A little at a time. We need to get comfortable doing this to cockroaches before we can start large scale testing on humans

Another quick fix is to set up a “Note to Self” group in Signal (make a group with 2 people then remove the other member). Nice tidy way to move things around, with a history of things you moved earlier

When enclosed in parentheses I believe the correct term is “bolt-ons”

That’s hilarious. I do hope it gets evaluated at run time. That way you could have a program that works most of the time but if some rare circumstance caused it to execute commands in a sequence where the correct level of politeness was not maintained it would get the hump and crash

And then one day, AIPAC reaches into the wallet and its empty.

Considering the huge pipeline of money that flows from the US taxpayers to Israel to AIPAC to the US politicians who keep the money flowing (with a big side channel to US weapons manufacturers and everyone with a slice of that), I’m not going to be holding my breath for that to happen. AIPAC won’t run out of money before the USA runs out of money.

“Grandpa, why is your dick out?”

“Well, to answer that we have to go back to 2016…”

It’s not even totally severed, this dude could make a full recovery if they can keep him from going into shock and dying later.

You’re forgetting that there is a large dog in the scene, who has just been presented a piece of fresh meat.

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

They don’t think it be like it is,

But it do.

No. That isn’t it.

It is it. That is that.

“How big does it need to be?”

“Well, it’s an inefficient shape for optimizing space, so let’s just go with really fucking big”

My PC had been running like shit for a while and I was already weighing up options for replacing it, when I got the popup message from MS about Windows 10 expiring, and how my only option was to dump the PC. So I installed Linux out of pure spite. Runs like a dream now. Thanks Microsoft!

“These thoughts are too useful to just stay in my head, I’m going out to get some sticky letters so I can spread the message to the world”

Put da cupcakes in da oven. I’ll be back in 10-15 minutes

“Shoot for the moon, and if you miss you’ll end up drifting aimlessly until you die” doesn’t sound as good, but probably works just as well as an analogy

That is precisely what differentiates sin from evil. It’s why we have two words for those two things. Abraham would not have sinned by killing Isaac as ordered. But it would have been an evil act, and stupid and insane

Right and wrong is one thing, sin is another. Sin is doing stuff that God says not to do, morality doesn’t really come into it. Cats can’t sin because they don’t have theistic religion.

One development we may see imminently is the infiltration of any areas of the internet not currently dominated by AI slop. When AI systems are generally able to successfully mimic real users, the next step would be to flood anything like Lemmy with fake users, whose purpose is mainly to overwhelm the system while avoiding detection. At the same time they could deploy more obvious AI bots. Any crowdsourced attempt at identifying AI may find many of its contributors are infiltration bots who gain trust by identifying and removing the obvious bots. In this way any attempt at creating a space not dominated by AI and controlled disinformation can be undermined

Killing one of your friends might not be the optimal solution.

But one of your friends might think it is.

dink dink diddy donk, diddy diddy diddy donk

If the day started at 1:00 then by the second hour you would be at 2:00, even though only 1 hour has passed.

When the second day of the month starts, the day of the month is 2, even though only 1 day has passed.

I mean, numerically it does make sense to start at zero but it doesn’t seem to correspond to the way people think and talk.