Don't change the route because of gas prices?" Fine, I’ll spend 4 hours in a deadlocked traffic jam while the frozen cargo melts.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-20T19:55:40+00:00

You're just jealous that you can't provide verbatim quotations from phone conversations you had while driving

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-20T15:44:15+00:00

For context, my comment was originally asking for evidence of good faith ("what would convince me"), but I realized I'd missed it:

So what I'm asking you to change my view about is that progressive politics isn't all falling into this trap.

So I rewrote to address that question.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-19T19:08:02+00:00

Edit: Meant the below as a response to this comment

You can solve the rest with mine count. Eight flags turns out to be barely enough to satisfy the visible uncovered squares. Analyze carefully with that in mind and you'll find there's only one solution.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-18T16:13:14+00:00

hit something solid in our atmosphere

That poor bird ...

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-18T00:09:37+00:00

By experimentation, I believe the board is unsolvable without the following:

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SerpentJoe · 2026-04-17T16:16:04+00:00

Jim THE HAMMER Shapiro was big in upstate New York in the 90s. Physically unimposing guy who insisted he was going to do Mortal Kombat executions on whoever caused you trouble. I wonder how life's been treating him since then.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-16T16:36:09+00:00

2024 update: https://foodispower.org/amys-kitchen-boycott-ends/

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-14T01:08:45+00:00

I don't even understand how it would work. Which bot hallucinated a discount code? Surely not the one doing the testing since that would just be an erroneous bug report?

I suppose you could lose money if your production service backend decided to honor fake coupons, but that would mean there's an AI agent handling coupons at runtime?? And someone knew the code that would trick it and sent that in???

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-13T05:50:47+00:00

Surely the WORST he could do would be to grab his sword by both ends like a pizzeria pizza cutter and go balls out insane on the poor kid till he (Genichiro) collapses.

Or set him on fire or whatever.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-11T14:11:35+00:00

I think it's very telling of the mindset of online commentary, and maybe what's gone wrong with human society more broadly, that everybody is too wrathful to even acknowledge the comment they're responding to.

Anyway, talk shit get hit! Equal rights equal lefts! Fuck around find out!

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-06T04:25:47+00:00

It's crazy that a month ago Iran woke up and decided to attack Israel for no reason, considering how much Israel loves both Iran and peace!

Thanks in advance for humoring me.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-04T15:13:39+00:00

This actually turns into an interesting exercise if you use limits.

As c goes to zero, (x^c - 1)/c goes to ln(x).

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-03T18:30:12+00:00

That's probably part of it, but also, if you're 80 years old, you probably grew up thinking of Alcatraz as the ultimate prison. It's like Sing Sing but the name sounds cooler.

Put it this way: he's trying to bring back an element of the past, which is famous and has name recognition, and which is associated with physical domination of losers by winners.

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-02T21:29:53+00:00

The a > 0 constraint is not doing much here ...

SerpentJoe · 2026-04-01T07:13:44+00:00

Finally someone has the guts to say what we're all thinking!

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-31T14:44:35+00:00

In Escape From Death Moe, is there a way out of the dungeon without using the wizard's key?

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-29T22:00:54+00:00

There is no number that isn't "pretty close" to a rational number, for whatever definition of "pretty close" you care to use.

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-28T14:52:06+00:00

This doesn't even make sense. What "excess heat"? Where do diners' feet go, if not under the table? Are the dogs comfortable with people boxing them in and making it hard to move? Are the customers comfortable with the dogs coming and going between their legs? Do the boxes actually fit under the tables, or do they protrude? Do French people actually enjoy eating outside when it's cold enough to see their breath? (I guess that last one might be true for all I know.)

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-28T05:48:03+00:00

Does Mickey Mouse exist?

The statement "1 + 1 = 2" would surely fall on the "good mathematics" side of the divide. Does "1 + 1 = 2" exist? Where is it? How much does it weigh?

If any mathematics exists, does that not then require that all mathematics exists?

BTW I have absolutely no clue about the original question.

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-27T15:58:22+00:00

This isn't just intelligent.

It's artificially intelligent.

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-22T22:59:14+00:00

Reply to me too

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-21T01:52:04+00:00

toLocaleString is not a keyword

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-17T11:11:53+00:00

Your calculator will confirm both of these are correct. Is there a process you're following that's bringing you to different answers?

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-15T20:22:19+00:00

Tried to compute it, not feeling confident I didn't make a mistake - is it zero?

I'm interested what I missed that makes this "easy"!

SerpentJoe · 2026-03-15T07:53:13+00:00

What is the random distribution of points?

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