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    It's as if he's writing Biden's commercials for him.

He's not a whiny bitch

user-inactivated  ·  1393 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy Internet Maintenance Day

I'm sure they're not representative, but I've been following /r/army since Tuesday because it's the window I've got, and most of the upvoted comments are either along the lines of "I really don't want to do this" or "I'd be ok if they asked us to rein in the police". There's a distinct lack of enthusiasm for beating down people to protect windows.

user-inactivated  ·  1441 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Pursuit of PPE

It wasn't as funny as the dude wearing a gas mask with no filter attached, but it was pretty funny.

user-inactivated  ·  1689 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sausalito, CA school district “knowingly and intentionally” maintained racial segregation

Charter schools are definitely a thing in the states, but the objection to them here is that they take funding, good teachers (the pay isn't shit), and good students (because funding is tied to test scores, and the easiest way to get the extra funding is to recruit the students who will score well regardless) away from the public schools. I went to one, almost all my teachers had PhDs in their subject, most of the people I graduated with are solidly professional middle class now... but we were the only school with a full time librarian, lab equipment in our science classes, and computers that weren't Apple IIs or PDP-11s inherited from a community college in a school district with a graduation rate around 60%.

user-inactivated  ·  1763 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: 'Join Hubski' is temporary disabled.

I'll figure out the secret handshake if someone else comes up with the funny hat

user-inactivated  ·  2030 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Unless bureaucratic shenanigans count as war (in which case my life is a lot more metal than I thought), pretty much never.

user-inactivated  ·  2037 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Landlords add coworking spaces to drive more people to America’s malls

I had an office in a WeWork for a while. I think I went there twice. I've visited people in prisons that were more inviting, and the security checks were less of a pain in the ass in the prisons too. I'm either not cool enough to get the appeal of coworking spaces or they are not now nor will they ever be a good idea even if they aren't in bombed-out Macy's.

user-inactivated  ·  2142 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 16, 2018

    A lady who works at a weed warehouse traded me 36 high power edibles, a mix of 50/50 and 100% THC. They will last me months as long as the wife doesn't get into them too hard. She is way too generous a trader. She starts insisting to pay about half way into the trade value.

I gave the local coffee shop owners' dropout daughter math lessons so she could get her GED six years ago. They still won't let me pay for my coffee no matter how much I insist. I'm an absolute shit teacher too; that girl might be the only person in the world with a GED, no degree, and an AMS membership because I couldn't answer stupid questions without teaching her about Galois theory and how to construct the real numbers. She probably could have gotten a BS in math for the amount of work she put into learning high school math from me. Bartering is fun but holy shit does it make you feel guilty when you and the people you're bartering with have very different valuation functions.

user-inactivated  ·  2151 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Uber ran over a bicyclist because it thought she was a plastic bag.

    Because Uber has no fucking business messing about with autonomous vehicles.

I mean, if you're qualified to work on a self driving car, there are plenty of companies that will be happy to hire you. At Waymo you can work with people who invented the techniques you'll be working with. At car companies you can work with people who have been doing industrial robotics since industrial robotics has been a thing. Or you can go to Uber, where management creates workplace drama on purpose because social darwinism or competition is always good or some business cargo cult thing, get puked on by coworkers who drank too much company-supplied wine, awkwardly pretend not to notice your boss and the new intern having sex in a conference room, and get the stigma of working at the tech company even hackernews cringes at.

user-inactivated  ·  2151 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Threats of violence against US abortion clinics almost doubled in 2017, industry group says

I very briefly worked in an office next to an abortion clinic. We used to go out and harass the protesters when we'd take smoke breaks. I'm not proud exactly, but nurses came out to hug us the handful of times we managed to make them stomp off in a huff and it's always nice to brighten people's day by being an ass.

user-inactivated  ·  2191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Less than a Year after Charlottesville, the Alt-Right is self-destructing

Of course the TWP ended with a fight in a trailer park over their founder sleeping with his wife's stepmother. How could it it not?

user-inactivated  ·  2208 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NYTimes continues with the insistence that millennials love plants

Millennials are killing the fake fern industry!

user-inactivated  ·  2222 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FCC Commissioner: Our Policy Is ‘Custom Built’ for Right-Wing Sinclair Broadcasting

user-inactivated  ·  2245 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: David Brooks thinks your uterus should STFU

He performs a service though. Any given David Brooks column, there is someone who should know better who is thinking along the same lines. And then they find themselves agreeing with David Brooks, and they know something has gone terribly wrong.

user-inactivated  ·  2514 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ZOMG people if you aren't signed up for daily emails from the white house you are so missing out

    The search for new leadership that restores public trust and confidence in the FBI's vital law enforcement mission will begin immediately.

    MORNING:

    - 10:30AM: President Trump meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Well then.

user-inactivated  ·  2526 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism

Peter Norvig likes to compare AI programs to magic tricks. Once you know how they work they're cool, but not at all magical.

The best cure for transhumanism is taking an Intro to AI class.

user-inactivated  ·  2527 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block

    So how does the EPA judge energy efficiency? There's a clue for those who read below the fold: "In 2010, workers at the Government Accountability Office posed as product developers and got the Energy Star label for fictitious products."

... which is why they've required third parties to do the testing since 2011.

user-inactivated  ·  2531 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: March for Science thread

I went to the closest one to me. Around 1,000 people, and most of us knew each other. The nerd solidarity was real, but it was less like any protest I've ever been to than a comic book convention with clever signs.

user-inactivated  ·  2548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Donald Trump Kicks Off Sexual Assault Awareness Month By Defending Bill O'Reilly

Maybe he thinks sexual assault awareness month is like jazz appreciation month.

user-inactivated  ·  2563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The beginning of the end? Reddit introduces profile pages

He made a punny.

user-inactivated  ·  2613 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trial Balloon for a Coup? Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours

I don't know what a successful coup in America would look like, but making enemies of the CIA, NSA and DoD beforehand isn't it. This isn't some s00per subtle evil plan, this is a bunch of people with more confidence than competence and for the most part no experience in government fucking up their every move. Which isn't to say that there's not plenty to worry about, just that we're dealing with children playing with grenades, not Lex Luthor.

user-inactivated  ·  2618 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office

Yes, because preventing idiotic congrescritters from getting in the way is a much greater contribution than any individual scientist is likely to make doing research.

user-inactivated  ·  2651 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Happy Saturday Hubski. It's Christmas Eve. Have a thread to share your holiday cheer.

user-inactivated  ·  2678 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fidel Castro is dead at age 90

Yes. He really was as authoritarian as US propaganda says he was, but as authoritarian regimes go he wasn't nearly as bad as some we're on good terms with.

user-inactivated  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You might not need javascript

We were still supporting ie6 until 2014 or so because some of our government users refused to use anything else. Including some pages that used Google Maps. Google dropped support for ie6 long before we did, so I got to reverse engineer the parts of Maps that broke and monkeypatch them to work in ie6 again. There were still plenty of holdouts when we decided it wasn't worth the trouble of bending over backwards for them anymore.

user-inactivated  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New York Times’s Response to Donald Trump’s Retraction Letter | The New York Times Company

That might be the most beautiful "fuck off" I've ever read.

user-inactivated  ·  2745 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Clinton's Samantha Bee Problem

    Among millennials, especially, there’s a growing constituency for whom right-wing ideas are so alien or triggering, left-wing orthodoxy so pervasive and unquestioned, that supporting a candidate like Hillary Clinton looks like a needless form of compromise.

Seriously? I don't think it's possible to live anywhere in America and not be excruciatingly familiar with right-wing ideas.

user-inactivated  ·  2746 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ITunes will never work well

My favorite Acrobat thing: pdf started out as a simplification of Postscript, because it turned out that documents don't often need to be turing complete and having them be makes life difficult for WYSIWYG editors. So pdf was lobotomized postscript.

Then they did this, doing away with the whole reason pdf existed in the first place. It's not like Postscript couldn't have done the job perfectly well. They just took a very long road to an uglier version of the thing they started with.

user-inactivated  ·  2792 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Schadenfreude  ·  

Our choice is between more of the same or self immolation. There is less to say about the pros of more of the same than the cons of self immolation.

user-inactivated  ·  2827 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian

It's irrelevant what people identify as; sometimes people have ideas and sometimes ideas have people, otherwise propaganda and marketing wouldn't work. Ideology is the things that seem like common sense. Give it a name and it stops being common sense and becomes a thing that can be studied, criticized, and hopefully, filed away with the divine right of kings under "wtf were we thinking?"