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I switched to Windows in the year 2000, or 2002, around then. It used to be cool because "the app is just a file that you can place anywhere, or trash when done" was true. They arr…

But the next generation of "a people" are not the same people, and perhaps those people won't, and then where's your "step aside"?

Opinions aren't genetic, so that's not very good logic. I guess the logic depends on a culture passing on a value - by means of words, not by genetics - such as spawn furiously to …

If "take from the poor and give to the rich" means just don't tax the rich so much, that's a mischaracterization of taking and giving.

Yeah yeah, no aesthetic preferences are ever bad, sure. Heard it, don't believe it. Your thing sucks, sometimes that's just a fact.

Joke needs tweaking to take into account that all large bronze sculptures are hollow.

Thrift was formerly a word for profits, now it makes sense. But I recognize the snowclone as a popular 16th century way to form personal verb-noun descriptors like cutpurse, upstar…

"about all of us when it comes to things we are not very competent at", according to the article.

Huh? The point is that the two graphs come out looking the same, making the original no more meaningful than random. Source code is here: https://github.com/pem725/Dunning-Kruger (…

OK, but you didn't apparently read the post you replied to, which says "by mistake, and didn’t even realize".

That is opposite, not the same.

How do you feel about a fleuron dinkus?

It's like saying I am intimately involved in the printer's art. This is usually not true, unless you're involved with a very niche publisher who still has a box of sorts and inky f…

Speaking as a fucker, I think the use of em-dashes has been pretentious since the 1890s. The rise of typewriters destroyed em-dashes already. The LLMs subsequently created an accid…

That's reasonable, except "It can be dealt with by cultural understandings of any imagery shifting, and a general return to older (not unprecedented) information environments". Wha…

It's not very goord.

I agree that rigorous logic shouldn't be assumed to get us closer to Ultimate Objective Truth than other forms of reasoning. It just gets us whatever peculiar oddments we can disco…

This sounds kind of like unreadable code, though. So it's more than just taste.

I know the UK has a lot of wind and solar, and then there's short transport distances: those other countries are famous for hauling goods over long distances through sparsely popul…

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The Toilet Duck brand exists in English. Canard-WC in French, even.

Derivative works? That seems to translate as "because the books are digitized, it's strange and new and we can't allow it".

Do you not have values, and evaluate the things you might choose to do, by light of those? Do you not seek local importance, and meaning, as you strive to do your best by those val…

It's fine, I got a conversation, that's all I wanted. Thank you, by the way. No, I won't modify my behavior. :) Re: the definition, that's exactly what I said in the first place! "…

But those describe a different thing. I use "mutual preference" carefully. Dale Carnegie described this in 1936. I don't remember what term he used for it, if any. But instead of a…