Good. Take em out. Anthropic is already bleeding out.

Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar

I never played Descent itself, but I played a shitty clone on one of those “1000 Games on 10 CD-ROMs” packs back in the day.

After learning about the source material, I always wanted to go try it but haven’t taken the time.

They wouldn’t see what sites you give the tokens to — unless those sites choose to phone home, for some reason.

• You log in to the government site
• You ask for a token to prove your age/gender/whatever
• You copy the token
• You go to the age/gender-restricted site
• You provide the token
• The restricted site asks the government site how to verify any arbitrary token (but doesn’t mention your specific token)
• The restricted site verifies the token

So like, when do we get a government-run service to issue zero-knowledge proofs about us so companies have no reason to store stuff like this in the first place?

Well…

If the justice system didn’t have a systemic massive unjustified distrust of women, and it spontaneously reached the peak of equality on this specific metric, then there would probably eventually be a higher rate of false accusations.

And then we’d eventually end up with a latent mild justified skepticism of all sexes, and then we’d still end up needing objective evidence.

So it’d be kinda self-defeating, except for a handful of glory years. Now would be a fantastic time for those glory years, no doubt, but it’s not a long-term solution.

Thank you for everything you do, seahorse!

I have a handful of recurring donations, and this one makes me especially happy.

It’s disturbing, how many people eagerly embrace eugenics and anti-natalism as long as they can cite a left-wing cause like ecology as their reason

Funny. I dislike vibe coding because it takes away the “art”.

Implicit in these remarks is the notion that there is something undesirable about an area of human activity that is classified as an “art”; it has to be a Science before it has any real stature. On the other hand, I have been working for more than 12 years on a series of books called “The Art of Computer Programming.”

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

Oh shit. That MalwareTech? https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/158/

Means horny

One of these lil guys?

I made some critical posts about it several months ago. It was exhausting. So I stopped. Haven’t changed my position though.

Place your — Astroglide Water Based Lube (4oz), Ultra Gentle Gel Personal Lubricant for Vaginal and Anal Sex, Stays Put with No Drip, Sex Lube, Long-Lasting for Men, Women and Couples, Safe for Toys — in the bagging area

I’m a little slut for some hummus

Do you condom hummus?

Call me crazy, but I like default ports to look like default ports. If I want it to stick around, I’ll pick a port on my own.

He picked off the decomposing organic debris from the word and pooped the letters out. Now if only we knew what detritus was.

Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.

If it’s more fun to progress more quickly, that should be the default.

Monopolies don’t generally artificially increase demand. They sometimes artificially restrict supply. But mostly they just control price, because monopolies don’t have to compete, and competition is the fundamental assumption that drives the law of supply and demand.