Probably quite a bit less if you also deduct the cosmetic surgery for the new one.

Not really a taboo unless you're related.

Be honest: is "same last name" why mom and dad told you not to date your cousin and you took it at face value ever since?

Excuse me. *Geeks* dress up like fairy tail furries.

Nerds watch star trek and do epic shit for God and country:

https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

RIP Patrick Stewart. Picard was my favorite. And I also enjoyed his MacBeth.

Not just me, eh? And yet it is a "big" website so it must be doing something right. My fault for failing to detect it?

I've poked at Reddit occasionally for many years. Sometimes just my curiosity about "interactive communication" websites and other times because a link to Reddit appears in search results. Cannot recall a single case where I learned anything useful via Reddit. My theory is that there must be something useful there, but I just can't find it. Or perhaps returning to your FP theme, whatever algorithm Reddit is using to help me find useful content is failing to help me find it. My fault because I haven't used Reddit enough?

That actually gave me a new theory for a chicken-and-egg joke. Reddit needs me to vote some stuff up so that it can figure out what stuff is useful for me, but it never shows me anything useful so I can't vote anything up. Thereby Reddit remains unable to show me anything useful?

For my next failed joke I could go down a LONG list of websites that have various good and bad features. Suffice it to say that Slashdot has been trending down for a while? But the fantastic motivation of such an exercise would be that someone would pop up with a URL for the (social?) communication website of my dreams. (Which reminds me of a crazy idea to help Wikipedia via AI... Gotta run to someplace useful. TTFN.)

Wait, you believe that government builds sewer pipes, gas systems, plumbing, roads? All of these things were and are built by private companies and should be built by private companies, not governments. Nothing should be done or built by governments, there shouldn't be any government employees, all government employees should be fired, all government regulation need to be abolished. People will rebuild everything, there shouldn't be even such things as government enforced zoning laws.

Nobody should be working for any government, givernment jobs should be stigmatized, people working for government should be stigmatized, gobernments shouldn't have employees. People working for governments should be scared that other normal people will find out.

Hack the EPA cuz I'd prefer the pollution regulators to be more occupied with being doxxed than with keeping an eye on my waste disposal practices...

Hack the IRS cuz I don't want my creative accounting to rise above the noise floor of all these new weird charges on the auditors' own credit cards...

Or hack the FBI cuz I *really* want to rob that bank across state lines *and* get away with it...

Would my friend (and not me) be a
-common criminal
-budding mafioso
-terrorist

Asking for a friend.

My vintage MacBook Pro is now running Linux, so the illuminated apple logo seems to be some kind of false advertising. After all these years it's still my sexiest box. Too bad I don't buy computers for sex? (I would have been willing to go for a dual boot, but Apple made that too difficult, so...)

Funny part is that I regard it as my most secure box and I only use it about once a month for a bit of Internet banking. Rather too bad my banks don't seem to understand much about computer security. Lots of top news stories about online breaches of major companies, including FinTech operations. Am I delusional or naive to hope my physical SIM is still protecting me?

Will I ever buy another Apple? Feels unlikely, but I confess that I am still hoping for Microsoft to go away, so maybe I'll have to?

I hadn't heard the YOB had offered to rename the moon, but one third is only by volume. For mass it's about one sixth and diameter would be around two thirds... (At least that's what the genAI told me, and I can't imagine why it would hallucinate again.)

But I think the seventh dwarf joke was funnier, even though I can't remember the song he must be referencing. I'm guessing it's a Disney thing?

Me? I suppose I prefer my politicians feckless and "mostly harmless" rather than dictatorial profiteering wolves in sheeps' (shills'?) clothing.

Okay joke, but these days we have to take any CDC news with a huge grain of salt. Or dose of penicillin?

Is this coming from an actual scientist or a political appointee who has been parachuted into the CDC?

The actual problem is quite complicated. We want a certain amount of exposure to pathogens to "exercise" our immune systems, but not so much exposure as to start breaking things permanently. It's a different flavor of the youth thing. Young people who recover may even wind up better than ever, mature people may recover fully, while old people are more likely to recover only partway, and quite slowly even for that.

Part of my general age definition joke of the week:

1. Young: Balance of change works out positive.
2. Mature: Changes come out around zero overall.
3. Old age: None of the above, sorry.
4. When the changes stop you're dead, so have a nice day changing.

The other reply had the XKCD about gravity wells, but it's one of ones that's really hard to look at because of size issues...

Well, when you put it that way, it does sound better than the local source, but mostly thanks for the XKCD link. Always appreciated and usually funny, too.

Only comment along the lines of my earlier comment, but I forgot to mention that the Chinese government is also too good at keeping secrets. Seems quite possible to me that the Chinese AI we should be worrying about is not public. Especially not in the stock market sense.

Fusion? Where?

Whoops, I meant great-grandparent, but when this gets posted it will be great-great-grandparent. I mean the joke by Junta. That's where I'm suggesting the Funny should go.