Anyone who’s seen Casino Royale (2006) knows the codename theory is horseshit. Bond was Bond before he was a 00. Later, when he resigns from MI6, he’s still Bond. It’s his name.

Same with anyone who’s seen GoldenEye. If Bond was a codename, Trevelyan would be too, and he’d have mentioned that he no longer went by that MI6-given moniker.

Let’s get the other branches onboard too.

They got tired of harassing people on Bluesky and changed things up a bit

“My students are flattered but they’d prefer to go with someone their own age.”

Be result-focused. You’re trying to achieve x. Look at however many tutorials you need to achieve x. Now x is part of your repertoire. Then repeat, with a new x.

Later, you’ll think “I need to do y. I’ve done it before. I’ll just copy that syntax, with new variable names etc” and boom, you’re good at programming.

Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes

Hmm how do time zones work at the south pole? Can you run in a small circle and hit most if not all of them?

The one with Hawaii could just pretend they’ve already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other

I use an air fryer

No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change

Increase the volume on your alarm. Set it to a ringtone that is less relaxing. Set multiple such alarms, a few minutes apart.

You don’t need to trust consensus to observe global average temperatures and infer that we’re in uncharted territory in regard to the climate.

It’s the bare minimum. For you to lambast the suggestion of doing the bare minimum would imply you prefer doing nothing, not doing more.

You’re touching on the idea of a “truth baseline” as I call it. How do you know what’s real vs bullshit?

My truth baseline is that maintaining the habitability of Earth is good. From that, I can deduce the following:

• excessive carbon dioxide in atmosphere is bad
• reliance on fossil fuels is bad
• clean renewable energy is good
• people who rail against renewables are bad
• political part(ies) that do the same are bad
• news figures that normalize that are bad

Etc. See where this is headed?

The ambiguity of whether someone is good or not is due to goodness being a subjective quality. There is no such thing as objective good. The closest thing to objective good we can attain is sustainability.

The same can be said about truth. If you want something objective, that’s called fact. Truth is a subjective perception of facts. Thus… there is no one correct truth. Just an openness to adjust to new information while dismissing those who are opposed to your truth baseline.

You either vote against fascism or you don’t.

You can call me insane if you like. But at least I’m not a fascist.

Are you?

Guessing you mean the speed of a truck relative to the speed of the Earth, as the Earth is traveling around the Sun much faster than a truck

-esque* fyi

I try to say it exactly like they say it.

I had a coworker named Mahmoud, and all my native-English-speaking coworkers heavily anglicized the pronunciation, removing the throat-clearing sound of the h, and changing the first vowel to like the a in “math” rather than like the a in “mall”. Whenever I spoke to him, I tried to copy his inflection as best I could, and and he seemed delighted, but I never clarified if it was about my pronunciation.

Can you take a bus to a bigger city to buy them in person

Not at all. That customer was hunting for something to complain about so they could negotiate freebies from your boss. Sounds like your boss fell for it.

Only douchecanoes use the term unironically, so it follows the person they are criticising is likely doing something morally right.