Insert left-handedness over time chart superimposed on prevalence of teaching kids they must write with right hand regardless of their preference.

Is archive mode the appropriate tool for this? I would assume that’s for when a repo is no longer receiving any updates from anyone, not just when the owner doesn’t want others contributing.

PC what now?

There’s also the “Folkloric Block” flaw, which causes “holy symbols presented by any believer” to force you to “shrink away…or spend a Willpower point”. Even from a mortal without True Faith.

IMO it would be more flavourful to make this flaw only work on the faith the vampire themselves had in life. Present it sort of like their own faith is what has the effect on them. But as written, it’s a limited form of the general True Faith rules.

We can just do this.

outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service

This is likely to be the case in practice, but technologically, it does not have to be the case.

If the age verifiers (which IMO should be the governments themselves^[1], but could also be a private third-party, as long as it’s not the same as the social media company) only ever receive a blinded token representing the user, verify the user’s age, and then the user brings that token back to the social media site, unblind it, and present them the signed token, there is no way for the age verifier to track which sites a person visits, and no way for the sites to have any detail about who their users are (other than what they already have).

No, ghiayef.

No, I was originally comparing two scenes in one episode of a TV show to a four-panel comic. But in retrospect, I only really needed to compare the first of those two scenes to the four-panel comic. The rest of Troy’s arc is an added bonus, but only the first scene of it is needed to establish the Good Will Hunting comparison.

The parent comment would be pronounced “ghee A eff”. /g/ is the hard g of “gift”, not the soft g of “gin” (which is /dʒ/). (second word pronounced like “hey” or “say” without their first letters, or “eight” without its last.)

/gi eɪ̯ ɛf/

What is this abomination? /gi/‽

Make sure to take a five minute break after cooking this!

Is that an actual gif or one of those audio-less videos that many gif services have taken to using lately, due to their higher quality and smaller file sizes? (RIP gfycat)

Yes, and so is this comic. I just think Community did it much better.

Yeah, this comic is just a worse version of Troy’s plot from English as a Second Language.

edit: the whole arc, starting in ESL, ending in Introduction to Finality

Vietnam is formally known as the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. It’s officially communist today. But like most officially-communist countries, they operate with a significant amount of capitalism. In some ways more so than officially capitalist countries, with a lot of businesses being under-regulated and prone to exploitation. If you have a bad experience with a business, you’re much less likely to be able to use the law to make you whole again than you would somewhere with strong consumer protection laws like the EU or Australia. It’s much closer, in some ways, to that libertarian caveat emptor ideal. But it’s also got a strong welfare state that looks a lot more genuinely socialist.

It’s also an authoritarian single-party state, which those of us in the west usually associate with communist countries, but realistically is kind of a separate spectrum. Sometimes the government can step in and use that power for good, such as somewhat regular attempted (though usually ultimately ineffective) crackdowns on corruption, which runs rampant. Sometimes it’s less good, such as also somewhat regular attempted (and likewise ultimately ineffective) crackdowns on online free speech. On this latter point, I recall when I lived there 15+ years ago they at one point tried to block Facebook. Word quickly spread around my school that changing your DNS settings to a particular number would bypass the restriction. (This is before quad9, quad1, or Google’s quad8, so the number was a bit harder to remember.) It’s not a country where you want to be on the government’s bad side, but it’s generally speaking much softer in that regard than the PRC or DPRK.

A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

IMO the bad grammar adds to the quality of this meme.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

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FTFY

what implies that it wouldn’t?

If the advice is “don’t do this, let them do it”, and the advice can go both ways, it kinda doesn’t work as advice.