That would take them recognizing her as a woman, which I hope they do but don’t think they will with their current base of support.

It’s called a skeuomorph, and many times the camera symbol is one too, as most modern cameras don’t look like that.

If nothing matters, then you can choose what matters to you, and if I choose to care about something, then it matters because it matters to me, even if it doesn’t to other people.

Hmm, I didn’t expect that last one.

Me want plant corn dog delight!

For someone not trusting their gut, that guy sure seems super trusting that their eyes are going to be ok.

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?”

• the derived question, theoretically

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (book 2 of the 5-part trilogy)

Windows 10 has had that for a few years now too, it was just less visible and a little clunkier.

He had some decent political views, but his child-rearing advice wasn’t always very evidence-based.

We’re not just eating tons per day, we’re eating about 430-ish metric kilotons per day.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow!

I mean, at that level the positions are legally bound to certain ranks, meaning that high-level, strategic positions that determine strategy are unable to be filled except on a temporary basis, which means that decision-making is more tenuous. The military is still a monster, and it’ll fulfill its functions as it normally does, and will for some time, but the longer this goes on, the more headless the military becomes.

I don’t care what he thinks, but I care that he has a platform that others in his class listen to and may respect. It’s not a position you hear often from those with a lot of wealth. I’m ok with progress coming from any direction, even if it’s self-serving in some form, and I do think it’s self-serving.

Change my mind.

Sure. Even regularly installing a new OS doesn’t necessarily keep you secure if someone wanted to discreetly install malware on your device. In addition to firmware-level rootkits that re-install themselves on fresh OSs (even platform-agnostic ones), it’s possible that someone might interdict whatever hardware is bought and implant it with additional small hardware that compromises it in some way.

I think this is the guy, though it might’ve been a flute, not an ocarina, not sure.

I mean, being trans is perfectly valid, but I think gender dysphoria itself should be classified as a mental illness so long as it brings significant pain/distress to the individual, the solution there is just gender reassignment, surgery, hormones, etc. I don’t think there should be stigma in calling it such, it needs treatment the same as anything else. People with ADHD have a mental illness and get meds, sometimes therapy, people with poor eyesight have an ocular dysfunction of some kind and get glasses or surgery or whatever, none of it should be that big a deal. The point is it can be diagnosed and treated.

I think the response to shit like “transgenderism” being a mental disease should be “well at least their/our dysphoria can be treated now, what’s your excuse?”

I mean, that seems like the best solution to rejection: cloning the patient’s germ line and chimerically colonizing the replacement.

Probably UUIDs based on fingerprinting the browser/machine. With enough js there’s usually enough to qualify a person’s activity as unique even with minor changes regarding updates or whatever. You can mitigate it by changing user agent strings or disabling some/all js or site permissions, but they can also block you from using the service for doing so, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.

Right, even if he had access to classified information in an unsecured space, the classified system would have its own encryption device and its own systems separate from the unclassified network.

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