“hype-reactive”

Legos

Failure. Downvote. Move on.

We have kids saying U R . Emoji taking the place of words is just natural devolution.

“effect/affect”

There are three meanings to each. Good luck.

Isn’t our red regime still a minority by, like, one?

And we don’t pick for perfection; we pick to get the best of who can win, and that’s not orange today.

There is no situation so bad that Peter Polyestre can’t make it worse.

People who don’t realize that tolerance is a social contract will tolerate assholism, which abets the assholing.

That’s got to stop.

My peer used the newton for comp sci class notes. Daily. Exclusively.

Then she went on to mastermind the behaviour and tactics of Myth: The Fallen Lords.

It’s tenuous, but I say that’s causal.

bad faith arguments till

Is that a particular kind of cash-drawer ?

Copilot leads me on flights of fanciful code that is absolutely not possible, and the joy turns to tragedy when I find out it lied insidiously about a particular niche function the entire time.

Saddle that sentence and ride it to work as it runs on and on.

Divisive lies for hatred and anticonstitutional genocide

who defines what these divisive lies are?

its one of those “I don’t know where the line is but I know it when I see it” things, but with some easy math. Given our rights should stop only when it can risk someone else’s life or liberty, does the speech in question go past that?

How do we adjust our thinking for hundreds of million people; for resources and concerns that go beyond personal obligations under the social contract; for protecting things we need 3 generations from now?

It falls apart without handoff to some kind of ethical framework and a team of elders to review cases against it and evolve that framework – and look how easy it was to subvert America’s legal elders in just a decade.

But will even that decide whether there’s a difference between a zygote and a tumour? Will it prioritize the person or what may one day become one? Will it take responsibility for dying in a controlled fashion when there is no future due to terminal illness, a non-viable body or an unredeemable crime?

The day the KKK has control over your friend’s day-to-day existence, that will be a relevant policy.

Headphone jack. I just can’t say this enough, despite the fact I have apple’s wireless earbuds (of some clique name) in my pocket at this very second. Headphone jack.

Don’t ask for it for yourself. Ask for it for the d-bag sharing music of some guy grunting over a drum track on the bus. We need to save him from the damage to his reputation when his friends remind him they knew he listened to such trash later when he needs to deny it.

who’s entire job

I agree. Who IS Job? Entirely. Just a fictional man or the basis of a remade Sumerian fable repackaged by the Greeks for the Essenes and their conquest?

Works for Switzerland. Why not Nepal?

regular software engineers

Regular competent software engineers

Same thing. Otherwise there’d be air quotes.

Any idea what an HBCU is, for people who anticipate writers will dereference jargon the first time they use it in a piece they wrote like proper adults?

Yeah. There were, for the record, 7 mass shootings in the week leading up to this (non-mass) shooting. 30 victims not appearing in the news, and I want to hear why they’re not as important.

I had to reconsider. My thumb joint was grouchy after a few months.

Edit: my clone reminds me he absolutely loves his neu-logitech-trackpad thing he uses. He likes that it’s got three buttons instead of two and a dinky little rolly-nub, and he wouldn’t part with his without a fight (and he’s trained in pistol, c-7 in ‘party mode’, sword, staff, hands, and impolite words, so he’ll have it even after the fall of society)

Anthropic could have bought

You think buying the books would let them plagiarize ? That doesn’t seem to be normal in the “book buying” process.