People have told me for most of my life to talk and write “more normal” so that they wouldn’t have to use a dictionary or think for more than a second about what they’re reading — this is just the latest instance of them looking for a shortcut to disregard anything they don’t immediately understand.

Fuck ‘em.

I didn’t get a lot of what people were talking about for awhile, but mostly it just got me to hide things from my parents from a young age and make my own money so I didn’t have to ask them for things…an attitude that of course created its own problems.

As for the tamagotchi-watching, I could see that feeling humiliating. At the time I think I just felt trusted. Sort of like when the other neighbors would ask me to watch their cat while they were gone. That kid’s parents never did end up ever letting him have a living pet ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You’re not alone. My parents regularly determined that anything trendy was clearly an invention of Satan sent to bring children directly to demon-worship. My only experience with one of these was like many of my experiences with technology growing up — the only child across the street with the “rich” parents had one, and he asked me to watch it over a weekend when he was on vacation somewhere.

It was never fun to me. It was a beeping obligation.

Oh no, how will we ever do without 90% of the engineers you’ve anecdotally met.

lol bye.

Yes, he was a fascist.

No, I don’t care about calling Nick Fuentes anything. If we’re exceptionally lucky, he’ll hit himself in the head hard enough to realize what a useless tool he is. I’d also accept him smacking himself hard enough to put himself into a coma, I’m not picky.

Finally, no one cares about how many guns Republicans have. As people, they seem to be (by and large) useless parasites that make nothing. If they kill the rest of us, it just puts the nail in the coffin for themselves that much faster.

This shouldn’t be an unpopular opinion. It’s absurd to consider Kirk’s death (that’s what we’re talking about, right?) as anything other than a net positive. There are zero reasons that you shouldn’t be allowed to exist without constant fear of people like him.

Yeah, yeah I know we’re all constantly told that violence isn’t the answer…by people with a vested interest in keeping us all docile and unthreatening. I don’t care that he’s dead. I don’t care if fascists are afraid for their lives — who knows, maybe it’ll magically teach them to feel empathy for how you must feel all the time. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal.

Henson, 46, of nearby Penn Hills, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and damaging government property.

Is the gate a person capable of being assaulted or is it property capable of being damaged? I don’t think it gets to be both.

It absolutely is. We only encourage gun and violence culture in real life, especially by authoritarian figures and their representatives. Allowing such in virtual spaces where no one can actually be hurt or killed runs counter to our patriotic ideals.

It’s not practical at scale — any employee working for a cabinet department (and probably more than that, what do I know) takes the oath. If they violate it later it’s easier to store a PDF in the personnel file to provide evidence they agreed to it in the first place.

Yes, although it’s generally more of a signed piece of paper or PDF thing than a saying-out-loud-in-front-of-people thing.

…well I’m definitely turning that on for my Linux machine then. Thanks for the tip.

I think this is something macOS does best — using shift+option hyphen is a bit quicker than alt+0151.

Odd, I see them used all the time, and I’m neither. So I guess either my experience is an outlier, everyone I talk to is secretly an LLM, or maybe the meme is pushing an easy conclusion because people in general are bad at picking up on LLM responses and want an easy punctuation mark so they don’t have to think.

They’re pretty trivial to make in any OS — having a dedicated key isn’t necessary.

Weirdly it usually turns hyphens into en dashes instead of em dashes from what I’ve seen, which makes no sense at all.

I thought that was just the job we give people who are trying their best but can’t really anything.

Eh, I’d allow it; it’s tangentially related and a complaint about capitalism. Win-win.

I mean sure, if you just want to skip Bearshare

Plenty of folks will be with you on this, me included. Tried a few, didn’t like them, nbd.

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