I love unix shops.

but an alot of atoms is just a regular old alot…!

While Einstein and Hawking (no s) were giants of their field, published papers that turned all other accepted science on its head, and have basic physical phenomenon of the Universe named after them, they were surprisingly limited in their knowledge of other fields. Whereas NdT will expound on absolutely any topic with the complete certainty that he is a fucking expert, even if he only just now inferred the existence of the thing from the question he is presently being asked. He is a Mycroftian megabrain of galactic proportions, a fact he appreciates better than anyone else.

One of these nerds is not like the others,
One of these geeks just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which nerd is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

I wasn’t a kid anymore when HL came out. Hope you are still having fun, whatever you’re doing.

The thought cloud vs speech bubble metaphor hadn’t been invented yet!

Whatever apps and corporate synergy they might have, no commercial consumer OS meets my most basic use cases for operating a computer. The whole point of commercializing the OS was to take power away from users and artificially limit our options. It wasn’t even a secret, there was huge industry-shaping lawsuits about it. But people don’t give a fuck about that if they can’t run Fortnight…

I’m annoyed we didn’t all go with BSD, but this is nice. We got to hold on to some of our nice things for once.

Police and courts exist to serve the state’s interests, not the interests of that state’s citizens. Those interests can diverge a great deal. Doesn’t change in a democracy, it’s just not about us.

So, this is embarrassing. Apparently up until this point, every time someone said, “monero,” what I heard was “Venmo”, and I just tuned out that pay pal bullshit every single time. Oops. I know better now, thanks.

Same concern. It’s even arguable you can only lick solids (and lap liquids). This would make hydrogen a Must Not Lick, for example, if we could only consider solid forms.

[ insert chart of market cap over time ]

People actually use bitcoin for critical use cases. It satisfies needs in their lives that don’t just have to do with crypto. Another vanity coin is not a substitute.

Same as everyone, to produce reports.

The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.

I think you will find that war isn’t a very useful metaphor for this kind of conflict. … you get that it’s metaphorical, right?

Okay but if we’re going to be that guy, “eat the rich” doesn’t mean consume their flesh.

whaaaaaaaaaaat

steal from work

Were I to reply I would merely be repeating what I said to @ava@beehaw.org

Every artist sacrifices other things so that they can do art. I get that we have less to sacrifice than we used to but in objective, absolute, historical terms, we are still sooooo fucking wealthy and have so many opportunities and resources at our disposal. And I say this as someone with a 13k annual income who contributes to FOSS projects.