Gyroplast

Haste mal’n Wasser für mich?

Klar, ich bewahr’s im Hahn auf, spart Platz.

“Read the instructions”, he was told, so he read them. And then he did lead Sean to the lead pipe.

You spelled ‘worth billions of VC money’ wrong.

Among the lovely revival of arguing the One True Pronunciation, I personally see lay-tech as a portmanteau of “layout technology”. Meaning in German discourse, it’s [tɛç], and in English [tɛk]. Simple to remember, easy to derive, and matching the Gospel.

That nerd would surely pronounce his kink /ˈleɪtɛk/. Also, nobody loves \LaTeX. Unrealistic. 3/10.

Thanks, that sounds plausible enough for me. Has Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking vibes, bureaucracy would love this, so I shall accept this as fact henceforth, and indulge my confirmation bias!

When I visited the US in 2000 (yep, pre-9/11), everyone was handed a small paper form shortly before landing(!), in the plane, and I distinctly remember that checkbox asking me if I am planning any illegal or terrorist activity after entering the country.

I still do not understand its purpose. I honestly don’t.

Bah, humbug! In my days we used a rubber ducky, IF WE HAD ONE, or just the stick we were beaten with for using too many precious CPU cycles, and we were FINE!

The argument is not how one gruesome, cruel, sociopathic behavior outweighs the other, but being opposed to extremely anti-social behavior in general. Nobody wins the cruelty olympics.

Frankly, even the idea of “it is ethical, enjoyable, or just tolerable to cruelly hurt X in any way, because they are objectively worse than whatever I can think of” should be fundamentally repulsive to anyone, more so when attempting to take any moral high ground.

It’s too close for (my) comfort to normalizing suffering as somehow deserved by anyone, which is how “the other side” likes to argue how exploitation is totally fine. “Everyone else would do it, too, I’m just faster or better at it than them.” - “If they weren’t subhuman, worthless losers, they could hold a job in my orphan blending factory, and just not be homeless or pay for medication”. These are examples of an anti-social mindset. Honestly wishing, not just out of righteous, powerless anger, another conscious being cruel harm for any reason is a very slippery slope towards that mindset. I try to fight this urge.

I follow the argument insofar that “they” caused unfathomable suffering in multitudes. I would really prefer if the reaction to this wouldn’t be the prevalent “I want to see them hurt in (un)kind, because they deserve it”, but rather “how can such people be effectively discouraged from ever wanting to become a scourge to society”, while still accepting that universal human rights are still universal.

Of course this is much more complicated than “just take the money, and shove it elsewhere”, and quite possibly not even achievable within the time we have left, and coming from societies as they currently are. Without that little quantum of optimism, hope, and belief in a fundamentally sociable human nature, though, I don’t see much in our future than eventual, total destruction, one way or the other.

TL;DR: Yeah, molten lead isn’t even close to the cruelty inflicted by those doused with it. But why are we one-upping each other in cruelty, again? What’s the point?

I still have a soft spot for troll physics. Needs more magnets, though.

Oh my, better watch Felidae next, that one looks cute.

This reminds me of the tale of the coder tasked to write an input validator for IPv4 addresses. Poor bastard.

Another fun one: 0177.042.017.066

PSA: Don’t zero-pad your IPv4 octets. Decimal is for simpletons.

Yes. 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved IPv4 address space for Loopback. It is perfectly valid, and occasionally useful, to use other loopback addresses that are functionally identical, like 127.0.1.1 or 127.0.0.53, which carry semantic information for the initiated, like “53? Must be DNS-related, obviously!”

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That’s just science as applied by engineers.

Fun side-effect: one finds a strange appreciation and understanding for supervillains hell-bent on ending life on earth, “for no reason”.

Hey, if you want to see the world burn so badly, stop dilly-dallying and bring out the big guns! This is really taking longer than necessary.

Wär’ schon witzig, wenn so eine Notfallrufnummer bei Polizeigewalt eingerichtet würde.

So viel Selbsthass auf einem Bild. Tragisch.

Ich ergänze gern: “Wie kannst Du denn total in Schwarz herumlaufen, das ist doch viel zu heiß!!1!”

Heißt ja auch WahlURNE und nicht WahlKRIPPE.