r.v.cx
Pretty sure I’m right about:
- RFC 3339 dates
- ISO 216 paper sizes
- Fahrenheit weather temperatures
- Dot-grid paper
- End-to-end encryption
- Software engineering being about collaboration costs
Less confident about the rest.
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(Also: other protesters continue to adore Bailey and her “Dogs Against DOGE” sandwich board more than my admittedly-too-thinky protest sign.)
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I (briefly) dated one woman for whom this was a hobby. So, you know, it’s real. But the kind of dude who goes for that kind of woman is a drama queen more pathetic than any Real Housewife.
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All these organizations have a lot of experience working with *effective* authoritarian regimes. What they worry most about is not repression, but instability.
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Wanna put odds on FIFA already having a quiet word with Mexico and Canada about hosting the games currently scheduled for the US?
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Is that there something wrong with me that I read “made fresh in a real bakery!” as “we *definitely* didn’t just find a bunch of old snacks in our pants factory”? Like, if someone gave you a glass of milk and said “from a live cow’s udder!” you’d be worried, right?
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“It was fresh when we made it, and the facility that constructed this baked good can be technically called a bakery” is an extremely worrisome boast.
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(Long story short: there are plenty of Oxford colleges that cater to spoiled brats. Mine was not one. So he stopped hanging out there.)
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I'm not sure I *really* believe blockchain is a useful technology, but I'm finding it much easier to relate to the nutty paranoia that has always motivated proponents.
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Blockchain is almost always worthless, but a formal "whoever has Harvard's key votes for Harvard; that key can be revoked/replaced the rest of the federation as needed" technical solution suddenly seems to have *some* value when literal armed takeovers are no longer fantasies.
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Salient current example is "university accreditation". If the feds insist on co-opting any central organization, universities themselves could organize to all vote on which institutions to accredit.
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Please don’t force me to live in a world where Cuomo is valiantly standing on principle to defend NYC.
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“A 25-pound order of bacon costs almost $100. Each sandwich uses three slices.”
AYFKM??? I am begging you to ask the bodega owner you talked to just ONE obvious follow-up question to put any of this “data” in context.
I hate you so much.
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It is just NOT THAT HARD to tell us what the cost of ingredients is per sandwich. To give some idea of how many a bodega sells. To break down a bodega’s budget into percentages on rent, labor, stock, and wastage. But for this story pitched as analysis, they commissioned an economic illiterate. 2/3
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Oh, so you think it’s fine to cut yourself off from discussion just because it’s all tedious retreads of shallow ideas with no original insight and you’re more interested in the many other spheres of intellectual discourse where you might actually learn something of value? So closed-minded.
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Mastodon makes a lot more sense once you realize the community is not the point. The software is.
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I can’t say I’m surprised by the news influencers completely flummoxed by why any journalists would consider these comments inappropriate.
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You know someone has the moral high ground when their avatar is a hyper-sexualized underaged cartoon.