Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

— Isaac Asimov

“Actually this disc is defective. I’d like to exchange it for a new one.”

This trick will be useful if you ever go back to 1999.

Every time I need to buy something at work, they ask me to research three options.

I already did the research. I can tell which option is the best one already. So the two alternatives are always more expensive, and I tell them that “the cheap one” will work well enough.

Once I worked with an engineer like this. His eyes were so bad that he was ineligible for laser eye surgery. When he took them off to fix something you could practically hear a “zoom-in” sound effect.

That answers my question, I meant the latter.

Understood, sorry to imply that you were.

Every Windows apologist: “I will keep current on the hacks to fix it forever, easy.”

I’m glad I invested the time learning Linux before I had kids and now have no time for anything.

Do you mean using your existing Windows install, or installing it from scratch?

BSD is more open towards being closed.

I’ll bid $3.50 just to GPL it.

Never again

I wonder how much of this is because of crypto. Option to get paid appears, and donations go down.

If it’s not helpful to the operation of the vehicle, then you can just wrap it in a Faraday cage. Oops no signal.

Sorry, crypto is back in season.

Also the faucet hole is 1 centimeter from the back edge of the sink.

Perfection is the enemy of the good; climate change is even worse.

When people linger in doorways. We’re not hanging out with you because you’re cool; we’re trying to get past you. In or out, you’re wasting the heat/AC!

You are being obtuse because you don’t mind supporting homophobia but don’t want to feel bad about it.

He got caught sending money to a bigoted organization, got in trouble, and then embraced dark money.

Until he makes it right to the LGBTQ+ community and makes his finances public, only a fool or another bigot would give him the benefit of the doubt.

To add: the CEO got kicked out of Mozilla and switched to crypto after he was caught donating to outlaw gay marriage.