I would suspect never.

Either they are obsessed with their “work” and do it far more than that, or they do nothing.

Left half of my face black, right half of my face white. Then I could fight those no good people who have a black right side of their face and white left side.

Well now the question is why they don’t put an extra AA battery in the glove box.

Yep, and I see evidence of that over complication in some ‘getting started’ questions where people are asking about really convoluted design points and then people reinforcing that by doubling down or sometimes mentioning other weird exotic stuff, when they might be served by a checkbox in a ‘dumbed down’ self-hosting distribution on a single server, or maybe installing a package and just having it run, or maybe having to run a podman or docker command for some. But if they are struggling with complicated networking and scaling across a set of systems, then they are going way beyond what makes sense for a self host scenario.

Based on what I’ve seen, I’d also say a homelab is often needlessly complex compared to what I’d consider a sane approach to self hosting. You’ll throw all sorts of complexity to imitate the complexity of things you are asked to do professionally, that are either actually bad, but have hype/marketing, or may bring value, but only at scales beyond a household’s hosting needs and far simpler setups will suffice that are nearly 0 touch day to day.

Bad publicity is relative.

The “bad publicity” when he is an odious asshole? His base loves that, they think they all should be able to say that stuff out loud.

Legal problems? Well they firmly believe it’s just a conspiracy to witch hunt and every case serves only to fuel their persecution complex

Anything else? Lies by the liberal media, they see the truth on Fox News. When Fox News even reports on it, then they shun them and off to newsmax or just their favorite Facebook posts.

Keep in mind that the founding fathers were guilty of what would have been considered a lot of grave crimes by England, which was formerly the jurisdiction that applied to them.

So they probably wouldn’t have had a huge appetite for blocking political rights of criminals given their recent standing.

if you can afford kids or not.

To amend that, if you are responsible and think you can’t afford kids and have the restraint and planning to select not to have children… there are plenty of people that can’t afford as many children as they have.

In fact of those that can “afford” kids easily, they are still more likely to stay at one or two.

Exactly, even if 7 billion people died, well there’s still a billion people. If 99% of people died, well there are still millions.

But that if that “idiot” does propagate, but so does everyone else, no skin off the species back. If the selective pressure returns, well then the others keep going.

This seems like an overblown concern. To prove it, I’m going to make a video putting my finger in the way as it closes and I’m sure it will be fine… /s

Don’t know that I’d characterize it as being “victims”, their media outlets have chosen to fuel anxiety and anger that was already there.

The media is culpable for pouring fuel on the fire, but the fire was already there. They are emboldened to be loud since they find such loud agreement from media and online, but they already were thinking the same basic things.

Well, they could co-opt our brains in various ways.

That asinine stuff at an office? Maybe it’s work the computers weren’t good at.

Doing manual labor? Maybe it’s controlling some robot doing a real world analog.

Some unskippable ad that you passively thought about? Maybe it represented work being done.

Maybe it is intruding on “spare” brainpower and if the balance glitches in some weird way? Reset you with “just a dream”.

I think there’s enough room for a “wetware” computing explanation. However I could see it being more than audiences were really prepared to think through. I think your “we need the humans safely out of the way of harming us, but we don’t hate them and we’ll keep them alive and engaged in a safe way” probably would have worked well, but they wanted the AIs to be cartoonishly bad in the first movie, and that would have been “too nice”.

Back when I was in school, it was a few single story buildings and then a trailer park of more classrooms.

While I see a lot of posts that would have this problem, at least the discussion are a bit more balanced compared to when the same stuff would happen on Reddit. So for example fuck cars is about the same in terms of posts, but here I tend to see a bit more back and forth and a balanced perspective on how the comments are up voted. On Reddit, any comment vaguely questioning the circle jerk will be down voted into oblivion and receive nothing but angry replies.

The amount of apolitical posts is a bit disappointing though.

Broadly, I wonder if these folks have no memory for how they were regarded.

The silent generation was broadly characterized as all being lazy beatniks.

The boomers were all characterized as being lazy hippies.

Of course gen xers, millennials, and z have all had their turn.

Every generation broadly bemoans the laziness of the young generation. I recall reading someone who sampled media going back to 19th century, repeatedly finding the “young folks are lazy” rhetoric that is always present.

But you were in debt, and the example given of a home mortgage is pretty definitively a debt worth taking on, as rent and increasing housing costs will easily outpace accrued interest.

You should pay that debt down quickly, unless you’re mortgage rate is crazy good and investment returns are crazy high, but that’s not usual. But taking on a mortgage is about the only way you can get into owning a house except for being a trust fund baby.

Some people may have to suck it up and tolerate a car payment, of they can’t afford a 6 to 9 thousands dollar car, because they need transportation to get to work, and any car cheaper than that will be very expensive to repair.

Carrying over any balance on a credit card? Yeah, that’s always a terrible idea.

Yeah, I’ll confess to not bother looking too deep into his stuff, but I occasionally see an exchange where someone asked for advice and it is always the exact exchange over and over: “I make minimum wage but I just had to buy a 90 thousand dollar truck and an having a hard time with finances” “You shouldn’t have bought that truck, get rid of it and don’t borrow money like that”

Like why would any vaguely functional human ask that same question when they have to already know the answer. I’m wagering that most of the “questions” are fake. I just can’t believe there are that many people that wouldn’t already know his answer if they vaguely know of him.

I guess we could be grading on a curve of people that view Ramsey as brilliant…

I’ve been sick of him from the first moment I met an adherent. I mentioned how I like to avoid debt and pay it down early and the person said “Oh, so you listen to Dave Ramsey?” I confessed to having no idea who they were talking about, and they swore that I was being obtuse because I couldn’t have come up with “interest sucks” on my own.