@SoldierOfCode all models are wrong, but some are useful. I think that distracting ourselves with whether the almighty entity exists prevents us from examining entities that, in practice, just as almighty to us

@jestdotty your bad experience with applying the tactic says more about the recipients than the tactic

@Demolishun for bonus points, fuck up the lens of your main webcam.

@retoor I never read Harry Potter.

Just say "no", and don't explain. Explanations can be picked apart, but the word "no" can't. Works every time. If they ask "why not?" just don't answer.

@galena cars are the dominant species on this planet! No other species influenced the world quite as much.

@ANTIASYLUMIST so Bluetooth never worked for you on Debian?

@ANTIASYLUMIST
> plug
> bluetooth

Wait till you realize that Pirates of the Caribbean were released 22 years ago

@antigermanist out of the box -- sure, but there is no way that you can't make something work on debian.

The scariest thing about CIA is that if _your_ friend or relative disappears, you can seek justice all you want -- all you'll be met with is "yeah, CIA do be like that, what do you want us to do?"

What you should do is to get your AR-15, organize and go demand reorganizing/abolishing CIA right now, e.g. execute your 2nd amendment in a way you claim it was designed for. You know that solving the CIA problem is long overdue. Yet, your brain will vehemently reject that idea, because if you admit I'm right, you'll have to do a LOT of mental recalibration. Your brain doesn't want to do that because it's hard wired to conserve energy, and CIA _knows_ that. They know a lot about human brains, not just because of MKULTRA.

I think that you favor two party/multi-party political system because of its supposed resilience against turning into a dictatorship. While that makes sense, in practice, a country turning into a dictatorship is a lengthy process.

Meanwhile, the US has a rogue government-level actor that has legal power to do absolutely anything it wants, yet it doesn't hold elections. It's called CIA. They don't care about who's the president. They even admit to commiting atrocities against US citizens, yet they always face no repercussions whatsoever. To me, that's way more scary, and I'm from Russia. I'm way too familiar with this kind of stuff. It happened to my family in the past.

US has the legal way to make anyone they want disappear and have no investigation held. Such a good tool for taking out "inconvenient" people before they become dangerous.

US is too obsessed with ruling the world for its own good. Europe is the only place that had the balls to say "yes, we don't rule the world, so let's quit this race to focus on making our citizens' lives better."

Yes, they can only say that because US protects them from Russia/China. It doesn't change the fact that right now, Western Europe is the best place on Earth to live. Social liberties, unions, free things, human rights, etc.

If you want to start a business, go to offshore jurisdictions. If you want to start a big business, go to the US. If you want to just live quietly as a private person, there's nothing better than Europe.

@SoldierOfCode ECMAScript 4 is JS’ Vista as well: a failed attempt at “fixing” ES

@atheist my mother is so worthless that she probably sucks at sucking just as hard as she sucks at everything other than manipulating people

@SoldierOfCode I know, but ouch still

@SoldierOfCode ouch

@tosensei Yes, I was stupid enough to delete the originals before I copied the data over from this microsd to my other computer. Thankfully, I was able to recover everything important using iCloud’s deeply buried recovery settings. I was smart enough to use iCloud for those important files just in case

@SidTheITGuy you’ll love it here: https://miloxeon.com/photos

@retoor

When upskirt

Still didn’t quite match the money-losing power of elon’s arrival to twitter when he started selling checkmarks

@donkulator but what about the rest of us?

@antigermgerm uhm this kind of fracture doesn't lead to blood loss

it didn't happen did it

@donkulator nah, it was a Samsung vacuum, the kind with paper dust bags. Dirt cheap, sucks like crazy, but overheats constantly

@galena lmao I was like nine

@billy090 @retoor

@JsonBoa

"Genie, I wish there was enough food on this Earth that no one ever had to go hungry."

"Granted," he replied with a laugh, but nothing changed.

@int32 VSCode wasn’t even out when I touched PHP last time :D

the sound of a tree falling in an empty forest with no one to hear it.