Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@dm_draco Long before Stack Overflow, a generation of programmers were subsumed by the "copy and paste everything from MSDN and never ask what how or why" tsunami.

To this day it's the greatest gift Microsoft ever gave ransomware authors, who just find exploits in standard MSDN boilerplate and deploy it...

@JohnShirley2023

That seems high, but I once read a metasurvey -- that is a survey of surveys -- that shows that universally, across all Western democracies, around 36% will always vote for the strongman, the one who tells them "you're the special one, the entitled one, and I'll be working for you". So they start off with an advantage, they only need to persuade another 15%, not the whole 51% everyone else does.

@nedhamson Incredible. Business understands that it's their future too. More of this, please.

@rubenbolling

It's a big problem in the military.

"Soldier, who ordered you to booby-trap the Officer's Latrine?"
"An anonymous source, sir!"
"Right. As you were."

@BremainInSpain

Really sobering article, as a sometime UK foreign worker. I wouldn't go there on a bet these days. I appreciated this, in the comments:

@warren__terra @harphat Mercury does rotate relative to the sun, if, slowly, so if there's a goldilocks ring near the terminator, you'd have to keep moving to stay within it. (About 11kph at the equator; more slowly the further you are from it.)

@anneapplebaum

Well, balloons can fly _under_ the clouds.

@JohnShirley2023 Come to think of it, in the first conversation we see between Dave and HAL:

BOWMAN: You're working up your crew psychology report.
HAL: Of course I am.

@JohnShirley2023

"I'm a Freud, Dave."

Every pet I've ever had -- and it's quite a few -- is because someone else didn't do what they were supposed to. It's not a chosen or preferred cause of mine, it's a result of, out of basic decency, not having a choice: I've stepped up because someone had to.

IMO there's shockingly little overlap between people who have pets and people who ought to.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/04/want-to-truly-have-empathy-for-animals-stop-owning-pets

So why does Judy Jetson never bat an eye when the song Jet Screamer sings and credits to her, "Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah", isn't the one she sent in?

@pitch @Popehat

You're [sic] point is valid, but this isn't abstract sophomore ethics this is actual us wanting to set a bum on fire in real life so sheddep

@keithduthie @Popehat Wrassling with numbnuts on the intarwebs is not entirely the same thing as trying to settle your immediate neighbors down.

@pitch @Popehat
It's right up there with "do better". Nobody who says that would want the Feds to check their basement.

@Popehat
You're obviously intelligent to some degree.😜

@Popehat If this is you being faux-moralistic, they should quake in their boots lest you become vrai-moralistic.

@Popehat

And yea tho' we were imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, yet did a nuclear blast release us, and we did alight upon the planet Houston and battle with the Son of Jor-El there.

- The Book of Zod