Used it mostly for cockpit-docker. Sadly, IBM decided to totally uproot (i believe their most popular) module to leverage podman over docker. First it was CentOS, now this.

I remember GME and what happens when big fish comes and publicly demands a big chunk.

Stocks are not commodities, offer is highly inelastic. They are precisely limited and traded as such. Especially when we are talking about profitable and political-weight-size media company.

Rubber band can't dynamically detect and repair weared off molecule clusters.

Mammals are highly adoptive by the design, a living organism consists of trillions programmed and partially controllable nanomachines.

Body has autonomous and centralised systems, which checks and sends hormonal signals and redistribute resources from other parts and could directly command specific cell groups to grow or change behavior in a chance to increase organism survivability.

Assassination. Burglary. Similar to abortion, people are going to do it whether or not it's legal. It will never have an "end". It's one of the oldest professions in human history.

Some might argue that assassination and burglary have a victim where prostitution does not.

There are arguments against prostitution as a victimless crime, but it is not straightforward in any argument to demonstrate victim and perpetrator like it is with assassination, burglary, assault, etc.

You're seriously out here comparing consensual sex between two consenting adults to murder for hire? You can at least try to make a point in good faith first.

I never voiced my attitude towards legalization of prostitution. I addressed very specific weak argument.

Sorry, if you found my comment rude, i assure you that this was not my goal.

You used abortion there. I don't think we could get a consent from fetus, law just assumes that female parent have a power over it's life until some development point.

People consensually participate at gambling, dueling, pyramid schemes, become criplled drugs and alcohol addicts, selling themselves and they family to slavery, do suicide.

Nor consent, nor something being an old and persistent part of the human culture are good reasoning.

I said sex work is an old profession to exemplify why banning it doesn't work. I certainly didn't present the age of the profession as the sole reason for legalizing it.

I don't think you consider assassination and prostitution equivilant crimes, yet you made the comparison. Why? What's the point of taking something out of context to invalidate it?

If you have reasons for opposing the legalization of sex work, they're completely lost on me. Maybe start there instead of pedantry.

Election rigging is a finite resource. After certain amount regime loses it's legitimacy. This in turn creates a regime phase transition, which in certain scenarios could be not fatal (as Belarus and Venezuela examples shows us), but very painful for the elites and increases all sorts of risks, especialy for current incumbent.

Also there are investors, external and internal, which are too all over risks, this damages economy and national currency.

Election rigging is a renewable resource. At the start, you can tilt the results a bit in your favor. As you gain power you also gain more influence and popularity, and then you can build deeper structures of corruption, which enable further election rigging. The cycle continues until it implodes with a revolution. Then the citizens are left with a broken government - after removing the corrupted parts - and must rebuild everything. The lack of structure allows more corrupted players to enter, and that's why a single revolution us not always enough to move a country from a fake democracy to a functioning one.

Approach for energy comparison of solar travel and orbital launches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget

There is nothing with business protecting their interests with lobbysts or without.

Only people who you could blame are lawmakers. They are the people with real power and your interest representatives.

Legal status is just an international politics bargaining chip and should not be considered a replacement for semantics. Terrorism - the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

TS is the most ergonomic and flexible type system i worked with. It has some deep quirks, but end-user app developers rarely have to do anything with those.

Miss it a lot when i have to push some python or golang code.

AWS is not a monopoly in any sane definition of the word.

So which tech companies are monopolies? All of them have alternatives and competition.