Of course they don’t know what it means.

Next, ask them to define what ‘woke’ is.

Sherman tank edition

But the Sherman is relatively small as far as tanks go, both in modern context and even back in its day.

The Sherman was the smaller, lighter, cheaper tank that wasn’t as good as most of its rivals on the battlefield, but made up for it by being cheaper and easier to produce, so they were able to field more of them and win through numbers.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Halloween night is coming up: the one night of the year where it isn’t suspicious at all to walk around with a full face mask. Put on a generic, common costume with a full face mask. Leave your phone at home (these things track nearby phones). Take down a camera or two yourself. Tell NOBODY what you did. It only takes a few people doing that in each town to bring down a massive number of cameras.

Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children.

Definitely are.

You think Epstein was the only one? You think he hasn’t already been replaced yet?

I fucking did when I was like 15.

Some bullies thought it would be a fun “prank” to duct tape me to a support pillar. But they did a pretty shit job of it and I was able to shrug it off without too much effort. They looked very sad about that.

and the family sues the department for everything they have.

Unfortunately, the law generally doesn’t recognize ‘pain and suffering’ or ‘emotional anguish’ damages in cases involving death/injury to an animal. Generally, courts view animals strictly as property, so it would be taken as a ‘damage to property’ case, and damages would be limited to the replacement value of the donkey. Maybe also the cost of disposing of the body. Not sure what baby miniature donkeys go for these days, but it can’t be more than a few thousand at most. And that’s if the court agrees that shooting the donkey was unreasonable and unnecessary … which I wouldn’t hold my breath on – they tend to side with the cops most of the time.

All of them!

How many can I name correctly? Some of them.

You think this fucker gives half a shit about treaties? He violates US law and the constitution on a daily basis.

If you’re still using Chrome in 2026, this is your own fault.

My interest in doing an off-grid solar system for my house is steadily increasing…

Or a few well-placed rifle bullets in the power transformers that feed the datacenter.

Valid.

Especially if you can manage to run modern Linux on it.

Going to work at a different kind of Apple.

You’ve got to remember that in maga-brain, “bad people” translates to “non-white people”.

For once, I agree.

Yeah, by the time copyright finally expires, it will be impossible to find a copy of it anymore.

I wager Sony would love the day when people pay 100 dollars for a game that gets deleted in 6 months, that they have to rebuy again at full price to play again.

Oh, you wanted to play [AAA game] that you already bought and paid for? Too bad, it’s shut down and gone. But you can buy the almost-identical sequel [AAA game 2] for just $90!

And then there’s good old Chris Sawyer, writing an entire (fairly complex) game completely in Assembly, because he wanted the (actually kind of computationally heavy) game to still work on potato hardware.

It’s possible that the dynamic generation might be more maintainable than a lookup list, though.

With a lookup list, you may need to recalculate the whole thing every time you make a small change. And a significant change, like giving the user a new choice/parameter to adjust, may not only require recalculating the lookup table, but also exponentially increasing the size of the lookup table.

Whereas with a dynamically generated result, small adjustments to the values likely wouldn’t require any modification of the actual code at all, and adding a new choice/parameter would be fairly straightforward – it just needs to be plugged into the formula, maybe add an extra step or two in the algorithm.

Interestingly, the physicist’s answer would always be correct, but not always consistent.

If the sphere is compressible, then air pressure will slightly affect its volume. And unless the thermal expansion rate of the sphere is zero, the amount of fluid displaced will also vary with temperature.

However, even if the physicist gets different answers in different environments, it’s always still a correct answer, because they correctly measured the volume of the sphere at that time.