Lol I cany’t to say combine war and genocide and put in misogyny. Glad someone beat me to it.

If it’s not available as an Azure service it won’t be used (except for uptime kuma).

What Clive Barker movie do you live in?

Who didn’t?

Yeah. Commits going right to prod makes my skin crawl.

Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.

https://angryflower.com/348.html

I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.

The dominance is in service to private profits. They keep telling about “America and it’s interests” where the “interests” involved are profits.

Let’s not put Descartes before the horse.

The left wing of the right wing. Sounds right.

Ohhh, that touched a deep well of hatred. My first engineering job was full stack and we had a highly modified Bootstrap front end. I’d build the thing they wanted, and the designers would get looped in for QA and insist that various pieces had to look like their little wireframe down to the pixel. I mean look, it’s easy right?

I asked why they are insisting on constantly going against the standards that had been adopted company-wide. Did it stop? Why no! Did I get a suit down with my boss? Why yes!

He is/was a cool guy and saw my perspective but also gave me precious advice on how to survive.

Pfft 😂

Roko’s basilisk is The Game for futurists.

Here you go, enjoy. You win!

Also uses ableist language.

I worked for them for about five years. This is accurate.

I experienced this and still get PTSD flashbacks 😢

This screams Dresden Files.

As an exmo, it is specifically a ban on coffee and tea (not herbal tea, caffeinated tea). Some are strict and extrapolate this to mean “caffeine” and some are literalists that chug Mountain Dew. It’s very weird. As an aside: one of the names of ephedra is “Mormon tea”.

Honestly, I count using the four fingers for 1-4, close the fingers and extend thumb for five, then extend each finger again for 6-9.

The right hand counts tens and works the same way. Can count to 100, and it’s pretty intuitive. It’s like if positional notation was discovered way earlier.

Yup. Casually pivot right while winding up with something like “That’s an interesting question! There are many factors to consider and I need to understand the nuance and meaning of the question to be able to answer properly. First, most people don’t even know what Hamas is, so we need to clarify that. Next…” And let the flow of conversation process from there.

“I’m not like a socialist. I a socialist!”

https://youtube.com/shorts/7OoEtoAwwis?si=8dA8ZuqdnyS5Ig7t

Well spotted. I used AI to fill in the text based on where the story was going and how I wanted things to play out. It was an exercise in learning to use AI tools and a bit of a lark. I presented it as is because I honestly never intended it to be serious.

I was inspired to create a version of this as a series of field reports. Here’s a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MpvOlC7rOBCSNjAH9tMKW6y3eCgyPfvhvoE6P8dPraM/edit?usp=drivesdk