Hell, even the fact that the term “African American” was invented because “black” was considered offensive. Judgement was baked right in (or at least assumed to be by enough that this somehow got popular) to using their skin colour as a descriptor.

Which then led to many people being called “African American” despite having no connection to either Africa or America.

This is another one of the windows negatives. There’s no real standard for tools that debloat or remove the MS malware and decent chance that you end up getting more malware in the process (that might even do what it says it does in addition to installing who knows what, so it’s not even immediately obvious that it might be a good idea to go back to the “wipe storage and install OS” step. Thing could even revert some of the settings later on to encourage users running an updated version of the script (not that I think most would bat an eye at their “OS optimization script” being a thing that continuously runs and auto-updates) and it wouldn’t even be unexpected windows behavior considering how passively hostile they already are with users trying to reduce their stupid shit in windows.

I wish statements like that made LLMs explode.

Yeah, but does that site differentiate between speeding and parking tickets? In my area you can rack up any amount of parking fines and the most it’ll do is you might need to pay them off before you can renew.

But yeah, you get points for speeding past a certain amount over the limit, running lights, and other violations that concern the way you move (on public roads, parking lots are free for alls, though a DUI is a DUI even on private property).

The five wealthiest people who show up on the lists.

Those are usually for moving violations, not things like parking fines.

I was happy to see a city near me had marked some sidewalk space as bike lanes on an expanded sidewalk.

Or maybe he realized that if he hadn’t had a special occasion by then, maybe he should just wear his shoes and get some enjoyment out of them instead of saving them for some vague moment that might never come or maybe he wouldn’t even think about the shoes until after if it did. Or maybe such an occasion did come up and he did forget the shoes until after and then just decided to wear them to work.

Or he works a white collar job and had a presentation or something so it was a special occasion.

Probably just a random instinct that was reinforced by survival of the fittest (at group population levels) because it meant that group didn’t contaminate their nests or water with the dead, which would also attract scavengers that might also try to prey on living penguins when there weren’t any already dead handy.

Or maybe they go to get frozen so that when a future penguin solves the problem of death, they can go and unfreeze the frozen penguins and use that massive undead penguin army to conquer more southern islands.

Was it even that or just a hash of the url (or whatever text/data was being “confirmed”)?

I wish their leader had realized that what he did wasn’t something you could just back down from and that his life was on the line either way.

I think they mean more the difference between what rules it follows and why it follows those rules. It sounds like we know more about the “what” but not much about the “why” for magnets (or any of the fundamental forces).

Same, though I think that’s more on the texting app than the OS itself, but I guess it does depend on what the OS exposes and how much it locks down SMS stuff even with SMS permissions.

Yeah, that’s a fair tradeoff.

Or use a text app that doesn’t support read receipts, or one that lets you disable them (plus the “I’m typing a message” indicator).

Iirc I disabled that shit back in the msn messenger days (though I used trillian, not sure if the official client had the option).

That’s for functional. If you want to test optimized, can you run Crysis?

Why are you assuming it isn’t consensual?

21. Article Writer

Once upon a time, humans liked to read articles written by other humans. Since these human writers were capable of doing more than just predicting the next token, they were able to maintain a sense of coherency and continuity through their articles and could write lists that referenced other items, especially when they were closely related, instead of each item just following an intro, brief description, conclusion format that gets quite repetitive. But then text predictors got good enough to predict coherent sentences that are often even accurate and can follow a given theme or topic and websites thought no one would care since it was mostly marketing and propaganda by then anyways and dropped the human writers into active volcanoes.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that as a puzzle before.

Actually looks like a pretty good (difficult) puzzle, what with how prevalent the blue is. I just did one that has a similar amount of dark purple and it was a nice challenge (paired with a rule against examining pieces and the picture at the same time, as doing that trivialized the puzzle I did before that one).

Yeah, personally, I’ve noticed that I notice and appreciate very high quality streams when they are there but don’t notice lower quality ones in a bad way (where “lower quality” is still like 1080p, 720p is more noticeable).

Like 4k looks great but 1080p still looks normal.