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They literally said, "Violence is necessary and justified in various situations, which means guns are necessary and justified in various situations"

The further you have to narrow down the set of speakers for whom it's a basic color term, the less of a basic color term it is for English as a whole. We don't have to have this ar…

With all due respect, you're one individual and basic color terms for a language are not determined by a single individual. If you look at usage via proxies like Google ngrams[1] o…

Pink and red are also separate basic color terms in English!

I didn't say that English speakers only see blue or green. I said that those are the two basic color terms that cyan is in between, and cyan isn't a basic color term and thus colla…

This test is really using how English organizes color. In English, blue and green are basic color terms ([ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms ]( https://en.wikipedia.o…

Actually people will definitely insist on "no that's blue" or "no that's green." My husband and I have frequent disagreements about a specific shade of blue/green. I think it's blu…

I had an interview in 2024 and my interviewer was CLEARLY doing other stuff during the interview. So a very different experience.

Musk is a clearly brilliant man who does not know how to keep his mouth shut or not act like a teenager. I know he doesn't need my respect... But he's certainly lost all of it by n…

Probably because major news outlets are reluctant to include pictures of penises, even stylized ones, in their articles.

Nobody is against hard work, but what's the point of working harder than you need to for a company that has shown that hard work is no defense against being laid off?

Why would anyone be motivated to work 60 hours a week on Sergei's say-so when Google has amply demonstrated that they will lay people off at random regardless of their work ethic o…

Signing a petition is not the same as quitting, but that is something (and I hadn't seen it).

Have 500-750 key employees departed? Or even threatened to depart? OpenAI has (well, had) 770 employees, you think Microsoft will lure away 70-97% of them?

Google, according to the article, has no moat either.

Having just been laid off from a megacorp, I find myself back outside a technological walled garden for the first time in over seven years. In the past I've done Android developmen…

I think having children is pretty selfish also. You bring a child into this world... for what? To see yourself continued in the next generation? To make some future friends for you…

Really? In this comment page alone we have shit like: "Final point, and one that I am cautious to make for not wanting to offend anyone needlessly: I know plenty of singles and cou…