Reverend Larry:

I DO want your money, because god wants your money.

That’s easy to say when you have an abundance of time…

What even is plain text anymore? If you mean ASCII, ok, but that leaves out a lot. Should it include a minimal utf-8 detector? Utf-16? The latest goofy encoding? Should zcat duplicate the functionality of file? Generally, unix-like commands do one thing, and do it well, combining multiple functions is frowned upon.

How do you propose zcat tell the difference between an uncompressed file and a corrupted compressed file? Or are you saying if it doesn’t recognize it as compressed, just dump the source file regardless? Because that could be annoying.

It’s funny, because I didn’t consciously intend to hang up on her, it was very much a reflexive action. But moments later I realized I had missed the perfect opportunity to say “I’d like to see you try”

My first call center job, my first year, someone threatened to kill me. 23 years ago, I still remember it. I answered the call, didn’t even get the first word of my greeting out, and this woman was screaming, “don’t hang up on me, you better not hang up on me, the last three people hung up on me, if you hang up on me I will come through the phone and KILL YOU!”

I hung up on her.

People can AI generate convincing CP images. Should those be allowed?

I don’t see why not, if nobody is being harmed in its creation. Just because something is disturbing doesn’t mean it needs to be illegal.

saying people should go kill a certain group.

Saying it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s the people doing it who cause harm, that seems pretty clear cut to me.

Eh, I’m talking about speech that isn’t the direct result of real harm being done. I think the distinction is pretty clear don’t you?

Maybe you don’t, but I do…

I have this vague memory of one of the CSIs showing a list of IP addresses with 4-digit octets… I get not wanting to risk using real IP addresses, but at least use 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x x

Until nobody can afford to own a car…

Some of us have been conditioned to hide our personalities all the time, until it becomes automatic… We can’t take off the mask even with effort…

No better way to steal money than free enterprise.

Then the fun part is finding which monkey has the result…

I don’t think he will, because it wouldn’t gain him anything, they’re already forgotten. And yet there will be plenty more to take their place…

reparented

What?

Self-driving cars are safer, in general, overall - it’s just that the specific cases in which they fail are different from anything a (halfway competent and alert) person would fail at.

Gravity, is natural, no?

Except if you go far enough left, you get your guns back…

But… It’s observable fact…