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Satan would lie about his plans to win your trust, and then do all the bad stuff once he had been given control. So… idk man

You can be a member of a labor union without that union being recognized as your exclusive bargaining representative for a certain employer (or whatever unit).

I’m curious (as a recovered alcoholic myself) how you got sober.

Very weird that clandestine imperial gophers start to feel anxious and have trouble sleeping after a while. must be a secret laser

Amodei’s use of “warfighters” (a Hegseth-era neologism for “soldiers”) is truly nauseating.

Public sector unions can’t do the thing you’re describing.

I also remember this, and in fact I found an old Dilbert newsletter from 1996 ("Dogbert's New Ruling Class") where he describes it: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdb/199…

There is a great deal of orientalism --- it is genuinely unthinkable to a lot of American tech dullards that the Chinese could be better at anything requiring what they think of as…

> And yes, ChatGPT is kinda like an addictive drug here. If someone "can't work without ChatGPT anymore", they're addicted and have lost the ability to work on their own as a resul…

Totally understand. With any luck, you and I have played two sides of a dialogue that’ll be read by someone else, for whom it might be quite useful. For that I thank you.

It’s not the cues that get you. That is an idea promoted largely by treatment centers and the rehab industry, who need to be able to plausibly claim they are teaching their custome…

For reasons of personal history, stimulant medications like Adderall are a hard no for me. I am curious, though, about non-stimulant options like atomoxetine, if anyone has views.

I started reading DF when I was a college student, probably in 2002 or 2003. I listened to every iteration of The Talk Show that I can remember --- both runs with your former host,…

At the end, there's one of the craziest Venn diagrams I've seen in a while. The diagram asserts that --- by definition --- you aren't good at your "mission," the world does not nee…

“No mention of openbsd on the internet is complete without a long thread about source control migration.” — tedu@

Well, I'm thirsty.

You sound like you satisfy at least one of the two usual criteria for addiction in the sense 12-step programs use the term. If you ever want someone to show you a program that migh…

Thank you. I was typing out a comment like this in frustrated response to a different remark elsewhere in the thread (“calories in, calories out!”) but stopped. I’m glad I did beca…

That was someone else.

Name collision researcher here! This made me curious and I started doing research on other problematic name collisions. Did you know that Valve’s game distribution service has a na…

I don't know enough about the economics of freight shipping to have an opinion on whether airships make economic sense for that. But for passenger travel, I can imagine a high-end …

“Ah! Well. Nevertheless,”

It’s all over, fat man. You’ll be missed.