The trick is to have a really good imagination so imaginary-you can perform all stupid without consequences. The process of training your imagination to do this is called “education”.

Name and shame?

All with plenty of “NO LOITERING” and “CUSTOMERS ONLY” signs to min-max value extraction.

A small mercy of losing your country to oligarchs is that you're under no obligation to save them from themselves. Well, until the mandatory conscription stage, anyway.

3 months of reliable weekly pump-and-dumps? And by “we”, I mean Trump and friends.

I thought Evangelion already had a FPS.

Okay, Ender Wiggin.

“Dude, how do you care about anything this much?”

If you're hot, then giving randos your phone number is a recipe for stalkers.

Everyone should have multiple phone numbers, each with expiration dates that vary according to how long you expect to interact with them: 1 day for food delivery, 1 month for dating, 1 year for classmates, coworkers, or family. 10 years for close friends.

“You are reading at college level.”

Translation: “You are baseline literate.”

Fixed: Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with raped an underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says

A minor cannot consent.

Based on my cheatsheet, GNU Coreutils, sed, awk, ImageMagick, exiftool, jdupes, rsync, jq, par2, parallel, tar and xz utils are examples of commands that I frequently use but whose developers I don't believe receive any significant cashflow despite the huge benefit they provide to software developers. The last one was basically taken over in by a nation-state hacking team until the subtle backdoor for OpenSSH was found in 2024-03 by some Microsoft guy not doing his assigned job.

“That all life beyond this planet never existed, no matter how irrationally improbable that may be.”

Reminds me of a Fear Factor event my Mormon church group had in which one “disgusting” feat for boys was to shave part of their legs. That particular feat was cancelled when some boys who didn't subscribe to traditional “manly” values happily started shaving their legs for points. Unlike swallowing goldfishes, eating grasshoppers, or attempting to drink a gallon of milk, leg shaving was a step too far for church leaders.

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So… they removed Wordpad to push people into using Word… and now they removed Notepad to push people into… this monstrosity? Why does Notepad support hyperlinks now?

Back when I used Notepad, it was to strip out rich text formatting and reliably get consistently distinct text, especially if I configured it to use a monospace font. Now I have to worry about embedded hyperlinks sending me to God-knows-where?

If the operating system is FOSS, I'd be willing to pay 50% the cost of a Windows license but to the FOSS maintainers and the upstream distros they rely on. Gotta close the causal loop.

Just render the page, page renderer.

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Tech bro billionaires are the only geniuses on earth

Relevant excerpt from The Internet Con (2023) by Cory Doctorow about the folly of thinking tech CEO monopolies are justified due to merit. Later in the book, Doctorow explains how the recent (since the Reagan presidency) appearance of big tech monopolies was instead due to failure of the US DOJ and FTC to enforce anti-trust laws after Robert Bork successfully lobbied to have the Chicago School of economics's consumer welfare doctrine (monopolies can be good if companies pinky promise to lower prices for consumers; see Bork's 1978 book The Antitrust Paradox) adopted by the US Supreme Court.