Oh! Don't forget they also funded the Islamic State by buying stolen antiquities. Some of these were even looted from the Iraqi State Museum.

Useless use of cat?

Doritos. And a gas station hotdog.

It's the willfully illiterate that worry me

For me, it's because crypto is manufactured scarcity. That's the whole way crypto creates "value". For me solar punk is about not putting artificial limits on things to create scarcity.

The point of the article is that of you stop investing in science, you are going to fall behind in science.

I am curious why you think that. I download Bandcamp files and place it on a home server, and I have never had any problems. It is conceivable that they have a tracker or some bull shit connected to it, but more than a little unlikely.

Bandcamp files play fine on non bandcamp-approved playing devices. This is a big win on my book.

Oh. Good one. Markdown everywhere. Slack always pissed me off for it's sub par markdown support.

Python is powerful because it easily wraps C libraries that do real work! Just kidding mostly.

But yeah, js isn't a language I would describe as powerful. Ubiquitous? More capable than you would expect given it's history? Bloated?

I was thinking about this. JKR is really a terrible writer. All of the later ret-conning to fix the plot holes is worse than just letting the plot holes lie. (like breaking all the time turners so they don't get used again).

But it is amazing how captivating these books are inspite of the fact of how poor they are. It's an imaginative world with exceptionally clear flaws, but one I want to revisit regularly.

But fuck JKR and her shitty politics.

Edit: maybe it's not technically ret-conning. But the whole two book gap or whatever is just so lazy.

Arabic doesn't have a word for "yes". I don't think most semitic languages do either [Classical Hebrew does not, but Modern Hebrew does, however, the word they use in modern Hebrew is the word for "Thusly", that is now a particle]. In fact you can see that proto-indo European didn't have a word for yes: Greek is ναι, but the romance languages are si (I am pretty sure French oui is actually derived from the same root as Spanish and Italian. Could be wrong) and if my memories is correct (and it may not be) classical Latin didn't have a word for yes. And the Germanic words yes/ja have a similar origin. I can't speak to the other IE languages unfortunately.

I know there are also language families that don't have a single word for no, but use a negation mood on the verb. I unfortunately can't give you an example of this. But it should be fun to look up!

And limited to 25 years. This 100 years is bull shit.

I think it might be more the fact that he is a workaholic and expects everyone else to be. But yeah, I don't think he is quite as progressive as he thinks he is.

Is RDJ really a good casting for Doom? I like RDJ, but, this doesn't seem like a good role for imhis usual schtick. But I am willing to admit I am wrong.

Has someone who can mostly read Greek and English. I hate this. I hate this so much.

Is this sarcasm? I think if it stopped at the first dichotomy, or the second it would be fine. But it goes on for fucking ever.

I worked in an excavating company for a bit. One old crochety guy worked 12 hours every day running an excavator. A younger guy who had stake in the company (also drove an excavator), who never worked more than 8 in a day, looked at him and said: "Why do you only get half as much done, but it takes you twice as long?"

The young guy wasn't wrong. Being tired does slow you down. But yeah, a four day work week in construction, might slow the project down a bit. But they should just hire more people. And on top of that 6 hour days with additional staff would make the work go a lot faster.

I liked She-Hulk. It should have been better. But I did really enjoy the show. It was too preachy, it wasn't flushed out as well as it should have been. But some of the things were funny, and the story was okay. I think of given another season it could have found its voice...or it could have ended up like that 90s show and the second season was worse than the first

I didn't formally study it, but yes! This is my take! I thought I kind of think I got bored with it when the simple chat interfaces came out. But it's more than that. The marketing is horrible

Ouch. This hurts. This hurts so much.