It's common in many religious communities to not write the name of God out. I think it likely comes from the Jewish tradition.

"Bröther, may I have some öats?"

What would cause an increase in the number of open lower paid and/or service industry jobs while simultaneously reducing the number of openings in tech?

World Cup / Summer.

typically unemployment rates are seasonally adjusted.

Every single one of those examples is both valid and - I believe, at least - misunderstood.

Musk has a singular goal as far as I can tell: to make humanity a multi-planetary species. All of those things are testing the boundaries of what's possible in areas that will or could be very important for building a permanent settlement on Mars.

I posit that while there's much room for debate around whether or not those projects are viable, as far as I can tell everything Musk has done has been in service of building the corporate framework, talent pool, skills, and technology necessary to colonize Mars.

It’s a noble effort for sure, but he’s burned so much goodwill with most people because of his deep alignment with persons of questionable character.

Ok. A permanent settlement on Mars. Given the personal control structure at play in his companies giving him autocratic control there, why would anyone believe he wouldn’t be anything but a Martian autocrat, and who in their right mind would willingly submit their own sovereignty to Emperor Musk the First of Mars? It’s not exactly like you could change your mind and walk away. You’d be literally putting your life in the hands of this wildly erratic person.

How about we get our own house in order before messing with other planets?

I'd like to see _some_ evidence for this story.

Rather than going into detail, getting myself on yet another watchlist, and possibly inspiring someone to do something both criminal and counter-productive, I'll just quote Patton:

    Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

That's one of my favorite verses, specifically because it leaves determining what is in fact Caesar's as an exercise for the reader.

"Most people", meaning "most people in your social circles" presumably - because that's certainly not the case where I am, and I'd like to see some polling data before considering that it's the case globally. I seriously doubt it.

When I say most people, I mean most people. Media reports of polling data: - https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/52279-net-favourability-to... - https://news.gallup.com/poll/702440/israelis-no-longer-ahead... - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/06/01/an-inside-job-... - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-japan-most-people-h...

None of those even contain the string “terror”.

I didn’t take it that way at all - rather, Arch is the only one that does it “right” with the AUR.

If you want a usable system, you enable AUR. It's not 'doing it right', it's avoiding responsibility.

Depends on who 'you' are. I have one package I installed from the AUR and it's from a corporation that just repackages their builds. The problem is always who vets the packages. I trust the Arch team and I trust that one corporation. Also to use the AUR it's a different command, so I can't get surprised by an AUR package. It's not a pacman -Syu is going to pull in a new unknown to me AUR package.

It's putting the responsibility on the party most capable and interested in evaluating the packages for security.

Yep.

Chad was one of two people who materially impacted my entrance onto the tech/startup in the early 2010s. In particular, he moved heaven and Earth to make sure I got to attend a conference when my employer decided to cancel my tickets shortly before I was planning to leave.

His PO Box is on his blog, send him a letter, tell him so. It will be worth the time to do so.