upvoted for “fartifact”

I mean, that’s probably more patrons than Dimes Square

A downvoted reply:

That is rather peculiar reasoning to hear from you. You seem to be acting with a level of self-importance that would only be justified if there will be some future being that will torture trans-Singularity trans-humans for not having done enough to accelerate the onset of the Singularity.

And that’s just stupid.

On a related theme:

man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

https://bsky.app/profile/jjvincent.bsky.social/post/3mayddynhas2l

The phrase mammoth accounting error sounds like a joke from David Macaulay’s cartoons in The Way Things Work, with a mammoth wearing a green visor and looking up from a mechanical calculator with a perturbed expression.

To say it another way: We call them lecture halls, not debate halls, Yud.

From all my years in physics, I’m hard pressed to remember anything that resembles a debate as Yud seems to envision it. You might occasionally get a panel, where N participants sit on a stage and provide O(N) opinions.

I knew that “Deciding To Win” sounded familiar.

Literally zero awareness that it is not 1993 anymore.

https://bsky.app/profile/maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3m4bu6tyoac2t

I figure I might as well link the latest random positivity thread here in case anyone following the Stubsack had missed it.

“Would you like to know more?”

“Nah, I’m cool.”

“I know this!”

Lemmy needs a feature where we can click a button on a comment and make everyone see that comment in Comic Sans.

Funny story: Just yesterday, I wrote to a journal editor pointing out that a term coined in a paper they had just printed had actually been used with the same meaning 20 years ago. They wrote back to say that I was the second person to point this out and that an erratum would be issued.

Please, it’s pronounced “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.”

I used Floorp for a while. (The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100; nobody has a leg to stand on here.) It had a rare but persistent (and thus difficult to diagnose) problem of crashing my laptop hard when opening a private-mode window. Also, they’re planning to incorporate AI on an “opt-in” basis instead of rejecting it on moral grounds.

Aldaquaque is where I took that bleft toin

Please enjoy your free trip to the egress.

And looking that up led me to this passage from Bertrand Russell:

The more tired a man becomes, the more impossible he finds it to stop. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Super-prediction is difficult, especially about the super-future. —old Danish proverb

LBJ’s wife, not Reagan’s.

My only difficulty with LibreWolf on Ubuntu was getting it to be the default browser (it didn’t show up in the list of options). Turns out xdg-settings set default-web-browser librewolf.desktop on the command line did the trick.