I don’t have much to offer the conversation other than a linguistic alternative.
TAURUS: Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation Unleashed from the Sun.
Grammatically correct and it doesn’t drop a word just to mimic a sci-fi robot’s name in an incredibly awkward and stilted way. I like Interstellar as much as the next person, but that acronym felt like a stretch, and it leaves out (literally) useful information.
Why is this back on the front page of the site? It was posted several days ago and has little to nothing to do with the content and context of the site.
Why didn't the aunt think to just go get her instead of calling you over to say "Hey so I know you told her to stay away from the fountain, but what about her walking around the rim of it, is that dangerous or not?"
HN isn't just for tech, it's for anything that satisfies intellectual curiosity. It's not always obvious in advance what will turn out to satisfy intellectual curiosity, but if a good discussion develops, that ends up being the most important signal.
I have more intellectual curiosity about base58 and base85 and Metas wrist based gesture control system than I do a neglectful father who nearly let his daughter drown because he was too thick to realize that if it was deep enough for water to get up to his toddler’s elbows that she could drown horizontally.
It does not take a genius to figure this out. Would he have left his daughter in the bathtub unsupervised? Would he have let his daughter walk around the rim of the bathtub if it were up to her elbows?
I can almost guarantee that he would not have let her go freely at a place with a 2 foot deep kiddie pool, so why let her run freely around the yard with the 2 foot deep mossy pit?
To me, it’s a signal that this person should not ever be involved in any safety decisions in any product that interfaces with humans and the real world. They simply don’t have the proper risk assessment faculties.
My aunt is in her 70s, and no longer very fast or loud. She was also much closer to me than to my daughter (but my view was blocked by vegetation). Even if she had seen my daughter fall in, getting me to respond would still have been much faster and more effective.
Hanson’s razor says never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.
Nowhere in there, does it say that stupidity should be acceptable or accepted.
Yes, fuck them for being too stupid to know better. At some point in their life they made a decision to disengage from any use of their brain, and have remained that way to the detriment of everybody around them.
This is the way I’ve been treating my clothes for years. I still have clothes that would’ve been thrown away a decade ago, but now they’re my favorite, softest shirts.
That's been Vivaldi. Brave is the browser that just markets itself. If it "just worked" it wouldn't need crypto bs to lock you in and convince you it's "working".
I've been getting all my ads blocked just fine with Vivaldi without inflating a shitcoin since before Brave had gourd smeared on its forehead.
That's true but it's trivial to turn off. Their handling of youtube ads and other custom de-enshitifications, and you don't even have to pay for it except your data leaks just to them, if you opt in.
Honey, Established Titles, BetterHelp, 7CupsofTea, RAID Shadow Legends, FTX, OperaGX, AG1, Factor, HelloFresh, AirUp. How many am I missing? How much more do we need to see to be convinced?
I won’t use Ground News or Brilliant (I tried it in 2019 and was unimpressed) because they market so aggressively, something doesn’t smell right!
Don't forget Incogni, I was tempted to subscribe but as you point out, when you see the other kind of services/products youtubers tend to peddle, it gives me pause.
I'd sooner setup an AWS micro instance with wireguard than use some VPN that might well be logging everything and selling it to data brokers and/or sharing with domestic/foreign intelligence services.
The very unfortunate thing is by the time we get to that point, the ballot box is going to be broken beyond repair. We're gonna have to open the final box in defense of Democracy and I know toooooo many people who don't see how we're already nearly past the point of hope for any other outcome.
The progressively worsening attacks on the ability of trans people to exist in daily life.
Depending on how you define the Ten Stages of Genocide, we for sure have crossed the 3rd stage of genocide with all the state level anti trans bills and Trumps executive orders, and they’ve also engaged in stages 4 and 6. They’re not pressing on the brake, there’s a lead block on the gas pedal and they have repeatedly professed to wanting to erase us from public life. Trump released a campaign video about it in Feb/March of 2023.
>The progressively worsening attacks on the ability of trans people to exist in daily life.
Really? Care to name an example of their being persecuted legally by the administration in the way you claim? For example, there were multiple huge gay pride parades in the U.S just recently, which are visibly and vocally attended by trans people too, and I didn't see federal agents or police of any kind going at them at any point.
That executive order is for the benefit of female athletes who have been disadvantaged and adversely affected by male-inclusion policy. The order is not "anti-trans". Its purpose is to restore fairness and improve safety in women's sports.
Your tortured use of language reveals the twisted thought process behind them.
In your statement, you erase trans people and redefined them as something else that fits your small worldview. That is in and of itself inherently anti-trans.
Someone being a trans woman does not make their participation in sports “male inclusion”. They are a woman if they transitioned to become a woman, and saying they are not and should be excluded because you said so is anti trans.
Not sure what you find objectionable about my use of language. I thought I was being very clear.
Point is that the female category in sports is constructed around female bodies, not identities. The category exists because if it didn't, sport would be dominated by male athletes and we would not be able to appreciate female athletic excellence. So, changing this to include a subset of male athletes with male physiological advantage undermines its main purpose.
This executive order, and similar policy elsewhere, which ensures male athletes are excluded from competing in the female category isn't "anti-trans" because, in fact, athletes with a trans identity can and do still compete in this category. Some examples: Keelin Godsey, Hergie Bacyadan, Iszac Henig.
TAURUS: Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation Unleashed from the Sun.
Grammatically correct and it doesn’t drop a word just to mimic a sci-fi robot’s name in an incredibly awkward and stilted way. I like Interstellar as much as the next person, but that acronym felt like a stretch, and it leaves out (literally) useful information.