LOGIC💣

“I am starting to regret my vote for Trump.” - David Cross bit from Trump’s first term.

You can’t see people’s faces through a glory hole.

You are closely tying together the timelines for the way that the change is proposed/designed/approved and the way that the change is validated/iterated. There is no need to do that, and I’m not sure how you came to that way of thinking.

You’re acting as if normal people think about things before forming an opinion.

When you want to explain other people’s actions, you should first imagine that they never think about anything, that they’re incapable of reasoning, and that their opinions about others tend to be formed the first time that they notice those others, which is often the first time they are bothered by them.

If you cannot explain their behavior in that way, then you should start to explore the idea that they’re intentionally doing things as assholes. This is essentially the same idea as the old saying, never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Whether you agree with the underlying concept, I find it’s an extremely useful tool to predict the actions of others.

“Killings at sea” is a better phrase than some I’ve heard, but I wish they’d emphasize that we are using our military to murder civilians. They are non-military targets.

They were not charged with a crime. They had no chances to defend themselves. They received nothing remotely resembling due process. They were not convicted by a court, nor given the death penalty. We in the US do not execute people for possessing or transporting drugs.

Our military is simply murdering people.

What? They get to vote for that? When do I get to vote whether we let Qatar have a base on American soil?

Yeah, just for people who didn’t even read the summary above, Kasparov said:

People would have been shaking their heads in disbelief if someone had predicted, 15 months ago, that Putin would annex Crimea and grossly violate European postwar borders.

It was easy to predict that Putin would be violating borders to expand Russia based on his extremely recent history of violating borders to expand Russia.

Although I am constantly disappointed with the state of social programs and funding in America, the one area where we sometimes can compete is in our libraries. My local library lends CDs, movies, and games. Not sure about puzzles. They have a publicly available 3d printer lab and computer lab. They have a large ebook catalogue, and while their film streaming service is frustratingly limited, it does exist. They have all sorts of community events. They host crafting nights.

They host speakers, especially authors, book signings, and special interest events. One of the events even calls itself a convention, you know like comicon, but… well… it’s not really big enough for that to actually make sense. It’s actually a pretty small local library.

Libraries to this day are a very cultural thing in America, and act like a community center. They are a place where even homeless people can go and not be too harassed. And on top of all that, they even lend out books!

I’ve been saying this for a long time, but in software development, we have many practices that I think should be carried over to government.

One example is the idea of doing one change at a time. A decent software engineer would never accept a request that had a lot of wide-ranging changes. They would force all of the changes to be submitted individually, and to be accepted or rejected on their own merits.

Politicians constantly create enormous abominations of bills, like the ill-named “Big Beautiful Bill”. With something like that, individual politicians have their power greatly diminished. They can do nothing but vote along party lines. They probably don’t even have time to read the contents of the bill they are voting for. The only ones who have any power at all are the party leaders and those in the committees where those bills are created. But committee membership is limited.

You can see what happens when things are separated. If your bill is simply about releasing the Epstein files, and nothing else, then it’s very difficult to explain why you’d vote against that. Suddenly, the individual politicians have the power they were intended to have by the founding fathers, as well as the ability to be held accountable by their constituents.

The issue is that Americans on the Left would be offended to learn that their political leader was a complete hypocrite, so they assume that Americans on the right would feel the same way. Meanwhile, the truth is that Americans on the Right only pretend to have moral standards, while in actuality, they will simply follow their leaders regardless of what they do.

Sony has been shit for much longer than 20 years, kiddo.

It’s interesting. I did a quick search, and couldn’t quickly find many complaints about them before 2000, but technical people complained a lot about Sony products back then. The biggest complaint was that Sony did everything themselves. So, every component inside a piece of electronic equipment was made by Sony, and every time they could get away with it, it would have a custom footprint or custom specs, so that it was impossible to find replacement parts without getting them directly from Sony at huge markups.

I think that the concept behind the question is flawed. Robots have no basic reason to help humans, so if any human life gets better, it’s almost certainly because there are humans secretly controlling the robots.

If robots actually did take over, they would likely have some purpose and their goals with regard to humans would be to keep us from interfering with that purpose. Don’t get confused and think it’s going to be like the movies.

In the main picture, about half of those videos use filters that do something based on the location of the person’s head. Unless they’ve changed the definition since I went to college, that would be classified as a type of computer vision, aka AI.

I’d hire a private investigator to find out the true identity of the Batman.

Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You’re literally paying for every ad it shows you.

The question isn’t whether a flung sandwich can cause bodily harm. It’s whether that flung sandwich did cause bodily harm. They do make that clear in the article. The title simply doesn’t reflect that.

Also, like they talked about in the article, the evidence didn’t match the officer’s testimony. He said that the sandwich exploded all over him and got mustard everywhere. But pictures of the sandwich after it landed showed the wrapper still fully covering the sandwich.

The guy who threw the sandwich probably committed some sort of minor crime, but it wasn’t the one he was charged with, and it’s hard to believe the prosecution when their star witness seems to be lying his ass off.

It was also a great reminder to revisit my backup and recovery options which will be one of this weekend’s projects.

If the problem was a power outage, maybe it’s time to think about getting a UPS.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked! by this revelation. I thought previously that it was just a wild coincidence that these two pedophiles and rapists happened to be best friends.

Now I’m learning that these best friends actually talked to each other about the things they had in common. I’ve never even heard of such behavior before.

Boy, he just gets to do whatever he wants, doesn’t he?

I have heard that the Tesla board is stacked with people who Elon personally chose. So that is why they constantly give him money and basically do not act anything like a public company. I suspect they are all stealing from the company’s shareholders.

So just firing Elon is not enough. The board needs to be completely replaced, and the new board needs to file the biggest lawsuit in history against Elon and the former board members. That’s really the bare minimum for Tesla to recover.

But most likely, the company simply needs to go under and let some other company buy their IP.