Art of the deal. Plan A is to give three weeks to sign off on the surrender. When they refuse, Plan B starts. Plan B is that there is no Plan B.

Besides the not so subtle gesture, Nazi propaganda often emphasized an idealized family like this.

. . . so, anyway, that’s how I became radicalized.

The fascists want you to disappear. Never give the fascists what they want.

Techbros are ready to pick up where the oil barons left off. Finding capitalists to fund fascism is never a problem.

If there were a practical fusion reactor shown today, it’d be 10 years before it could be started to be deployed at commercial scale.

More to the point, fascism isn’t going away just because we have better electricity sources. Cheap power is a problem in capitalism.

The answer to that is we pick it up in other ways, like universal health care or building schools, which would benefit the economy in other ways. There’s nothing special about military spending that makes it more effective at Keynesian economics than anything else. In fact, it’s probably worse.

Not that Keynesian economics was anything other than keeping capitalism going past its expiration date, of course.

Best reason to play with the models is to recognize when other people are using them for real work.

In a way, it’s what I was hoping would happen. The US backs off its own defense spending and stops acting like the world police force. The flip side of that is that Europe and the rest of the world picks up their own defense.

What I had in mind as an end game is that the US would be at a table of equals. That’s not at all what this is.

Thank you for your service.

Maybe we can put it on the open 2.4GHz spectrum and encrypt it with RC4.

That’s correct.

Eh, there’s only one in all of Star Trek, and they forgot about it after one episode. Should have a whole series.

I find you need the whole ecosystem to support immutability to make it work. Every library needs to be based around it. Elixir is about the only modern option that does.

Dirty Grandpa.

It’s much funnier than it has a right to be. Also, Aubrey Plaza really, really wanted to fuck Robert De Niro, and fought to get the role for that reason. Its ending sex scene is one of the most genuine in Hollywood because of that. Of course, Aubrey Plaza makes things better just by showing up.

Critics who hate it need to lighten up.

I “love” how JavaScript has slowly rediscovered every piece of functional programming wisdom that was developed before 1980.

“Prompt Engineer” makes a little vomit appear in the back of my mouth.

It was always that, partially because people didn’t want their livelihood affected by having nudes on the Internet. With the rise of an option where having nudes on the Internet can be their livelihood, there’s more faces in those pictures.

The better option would be for people to feel free to express themselves this way without worrying about their livelihood.

Unfortunately, what’s more likely is that while some will fall away, the remainder will be more extreme. That’s what happens when religious prophecies fail, such as The Great Disappointment among Adventists.

This past December, The Final Experiment went down to Antarctica to take a video of the 24 hour sun. It’s causing much consternation among flat earthers.