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I can't tell if maybe you're joking, but is there another way to pronounce decal? I could in theory imagine someone saying it like "dick-al" but that seems unlikely.

American here, I can't speak for Canada, but I don't think I've ever heard any Americans in the US in real conversations say it differently than it is in Star Trek.

I've lived in nearly every major region of the US, so if there's a place where they still pronounce it like "dah-ta" it must be a very small regional thing. Normal working class people having actual conversions everywhere I've ever been say "day-ta".

I've read before that Patrick Stewart is the reason for that changing, but I don't know if that's true. Seems like an outsized influence for one guy to have on culture, but maybe!

There are a ton of great UI libraries available, many with bindings for whatever our preferred languages are. We don't need an LLM for any of that.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon is a great epic feeling fantasy read. I recommend it heartily; I believe it's her first book (?) but it's incredibly well written and immersive.

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson was a step out of my own comfort zone, since I don't typically prefer real world settings, but I enjoyed it immensely. It's set in basically the current era, and the main character is a hacker who ends up accidentally getting involved in a magical hidden world.

The Shades of Magic series by V. E. Schwab is a lot of fun. Alternate universe fantasy with tons of magic.

Creation of the Gods was awesome, IMO.

According to Wikipedia, it's "the most ambitious and expensive Chinese production ever made." If you like epic fantasy like LotR or GoT, then you should definitely give this movie a try.

The second in the trilogy came out in January, but I haven't had time to watch yet. Looking forward to it though!

Technology is not the problem, it is a tool. As with any other tool, it can be misused; that doesn't make the tool the source of the problem. There is nothing inherent about technology that means it must be used for evil.

The real problem is how capitalist industry uses that tool, and every other tool at their disposal, to exploit and discard humans, and the collateral social and environmental damage wrought by that system.

Capitalism is the nefarious problem with technology, not the technology itself.

Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.

On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that "magic mushrooms" was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.

How can the govt prove that I'm not part of a fetish group that gets off on intentionally sending alphanumeric gibberish to each other? Encryption? What's that? I'm just randy, that's all.

Isn't that trivially simple to address though? Just add :z to the end of the mount value string, and restart the container.

I worry that approach would increase feelings of entitlement from people who don't understand the process and effort involved with development.

It systemizes the notion of "I paid you to do X, where is it?", a perspective which some annoying people already have even without giving anyone money.

Additionally, how do you determine how much payment a feature is worth?

What if the community is split about the direction of a project, and there happens to be two "pay for high priority" demands that conflict with each other? Who gets their feature that they paid for?

I also think that the people actually working on a project should be the ones setting the direction and priorities for it, not whoever has a big enough purse. We don't need to replicate corporate models that deny developer autonomy.

Humans also carry diseases and destroy the landscape and each other. By your logic, we shouldn't care about anyone dying, or try to empathize with anything outside of ourselves. Seems like a sad perspective, IMO.

For what it's worth, lanolin is not vegan, despite the pictured ad claiming it's ethically sourced and implying that animals are not harmed. Lanolin is produced from wool, and if you care about such things, often a result of unpleasant (to say the least) farming conditions for sheep. Probably there are some sources that aren't so bad, but apparently there are reports that wool industry practices are pretty horrific to the sheep. (Read more here and here if you like.)

On the positive side though, there are plant-based lanolin alternatives, including vegan nipple creams. I couldn't find any source that weren't also ads for a product, so I'll leave the search up to whoever is interested in them.