In other news the Prime Directive is to protect your clickthru rate.

Thing is, why does it matter if something exists that hydrates you better than water? Water is abundant and practically free - at least orders of magnitude more free than any marginally better substitute. You don’t need a precise and refined strategic hydration strategy. When you get thirsty just drink some water, you’ll be fine.

Just say anything and add the word “rule” at the end.

Unpopular opinion but hear me out - doesn’t a nice bowl of ticks go great with iced tea on a hot day?

I heard there’s 104 days of summer vacation, til school comes along just to end it.

Reminds me of how much I miss Mitch Hedberg.

10 pounds of weed? What 5 pounds of weed? There’s no 3 pounds of weed here!

Don’t landlords dislike vacancies because empty units get broken into and vandalized, creating more cost?

I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries.

To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes.

Not saying it’s unreasonable to err on the side of caution in opposing anything Trump does, but the move to end birthright citizenship is aimed at the automatic citizenship granted to anyone born on US soil, and anyone born anywhere with at least one American parent. The goal is to suppress non-white voting by invalidating citizenships for people MAGA considers “foreigners”. Most Americans were born in America to American-born parents, and have nothing to worry about unless MAGA tries to redefine citizenship at the Constitution level.

I see nothing wrong with making sure people who vote are citizens, what I object to is kicking actual citizens off the voting roles because they’re not Republicans.

I see this as the 2025 equivalent of the entertainment industry’s collective backlash against Napster back in the day. The issue will probably be decided by courts and legislatures, as before, and that legal decision will be transmuted into fierce morality, as before. The major difference is that in 1999 the legal combatants were a whole industry vs a handful of software developers and basically Lawrence Lessig, whereas with AI they’re all corporations with tons of money at stake. So the outcome could easily be very different this time, and our crowdsourced moral standards could follow suit.

Holy Bible - Bootstraps Edition

You’re right that people avoid talking to people nowadays, preferring a text or an email or whatever. But that’s not the point here, it’s being interrupted from whatever you’re doing to answer the phone for no reason. Modern autodialers make calls continuously, and when someone answers they feed the call to whichever telemarketer in the room is open. If they’re all occupied the machine just hangs up, but it keeps dialing because they don’t want to pay their minimum wage workers to sit idle for precious seconds. So for that reason people out in the world have to stop what they’re doing to pick up the phone, say “Hello” and hear nothing but dead air and then a click. It’s the tech equivalent of kids ringing people’s doorbells and running away, except for profit. Fuck that crap.

If you’re in America you can add your name to the National Do Not Call Registry. Telemarketers seem to be ignoring it in recent years, but for many years I received almost zero spam calls. The feds just have to be prodded into enforcing it again. The penalties can be up to $1000 per call for high-volume offenders, like the autodialer services small business subscribe to.

Good question, and I dunno, but I wouldn’t think an invitee has the power to invite others. Seems kind of dodgy.

“geriatrics reliving the past glory of the 60’s” ?

I get that saying anything positive about boomers is pretty much against the rules of social media, but for fuck’s sake dude, you’re talking about people who are out there actually trying to do something for the world instead of thumb-typing nihilism into their phones. No respect at all?

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