Everyone should own some eye protection. A quality respirator is also extremely useful and very wise to have around in many circumstances.

Fuckin Yoda. Fear is suffering.

The business of business is business.

Businesses want stability, safety, and predictability. Protests really are kind of the opposite energy. Their whole point is to shake things up and reroute the direction of the world, sometimes in big ways. They can also be unpredictable and unfortunately in some cases even unsafe. I remember seeing every store window on Telegraph Avenue broken the day after a big protest. It was sad. The family owned grocery store got it just as bad as the corporate clothing retailer.

Not long ago when the Hong Kong protests were off the hook and things were getting super tense there, some Hong Kong family visited us here in the US for the holidays. The younger generation were super informed and watching their phones and they told us all about the protests, the political actors, the demands, the rhetoric, and the energy in the streets.

Meanwhile, at dinner, the (very wealthy) grandma made a toast and said “Hong Kong needs peace! Doesn’t matter who’s in charge!” There was a super uncomfortable silence and you could see the youngs biting their lips. She has massive business interests there and just wants to keep manufacturing stuff. She doesn’t care about idealism or whatever else.

If a political candidate is really pro business, they don’t go about their agenda by staging protests. The two really just don’t mix. Businesses lobby and donate.

Another way of saying it is that some things are so expensive you don’t do them even if they could be useful one day. Do you have a second house? Your first one could burn down. You don’t? I guess you must be a greedy capitalist thinking only about short term money.

There is a difference between authoring and submitting, right?

Also, having buttons on your clothes is an abomination. Hooks and eyes only.

That’s probably why they say “a human is responsible” not “a human must validate it.” I certainly agree that validation is not always possible. And this problem will get worse in time.

Yeah at this point the focus needs to be on responding to their claim. If that data was never there, then this is nothing to talk about. If the data was there at some point, somebody may be able to prove that and catch Apple in a lie.

But continued posts about Apple removing this data are basically unsubstantiated at this point.

I recall a brief flash almost a year ago where Meta released some kind of LLM framework open source and it seemed like it was taking off in the circles of developers I know. But then I never heard about it again. Similar flash in the pan about DeepSeek.

It makes a certain kind of sense to me. Making capitalism serve social goals is obviously a mix of philosophies but if capitalism is serving socialistic ends, isn’t socialism prioritized?

The essence of socialism, to me, is serving the social good as top priority. Not centrally managing the economy. Capitalism can be a “how” with socialism as the “why.”

All accurate beyond debate except for the part about his social programs ending the depression. That point is debatable, the debate being that it was actually deficit spending to industrialize for WW2 that did it.

Agreed. And with sexism, the link is even weaker.

America is only 15% black so it at least suggests that a good chunk of the other 85% were not too racist to elect Obama.

But humanity is 52% women so in theory, women could elect a woman even if every man in the country was in fact chauvinist.

Because by definition the furthest outliers have the least to say about the rest of the group.

Maybe we shouldn’t attempt to generalize about the categorizes by choosing the most grotesque extremes of both.

Those days were brief if they ever existed. It’s actually pretty common to offer new users even sweeter deals for joining, and zero promotions to get loyal users to stay.

Safer than an explosion-powered car carrying a big tank of gasoline? A bold claim! /s

C’est l’année de l’ordinateur Linux!

It’s the year of the Linux computer!

Oh man! I thought this was going to be the rare case where you could actually say the thing in French with fewer characters, but French loses by 1. Dommage! And English doesn’t even have a contraction for “the,” of which there are two in this short sentence!

I’d be fascinated to know how someone that’s never had any hearing will adapt to suddenly having it - neurologically. it sounds like that could be a pretty chaotic or overwhelming experience for the brain.

Nope, wow, wrong again, and confidently so.

You seemed to think “legal experts” shouldn’t be surprised judges hate juries. And I was saying they aren’t, they’re shocked at the lack of decorum.

Jesus Christ if I have to spell it out for you one more time I’m going to puke. Get it or dont - you’re on your own.

Yeah the reason that seems so hard to understand is because it’s a million miles away from anything I thought or said. All I said was that no one is shocked a judge feels that way about juries, they are shocked at the lack of decorum.