Manish

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

ooh, new type of googledorking just dropped

the lindt factory tour gives you chocolate at the end.

also you can drink melted chocolate during it

i am going to die in a world that is more antisemitic than the one i was born into and it will be entirely thanks to what the israeli state has done in the name of fighting antisemitism. i think about this constantly.

I don't have plans myself, I don't have any time to build crates like this.

Probably could accept something into unicode-rs if people wish to implement it.

ICU4X would also probably be happy to accept an algorithm implementation.

serendipity: visiting Mumbai whilst working on timezone handling code, and some of my system time zone tests immediately started failing because of normalization discrepancies (the Indian timezone had its canonical name changed from Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata)

nice!

yeah i thought the point was to evoke that style especially around Rosie the Riveter

an accident lawyer billboard for anh phoong showing her in a Rosie the Riveter pose with the caption "something wrong? call anh phoong"

new anh phoong dropped

it's kinda funny to me that it still doesn't really have a name; basically all of the other peaks have local names or names like Everest but this one still uses the old numeric numbering

(nobody calls it Godwin-Austen)

they call it the mountaineer's mountain because there are a lot of mountaineers on it

I'll admit I was pretty young back then, but it never struck me as a particularly bad idea: it humanizes them a bit to see them invite a roast. a strongly critical one, sure, but also back then I think people were still ... friendly across the lines of partisanship

lol

It's ridiculous that California only provides $5 billion each to the UC and Cal State systems. The state's general fund budget is $230 billion, and there's another $90 billion of non-general-fund stuff on top of that. We could afford to *dramatically* expand both systems if the state gave a shit

right, that's my point

all of this is just smoke and mirrors to make it sound like they are being selective because an explicit lottery would ruin their reputation

(that's specifically for Ivy-style elite univs, though. the problem is wider than that)

Yeah basically. UC is ... kinda getting there, but not really?

The other ugly secret is that the whole point of "elite" universities is to take rich kids and smart kids and launder those traits into each other

the rich benefit from association with the smart, and vice versa

Once you accept that, you're basically left with elite colleges setting up bullshit hoops of *some* kind, and squabbling over the specific type of hoop

like, look, I've seen how India deals with this problem, I've gone through that: trust me none of y'all want a measure of "academic excellence" that is capable of producing a ranking at this level of volume. At some point it's Yet Another Lottery without actually being one

fundamentally I don't really believe that there is a meaningful measure of academic excellence that can serve as a selection criterion here in a way that will actually increase the "quality" of the incoming class

but a lottery makes them no longer appear selective, so they absolutely can't do that. they need *something*, even if it's a bullshit hoop people hate

like, ultimately I don't think a last mile lottery replacing some of the other requirements would appreciably change the "quality" of their incoming class (as much as that is at all a tangible concept)

i think two things are true regarding college admissions:

- elite colleges get way more sufficiently-qualified applicants than they can handle
- it's an existential threat to the mythos of the elite college for them to not have an appearance of selectiveness dealing with that

(it's actually mostly there if you search "harmony" under chrome://flags and click the thing, and already shipped in firefox. Node's working on it.)

look i promise i'll be done implementing Temporal in a couple months and you can stop dealing with Date forever

yeah the indic "cerebral" consonants have a bunch of subtlety which makes it super easy for something to sound "off"

the dangers of attempting to pronounce retroflex consonants around a linguist: eventually they'll try to stick their fingers in your mouth

ah, perhaps!

no, that's not the tack, it's about interlocutors

everyone uses words, not just artists