Referring to people, staff as resources. Nice and dehumanizing.

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Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.

Accomplishing difficult challenges & goals feels rewarding, pretty sure it’s mostly dopamine and some adrenaline

A person born in 467953 is -465928 years old

Paul says a lot of things that contradict Jesus, just like the gospels contradict a lot of things in the old testament.

All of the Judaism spinoff books change the original theology to match their new conceptions of what a god is or should be.

None of them go into enough detail about how the foreskin blood magic works though to really be enticing.

My favorite is probably Russell’s teapot, but Daniel Dennett had some good ones in the intuition pump book too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell’s_teapot

It demonstrates the burden of proof is on the person making claims, including if the claim is unfalsifiable.

Carpal tunnel slasher can’t hold a knife

Monster sanctuary (turn based monster collector) and Roboquest (arena shooter) were a couple from recent years that stood out to me

For older games nethack and dwarf fortress are great if you can look past the graphics

Swamp thing from the saga of swamp thing by Alan Moore

There’s a minimum speed on highways because it is dangerous to slow below that limit, the stopping distance for 70mph is around 240 feet and 2.5 sec for perception & reaction.

I think what they mean is the picture is implying it’s due to generational changes when you could find a younger looking 34 year old then and an older looking 34 year old now. It’s a sample size of one. By definition that’s argument from anecdote, there’s no way you can infer generalities from that without being hasty.

Yeah plain text based & image only memes

I put on my robe and wizard hat, that dancing baby gif, all your base, etc

There was also some push back on posting images with text embedded because it makes the text unsearchable/not compatible with screen readers at the time/forced font and color that can make it harder to read, but then the image macro sites took off that made it simple for anyone to create from a template and there was no turning back

Code written by software doesn’t mean AI unless you ignore compilers

Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article

The command line is an exceptionally useful tool, you may want to spend a little time getting familiar with it and common command line tools that would probably make self hosting almost anything easier.

It’s like wanting to learn to play guitar but not learning how to restring and tune it, sure it’s not necessary but you’re going to be overly dependent on others to do something you could learn for yourself with a little time and patience, and it will probably broaden your perspective on what you can do once you do get familiar with how to pipe commands together and combine basic tools into something more sophisticated and complex.

Sounds good, how do I subscribe to your zine?

Ligma Balls, cousin to Seymour Butts and Hugh Jass

JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, Bank of America, etc

Almost exactly 56 years ago when Senators were cutting PBS budgets because they don’t understand the importance of childhood education and mental health

https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA

Unfortunately their disproportionately overvalued federal representation and votes due to the electoral college they are dragging the rest of us down with them