My brain just went to “you were trying to cross the border right? Same as us, and that thief over there”

No, that would be a cassowary

There’s also the “0.25 × 4” thing. ε is set to 0.25, and φ is set to 4. No nuance, no thought about how the economy actually works. Just make it so they can pretend they’re thinking about it how demand will change.

Ah yes, because the eastern front never happened

Given president musk owns a car manufacturer, I’m not surprised they’re going this direction

I’ve seen a musical called Rent. It’s about people in New York who are homeless/stuck in poverty around when HIV was at its peak. Honestly I don’t know much about it, I mostly saw it because a friend of mine was performing, but it’s definitely not a typical upper middle class perspective.

On those last two, watch this old ad

My personal rule is “do I know why that word is a swear word, and is that a dumb reason?”

That means Anglo-Saxon words like fuck or shit are fine. They’re swear words because of William the conqueror invading England, and making all the nobility speak Norman. Then all the peasants started to use some French words to sound more posh, so the Anglo-Saxon words became ‘less pleasant’ than the Norman words, and that meant shit, fuck, and similar words just got kicked out.

On the other hand, there are swear words I won’t use. Anything with a terrible historical use, an actually bad definition, or any religious connotation (yes, I’m religious, but I’d still keep this if I wasn’t). Example, I won’t use the word damn as a swear word, since I would never wasn’t someone to be sent to hell. No, I don’t believe that saying “damn you” will actually damn someone, but I just think it’s a swear word for a good reason.

That kea description is wrong. They are not an anti hero, they’re just a menace. Imagine the destruction of a genius toddler with wings and a knife. That’s basically a kea.

As long as they’re shorts, only showing one vague, unverifiable, third or fourth hand anecdote each.

Probably better wording is a minimum wage shouldn’t be needed

It had just been long enough that I forgot about that shit. Now you had to go and remind me.

I return the favor.

THE GAME

Not so much special education, more special exam conditions.

I have ADHD and dysgraphia (chronically bad at handwriting). For exams I was allowed to opt into using a computer to write for my exams in high school. All of the special exam students were in a separate room from most of the students, and it was disconnected from the internet and there was a teacher watching us much more closely than the main group.

This was really good for me, and I would have done much worse if it wasn’t for this. Sure, I didn’t use it for every exam, since typing maths is slow and painful, but for the essay exams it was great.

In defense of this, there are situations where it’s good advice. Bullies that only use insults and social pressure are easily dealt with this way. Find a friend group with no connection to them, then ignore them to get rid of anything they can use against you. This is basically how I dealt with the people bullying me at school.

But I agree, if they do anything beyond insults and social pressure, you need some way of confronting them or leaving them entirely.

I think most people who actually work in software development will agree with you on those things. The problem is that it’s the marketing people and investors who disagree with you, but it’s also them who get to make the decisions.

I don’t. I’m one of two software people at a manufacturing company of 60-70 employees, so I just get to sit in the corner and do my work, then leave at the end of the day. Honestly the best part of my job.

I have a suspicion that “health insurance ceo” is going to rapidly climb the deadliest jobs list

Absolutely.

A. Even with how shit the world is there’s enough good that exists for it to be worth it.

B. If I didn’t exist, I would never have a chance to help improve the world in my small way.

Feanor: no

Morgoth: and I took that personally

That would make a very different Spiderman