Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

I suppose my passively stated assertion is that if that is a viable political strategy and there are no repercussions for it, democracy fundamentally cannot function.

If the whole point of politics is to just say whatever gets you to win elections and then "do the right thing" when you're in power, our political system is worthless.

If we cannot hold our people and govt to a basic standard of truth the experiment has failed and democracy is impossible.

Showed this to my wife without telling her it was Taylor Swift, she asked me if "this was that Dracula Flow guy"

The most common refrain I've heard in my adult life is "Well, I know it's unethical, but someone is going to do it and make money, so isn't it better that an ethical person makes that money"

When you believe the only penalty for discarding your ethics is remorse, you do not have ethics.

Whenever I see this Socrates quote (or any other Greek philosopher quite really) I am reminded that most of them despised writing and would be very mad in principle about the idea of meme quotes.

It is kind of heartening to discover that even with extremely advanced program generation all the standard best practices still apply.

It's almost as if we were nothing but extremely advanced program generators all along (this is half wit and half truth)

The fextralife wiki has reasonably good coverage of the best spots to find those fish. A few only spawn in specific time and location within a locale

Hey this looks pretty slick, giving big platin-

CAR COMBO?!?!

The lc500 is my personal attainable dream car, warms my heart to see you enjoying it!

Oooh, I needed this!
I do a good amount of low level rust, and seeing a recent talk on per-cpu variables in rust made me realize I don't have a solid understanding how to do unsafe safely!

The moment I realized that the problem was getting to the grub config, the Eldritch horrors began.

If you don't want to be friends with a person, you shouldn't date them.
Be nice. If a person does not value kindness, you don't want to be in a relationship with them.

Great post! Captures a lot of my thoughts on language choice in general, and I think helpfully discusses the weird toxicity that comes out of this particular side of internet discourse.

But we all know the reason the compiler was ported to go is so doom would run at a proper frame rate

I know that so many pundits and commentators have said "We need a Joe Rogan for the left" but they ignored those appearances legitimize people? Like we should be having the crazy radical leftists on the pod smoking weed and talking about how we invented houses then decided people should be unhomed!!

Playing largely SP now, fights last about 8 minutes on average.
I have purposefully lagged on upgrading armor and weapons to keep it interesting.

Happy to out myself as very likely discriminating against Republican men far more than any particular woman.

I'm entirely certain I am not the first person to make this joke, nor will I be the last.