And execs wonder why we torrent.

How is hurting a feral cat a criteria for what he is allowed to do? A coyote would certainly have no compunction, why should he?

Hypersonic deterrence have never been proven to work.

That’s a false equivalence, a hyperbolic statement, not worth consideration.

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It’s logically dishonest to say “There are no gods.” How do you prove there isn’t something? Maybe you just can’t see it right now. Agnostic atheist is the only logical position one could take.

Best piece of advice I can give about learning anything (that doesn’t involve risk of injury): don’t try to learn everything there is to learn. Decide what you want to do and learn what you need to do that. Tell me something you’d be interested in doing…

Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going…

My degree is in technical theater. I love sets and lighting design, but costuming is where I landed thanks to the local Renaissance festival.

Microsoft Windows. There are better operating systems that don’t make you watch ads, that don’t lock up your filesystem, that don’t force you into upgrades before they’re tested.

I’m going through all of my company’s apps replacing jquery with vanilla Javascript. I don’t like that Javascript is much more verbose than jquery but I do like not having to be dependent upon a library.

Don’t blame the tool just because you lack the skill or training to use it well.

Replace them with a resistor?

Apropos of nothing, where are you finding domains for $10/year?

The suicidal overtone is a huge turnoff for me.

Not a fan of lemmings, since everything we know about them in popular culture is incorrect - they don’t commit mass suicide - and is suicide really the image we want for ourselves? @Lemminary has the right idea.