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I've thought down lines like that, too. Then I ask myself how I draw the line between who's a kid and who gets decapitated, and why anyone else should trust my judgment. After that…

Maybe they do respect themselves and have decided the money in the job is just a means to other ways of respecting themselves that don't involve benefiting MS or customers or users…

Relevant Discworld: The imp gave a nervous cough. “Good for you!” it said. “You have wisely purchased the Dis-organizer Mk II, the latest in biothaumaturgic design, with a host of …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony should be n our vocabulary.

> Anyone with any meaningful experience with using machines should know better. I think this should be "experience with making or maintaining machines" instead. It's those cases wh…

This sounds flippant, but I agree with it, so I'll expand on it: "Property" is a useful social tool for managing stuff that is scarce and which can't easily be shared. Food, tools,…

Root^4 cause: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/trauma-trooper/

I can print webpages straight to my Epson TM-T20IV. My web browser just sends it to CUPS.

Thing is, AI will also be able to provide substantial support for software it writes. And it will make self-hosting a lot less painful, too. Quirky behavior will still happen, but …

I would much rather have been called a computerologist than a computer scientist.

I could get behind "exercise", as in your rights (while you have them), and your power (to stop relying on specific conveniences, businesses). Combines with imagery of gaining stre…

I haven't seen his whole filmography, but I can see Asteroid City in this, yeah.

This was the very first thing I thought when I was taught about requirement traceability matrices in uni. I was like "Ew, why is this happening in an Excel silo?" I had already kno…

> One guy with a tendency to procrastinate extrapolates his expierence as a universal truth without providing any grounding. Other commenters here are doing that too, more or less.…

Web Annotations are what we need right now. Let people write and scribble all over webpages and share with other people in an open, vendor-neutral format. Choose who you trust, fro…

It very much is not.

"We can X yet technology has been unable to even Y" is one of the most famously repeatedly defeated positions in history. People have had to run marathons to keep those goal posts …

> A permit isn't about seeking permission Then they need to be renamed.

It's worth noting that a lot of parents forced to go through with unplanned pregnancies are uninterested. They didn't want their children, and they will do the bare minimum necessa…

Sounds like we need to shorten the work week

> the ability to organize things freely in space This is the key. It's not enough for digital tools to just put things in folders or tag them. It's the links themselves that need e…

> I think this falls squarely in the realm of bureaucratic administrators who have nothing better to do than assert their power and maintain the illusion of a connection between ta…

At a 10 year length of copyright.

Why can't the boys have female role models?