Even still. C’mon. We both know you have a manifesto in multiple fonts and colours. Why are you being so coy, let’s see it.

Learns fast.

Osama bin Laden was working for Israel. My dude, a claim like that should be accompanied with a Time Cube styled manifesto, not a random you tube video.

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

Cute rhetoric. The dichotomy isn’t, “ask people what they think vs tell people what to think.” The dichotomy is, “subjective vs objective.” You could be taking objective measurements. What you are measuring is not what you are claiming. These charts only allow you to talk about people’s perceptions (as it clearly says on the infographic) and not the underlying realities. Your implicit point has to be that believing you have equal right is just as good as actually HAVING them.

I will install emacs on a machine just to use magit.

That isn’t an objective measure. You’re not examining characteristics of governance, you are examining public views on governance. In the 80s Canada had an image problem domestically and internationally. Did Canada change? Hell no! We engaged one of the most successful PR campaigns in modern history, and suddenly we’re all stroking each other off and receiving international plaudits, even while we continue to burn our children’s future for fuel.

Movie novelizations and published screenplays used to be a lot more popular when I was a kid. I read lots of movies, from Adventures in Babysitting (novel) to Raiders of the Lost Ark (screenplay). And we used to pass around Monty Python scripts like .mp4s.

I would recommend reading The Hobbit! It is structured to be very accessible, without all the grinding through pages of descriptive prose like in the rest of Tolkien’s works. I think The Hobbit is his best book by far, and it’s certainly his most readable book for people who are not yet strong readers. It’s intended to be accessible to children, but I certainly would not call it a children’s book. It’s quite sophisticated if you want to look for depth but it’s very interesting and exciting on the surface level as well.

Right now I am reading Peter Pan to my partner. I’ve never read it before and it’s delightful so far.

You didn’t ask, but I really love:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poe's_Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination/A_Descent_into_the_Maelstrom

This is among Poe’s several stories that are now considered proto-scifi. I recall one where a balloonist becomes the first person to reach the moon, and I was fascinated when I read it as a kid.

Console output?

must be ai

Whenever I see a Pepe, I think to myself, “there goes someone who doesn’t mind being confused for a racist.”

Why would you have been considering giving EA money

It also kept tigers away for six years! Personal anecdotes are not meaningful when it comes to something like medical efficacy.

See, the simple fact that you’re telling me those things when clearly I don’t give a single fuck tends to suggest the contrary, but of course it’s not conclusive and again, I don’t give enough fucks to actually find out.

I don’t know anything about you or these pills but typically one would tell a “lie” like that as part of their overall campaign to cope. The point isn’t to deceive others but to bulwark a worldview that emotionally benefits the person to hold in some way (ie, “I was smart to take these pills, wasn’t taken advantage of at all”)

Please explain

What’s he getting away with, exactly? The value that we get from him dwarfs whatever you think he’s getting out of us. We don’t have to use his stuff. He’s not charging us for it. The power is entirely in your hands if you don’t want to let him get away with giving you software.

That’s the nicest thing anyone ever said to me.

if you don’t want to risk your life, get an abortion instead of having the kid.

Would strongly agree with that.