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  • In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

    Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring.

    It’s the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.








  • I’m usually a defender of opt-out telemetry in Linux, what with it usually being trivial to untick in the installer, the telemetry not being invasive, the telemetry being private and not being able to identify people, it being used to actually benefit Linux rather than make money, and because opt-in telemetry is useless (as repeatedly stated by multiple Linux projects that I trust, such as KDE and Gnome)…

    That said, holy shit this telemetry collects stuff it really should not be collecting. This is not what Linux telemetry should be. Doubly so from a distro with a troubled past in terms of management and security. This is a red flag.




  • Yes it is what you said.

    The police in all countries exist specifically to do violence against citizens of that country. That is literally their reason for existing.

    You said they’re there to carry out violence on citizens. That’s not what the police are or should be for.

    If you have services available other than the police, it is in your interest to prefer those.

    No. You’re again thinking police are violent thugs everywhere.

    it is in our interest to offload non-violent services from the police onto social workers and other non-violent labour.

    That doesn’t make much sense to me.

    My wife gets sexually harassed at work… is she just not supposed to call the police? My car gets stolen… am I not supposed to call the police? I see a policeman in the street and I am lost, is it wrong to ask for directions?

    I appreciate that the police may be far more militaristic where you live, I acknowledge that I’m lucky in that regard, but you should at least acknowledge that that stuff varies place to place. I don’t think the belief that police should be/are only “violent labour” is a correct one.