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I'd like to see his birth certificate anyway.

Two more weeks, buddy. You can do it!

Does beer come with that?

Thank you! I'm a professional part-time psychic entertainer and magician, and this was a delightful read. It's true, and A.I. takes advantage of people the same way as a psychic entertainer. Both tell you what j you want to hear. The difference is, the psychic is usually deemed entertainment, and the computer is often deemed an authoritative source.

It's a bit scary to think that I'm a few decades my job-hobby may be outsourced to A.I. However, I've always thought (predicted!) that live entertainment will become more valuable as the A.I. revolution occurs.

Many, if not most, of us talked big when we were that age.

Doubt. I never threatened to kill people when I was that age. I never wanted a gun.

Maybe I'm special.

Can he also be sued into oblivion?

That's because all this was public knowledge before! So, why do they block it?

Followed by a jail sentence!

The couch thing was true all along!

It's weird and depressing as a writer to go into a bookstore and find a blank book which sells for the same price as their novels.

Yeah, I do not think Python is a very good comparison.

I was thinking more like Clojure:

1. Enthusiastic and friendly geeks trying to push their language on the world trying to make it a better place. They are both definitely not a little cultish!
2. Language intended to be simple to learn with a limited and regular vocabulary, but can handle complicated work with ease.
3. They both say that learning their language will make your mind better able to do other languages.
4. A bridge between languages. Vanilla Clojure runs on the JVM and can invoke Java commands. But it has also been built on other platforms like JavaScript (ClojureScript), .NET (CLR), Python (Basilisp), BASH (Babashka), and others I think.
5. The parts of both languages can be broken up, mixed, and matched, and used for other parts. In Esperanto, the fundamental elements can be broken down and made into other words. In Clojure, you've got functions and lists - and higher order functions that work on functions and lists, and lists of functions, and functions of lists.
6. Did I mention: Friendly & welcoming geeks that lo-o-o-ove newbies! Seriously, both Clojure nerds and Esperanto nerds are unnaturally nice and would like to welcome you to the club. They've got tons of free resources for you to learn it.

Honestly, I think both are right. Both are simple languages that expand your way of thinking, and are probably both worth learning, if you're into that sort of thing.

The random dumb people would still be bribed.

Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

Wasn't that Mitt Romney and Trump's Secretary of the Treasury? (I forget his name.) But I remember him looking like a Bond villain.

About Esperanto, since it's not a national language (intentionally so) it's hard to do a census of speakers.

Also, to what level is considered "speaking Esperanto"? Taking the Duolingo course? Having it as a "mother tongue" where both parents speak it in a household in order to communicate? These are both probably countable, and produce wildly different numbers.

Mi pensas ke, vi volis tajpi, "Python (aŭ Pitono) malfeliĉigas min."

• Mal : Opposite
• Feliĉ- : Happy
• Ig : Makes (Transitive verb)
• As : Present tense.

"Mi malfeliĉas." : I'm sad.

"Pitono malfeliĉigas ĉiujn." (Python makes everyone sad.)

Ackshully, Clojure is Esperanto, and I will not be taking questions at this time.

"My pets aren't spoiled. They are compensated fairly for the services they provide."

A new wheel that works is really damn difficult.