Frivolous? Yes. Fun? 😬😬😬

Pfft. No wet sanding with 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000. Amateur.

Meh. I’m team BlendTec. They’d probably make a commercial for this. “Next on Will It Blend! Fashion models!”

It’s a good article. It explains rural America. It doesn’t explain the well off assholes living in Huntington Beach CA. It doesn’t explain the well off assholes living in suburban Inland SoCal. It doesn’t explain rich privileged shitheads like Musk and Thiel.

No one knows how to read a sextant any more. The horror!!

Analog clocks are not really essential technology.

I forget who said it, but an American general once said “Amateurs discuss tactics; professionals discuss logistics.”

A screwdriver doesn’t become a bad screwdirver just because someone is using it to drive nails. There is a lot to hate about Microsoft, but its basic Office tools are really quite good, when used in the manner in which they were designed. There really are no meaningful competitors for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Outlook as an email client is not great, but its strength is calendaring.

Word is not horrible as a word processor. The issue is that people try to use it to do typesetting, reference management, and all kinds of non word processor shit. And Microsoft encourages this. If you understand what the tool does it’s really a decent tool.

No mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢

I am a Chinese American. I can’t speak for the pope (in fact I’m atheist so I could not care less about the pope). But I can tell you that many recent immigrants who speak English as a second language are very bad at nuances in English. If someone hears the word “fag” in the context of talking about gay men, they’re not all going to pick up that it’s a slur, depending on where and how they’ve heard the term. Many of them will associate fag=gay as a matter of vocabulary. And my experience is that first gen immigrants tend to ignore or avoid pop culture so their overall exposure to language trends and usage are usually poor.

Nice. I think.

There is yet one more alternative to pirating, and that is to simply not play the game. I’ve been so much happier since i stopped consuming mass media. No cable, no streaming.

priest: THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

painter: can you just hold her steady please?

It reminds me of an Aperture Science Weighted Test Cube!

Related question: are there sign language specific dad jokes? That is, corny jokes that work in sign language but not in spoken language?

that’s because harvesting croissants uses really dangerous sharp tools to cut them off the stems and workers lose digits all the time. It’s why the French have great single payer healthcare.

I’m am a big fan of Audrey Tang but there is a little bit of spin in the interview. For instance she says that there is no anti vax faction in the government. That is true. But it’s also true that there are plenty of antivaxxers in Taiwan. And it’s also true that the vaccine rollout was not great. That may be beyond her role as the CIO but she’s still a cabinet member. That said, Taiwan’s pandemic response was something I only wish we had in the US.

The full video was very informative. Thanks!

Combustible lemons. But failing that, a portal gun.

Yup