Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It’s grim, but think about it like this. If you were in the gardening industry, wouldn’t it be good for business if your neighbor started a garden in their yard? Even if you weren’t directly in the gardening industry they may want to buy things like decorations to go out there. More time outside? Sun screen and bottled water are things you’ll need. Plastic bad for the environment? Get this new reusable water bottle that everyone is using!

    It’s similar with war. It’s not so much that it’s the killing specifically, but regardless, it’s a massive endeavor that needs lots of supplies. Think about all of the logistics involved in shipping someone overseas and maintaining them there. Even if companies do it for cheaper, they’re not going to do it at a loss. The same way we see companies getting excited to cash in on the AI craze, we’ll see companies excited to try and extract whatever possible value they can out of war.

    And honestly, same thing with genocide.



  • If something is a bash built-in run help blah for it’s “man page”

    But yeah, man pages tick me off. Wait until you learn that there are sometimes more than one per command. I have to Google which page is which because they’re all for specific things. man foo is the equivalent of man 1 foo. What’s annoying is that the few times I’ve seen something referenced on another page the entry usually just says something like it’s on “the relevant man page” rather than just telling you exactly which.