The conventiongoers sure think they know better than the scientific community, at least.

Fundraising idea for the war charities right there.

Failing that, looks like you can buy or rent it in the US from something called Fandango. And probably pirate it, although obviously you’re shafting the creators that way.

Too long; only read half.

Bruh. The community is literally called rant, why are you complaining?

You think they’re hiring you because you’re white? Nah, they’re hiring the dude whose dad golfs with the CEO. And if you’re not in the right tax bracket, you don’t even exist to them.

Except to the degree whiteness is part of being “default”, which is a desirable trait in a hire, like personal familiarity. If the rich person or people ever becomes too aware of this, a rich, educated, culturally assimilated but brown token hire is the most likely outcome.

Of course, there’s more flexibility if they’re hiring for a less in-demand job.

And let’s not pretend this is just a white people thing. A lot of wealthy people of color are just as classist. Sometimes worse. I’ve seen Indian millionaires in the U.S. and in India treat working-class people like absolute trash. Same with rich Latinos, rich Black folks, rich Asians. They’ll look down on people from their own communities like they’re somehow better Look at really bad and oppressive countries: the powerful and the rich are doing everything in their power to make their own people’s lives worse.

It’s true, class has been a default characteristic of everything beyond a basic hunter-gatherer society.

To do a bit of a nerdy digression, though, it is totally different in other place (or times, 1930’s rich guys were definitely openly racist). In Anglophone North America, there has been a conscious effort to separate class from things like race, religion, gender and sexual preference. Other places that’s not necessarily so, there might be more than one equally dominant group, and they might track something like caste that doesn’t even exist in the West. But yeah, they definitely still do classism.

Of course, this takes all words as equiprobable; results would be different if including the odds of a word appearing in the text into the maths.

I feel like it works more like 90% of the time when it comes up, so maybe this. And could it be that the words where “ie” appears are more ambiguous somehow, like don’t fit neatly into some existing pattern?

I don’t remember the “after c” bit ever being of use, though, so that part totally makes sense.

Edit: For an example, I’d never forget the spelling of “either”, because it’s so common and initial letters are more memorable. But, “piece” is tricky - “peice” is my first instinct, and I literally say “i before e” in my head when I write it now.

It’s always amazing when someone discovers a new way to be shitty that I hadn’t even thought of.

Meanwhile, Canada has no minimum wage exemption, and you still are asked to tip on everything.

Oh yes, can’t forget about libraries just because they’ve been successful forever.

The networking level is solved by Tor and similar, open protocols are still standard at the transport level, and the application layer is served by Linux, the Fediverse and so much more. I think the hardware level is where future efforts are the most needed. That and just resisting the change as much as possible.

(It’s not a level of abstraction, but if it was less of a mess crypto would deserve a mention as an authoritarianism-resistant way to keep funding going. Both for whatever future dystopian blackmarket, and for the providers of the infrastructure supporting it)

Somewhere like North America I could see how it makes sense. There’s a lot more road infrastructure than rail, and this can be built over it fairly cheaply and easily.

I wouldn’t go that far. Sometimes I’m not sure which way around they go, and that will usually lead you the right way.

That’s just what their conservative party is called - they literally used to be the PCs. Same story with the Saskatchewan party.

They’re definitely going to run out of money eventually, and this isn’t a highly disciplined and ideological place where they can push through desperate measures to keep going. There’s been efforts towards becoming that that during the war, but Russia has been doing the controlled chaos mafia state thing for quite a while, and I doubt it will be enough.

But yes, OP seems pretty anecdotal and I’m not going to put too much weight on it.

Yeah, an actual hypermobility disorder would not help, lol.

It’s so effective in wargames it’s basically cheating. In the one actual deployment it’s seen it has an uptime as good as or better than older models. It now has a unit cost comparable to the Gripen, which is built in a much less high-tech way (for the sake of ruggedness and maintainability, on which it does still have the advantage).

I’m reading complaints here, but you can complain about anything. I’m not even clear on how many are current, since it had a very rocky development and the article is mostly about the Block 4 upgrades.

Hmm. Cows too. You have a whole operation going there. Good luck, and take it easy - you only get one body, and there are tools.

Overkill. My ladies just had a hopper feeding into a tray with a small enough gap to prevent overflow, and a piano hinge to close it up when the tray needed cleaning.

Chickens, if they have a run with enough stuff inside, can be mad entertaining too. Their brains do not work like ours.

RIP you. How are the chick-os doing?

I recognize I’m over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

I had that start when I was a teenager, maybe even earlier. It sounds gross, but so far it hasn’t done anything else.