Wouldn’t failing to add a proof-of-work hurdle to the API just be kicking the can down the road?

Translation: “I just signed a mortgage. I’m trying to please my parents, maybe get a wife and kid. I got responsibilities. I can’t tear down the system that got me what I enjoy. Let someone else do it while I take my fortune and go live on an estate writing my fantasies, enjoying the lucky fact that my doomer story resonated with enough of society to win several recent popularity contests.”

I would have criminalized “owning residences you don’t live in”.

Fun comes from overcoming challenges which imply problems existed which implies inefficiency at turning money into more money. … Huh. Capitalism is just letting money munchkins min/max society for their own personal benefit.

Nitpickers will nitpick.

You’d have a revolution on your hands if hard working people suddenly realized what they were missing when the 3-month vacation is denied them the next year.

Ah, shit, you’re right. They’re right next to each other on my mental bookshelf. I was introduced to their works via this talk they gave together, have been reading both their works, and so I have trouble distinguishing them. >.<

“Private property is the smallest unit of warfare.” — The Terraformers (2023) by Becky Chambers Annalee Newitz

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It’s why IQ tests are fundamentally flawed.

Since you have failed to correctly define the words “highfalutin”, “dogsbody”, “apiary”, “valise”, “collet”, “haruspex”, “threnody”, or even “copse”, we regret to inform you that you are functionally illiterate and likely mentally disabled.

Trump wants to nationalize ad agencies to force them to publish his propaganda, no matter how objectionable they may find it, by the sound of it.

As the Trump administration considers approving a proposed merger between two of the world’s largest advertising agencies, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, regulators may impose unusual conditions.

A proposed consent decree would prevent the merged company from boycotting platforms because of their political content by refusing to place their clients’ advertisements on them, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The restrictions being discussed by the Federal Trade Commission as part of its merger review are part of an effort by the Trump administration to use federal agencies to root out what it considers political bias in corporate America against conservative voices and causes.

Alien 1: Wow, humans must go around saying “Kill me…” a lot.

Alien 2: Uh, rude!

Middle-aged human: No, no, that tracks.

No author credit given.

My headcanon is that college started out as a way for the wealthy elite to get their children to socialize with and breed one another to produce the next generation of social elites. These aristocratic objectives were highly correlated with the ability to successfully pass entrance exams and perform scholarly tasks, until the the “college for everyone” movement of the late 20th century (e.g. the GI bill). Then, the next generation of aristocrats collectively sent their children to an elite subset of colleges (e.g. Ivy League schools) and upper class companies filled out their managerial job slots with graduates from these colleges. At some point, I believe the wealthy elite will dispense with this academic charade and simply manage their own private dynastic dossiers for managing the breeding and marriages of their children.

2025: commit all the crimes you want, pin them on an immigrant scapegoat, get them extrajudiciously deported, no questions asked, no investigation, and badda-bing-badda-boom, you’re Scott-free! It’s basically the modern equivalent of lynching a black guy to keep a good old boy out of jail but official.

Ah, the new medication doomies.

I wish that worm had finished the job.

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I’m pretty sure no one knows my blog and wiki exist, but it sure is popular, getting multiple hits per second 24/7 in a tangle of wiki articles I autogenerated to tell me trivia like whether the Great Fire of London started on a Sunday or Thursday.

Also, the idea that a woman doesn’t need a man to impregnate her.

Turpentine, acetone, and benzene…