Your life can be so much better if you get over the notion of having to own things. Almost every luxury out there can be enjoyed without having to own it, as long as you’re able to discard the consumerist propaganda that you’ve not enjoyed it properly unless you can take it home.

That’s shocking, more so for the fact that speaking with that level of callousness about the victims of Hamas attacks would get you banned from basically every platform and political party in the West.

There is a set of ISO codes for each language, but it’s not catchy used as an icon, and are also implicitly Western-centric by virtue of using the Latin alphabet.

The giant jpeg square artefact on the side of Homer’s head in the first frame undermines the message somewhat.

I wish there were some internationally recognized symbols to represent languages as distinct entities from their countries of origin, but the idea of trying to make some seems really unpopular for some reason.

There’s other languages that have far more politically contentious flags representing them - at least all the English-speaking countries are broadly allies. Spare a thought for the Taiwanese who have to select a People’s Republic of China flag, even though the language is as much theirs as it is the PRC’s, or the large number of Russian-speaking native Ukrainians who have to select the flag of the country who’s bombing them and their families.

The notion of a country owning a language is fraught with toxicity (indeed, Russia’s claim to vast swathes of Ukraine leans heavily on it), and if languages had their own flags we could sidestep the whole issue.

I’ll fucking say. I had to re-read the thing three times to figure out what the hell they were talking about, saying “Old Trek” over a shot of TNG.

I usually screenshot it in place with alt-print screen, paste it into paint, crop it to size, and save

Same, it’s largely doing pretty much as the article implies, replacing StackOverflow for when I need the correct runes to do something specific.

For real. You can tell how good a programmer someone is, by how good they think an LLM is at programming.

Yup. I once decided to spend an afternoon answering questions on a framework I was expert in, as a kind of profile-building exercise to help with job hunting, and after around the third smug self-satisfied comment picking me up on some piece of irrelevant bullshit I deleted my account.

It’s even worse than that - they don’t just “do absolutely nothing to change that”, they actively whip each other into line by loudly blaming third party voters for not giving them the votes that they somehow owe to their big money party.

My LinkedIn has recently become flooded with Suggested Posts from 3rd degree connections who have “Vibe Coding Guru” listed as their job and post lots of stuff saying “people who mock Vibe Coding just don’t get it, and you too will be left behind if you don’t subscribe to my newsletter (which ChatGPT writes for me)”

I had a look at the supposed “false and defamatory statements” that the UKLFI claimed the Co-op made, and it’s such a weaksauce mix of pedantry over minor points plus heaps of unsourced speculation peppered with weasel words that it’s almost comically bad. Even their own defence of Israel is damning.

I got into a long debate with someone who wouldn’t accept my claim that pi is 3.

My reasoning was that 3 is accurate to the number of decimal places it’s quoted to, which is all you ever can say of any given value of pi. Like, pi might not be exactly 3, but it’s not 3.14159265358979323846 either, because both values still have infinity digits missing.

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Big burgers should just be two burgers

Everyone has that one moment when they realize just how expensive a good box is if you need to go out and actually buy one with money.

Western expats in Japan are notorious for hating every other Western expat in Japan. It’s even got a name, “My Japan Syndrome”.

You mentioned your post history elsewhere, so I had a look, and… nope. Your post history is largely unpleasant and tinged with bouts of xenophobia.

What’s more, Windows S Mode proved perfectly that you could offer the “safe” functionality that Apple claim they need to protect their customers, without fucking things up for people who wanted to take responsibility for vetting applications themselves.