Huh, weird. The only thing I can think of is to check /etc/security/limits.d to see if there’s another conf file in there setting it to 4096.

Are you sure you really need 1048576 open files? It seems like a lot. But you’ll probably want to set “soft” as well as “hard” limits. Then you need to log in again for the change to take effect.

I was assuming that most scenarios where you’re asked to spot the worm farmer are bogus.

You can probably get to 99.9% accuracy by just saying “none of those guys run a worm farm” every time.

The second law of thermodynamics.

They’ll need to give Delaware more votes in the electoral college as well to account for its massive dollar-weighted population of corporations.

Good luck finding someone to explain why an entire thread of hundreds of comments exclusively about hating on Catholics suggests the presence of objectionable religious prejudice.

I normally react by ignoring it until it goes away. Doesn’t work for everyone of course, but if you only started getting it a few days ago there’s some chance that it might work for you.

If you change the question to “please demonstrate why social media was a bad idea” you got some great answers in this thread.

There are of course many good reasons to disapprove of the church. People with some passing knowledge of them often feel inclined to take advantage of every opportunity to show it off, despite their total ignorance of every other aspect of the faith and its history.

Religious prejudice will presumably continue to be a popular pastime for the next millennium as it has been for the last few.

Holy shit that’s the one. For a minute there I wondered if I had just imagined the whole thing.

The efficient market hypothesis.

In 1980s Canada there was a brief period of official enthusiasm for physical fitness branded as “Participaction” and not only did they measure the weight and height of all the elementary school kids, they also tested us to see how far we could long jump, how fast we could run, how long we could hang from a bar, and probably other things I’ve forgotten. I was pretty good at hanging from a bar.

Of all the accounts I ever noticed it’s got to be George Takei.

Inequality is bad for quality.

Most likely they are pointing out that you lack a certain subtlety of understanding and have made a mistake.

Based on everything I learned about history from watching Blackadder, probably not.

Where do you draw the line between green and salty? There isn’t a line between them, they’re two different dimensions.

There’s other social media?

I guess there’s also IRC, matrix, and individual forums here and there but it seems like fedi is an easier habit to get into.

Your instance is literally called “dot world”