The stone age = any time before 2005 apparently 🙄

Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.

Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.

If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that’s an instant and permanent write off. I’d literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.

Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol’ irrevocable “fuck you” from me.

There’s like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don’t roll with or enable abusers.

gum up the trolley

heaves

100% agree. I think its a modern classic.

“Did you tell them they were the orphans’ chips?”

Nacho Libre rules.

I don’t know the name of the instrument but its the one playing the main melody in the credits of The Legend Of Korra. Brings tears to my eyes with how expressive it is.

Theremin is beautiful too when played well.

Bitburner is pretty cool too.

I have to use Discord Canary for that but yeah. Flatpak all the way.

Yeah, its food safe and everything but the whole point of soap is that it clings to the shit you don’t want on the dish so that you can rinse away all the food scraps and oils.

You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.

It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.

I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.

Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷

It’s like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there’s other restaurants everywhere.

So fucking apt. Thanks for framing this the way you did. Really clears up my thoughts on how to discuss this with others.

Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!

I’m not sure. I feel like I’d have stuck with my parents’ political leanings if I didn’t have a catalyst to know any better. I really don’t know though. Maybe I’m selling myself short.

My biggest awakening stems from meeting my wife years before we got together. She grew up in a more religious family than I did and experienced a lot of issues with that. She was hip to the atheism and science scene and opened my eyes to it. I can credit her almost exclusively for being that catalyst to show me that the ability to use reason and logic is a foundational skill that all humans should value and that you shouldn’t hold values that you haven’t reasoned yourself into. She’s amazing.

Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.

And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.

You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.

For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.

AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.

Honestly, I’ve always thought the best use case for AI is moderating NSFL content online. No one should have to see that horrific shit.

CoQ is a masterpiece. Its got some of the greatest writing I’ve ever seen in a game.