You give your boarding pass to someone else and they get on the plane instead.

And when the ID match and picture check at the gate doesn’t pass? Have you flown, like, ever?

Doesn’t seem that complicated.

I’m a twin, and I’m not sure my clone could pass on my ticket and passport. It’s not complicated, but it’s better security than TSA.

When the enterprise OS company I worked for in 2k1 was considering forking a Linux distro to offer as a freemium product, they evaluated enterprise Linux and Debian.

Debian lost then as its package format had weaker validation and consistency guarantees. It’d’ve been harder to support.

The packaging in both hasn’t changed much, except RH forgot how to use /etc/alternatives properly and now has some ungodly rinkydink thing supplementing it like a colo bag on the side, but the validation difference is still there.

Maybe that was why. Both are riddled with fridge art - oh hi Systemd, network manager, et al - but both are generally similar other than packaging and pipeline.

being ran over

being run over

The incidence of kidnapping was WAY higher in gen-x days with no cell phones to rat out the pervs. And even when it was way higher, most child abuse happened by someone well-known to the victim. Stranger-danger was unbelievably rare.

My entire school in the 4th grade (so 9yo) lived next to a busy highway used by full 80t logging trucks, dump trucks, semi-trucks with full loads, in an area where snow is common in winter. We’d trudge down the boulevard of the highway, alto sax or trombone cases in hand, lugging it all to school and back. The whole class would. All grades would, from 4-7, hair and clothes flapping in the wind as a semi would roar past.

Then from the 8th grade we’d attend the school in the next town over. We’d get ourselves to the bus stop and disappear for 8 hours, completely out of contact, the eldest child with a house key and no ID, no phone, no tracker watch, no geofencing.

Tell me again how modern life is dangerous.

“an overregulated economy, high energy costs, high labour costs, high taxes and a declining level of education and qualifications.”

Yeah. Because self-regulation and no taxes certainly worked for, for example, America’s skills and education level.

Didn’t his base want to get rid of all the Mexicans?

Yes.

They’re not gonna let the Mexicans live in Mexico any more than this assclown’s best bud bibi is letting gazans live in Gaza. Any land grab will look the same. And wow, do they have no fucking idea what they’d be up against.

Trump could unite the cartels …against America.

It’s like a bleep on YouTube over some naughty word a guy says before he mows bad guys down with his machine gun. YouTube wants to protect its already-confirmed-adult viewers from hearing the spicy words as it could detract from the purity of the bloodshed.

News flash: New Mexico renames Donald Trump

I learned this from my dad. The hardest part is to be nice to absolute assholes, but I’ve seen it does improve relations when you have to work alongside them.

Yes, I’m pissed that I have to mod my behaviour to be extra-nice to these dicks. Yes, I do enjoy that they coordinate better with me after I’ve nicely indicated where the last joint effort could have been better with that coordination.

It’s all about how we be professional knowledge workers work and coordinate like adults and express disappointment and a wish for improvement, I guess.

pidgin

I think that’s not right

high maintenance costs of VLANs

Said no one ever, until now.

and Party On, dude.

there’s no ring on the finger.

Use your words, son.

Nothing. Now go watch Matrix again.

carried by gorgeous visuals

She sure did.

Yes! I can’t find that Thompson Twins mix on streaming any more. I may have to actually self-host just to play my own rip of it.

I dubbed it into a blank and then cut it into a loop do it’d repeat forever, and used that as tunes when I need to walk somewhere really far. It’s etched into my brain.

Loved it for the memes, but now I’m coming back for the tunes.

Later: Wait. I already have every Offspring album. ;-)

Ridicule.

You go get unanimous agreement, and then we’ll talk.