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i was thinking about how I ask questions that I can look up on a search engine. even more than a book, it's not too expensive to get an answer from a search engine, so people might say "let me google that for you", implying that you might have just typed your question into Google's search engine to get an answer more efficiently. leaving aside that crafting a good query can be nontrivial, especially if the subject matter is new to you, I think asking a *person* a question also serves to inform that person that there's a question to be asked. in other words, a person may not realize there was any confusion about a term or phrase, and would continue to use it, assuming everyone knows the meaning or will find out, but if someone asks, then they might learn that, in that context, it's good to unpack the meaning.

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@trinsec yeah but I'm referring specifically to the point at which you reach the end of "bingeable" content. wondering if there's a word or phrase for that point where you run out

what's it called when you catch up to latest updates in a serial? Like when you find a web comic and read it at an accelerated pace then catch up to the latest and have to wait week by week for new updates

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems hideously over-engineered:
https://github.com/PyCQA/isort

sorting imports in #python is barely a problem to begin with.

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@AaronTheIssueGuy that's easy: imagine a kid is found watching snuff films on school grounds. would you rather tell parents, "a student circumvented the school firewall to..." or "we don't have a firewall/content blocking". all about CYA @theruran

Neat. Resources for political action in democracy

https://redistricting.lls.edu/redistricting-101/how-can-the-public-engage/

#politics #civics #voting #redistricting #democracy

https://player.fm/series/96526/317551705
I'm always impressed when I hear about how far in advance these programs are planned out. all the project planning I've done personally has had time horizons of a year at most, and usually much less...
#nasa #podcast #humanspaceflight #orion #artemis

it's weird listening to a podcast from early last year hearing people talking about how they are dealing with the end of the pandemic. I definitely started going out more after I got vaccinated, no mask indoors and among people for recreational purposes, but I definitely wasn't seeing that as "the end of the pandemic" or "after COVID". Like, that wasn't even approximately true at any point. Leaving aside case rates in the US, pandemics are global by definition, and other countries weren't anywhere near the US in vaccine stock.

they just really seemed delusional. it was also sad because they seemed a bit screwy from living through the pandemic to that point.

also, I know this can come across as very crass: people live in these countries, and their fates aren't an idle game, but I'm asking because I *am* interested. What happens between these countries has an effect on what happens in mine, so it's a question that will have consequences in my life eventually.

any odds on #Russia invading the #Ukraine within two months?
#politics

https://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/08/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century.html