‘I’m 40% Markov chain.’

Wee, another person who doesn’t understand how analogies work. You see, class, saying A is analogous to B is not a statement of equivalency, but a statement of structural similarity. The response ‘welcome to the internet’ is sarcasm meant to imply the previous responder is foolish for having standards of some kind and should simply accept and expect that people cannot be held to any standard. The further response asking the respondent, via analogy, if more people doing something is all that it takes to make it acceptable, asks them to consider the implications of the belief that repetition makes right.

Now that you have a more fullsome understanding of things, will you demonstrate the maturity and intelligence to integrate that knowledge into action or will you demonstrate an inability to comprehend, only to raise a pretense of reason?

The first one is odd, but ‘through a mirror darkly’ is itself a reference to a poetic use of language from the bible. It was around long before trek.

So, if I slap you, it’s assault, but if loads of people make slapping you a regular occurrence, we should stop caring?

It’s the white house. You think they don’t have a fridge/freezer capable of holding a body somewhere in there?

Game publishers: We aren’t predating on children fast enough. How will we ever achieve infinite money if we don’t predate on children faster?

Discord management: We can help with that.

And then someone sends Cirroc Lofton a vest made of this chair.

Imagine this in another product. Say you were looking at buying some clothes, and because they didn’t want to pay someone to cut the fabric, they just folded it over, stitched the outline of a shirt, and left all the fabric on the inside. Then when you point out that they must either be unskilled as tailors because they can’t even manage simple seam allowance, or greedy, because they choose not to just to add maybe a few pennies to the stockholder’s dividends, some loser who gets zero benefit from the extra fabric runs out of nowhere to explain how ‘it’s your fault. Don’t you have room in your closet for the extra material? Why don’t you just move to a bigger house? I’m morally superior because I’m complaining about your complaining about something you can’t fix rather than about the people who have the power to make the changes choosing not to! Why don’t you stick to wearing your hand-stitched designer clothes made with love and care if you can’t afford to buy a closet big enough to house all the pointless wastage of these incredible producers of generic, lowest common denominator, middle of the road, unoriginal t-shirts that people mostly buy because of marketing and familiarity bias? Don’t you know the only people who matter are the wealthy?’

I remember a talk about this exact concept. KDE Eco was announced a ways back but it’s KDE’s initiative to remind people that Linux offers a more environmentally friendly option for computing, preventing the creation of E-waste, a godawful source of toxic pollutants in itself, but also in many other ways that play out across the computing hardware lifecycle. Anyone who claims to care about the environment, the global south, or even just the affordability of personal computing should be on board.

• Sneakily work together in secret, private meetings to manipulate people’s beliefs
• Have direct influence over which companies make money
• Have direct influence over which politicians are elected
• Have direct influence on which laws are popularized vs vilified
• Make obscene amounts of money by parasitizing others’ work
• Lie constantly
• Perpetually working to worsen society for their own benefit
• Have space lasers (okay, not this one, as far as I know)

You know, most of the crap anti-Semites say about the jews is actually true of the marketing industry.

Don’t forget the third system, where y is inverted to come down from the origin at the upper left of the view as y increases.

Depending on where you live this might be because of pricing regulations which require payments to be equal to the most expensive source used in a given period plus a preset margin. Some of the regulatory systems don’t know how to cope with the differences in generation that come from renewables. …not that they’re great at managing the non-renewables these days either.

*gestures vaguely around*

Find the readers. Postman was right. It will only get worse.

Alright, I gave you the knowledge and you don’t want to integrate it, so it’s on you now. Have fun lying to yourself.

What risk? Sometimes government officials have to do somewhat unpopular things. Elected officials are just supposed to represent their constituency, though. If they aren’t willing to take a risk to serve their constituents, they shouldn’t be in a position of power. If you really believe it has to be done, and you really are in it to serve, you’ll accept the cost/risk. If that scares you too much, you’ll stay home.

And you can bet there’d be FAR fewer collisions if the spikes were present. Driving isn’t a right any more than having political office is, so it’s perfectly reasonable to expect people to accept the risk if they want the benefit.

accommodating preferences in one is far easier than the other.

Tell me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience without telling me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience. If you think it’s so easy to take every element of a highly complex, performance sensitive program and make it possible to pick and choose which ones you experience without breaking the whole experience or turning a 1 year project into a 10 year project, go ahead and try. Do you also ask movie directors to make their movies so that when you hit ‘skip scene’ because you don’t like the way the scene looks, it still makes a good movie?

museums aim to preserve history

That’s just your failure to understand there are more kinds of museum than a history museum. A history museum does have special work involved, but others don’t share that element. Perhaps you’ve heard of an art museum, sometimes also known as a gallery. They can contain all sorts of elements, audio, video, scent, touch, taste, human interaction, machine interaction, ludic interaction, whatever. The artifacts can be any age, with art from hundreds of years ago or being created in the moment via performance.

The analogy is a failure, to be sure, but only because I hadn’t considered the possibility you wouldn’t have that piece of common knowledge. Now that you do have that knowledge, though, if you can’t see the analogy, that’s on you.

Also, you’re going to have to add on Saturdays for that second term so you can coordinate with management to handle training for the one-termers.

One of my little ideas for ‘fixes’ for political problems has been ‘if you get voted in, you have the job for life, but can be fired at any time,’ as in out of a canon, at a brick wall. Better keep those approval rates over 66%. Donors come and go. The canon is forever.

It’s actually one of the cleanest, most direct analogies I’ve ever used. Both are curated experiences with controlled visual, auditory, and interactive elements. The differences lie only in the physical/resource limitations each has for the kinds of experiences they can include.

You get a second term as a ‘reward’ for your special skills.