lennivelkant @ lennivelkant @discuss.tchncs.de

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Honestly, yeah. I spent decades developing and maintaining it, hopefully will spend a few more decades with it, but after that? I have no use for it anymore, but if it's still in decent condition, it would be a shame to waste it.

I'd rather have it be of some use to someone, and "drink mead out of it" is very high up the list, right after "use it for science or education" and right before "use it for semi-realistic (but doubly awesome) historical weapon tests or demos". Other contenders are "deco piece", "movie/theatre prop" and "ritual implement".

Actually, that probably applies to most of my body. Reuse or repurpose as much as you can, turn the rest into fertiliser.

 

Failing that (if my spouse or family can't stand the thought of cremating my remains, I don't want to force them), at least bury me with some weapons. Not because I believe in Valhalla, I just want to troll some future archaeologist. Bonus points for mixing eras and qualities, e.g. a wallhanger 1700s cavalry sabre, weapons-grade Xiphos and a non-functional gun reproduction, dressed in a 900s Samurai armour.

Wait, you've had a skull grow on you? You're boned

That's the distinction between "should" and "will"

Then it seems like it's too out there

Boss makes a thousand
I barely one
I keep my head low
I get my work done
But nothing improves
If we all play along
So I'm joining a union
Together, we're strong

All good, I appreciate your intention. Thank you for taking the time!

I wasn't entirely sure if that's what they mean, but I considered the possibility. I opted to give a serious response just in case, accepting the possibility I'd be wooooshed.

I did.

A watch. I knew it. Nice one.

Is that frequency something you can control or measure? Do you agree on a shared "let's meet" frequency you set it to, and if the other happens to have it set to that as well, you end up meeting? Or is it more of a random chance thing, like running into each other in places you both frequent at coincidentally matching times and deciding it must be the bracelets' doing?

Or am I falling for a joke?

That's what I was trying to allude to. Whoever is left is either not competent enough or unwilling to call him out (possibly because being employed is generally more important than being right).

Safe-ish, until some other driver on the crossing road approaches way faster than estimated, sees the light go yellow and floors it. Sure, they might see it in time, but there's a risk they don't. My dad once didn't see a crossing car at a yield intersection despite looking that way and got T-boned. He didn't think he was doing anything unsafe either.

Still safer than just blazing through though, so I guess partial credit for being carefully impatient?

I don't think she's particularly good looking, which may just be personal taste, but in any case doesn't matter in the slightest. She's not running for Miss America, she's running for President.

Not that I hold any particular love for beauty contests either, but - like Harris' looks - that's irrelevant here.

I like how Julius' lines fit the pentameter, but Brittanus' "What?" shits right past it.

Oh absolutely, provided you're versed enough to understand the resource limitations, the need to prepare scaling solutions and have the willingness to admit that your in-house resources might not be enough. I'm not confident Musk ticks any of these boxes, let alone all of them.

And a competent team can only do so much. He ripped out data center servers, against his competent sysadmins' advice.

I don't think auto-scaling can scale to resources that don't exist. Besides, I'm not sure how many people with both the competence and the spine to advise Musk when he's doing A Stupid again still remain at the company.

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945

We have been trying to reason with the bigots for a long time, but it has become clear that their polemic doesn't respect reason. What shall we do, then? Throw up our hands, let them erode our values and sacrifice our values on the altar of rigid principles? Die with pride "At least, we never resorted to censorship"? What good is our loyalty to that rule to the victims of that new, intolerant order?

The enemies of freedom have no qualms about using censorship and violence to silence the opposition. It is only right that we should meet them on their terms, if they will not meet us on ours.

He's a product of a biased system. He was elected to the Senate in '72, over 50 years ago, and spent 36 years there. That long, during that time in a highly business-heavy state, would probably have been untenable for anything left of liberal. I'm not optimistic that anyone trying to be an effective politician in those circumstances for so long could have been much more progressive.

Considering all that, he got a lot of good done. But like you say, it's easy for the media to focus on the things that generate outrage. He wasn't a saint by any measure, but he was a decent compromise at a time when the Democrats were scared of losing the moderate votes. Him being nominated for re-election is probably a product of the political inertia that sitting and eligible presidents are rarely swapped out instead of being put up for re-election (actually, is there any precedent at all?)

Walz, by contrast, was in the House for twelve years, then governor for another five. That's a third of Biden's time in Congress, and much later too. I think it's much more realistic for someone in his position to be and stay progressive, and I hope he helps pull the Overton Window to the left. I hope this election shows that there is a platform for progress, that Biden was an emergency measure for damage control and that handing the baton over to Harris and Walz was a step in the right direction.

Of course, that hinges on Harris also driving a more progressive line than Biden did, instead of resigning to another term of mediocrity. She seems to signal as much, but whether that will be followed up with deeds remains to be seen.

I have this nasty habit of taking jokes - even ones I recognise as such - and starting a serious line of thought from that. I know you're joking because that's an excessive amount of effort for sharing a joke, but in the process of evaluating that, my brain has latched on to the question of "Could that be serious? How would that play out?", started analysing and I don't know how to make it stop doing that.

"Ein Wort" - what's the issue?

Given that all those rips didn't add anything to the original work, I'd argue they don't strictly require credit. They're not really derivative works, but rather reproductions of the original.

I can see the logic behind crediting "this is where I got it from" as proximate source in addition to naming the ultimate source. In academic contexts, it's certainly important to specify where you quoted someone from to make your sources transparent in addition to naming the original source. This isn't an academic context, however, so I wouldn't consider it warranted.

It's an interesting consideration, to be sure.