Darth Paradox

This is the single best piece I've read on "replacing coders with AI," it fully dispells the myth from the perspective of a software engineer and does so in a calm, reasonable way.
colton.dev/blog/curing-...

Trans healthcare trolley problem An unknown number of trans people have been tied to one of the train tracks, while a runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people. However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track. Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

TRANS HEALTHCARE TROLLEY PROBLEM

A runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people.

However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track.

Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

Hey kids, did you know if you pick this up from the cooler and change your mind about buying it, leaving it randomly in the store, it won't go back to the shelf for sale.

It's a part of food safety we should all observe. Don't pickup strange warm dairy products, especially if it that coffemate shit

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

"We had the cure for cancer, but we're scrapping that and instead will be encouraging people to go off their meds and drink unpasteurized milk."

I don't have a joke to go with that, it's just an accurate summary of our current health policy as a nation.

Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.

Canon

xkcd.com/3123/

Some days I need to just sit with my anger, acknowledge it, and then let it pass through me. In its wake, I will remain.

Other days, haha, good fucking luck, I will never forgive and never forget the deliberate and vicious evils of this administration or the people who helped it come to pass.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Nice! I lost the coin flip on word 4, so I ended with 9.

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Yeah, the pure-math answer is 24.5 feet. Spitballing some typical soil-drainage numbers - and making some likely-specious assumptions about how they actually apply - suggests the actual number might be in the 15-21 foot range, so I'll guess it ends up at 18 feet?

So much of tax outrage is manufactured by the rich, messaging people who a) don't understand how marginal tax rates, b) generally won't ever be near the upper end of those tax rates in their lives.

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

Oh so THAT'S why rich people love yachts! It's because like everything else it's all about getting more money!

Keep it up, folks. Every time someone thinks about using "GenAI" to make something, they should immediately assume that it's going to lose them most of their audience.

I have no doubt that you'd handle it with all the seriousness it warrants, Zipper the Smutsmith.

this was a crime against humanity, and the prosecution of that should fall to the ICC, imo. he should also be prosecuted federally for the myriad national security laws he violated. these crimes are as serious as it gets. we have to see justice

Well, that instantly sold me on it!

It’s incredible how much the collapse of civil society has been engineered by this one single newspaper, constantly trying to highlight everyone else caving as some kind of savvy move by adults

Right? But I wouldn't put it past Hasbro to try to boil it down to potential money earned vs. players lost, so they need to know that the "players lost" side of that equation isn't just going to be trans folks, nor is it just going to be for the duration of one set.

This wouldn't just be "boycotting" as in "sitting the set out", either. If @magic.wizards.com announces an HP UB set, a significant segment of the player base will quit the game completely, and another segment might keep playing with friends but will never again buy sealed product.

This also works well for writing code! Especially with test-driven development - leave yourself a failing test case or two to pick up from in the morning.

“but he was legitimately elected”

yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy

just because people made a mistake doesn’t mean we can’t fix it

"We will impeach and remove the president for his many crimes" seems like a good midterm election pitch to me idk

Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.

This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.

Source: theWellRedMage

Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

it’s almost like Trump was just lying about a bunch of shit to see what resonated with the rubes and the plan was to do project 2025 stuff all along

if only it had been possible for news orgs to do something other than take his bullshit at face value during the campaign

alas