't stop a ton of random people for 5-miles-over speeding and let them off with a warning?
Talos Principle vibes.
Why would you want LLM navigation where offline deterministic navigation have been there forever?
Even if they don't want them.
Hundred thousands, maybe millions of people didn't die in commie repression due to this involvement. If anything, it didn't happen enough.
If by "succeeding" you mean destroying thousands or millions of people's lives by famine, labor camps and executions, then yes, it sure has.

Everyone remembers evil Pinochet who killed some 3k out of 11 million, nobody cares about kind Hoxha who killed at least 6k (likely closer to 100k) out of 2 million, or plushy Castro (10k killed + 70k dead trying to flee out of 10 million).

Those evil US imperialists and CIA agitators, not letting any new countries prosper like DPRK, Cuba and Venezuela, or be free of tyranny like PRC and Venezuela!
Do you only derive anything about police officers, from any kind of footage?

I bet you don't watch police bodycam footage where they go about their duties, help people or detain dangerous criminals risking their own lives and limbs.

I wonder what you takeaway from store robberies' footage then.
You could say it has a sort of woody quality about it.
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:13PM (#50146453)
What namecheap is doing seems to be a great way to lose most of the customers and go bankrupt. I don't think that's what private equity funds want when they acquire a business.
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:08PM (#50146419)
Same here, one scam-like email to just one of the connected addresses (renewals go everywhere), 1 week to comply, domains updated Friday night, "risk and compliance" who are supposed to react in 12-24 are still thinking about it.

Account of 14 years, always paid from the cards in the same name. Can't think of any valid reason to do this, hope they lose most of their customers and go bankrupt.

Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:23PM (#50097532)
We're not talking a finished crime where "peaceful" punishment is an option. It is an ongoing war, missiles destroy cities and lives. When someone is doing that to you, killing them is usually the only way to stop it. Surrendering is not an option, see Bucha.
Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:41PM (#50097193)
While the attack on you is ongoing, yes, fighting back is the only way out. Giving up and dying is not peacemaking.
Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:06PM (#50096830)
Yeah wishing to see people who tried to torture and kill you dead is ghoulish.
There's plenty of high-time-preference crimes.
Prisons have a lower-than-general-population-iq for a reason.
This is why you should only use firefox, with a proper adblocker, for youtube.
Well if one can live to the heat death of the universe I'll count it as prevented, not postponed, death.
Re:Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:33AM (#50054844)
I don't see Britain or Germany setting the goal to reforest to even the current Brazilian cover %, therefore the lesson doesn't seem to be learned.

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