True. Did.

Hello? Are the moderators out to lunch?

6. No US politics

This rule is being rampantly ignored literally every day in this community.

OK that one passes.

But in a way that’s the point. Others here are proposing young actors who have made single-digit numbers of movies. Pretty easy to have a 100% hit rate when you’ve made 4 movies! Tom Cruise has been making films nonstop for 4 decades.

This one I have at least heard of! A critical flop but box-office success, apparently. So not obviously “bad”.

Ha. Indeed I haven’t. But I understand it was not exactly bad.

I thought it was something of a meme at this point, that the crazy scientologist somehow never picks bad projects. To the point that other actors know they can jump in if it gets his seal of approval.

I certainly haven’t seen a bad one, anecdotally.

This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.

Tom Cruise. It’s awkward but undeniable.

Full marks for unpopular (at least everywhere but here).

Counter-moral: any community has the right to decide its own membership.

A genuinely unpopular one and I agree with you!

With a partial caveat on your last claim, which seems a bit shaky. Sometimes it’s genuinely necessary to lock people up in order to protect society. Not very often, but sometimes (and that not mean treating them poorly).

IMO there’s also a case for using prison as symbolic justice. A month here, 2 weeks there, to send a firm message about what’s acceptable in society. But the rule should be community service, not prison.

ITT: lots of morals that most people (here) agree with. Predictable.

Broke the racist Strom Thurmond’s record that had been an embarrassment for the Senate that dated back decades.

Set a marker to show how strongly Democrats reject what’s going on despite their current lack of options for pushing back.

Anyway, IMO this post flagrantly breaks rule #6 and should really be deleted. Put this discussion elsewhere.

Around 82. Most of them by train, bus and boat.

But the country count is irrelevant. Travel should be a personal experience, not a form of conspicuous consumption. Mass airplane travel in particular is completely unsustainable, which is why I hardly ever do it. I’ve been to a ton of very remote and interesting places but I don’t blog about my adventures or post anything on social media. Only a handful of people ever hear anything about it, which is the way things were for everyone until approximately yesterday. Traveling slowly is not particularly expensive, it just requires time and a patient mindset.

Possibly it’s about personality types. I was only going on my own experience. Of always being told by a chorus of experts “Oh no you don’t want to do that!” and ending up being terrified to touch anything. When I now know that I usually had nothing to be afraid of, because dangerous things tend to be locked down by design, exactly as they should be.

it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up

IMO this attitude is problematic. It encourages people (especially newbies) to think they can’t trust anything, that software is by nature unreliable. I was one of those people once.

Personally, now I understand better how these things work, there’s no way I’m wasting my time putting up multiple firewalls. The router already has a firewall. Next.

PS: Sure, people don’t like this take - you can never have enough security, right? But take account of who you’re talking to - OP didn’t understand that their server is not even on the public internet. That fact makes all the difference here.

IMO most of the suggestions here are small beer.

If you want to be very scientific about this, and to calculate cumulative sums of harm, with no discount for the future, then just look for some little-known hydrocarbons corp - it will top the list.

If you apply a future discount, but no discount (or a small one) for the suffering of non-human animals, then some meat company will probably top the list.

Immutable distros like NixOS don’t stop you from tweaking stuff, they just record every tweak centrally, so that you can undo them and do rollbacks.

Others can confirm that I’ve got that right. Haven’t tried it but the idea sounds great.

I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not

Story of my life after 20 years on Linux. Maybe we could call it “modification anxiety”.

I believe this is the case for an immutable OS.

There are vanishingly few tourists in Xinjiang. Indeed they won’t even give you a visa if you say you’re going there.

Yes, I know all that and I completely agree. It’s all but impossible to imagine that the USA will ever be an actually dictatorship, despite the ignorant shrieking around here. Because of its traditions of individual freedom and federalism.

But it’s obviously looking less and less like democracy.

That’s a balanced and fair-minded take. Unfortunately it won’t be appreciated here, because what people are looking for in this thread is catharsis and confirmation of their biases.