They’d come up in large groups of 20-50 monkeys and attack a few houses. They’d surround the house, sit on high ground and start causing chaos by jumping everywhere. Their objective was to be able to enter the houses and grab whatever they could. The strategy was to lock everything down so they could not enter. Regular window glass would not work as they’d smash through that. You needed small enough metal bars. Once everything was locked down, and in the meantime you likely had to throw some of them out of the house, you’d need to go out with a stick and send them away. If you didn’t do that, they’d smash everything you had outside. Being outside with a stick was very very scary. They’d stay away from the stick, but you’d have monkeys jumping everywhere around you and trying to hit you in the back. You’d need a few people to be able to send them away.

I had fights with monkeys before. They stormed our house several times. They are scary and organised.

UN exists for that purpose, NATO does not exist for that purpose.

Tbf I don’t remember many occasions in which people were complaining because NATO should have entered a conflict to stop a genocide.

Serbia never attacked the US either.

Companies can be useless and generate revenue, a gambling company is a good example. I believe it is possible to define their utility without relying on revenue. Talking about the stock market itself however, the utility of stock is to generate revenue for the owner. That is very much like gambling when relying on stock price volatility or growth and it is unlike gambling when relying on the underlying business to generate revenue.

The main difference being that gambling will not reliably provide returns, while stock will provide a somewhat stable revenue.

I do see differences. Besides, gambling is very often not about making money.

The difference is that companies are inherently useful and generate revenue. Stock prices can be volatile, but that does not matter as long as dividends are handed out.

Betting is not useful, it’s just a game.

Vista is the reason I started using Linux.

Food is very cheap and available everywhere. Clothing is basically free, and clothes are now easily high quality.

his and 90% of people’s material conditions are shit

Other people is richer than you does not mean your conditions are bad.

The headline conveys a different message. He made a statement in a public occasion.

He stated that these countries may have interest in joining the war, and that he’d be happy if they did.

He did not plead the UK: pleading the UK would be calling their prime minister and asking them what they want to join the war. As far as I understood there has been no contact with UK officials to talk about this.

Thank you for the article, it really was a great read.

I work in the field of drug development, and I am very impressed by what this one guy was able to do. There’s people who worked in the field their whole life and don’t know even half the things he was able to do using chatgpt to plan out a project.

You should indeed read the article, it is quite a nice read and may show how chatgpt used in a proper manner can be a very useful tool.

Didn’t read the article yet.

I have a good friend who is homeless and begs for money. He says his life is much better than the life of the richest people of just a few centuries ago.

According to the article, this is what he said:

Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.

How does that turn into this?

Donald Trump pleads for UK to send warships to secure Strait of Hormuz

Nice, then I must be mistaken

I’m not sure, it is been a while when I tried last time, but I remember I could not do it. I believe I asked on the kde forums as well, eventually I just classed it as something not possible in plasma and stopped trying to fix it.

No, the main bar can be only on one screen

Yes

I’ve been using kde for years and really enjoyed the fact that it was simple and worked out of the box.

Recently I heard about niri, I had a look and thought it was cool. I set it up with a desktop environment around it and in less than 1 hour I had a working de. I’ve been using it a couple weeks now on my work computer and I have to say that I’m really enjoying it, I feel it makes many operations much simpler and moving around different windows is very easy.

I use two screens, and I really like that I can have the applications bar on both on them, which was one major gripe I had with plasma.

I used to have some fig trees, I’d always have to be careful around them as they’d be full of wasps.

I didn’t know calc could do that, cool!