Seems like a recipe for subtle bugs and unmaintainable systems. Also those Eloi from the time machine, where they don’t know how anything works anymore.
Management is probably salivating at the idea of firing all those expensive engineers that tell them stuff like “you can’t draw three red lines all perpendicular in yellow ink”
I’m also reminded of that ai-for-music guy that was like “No one likes making art!”. Soulless husk.
This guy is going to be responsible for a lot of suffering and death.
If he was visited by a plumber, and I was on the jury, I would nullify.
Good. Escalate further. I want to see musk sobbing in fear before the lights go out of his eyes.
holy serpent - endless : favorite doom https://holyserpentband.bandcamp.com/album/endless
Joyride! - favorite pop punk https://joyride-sf.bandcamp.com/album/joyride
Hoping for more visitations from Saint Luigi upon certain people. Shit is bad out here.
Sure, but every time someone’s like “I’m going to do a game of secret modern day vampires doing political intrigue in DND” I’m going to judge them.
Short answer: If they don’t know anything else about you except you’re “Christian”, they don’t know if you’re like a left-wing unitarian or a horrible “conversion therapy, make being trans a felony” evangelical. The former is pretty safe, but if you’re the latter hanging out with you could be dangerous.
Longer thoughts: Many christians are not good about queer topics. This can include “we should torture them” (“conversion therapy”), laws that make life harder for them (eg: banning marriage), and lower grade unpleasantness like “i’ll pray so you don’t go to hell”.
Many christians also don’t really do much to stop their peers. It’s not really your responsibility to fight everyone on every topic, but if you keep going to a church that wants to oppress queer people, you’re supporting something that’s hostile. I don’t care how nice their pastor is or how much fun the choir group is, if the church wants to rip apart my friend’s families and you support that, we can’t be friends. Find another church.
Lastly, and this is more general and less about queer folks, most christians are not very good at it. The bible has lots of stuff about love your neighbor (and your neighbor includes your out-group) and not fixating on material wealth, but I see a lot of so-called christians doing squat for the homeless and vulnerable, voting for cruelty, and sitting around in their nice house with their big screen tv. (All that prosperity gospel, “sin all you want and be forgiven” stuff seems like nonsense.
Could still happen.
Wait, did you mean the lawyers working on their behalf or the rioters? Honestly, either could go and I’d be okay with that.
Violence is not inherently bad. The badness depends on the context. So “doesn’t that make them more-violent??” appeal is technically true, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
“Cutting someone open and taking out an organ” is pretty fucked up, unless it’s in a hospital and they’re removing an appendix so the patient doesn’t die.
Punching someone in the face is usually bad, but if that person is planning to go on and do mass murder, it’s still in the black.
How do you tell they’re a nazi? Well, sometimes they tell you. Sometimes they wear a clothes that signal it.
Sometimes people act like “if you can’t write an algorithm to perfectly decide how to behave in all cases you’re wrong” and that’s just not how human behavior and decision making has ever been. People make judgement calls with incomplete information all the time, and that’s okay.
The whole “most startups lose a lot of money and fail, but some will be wildly successful” model is kind of rotten. Especially when the "wild success " often means breaking laws or becoming consumer hostile.
Yes. Unfortunately, if you try to slug a nazi a bunch of pearl clutchers will pop up saying violence is never ever ever acceptable oh dear we need to compete in the marketplace of IDEAS and follow the LAW we might not like that the law says the [outgroup] are to be forcibly relocated but it is what it is oh dear.
I don’t expect everyone to be on the front line throwing a molotov, but I would like if more people wouldn’t actively support the oppressors.
It’s like some eternal September shit. Of course a private for profit entity like discord is going to eventually turn to shit*. It’s like the scorpion and the frog fable**. People should know that. But there are just so many people who this is their first time ever encountering these ideas.
And some people just don’t care about things. I had that galaxy brain realization a couple months ago. Imagine if everyone cared just a little more. So many problems would just go away.
*Valve arguably being an exception so far, but that could change on a whim
** https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
You have to remember a lot of people are colossally stupid, but still are in positions to make decisions.
I often feel like we as a society let “everyone is entitled to their opinion” go too far. Like when it’s “I like vanilla and you like chocolate” that’s fine. Let people enjoy their flavor of choice. But when it’s like “I don’t think those foreign people should live” that’s just the same kind of thing at all.
And closely related, when someone’s like “I just don’t believe in vaccines” we shouldn’t just let that be.
I believe French does this as well. To answer in the affirmative to a negative question, you use “si” instead of “oui”
“Si” is also the word for “if”, which has probably confused people.
(top search hit, not sure if good, but on a quick glance it looks correct https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/si-in-french )
Groundhog’s day if the day is pretty normal. Not like a day where I have the flu or AWS is down. There’s a lot of books to read, movies to watch, one night stands to have.
Also I think my friends would believe me that groundhog day was happening. Might be able to get a slightly better situation than the movie.
Oh yeah I got a cheap wireless mouse and keyboard for it, worked fine. One or two crashes, but mostly just fine.
Laws only matter if they are enforced.
The right wing doesn’t care about law or consistency. They care about in-groups to protect and out groups to bind.
If “how do treat strangers” is a viable metric for assessing if someone is a good person or not, the the right wing are not good people.
I think at least New York now requires jobs to post a range. I haven’t even seen bullshit like “$50k - $500k” - maybe the law was written strongly enough that they can’t loophole it that way.
Are they remaking it with the same bizarre D&D 3.x rules system? I think I’d pass. Those rules were bad.