[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

I have seen some controversy about whether white-passing people of Jewish ancestry count as “white”

Let me clear that up: the people who ask if someone is actually white are racists.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

My semi-serious suggestion:

"That sounds great. I'm going to need to take a course in how to best utilitize AI, and the existing timeline will probably need to change. To really engage at expert level, I will go look at best-practices from experts. You'll sign off on reasonable expenses, right?"

Then book a trip to [interesting place] and get it expensed. Then look for a new job while promising great things in a few months time, maybe a year or so.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

No wristwatch, but I have glasses and without electricity I stop breathing. (While asleep.)

So, yeah, cyborg.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

True, it's too advanced for my brain due to being poisoned by Perl at a young age.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

A bunch of youse is thinking irrationally.

It's them what go in front of the cannon.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago

Is that actually true? Have they been audited? One problem with long-term storage is "long-term" is a thing that humans are bad at.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

The main character commits rape because this isn't a real universe anyway. You made the right choice.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

It's true, but they are still fairly easy to injure.

Try forming a fist and then hitting with the outside edge of the hand instead of your poor little fingers.

Or learn from your ancestors and become a tool-using mammal. I understand milkshakes have a distinct fondness for fascists.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

Mike is a fed, yes.

So is Steve. The snack thing is left over from his previous undercover assignment at NORML. That didn't end well, but he's pretty sure he can get Mike to agree to buy explosives, which will be a good bust.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 6 points 11 months ago

My friend's father -- coincidentally named Feinman, not Feynman - used to say "They always advertise what they haven't got."

"Less Wrong".

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

It's not that verbing nouns weirds language so much as the regreekification.

[-] dashdsrdash@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

“If there’s an order for Ebola that’s being ordered by the CDC in Atlanta, that’s great,”

said no one sane, ever.

How about: "We have an installation in the CDC's BSL-4 laboratory where we print dangerous DNA on demand, and a second installation in their BSL-2 space where we print less-dangerous material. Nothing ever has to leave the building."

That would be something close to rational policy.

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