NaibofTabr

It’s your problem. It’s somebody else’s solution.

It’s not final yet.

How could this possibly be GDPR compliant?

Last I heard, federal grants were like 2% of their annual budget.

Apparently it’s even less now:

On average, less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments.

So uh… I guess they already are surviving on their own?

So if it’s too scummy for the BBB, it must be really bad… or they weren’t getting a high enough cut.

I come from someplace far away…

Sam doesn’t deserve this

Do something worthwhile with your time.

Something else.

Personally I just splice all my cables into MIL-DTL-26482 connectors, that way I know they’re solid!

And they’re big enough you can grip it with your whole hand!

“Show me on this doll…”

Don’t be a conformist!

Make your own decisions!

Keep Centronics Parallel alive!

If you aren’t using at least 3 different types of DVI connectors your nerd card is revoked!

AI is a surveillance technology.

There’s this quote attributed to Rabbi Yisrael Salanter:

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

There are two lessons here. First - the best way to affect meaningful change is to start local. Rather than spending a lot of time agonizing over national politics, get involved in your community - your neighborhood, your town, your apartment building, even just the house you share with your family. Your community will take better care of you and the other people that you care about than any national government ever will.

Second - ultimately the only person whose behavior you can change is your own. Don’t be too harsh with other people when they don’t behave the way that you believe they should. Be a more stringent judge of your own behavior.

But temper that with this:

Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much. Or berate yourself too much either.

Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Baz Lurhmann

Ostensibly, that’s what it’s for.

Of course, the online features are bait on the hook.

No, no one should do this.

First off, definitely don’t mail anything hazardous. You’re mostly putting postal workers at risk.

Second, the instructions in it were written by an angsty 19-year old, not a chemist or weapons expert or bomb technician. Trying to actually make these things puts you at risk.

Third, if you’re going to talk about this book then it really is necessary to talk about the historical context that the author wrote it in and how he regretted it after, and what the consequences were:

[…] and the incidents where the book was found among the belongings of the perpetrators, including, but not limited to, the Columbine High School massacre, the Arapahoe High School shooting, and the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, as well as a number of assassination attempts on government officials.

In which case anyone who wants to can read the message traffic and make changes to it before passing it on to the receiver.

No, you can’t conduct business this way.

AI is surveillance tool.

No one can bank online without reliable encryption. No one can transact business online without reliable encryption.

OK… could you just drop everything in your life, all your belongings, your job, and more importantly the people you know and care about, your community, and pick up and leave with just what you can carry on a flight?

It’s not the cost of travel that keeps people where they are. I’ve got three siblings, a niece and a nephew, and a bunch of extended family that are worth more to me than the cost of any kind of political strife or economic difficulty.

Darths and Droids - Star Wars rewritten as a TTRPG campaign, started in 2007, still regularly updating, fantastic (ab)use of the source material

Also check out Dr. McNinja. It ended years ago but the entire series can be downloaded from archive.org (legally).

The spear in the Other’s heart
is the spear in your own:
you are he.

There is no other wisdom,
and no other hope for us
but that we grow wise.

-attributed to Surak

as written by Diane Duane in Spock’s World

Empathy is not some mere emotion that you feel - a fleeting reaction to some external sensation. Empathy is an intentional shifting of perspective, where you experience another’s circumstances as if they were your own.

This is a skill, meaning that it is something which you learn through practice, and that you do on purpose, until the doing of it becomes instinctive and no longer requires intent.

To say “I do not feel empathy” is to give yourself an excuse not to practice. This is a cop-out, used by weak people. Do not wait to “feel” it before you practice. Always remember you do not practice only for the sake of other people, but for the sake of your own growth and edification.