Occasionally Imgur is blocked but you can just switch the VPN to a less populous country and it will not be blocked. Still annoying though.

Mostly because Apple’s update policy is superior to A LOT of Android companies. OEMs are really slow when patching known vulnerabilities.

Quick study I found when trying to find evidence:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/16-Acar-A-Device-Centric-Analysis-of-Android-Security-Updates.pdf

Example from that study:

Compared to the top three OEMs we examined so far, Google is the one with the most stable support behavior. All of the Pixel devices receive monthly security updates without any delay or missed SPLs [Security Patch Levels]

It’s utterly insane this is noteworthy. Not delaying security updates for KNOWN vulnerabilities should not be exemplary.

Is it actually possible for a fish-like animal to have eyes at the front (i.e. an animal with a hydrodynamic shape that spends all its time underwater)?

I feel like that’s really difficult for evolution to achieve, especially because the mouth has to go somewhere at the front too. I mean, look at where the lights of a high-speed train are placed and their shape.

Intuitively it feels easier to just put the eyes on the side. Plus it feels like there’s a lower risk of damaging them when bumping into something.

1 heroin please

Interesting kink but I’m not shaming.

Not a lot.

Let M be the set of all memes.

Is this well-defined? How can you tell whether something is an element of M?

f(x) is a meme making fun of x for all x in M

Does such an f even exist? Why? Obviously it exists for some x in M but for all?

Thus there exists a normie meme n

What’s a normie meme? Why does its existance follow?

and a unique function F for all natural number k

This again requires f to be well-defined.

The set M is also equipped with a dankness norm.

Prove it has that norm and please also prove it fulfills all properties of a norm.

with property that ||F(k)|| ≤ ||F(k+1)|| for all k in N.

[proof required]. Idea for a counterexample: A meme making fun of a meme in such a terrible way it cannot possibly be “danker”. Though this would require f^-1(terrible meme making fun of meme) to not be empty.

I really like bash when dealing with even somewhat advanced scripting. Like the 300 LOC scraper I have written over the past two days which horribly parses HTML files using grep | sed.

It’s genuinely so much more fun to do this with Bash than, say, Python. I have once written a scraper using Beautifulsoup and I have no desire to do so ever again.

Honestly, only Haskell manages to beat Bash in how satisfying it feels when you manage to get something working well.

There’s a lot of things you can ziehen though:

Anziehen, ausziehen, umziehen, wegziehen, verziehen, aufziehen, abziehen, erziehen, beziehen and probably a couple more I forgot.

Also, Bezug and Beziehung are two different words that can mean the same but usually don’t.

Times before are somewhat irrelevant when speaking about today. Not because today is supposed to be independent of the past, mind you, but rather because there have been strongly varying rates of progress across different countries. You cannot extrapolate two countries are the same today because they were the same in the past. Cultures diverge.

And nowhere did I claim everyone in the US was tainted while elsewhere everything is perfectly fine? Did you even read my comment? There’s good reason I used the term “primarily” several times. This is a serious topic and so I thought about my precise wording.

Ukrainian refugees in Europe are treated better than Subsaharan African refugees. Both experience xenophobia, the latter further experiences racism. Neither group is treated remotely well.

If we want to get really specific, racism is just one specific type of xenophobia where looks alone determine membership in the in-group or various out-groups. But to claim all xenophobia is racism is misleading at best and outright wrong at worst.

Simple US-American models about racism that are broadly accurate there just cannot be applied elsewhere without adaption. Not doing that is very much “progressive” US defaultism.

No, I’d say race is primarily US-American concept.

Language/nationality are in Europe the most relevant factors. Racism simply due to skin color does happen too but it occurs less often than other forms of discrimination (because there are simply significantly fewer people of a different “race”. The US-American view would just see white people discriminating against white people.)

I mean, a Black and a White US-American are culturally far more similar than an English and a Polish guy but in looks far more different. So US-Americans discriminate primarily by looks (racism) while the English discriminate primarily by culture (xenophobia). That’s why British Indians (considered to belong to a Brown race in the US) can be the leaders of the Tories with barely any outcry while in the US Obama caused Republicans to collapse into a hatred singularity called “Trump”.

Don’t you mean you use th— all the time?

Me too. I’ll even make them full AI.

Please send me $2 billion by Tuesday. My salary as yetAnotherUser CEO & CTO is a modest 20 million/year. Results are expected to appear by 2030.

No advertising company really sells data to third parties. Keeping data to yourself and only selling advertising spots is what brings money. Companies generally don’t like strengthening their competition.

Then the allegory wouldn’t make sense though, would it?

The main character would have less reason to want to stay in the real world if they received the “wrong” body. They lived their whole life in the “right” body in the simulation and then wake up just to feel gender dysphoria? It would just be confusing and uncomfortable as fuck for them.

By induction, you are gay too.

I think it’s also for the opposite? I mean, the white face, rosy cheeks and red lips were popularized due to the romantization of tuberculosis. The guy on the left could literally have tuberculosis looking at his face.

One of the many sources: https://historycollection.com/tuberculosis-became-the-victorian-standard-of-beauty/

To be honest, DNA is stupid anyway. Worst data format ever invented.

I mean, a single mutation to get sickle cell anemia? Use fucking error correction codes, dammit! No, having everything twice is not error correction. It’s only error detection and the detected error is just silently ignored and randomly passed on to your offspring.

Where are the damn backups? 3-2-1 should hold for every data format! How would an offsite backup be designed? I don’t know I’m not evolution incorporated.

Why are viruses even a thing??? There is no reason EVER to be able to insert new DNA into your genome. Make it read only! With checksums! Why is there no Denuvo DNA-DRM?

Slightly unrelated but even worse, your immune system is literally only controlled by the equivalent of HTTP. Deactivate completely? Attack everything on sight? No authorization required whatsoever! Just use the public API! Surely nothing could exploit this, right??

Small Edit as a response to everyone mentioning the need to change for evolution:

Maybe, just maybe use a test environment? You don’t just push to production the moment you make a change. Move fast and break things my ass. Since women already have the production environment just create a similar structure in men! They already have TESTicles after all.

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Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid “the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word” rule tbf.

It’s a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).

Block and move on if you care so much about someone not conforming to grammar conventions in the most harmless manner imaginable.

Just imagine your comment under someone using all lower case letters instead of capitalizing Proper Nouns and the beginning of sentences.