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All legislatures should have an odd number of members, and either the presiding officer should be allowed to vote with the rest of them, or they shouldn't be one of those members (i.e. you give up your ordinary seat when you become presiding officer)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about the time I aced the first physics test of the school year, and no-one else got more than a mere pass at best, and the teacher said that people need to study for tests. He asked how much study I did, and I said none.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

Just got up to have lunch. Sitting back down three minutes later, with my teeth brushed, feeling hungry. Hmmm.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The purpose of automation should be to get rid of repetitive, dull tasks, so that we can spend more time as creative problem-solvers and less as computers. AI -- as promised to us -- does the underlying creative work, and leaves us to do the boring part (validating that its output is valid).

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

My super-contrarian opinion is that, if they'd actually designed it right, the Electoral College would be a great system. It would have to be a *strictly* deliberative body that meets in one place and is empowered to make its own decision, not rubber-stamp the winner of a pseudo-national election

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

like 100 times today somebody has been like "oh yeah? well without chatgpt how am i supposed to do THIS?" and the thing is just their literal job that they are doing extremely poorly

submitted 24 days ago • 60 comments

Wolfram Alpha Wolfram Alpha: Beta Wolfram Alpha: The Third Derivative Wolfram 4lpha Wolfram Alpha Prime: Rotation Around the Origin

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A variety of submissions today. Chris Finlayson said that Parliament could legislate to say the Earth is flat but it doesn’t make it so. Others said that Parliament could legislate to say the Earth is flat but it doesn’t need to because it already is.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Finlayson up now

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments