TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

I know an Amanda Lynn, she can’t sing for shit. But she slices onions and potatoes thin as paper.

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

It’s weird that Linux certification requires rote-memorization of commands. The only people who make any effort to memorize commands are newbies and people studding for exams. You will always have access to bash history, man, and --help, even from an offline machine.

Every command I’ve memorized is simply the natural process of repetition. Is that your experience?

I hate AI as much as the next lemming, but nobody is going to tell me a babble fish for real isn’t cool AF.

Oxygen tanks are not bombs. They won’t explode or shoot fire. The reason they’re painted green is because oxygen is non-flammable. (those red acetylene tanks however, are scary)

Now obviously any existing fire can be made much worse with oxygen, but it’s not enough on it’s own.

Why does it have to be a desert island? I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in regards to war crimes.

I don’t find Nebula to be an adequate replacement for youtube, but if they ever figure out how to keep me from blocking ads, Ima gonna change my mind.

The authors of this describe the situation accurately enough. Even though a Netflix show is presented as evidence of, … something.

They lost me with the “begging the question” prescription for censorship and online control. I also don’t like the aesthetics of arguing that boys are dangerous without putting into context how much young men suffer under modern material conditions.

I’ve never engaged with the story in any GTA game. I just boot it up once in a moon, massacre as many cops as possible before they overwhelm me.

I eat toast with cream cheese and a poached egg almost every morning and there’s some synergy between the unctuous yolk, the sour cheese, and my hot sauce that is just about mana from heaven.

This was supposed to be a synthases of modern and post-modern, but it seems to me they took the worst parts of modernism and the straw-person caricature of the postmodern and mixed them in a blender.

It’s also great for cheap beef. You can throw a tri-tip or brisket in there and run it for literal days until you have meat as tender as the deli counter, while also being med-rare throughout.

Yes. Accurate temperatures guarantee good results. Sous vied is also wonderful for stress free prep of expensive meats.

Every pepper head should know: Scoville ratings for hot-sauce are bullshit.

Most sauces simply list the Scoville number for the pepper in the sauce, and never actually get the sauce rated. This leads to people thinking they can tolerate much higher ratings than they can. And encouraging them to try stuff that will lead to a bad experience.

I’m a pepper head, but for some dishes, that cayenne vinegar is a necessary flavor component.

The people involved in these groups deserve to be thrown into the volcano.

Logic is the wrong tool for ethics. In formal logic, you can only assign values like true or false to something called “descriptive statements”. These are statements of fact, that can be observed.

Morality deals with “prescriptive” statements. Unobservable and unstable statements about how the world ought to be.

Logic breaks down because it’s impossible to argue for something that should be using only facts about how thing are.

The prescriptive statement “it’s wrong to harm” relies on the prescriptive statement “harm is bad”. Their is no bottom to it.