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Is that why TFG thinks he's "one of the working people, fighting the elites"? 😅

my favorite computer thing is when i copy something and then i paste it somewhere and it pastes something old or nothing

Noting the use of the word 'evacuees' for people fleeing Florida. Perhaps we could use the same word for folks fleeing climate induced extreme weather and its societal consequences on other continents.

I love this take:

"Don't you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourself?

Whenever we fail to make simple things easy in software engineering, and webdev especially, we are failing society in the exact same way."

from https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

I think my plan to achieve Japanese literacy *is* working even though it feels like failure to exercise a level of patience, commitment, and endurance far beyond anything I've ever attempted before in my life.
毎日もう頑張ります。

@gerrymcgovern I love this whole AI debate thing. It uncovers all the idiots who have no idea what they are talking about and just parrot what any techbro says about their tech. It's true that ML can help us slove many different problems. But LLMs aren't it. People calling all ML things "AI" doesn't help either. 😐 Gives the grifters a false appearance of legitimacy.

> fed says no money for hurricanes after spending 1.4 billion on immigrants

how about no money for taxes

@FelisCatus @gerrymcgovern On a long enough timeline coal is renewable too.

This is not the first time I’ve said that the term “renewable” is meaningless in terms of low-pollution or low-carbon energy and it won’t be the last.

How people think AI is going to kill them: terminator robots.

How AI is actually going to kill them: by destroying their habitat and drinking all their water.

@aral Well, taking into account that billionaires usually don't have their money in cash to lose it to inflation but in real state or other property... and that cash can be moved out of the EU very easily (while still being able to use it) while property is hard and real state is impossible...

I think is much more effective to tax property. And property is already taxed.

Not to talk about that there isn't a centralized european tax office.

ocaml is nice but I still kinda miss lisp sexp soup... I must be insane