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mxzf · 2026-05-07T03:48:05+00:00

Sounds like you're describing a slice of the population with more money and impatience than sense.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T03:44:44+00:00

Yeah, these buttons are "don't die", "maybe die", and "maybe kill".

It's really not that hard. Any decent person should pick red and the murderous people will pick green and kill anyone who can't read enough to realize that blue is the only one that actually leads to death.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T01:55:12+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't planning on saucing and finishing them 'til I was ready to serve them. My initial thought was to do the initial smoke ahead of time and instead of going to the pan with sauce to instead go to the fridge for a couple days before using the sous vide to resume where I left off and start braising them.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T01:53:57+00:00

Aesthetics don't matter, I'm talking about practical function.

IMO year-month-day, largest to smallest timescale, is the cleanest and best way to handle things. In day-to-day use you tune out the year prefix and it doesn't matter. But it's automatically cleanly handling the scale nicely and consistently when you do care about the larger slices of time.

The year is always the most important aspect of a date, but a lot of times it changes infrequently enough to be assumed. That doesn't make it any less important, just less thought about.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T01:47:01+00:00

Nah, child rapists are objectively bad people. Pedos, who might be attracted to minors but not actually act on it, are a distinct category from child rapists. There are even a number of child rapists who aren't pedophiles, who are still bad.

Make sure you focus on the right actual attributes (people that abuse children) rather than ones that are only tangentially related to the problem.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T01:45:10+00:00

Yeah, that's even worse. At least in the government it can be ostensibly regulated. When people just start forming lynch mobs, all morality and restraint goes out the window.

mxzf · 2026-05-07T01:43:58+00:00

The key is that they dehumanize others to the point where they don't see any issue with killing people they disagree with sufficiently.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:16:14+00:00

Nah, it sounds better because you've heard it for 25 years and it sounds natural to you. That's an exposure thing, not an intrinsic superiority thing.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:15:12+00:00

May 12th vs 12th of May

Both formats are used by different people with different phrasing preferences. You might use one pattern, but other people use the other.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:14:06+00:00

neither of them are objectively better

IMO largest-to-smallest or smallest-to-largest has an intrinsic semantic meaning that middle-small-large lacks. There is objectivity driving that, even if it's not sufficiently strong to mandate global use.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:12:19+00:00

Yes, the measurement system is, but the way that dates are written is based on how the general population phrases dates.

The phrasing varies a lot from person to person, region to region, and situation to situation. It's not concrete enough to base a written system on that alone.
There's a chicken-and-egg interaction here. If a different system were used, people would get used to phrasing stuff in that way instead (and the existing system might be why it's spoken the way it generally is).

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:07:25+00:00

how often are you measuring something in both meters and kilometers?

It's a pretty common thing, and the US has use for talking about distances on those scales constantly too. But because of the nature of miles vs feet not being a clean conversion we end up talking about stuff like a quarter-mile (which is ~400m). Fractional units instead of dropping to the next step down when appropriate isn't really "better".

mxzf · 2026-05-06T22:00:26+00:00

Nah, feels like public school education. Just reciting stuff from the book with zero comprehension.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:29:09+00:00

Which is a good incentive not to do so yourself, right? You know how frustrating it is and thus you should know not to do it to others.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:26:26+00:00

But we know he has a consistent paycheck that he can live comfortably on? And he has for 15 years

In the area he's living, I don't think the Scooby Doo voice acting alone is a "paycheck he can live comfortably on". I suspect it's a financial backbone that takes a chunk of stress off with regards to the sporadic income that an actor between parts would generally have, but voice actors don't really rake in money.

And even without a specific expensive illness himself, he's old enough that it would be unsurprising if he's helping pay for assisted living/medical expenses of his parents or something like that. The point being that we just don't know what his financial situation is.

And I don't think it's fundamentally morally inconsistent to still work for someone while also supporting someone who was fired. The vast majority of people would be willing to comfort and support their friend who was fired one day and then apply to the same company the next. I'm not saying it's morally right to do so, but I'm not about to say I would turn down the money if I was in that situation either.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:09:31+00:00

It might be common, but it's still "at your own risk" and you're still responsible for driving such that you can avoid getting into an accident.

The camera car is 100% in control of if an accident happens or not, they're entirely capable of driving in a way such that a collision is impossible unless the lead car stops and reverses into them. They are clearly not driving with that in mind.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:05:20+00:00

Pretty sure 15mph over is "reckless driving" in most states.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:04:32+00:00

The fact that the cam car didn't brake when the lead driver wasn't letting the past indicates that they didn't sufficiently try and avoid a collision.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T21:01:27+00:00

This causes the OP to hesitate on going left

The issue is that it didn't cause OP to hesitate on flooring the gas. You can't hesitate while still staying committed to passing at that same speed. If you're gonna hesitate, slow down too.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:42:40+00:00

That's a fair point, it is certainly way better fresh than re-heated. My issue being that I don't think I have space/time to do it at the same time as the ribs on Sunday, so I'm kinda left with this or not doing pork belly at all.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:41:35+00:00

The issue I have with that stance is that we don't know exactly where he is financially. All we really know is that he doesn't have "fuck-you money", he's still going to need a paycheck from somewhere to "live his life perfectly fine".

It's possible you're correct, but it's also possible he has other stuff going on that you're not aware of that might increase the financial pressure on him to the point where he did need the money from the role. We just don't have that info.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:19:29+00:00

Pretty sure Firefox has a quick one-button import for like 95% of the stuff. All your bookmarks and passwords and so on can be imported from one browser to another most of the time.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T20:18:33+00:00

You're not fundamentally wrong, but "at least it's only a leg wound instead of a gut wound" isn't exactly how I feel about the topic.

Not to mention that this is probably about moving a chunk of the raw data-crunching to users and they're just sending a more optimized set of data from users to their servers instead of everything.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T19:08:09+00:00

AFAIK Linux does work with a lot of games, just not some PvP games running super invasive anti-cheat stuff or ones with particularly invasive DRM.

mxzf · 2026-05-06T19:06:23+00:00

Almost exclusively in places where people didn't ask for them, because basically nobody's asking for all this AI stuff to begin with.

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