I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

Source unclear, often attributed to Richard Feynman.

Reminder that there’s no “it’s too late, its over” for climate change

That can be totally misread.

Elisp has a nice notation for maintainably composing regexes like any other programming expression. Only language I’ve seen offer that. So instead of "/\\*\\(?:[^*]\\|\\*[^/]\\)*\\*+/", the regular expression to match C block comments could be expressed (with inline comments)

(rx "/*"                          ; Initial /*
    (zero-or-more
     (or (not (any "*"))          ;  Either non-*,
         (seq "*"                 ;  or * followed by
              (not (any "/")))))  ;  non-/
    (one-or-more "*")             ; At least one star,
    "/")                          ; and the final /

Sure you don’t need to if abuse is the only goal. It’s a weird boundary to set for abusive language specifically disparaging that quality of their identity to call out the conflict with their support for a person whose policies are hostile to that identity. Do you know insults aren’t good?

she supports a fascist, she’s an adultular, a narcissist

First, adultular? Second, that’s exactly what they’re doing & who they’re proudly supporting: restating what they’re shameless about isn’t much of an insult to the subject as it fails to demean & offend.

was on the Kardashians

Do you understand the concept of insult? They’re unkind.

We don’t misgender cisgender people when they are bad people.

We don’t? I could have sworn cisgender people do that to insult each other all the time. It’s like a classic insult.

Discussing acceptable insults, while technically possible, seems somewhat irrational. The concept of an ethical insult doesn’t make total sense.

Oh noes, the target of the insult is insulted in a way the target would not approve. It’s like the insult is meant to inflict abuse on the target. Logic circuits breaking down. What will society do?

He doesn’t say much that wasn’t cut out

My brain hurts trying to make sense of the negations in this conundrum. Thanks for that. 😞