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New comment by OldFatCactus in "The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:07:38 +0000

No sorry I'm simply pointing you back to your own rhetoric. You're barking up the wrong tree if you think I'm a NATO or America apologist. I just find it laughable the mental hoops that some people will jump through to avoid pointing the finger at the most violent party to this conflict. There was a diplomatic solution to be found, Russia chose violence. They used lies and deceit to justify it as they have in all conflicts since 1991. Ultimately they wage war for the sake of capitalist ambitions just as all of those other governments and institutions you listed

New comment by OldFatCactus in "The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:43:17 +0000

Ultimately one side invaded another and chose violence instead of diplomacy as you pointed out in your original comment. This party has a history of such violence. Any other extrapolations are mostly moot and pointless

New comment by OldFatCactus in "The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:38:21 +0000

Much of what I have personally (anecdotally) seen around proximate cause seem to point to Russian sabotage. I find arguments like this to be pointless though as we will all have our pet theories and research we want to believe as we are not likely to find definitive proof. It is easier to just point out that the side that gains the most from this and bears ultimate responsibility for this is Russia as that is irrefutable

New comment by OldFatCactus in "The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:29:06 +0000

This both sides rhetoric kinda breaks down in the face of there being a very clear aggressor/invader to this conflict. A dam was destroyed because it was occupied by an invading force. The invading force was there because the invadee would not join the Eurasian Economic Union. Russia did not choose diplomacy.

New comment by OldFatCactus in "The Kakhovka Dam Disaster Revealed an Archaeological ‘Goldmine’"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:09:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_Da...

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021"

OldFatCactus — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:52:10 +0000

A friend that works there told me that they have been polling their employees for strong feelings around going permanently remote

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Private Pilot Ground School"

OldFatCactus — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:01:05 +0000

I'm halfway through Killing Zone right now and I've found it enormously helpful. Great recommendation

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Private Pilot Ground School"

OldFatCactus — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 07:51:39 +0000

Call the FAA yourself and ask. They have a hotline for medical related questions. I have had heart related issues in the past and AMEs gave me conflicting answers about the way forward but the FAA is the source of truth

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Private Pilot Ground School"

OldFatCactus — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 02:41:39 +0000

Fun, expensive hobby

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:22:14 +0000

how do I avoid hardening my arteries?

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Leave Facebook"

OldFatCactus — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:21:41 +0000

I deleted my Facebook almost 8 years ago and never looked back. Was hard at first but great for my mental health. I encourage you to try disabling it for a while and keeping up with your network with alternatives

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:07:40 +0000

He might spend his 2nd term without Twitter or he might follow-through on his vague threats of reforming social media

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Grafana 7.0"

OldFatCactus — Tue, 19 May 2020 03:05:37 +0000

Jaeger is used for traces between distributed systems (external)

Traditional APM products are internal traces

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Grafana 7.0"

OldFatCactus — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:49:40 +0000

have you seen any implementations of internal tracing like APM being used with Grafana? I think lack of a good open source alternative to New Relic or Datadog APM kinda killed OSS monitoring for my company.

The Jaeger integration is a good step in the right direction though, kudos!

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality"

OldFatCactus — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:31:13 +0000

I don't follow what you mean about context, you brought up a bad example and you're moving goal-posts.

There have been numerous revolutions with positive benefits to the world at large as well as to the society/culture in which they took place. I would chance to say that the majority were net-positive. If you find yourself scared of revolution, you should maybe take an introspective moment and ponder why the poor and downtrodden of the world (or just in your own country) would consider you their enemy.

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality"

OldFatCactus — Tue, 12 May 2020 16:39:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Long-term_im...

Just skimming this, it seems the french and the entire world was left better-off actually

New comment by OldFatCactus in "For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection"

OldFatCactus — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:54:43 +0000

No, sorry, my original comment wasn't super clear. I only meant that, in the context of world events of this era, history won't overly scrutinize the USA while it seems to be a generally Western problem. Not interested in getting into a back and forth pasting Wikipedia articles, sorry dude

New comment by OldFatCactus in "For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 08 May 2020 21:36:25 +0000

You can find just as many atrocities and missteps of the law by scrutinizing other 1st world countries. The West as a whole benefits from the system that America has created and protects. History books will give just as much a shit about this era as they have any other and while America has the most dirt on her face, nobody is clean.

New comment by OldFatCactus in "For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection"

OldFatCactus — Fri, 08 May 2020 16:41:43 +0000

little hyperbolic and a tad too smug I think. I believe history will be a little kinder, all things considered.

New comment by OldFatCactus in "Anthos support for multi-cloud is generally available"

OldFatCactus — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:28:30 +0000

I feel like Rancher already does most of this for free