I don't think they're wrong about historical and often religious corruption existing, it's only wrong to appeal to it. We should be improving going forwards, not using the past as an excuse.

The world will never trust America as much as it did (whatever amount that was — but notably including allowing military bases practically everywhere) again without America's governmental structure changing significantly.

No, but it requires all the states to cooperate. GLWT.

The best thing as far as the presidency would really be just to eliminate the electoral college and move to counting the votes directly. We can do that now. Also we should do it with paper. Fuck computer voting.

How funny. I didn't vote for them because I wanted them. I just didn't want the worst person ever alive to be president, which comes back to what Rosco said above. People who voted for Trump did it specifically because they wanted Trump to do terrible things, which was because they are terrible people. They specifically wanted other people to suffer, because they are suffering, and they think making other people suffer more will make them feel better. This in turn is because they don't know shit, so they are somehow able to believe that punishing people for doing jobs they don't want to do will make them better off.

I don't think for the most part that there are fundamentally, physically "good" or "bad" people, and there may or may not even be fundamentally smart or dumb people, at least not to the extent we think there is — some of those people may just not have learned how to use their brains, and society certainly doesn't want them to learn lest it loses its source of cheap labor. But voting for Donald Trump because you think hurting other people will help you is both stupid and hateful.

I forget where he's from, but it sure reminds me of the result of Reagan's education plan

I'm your type A 80ies computer kid and have been programming since my teens, starting out with Sharps Basic and Opcode on a portable pocket computer (called "handheld computer" back then). However, I didn't study CS but did a performing arts diploma with 5 years of full-time training instead, because my creative streak was stronger. Performing arts sure did help me with my career. Giving presentations and talking in public is no sweat for me whatsoever and it sure does help with office politics having stood on stage in front of an audience and done complex choreographies.

I made my money in the last 25 years doing professional software development and digital design work because art doesn't pay, but given todays rapid pace of innovation I am now really glad I went the path of some obscure stage-craft. I know where ever I go it will still be very helpful in gaining traction in that field. And, curiously enough, I am way better at presenting myself than my job peers with academic degrees which in turn has helped build a big project portfolio that often outbids simple degrees when I apply for senior positions these days.

Bottom line: Should AI really come for us, performing arts is actually a way better deal than CS, or so it might turn out to be. Good for me, I guess.

His point was probably that it was owned by Bezos.

You could google "why bezos owning the post is bad" or something if you don't get it

It helps to read to the end.

I'm going to say one thing about this and then I'm out, we shouldn't reward this story with more interaction. Yes, I'm being IRONIC MAN today. It's my turn.

It's certainly a testament to how many of those calls didn't need to happen, and I'm not seeing here that we're sure those people would have made it if the calls had gone through, or they'd even have had a good chance.

On the flip side, if anyone certainly died because of negligence around a critical emergency service, some heads should roll. Unfortunately, it won't be the ones which it needs to in order to prevent it from happening again.

The website can NEVER be more convenient than not going to the website after Google gives you the answer without going there. No website can and it's why Google should not be allowed to do its little summary games. There is no way to do them fairly.

You can get a full sized convection oven. You can also power a medium sized one from 110v@15A. When I was a teen we moved into a mobile with a lousy oven and my mother bought a DeLonghi countertop convection oven that plugged into a regular outlet. It cooked about as rapidly as any normal oven, and had capacity between one and a modern air fryer. Just enough for a turkey basically.

What does it do when the content is dominated by ads served by Google?

So the picture I'm getting is that the anti rsilvergun trolls are paid Russians. Weird.

Conservatives love to cancel while crying about being cancelled because every accusation is a confession with them.

"Congratulations, you just coded an unplayable lagfest. This has been tried, this has failed"

This is nonsense.

You don't have to detect cheating before it happens. You can detect it slightly after the fact and then retcon scores and ban players. This is almost as good, much easier, and doesn't create any latency.