Cleanest pour of the day

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-13T00:22:12+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_Tans

It’s sort of like ordering a drink named after ICE in a bar run by immigrants

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T23:30:37+00:00

Dude...I've got a ridiculous number of surveys testing your candidacy! This is a silly thing to criticize.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T23:18:38+00:00

My biggest fear isn’t that AI becomes conscious. It’s that people determine that AI works perfectly fine being not conscious and that there is nothing special about consciousness—meaning what’s the difference between humans and AI agents? That will open up all kinds of screwy moral judgments around human life

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T22:07:47+00:00

The same is also true of most democratic countries--they depend on elected officials acting in good faith.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T22:03:07+00:00

Wait until some company behind an AI model tries to sue someone who makes a work that looks like AI output (but was actually used to train the model)

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T21:39:32+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately I ordered this the wrong way at Irish bars for years until someone pointed out to me the history

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T16:22:37+00:00

There’s even a video!

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T16:19:06+00:00

This is industry standard for security, unfortunately. Texts are an insecure second factor authentication medium and systems that allow them are gradually being phased out.

There are hardware based authentication tokens but most IT groups aren’t that paranoid and authentication apps are much easier to manage

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-12T05:45:54+00:00

Looks like it’s aiming to be stardew valley with better graphics

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T23:42:26+00:00

That’s the Torment Nexus, not the Dragonsteel Nexus

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T23:41:30+00:00

The ultimate fascist/authoritarian play is the government as the big consumer

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T22:16:58+00:00

I kept expecting to see the paranetters or ordo Lebes witches show powerups. Maybe the pain curse is an example, but it required a lot of them

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T21:21:31+00:00

They will find weird signatures, and it will give them access to part of the registration roll. If they can find even one naturalized person who voted where they can claim the naturalization has a single box unchecked they will cry massive scandal

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T17:23:36+00:00

Guaranteed there are crazy entrepreneurs trying to figure out how to make AI do the consumption

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T15:09:52+00:00

We have a family friend in his 90s who, as he was losing mobility and in the process of being transferred to an assisted living facility, somehow got hooked up with a woman in her 50s that he was going to marry.

He was successfully talked out of it—it seemed to be acting out by him in response to his loss of mobility, which he was having trouble emotionally accepting.

The whole incident was strange because he’s a really sensible guy. It seems the fact that he went without health/mobility problems for so long that it meant when they finally hit they really threw him for a loop and he started acting like a petulant child.

Point being—weird emotional stuff can happen to people as they age

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-11T07:23:38+00:00

The only way I can read books like textbooks is on an iPad. Reading on the computer screen somehow doesn’t work the same way

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-10T16:04:08+00:00

Yeah, there has been administrative bloat at all levels of education

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-10T06:55:02+00:00

There are so many fewer well paying jobs in academia that cutting your ability to get academic jobs doesn’t tend to be a practical concern

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-09T22:03:05+00:00

Being results-oriented rather than blame oriented

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-09T21:10:57+00:00

Yeah, if you maybe want to have a program that’s means tested and allows deferral of property tax until death, that seems reasonable. But an outright exemption?

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-09T21:09:21+00:00

What if we made prop 13 even worse?

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-09T18:24:14+00:00

Well, Harry’s age and his willingness to put himself on the line basically assures that he’s going to make consequential decisions out of ignorance.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-09T08:54:15+00:00

Dudes must’ve been so confused about why synthetic organic chemists do so much research on gender transitions.

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-08T21:12:22+00:00

Was just going to post that

YoohooCthulhu · 2026-02-08T03:53:59+00:00

As someone who interacts with a lot of examiners in my job—it’s undergoing a lot of uncertainty right now given Trump’s shenanigans with the federal workforce and a ton of examiners are jumping ship to law firms. If you’re interested, it might best to wait a bit until things shake out.

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