“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuiler
Software skills plus domain knowledge
Software skills --> Anyone will be able to vibecode a good-enough app within 2-3 years
Domain knowledge --> Top LLMs already have domain knowledge comparable to specialists in whichever field, and are getting less hallucinatory & more accurate every year.
Not being a doomer, no idea what policies make sense going forward, but this is what I observe
I’d love to see a repeat of the Millgram experiment, but with religious people in one group and non-religious people in the other.
I wonder which more readily abdicate their moral decision-making
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
– Steven Weinberg (RIP)
I wonder if Mr Jonson would kill an Amalek on sight, as the LORD commanded Christians to do. I wonder if he thinks this is in fact what President Trump and Bibi are actually doing.
(for context: Amalekites are a tribe) Numbers 14:25
the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys
(… that God really fucking did not like) Samuel 15:2-3
This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants
Not what you’re thinking of, but adjacent and worthy on its own
Yeah CEOs are frickin’ hilarious that way
FB and its inevitable relationship with authoritarian governments is the problem.
Just being on Fedi is part of the free-speech (and in this case, -beer) solution.
PC tech ages like milk
Just be grateful if you have a good, roomy, silent ATX case. That and maybe mouse + keyboard are the only parts I haven’t had to refresh the last like 3 upgrade cycles
HVAC
I remember when I just graduated from college
STEM degrees.
Looking in the newspaper of my major US city.
All the ads were for HVAC techs. Nobody was looking for Comp Sci or Chem Engineering.
Almost switched to HVAC.
Glad I held out for an actual debugging software job
Pity young people today. Don’t be programmers; there’s no future in it.
Countdown to extension: 11 months
not just the ear this time, please
It’s a myth that “anyone” can get wrapped up in a cult […] unusual dress, complicated social hierarchies, and tons of jargon
Red hats? Is MTG “in-group” sill? What is “Groyper”?
As of March 2025, about 36% of registered voters identified as MAGA.
Don’t pretend for a second this can’t happen to otherwise intelligent, educated people that you know. It can. It probably has. Those people are credulous, not stupid, and they found an identity.
This is a real and existential problem. Don’t minimize it.
bUt It’S nAtURaL …
per OP, signal reached T.C. in 1998 T.C. is ~12 ly away if they responded that year we’d have got the message in 1998 + 12 = 2010 that was 15 years ago
If you’re thinking of the “Wow” signal, it turned out to be a magnetar
Tau Ceti is only 12 ly away
1998 + 12 = 2010
So they’re like 15 years late replying to the pussy call. Either they are too old and slow or they have so much already they’re just too busy
This pr0n is making me hard
Thank god I would hate for her to suffer mental and physical anguish so deep that eventually she takes her own life but not before heroically publishing her truthful memoirs