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The pilot provided firing solutions for heavy SWAT ordnance, which then subjected the ragweed people to low-level, round-the-clock saturation "being in jail".

IMHO the evidence suggests it's both -- plus, everybody knows the Tortured Artist is always going to lash out, and the Money-Men are always going to scheme. I suspect the one is us…

Oh, I imagine we'll keep trying. Each one of us, shaped by both the differing environments we were nurtured in, and our individual genetic nature, will try different ways and means…

Why would it not be relevant? Naturally-occurring materials have a much better chance of being biologically uncontroversial when introduced to the human organism -- not that eg cya…

Yes! Well, not exactly: play the Enhanced Edition [0], which modernizes only the mouselook, keyboard controls, and compatibility, but leaves all other aspects unchanged. Frankly, t…

But isn't installation via curl more of a PEBKAC issue? You don't have to pipe it to a shell immediately -- pretty sure you could curl the install script and manually verify it. An…

Nothing has been presented that suggests that the teachers' union wanted this to happen. That "article", an editorial from a right-leaning source, doesn't support the claim that "t…

This is delightful -- a piece of comment-performance-art! To any confused readers, consider the second paragraph in the context of the first .

>Recently, these unions succeeded to lowering testing standards for graduation in blue states to mask the worse job they’re doing teaching our kids The link provided shows that, in…

I suggest "ecks-or". This developed in university CS labs, as a result of exchanges like "OK are we going to finish the shell project tonight or shall I just slam my head into the …

You maintain a connection to the telephone network, which the telemarketers utilize in an entirely uncontroversial way to speak with you. "Using the web" is like "having a telephon…

>- refactor "broadly" (say, "rename all variables to match the following style" or "turn this class into a dataclass like XXX" or "transform the SQL queries into builder queries us…

"Genuine People Personality", eh? >“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybe…

Western culture, as putative shaper of behaviour as expressed in the parent comment, even makes it into economics/psychology itself! Most psychology studies are done on WEIRD [0] p…

Is this question in reference to what the imaginary construct "society" should want, or actual choices, made by the people who run things, about the way the world is arranged?

I prefer the term "5 dollar wrench attack" [0], per the relevant xkcd. [0] https://xkcd.com/538/

>Much rather have a robot policing me than the local ex-quarterback who could just barely be bothered to finish his GED Er, what? Who do you think is showing up shortly after the d…

Back in highschool, my friends and I got kicked out of a buffet restaurant. Every movie I've ever seen a poster for suggests that it's "Only in Theatres", yet I've held many a DVD …

I know there's a lot of acrimony surrounding this fellow; the top comment is an excellent perspective on it, I suppose. That said, as awful as this may sound, that type of behaviou…

>JRRM I know of JRR Tolkien, and GRR Martin, but... As Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll wrote, "If your thoughts incline ever so little towards fuming,” you will say “fuming-furious;”…

>has evolved in modern literature to any item [which can] cause death when an image of them is mentally constructed The excellent and memorable science fiction short story BLIT [0]…

To be honest, some strange underdeveloped artistic [0] part of me wants the logos to be oriented the same way, but I grudgingly admit that the current position of the thunderbird i…

I do like this idea, and other ideas like this, but can't help but observe that it's inducing a sort of functional privation without a corresponding counterbalance. We can't just w…