My booties are too big for you, traveller. You need an AI that provides smaller booties.

Individual tools already often host their own Q&A or forum systems. We just need to encourage more of that.

Good riddance. Whenever I search for a programming question I’d always hope for a) an official documentation page or, failing that, b) a page on a dedicated forum for the tool that I was using that covered the problem. I’d only ever click on SO links if I had no other choice.

And, of course, I’d never search for a problem on SO itself.

The thing is, it doesn’t really benefit anyone. If you’re Russia, for instance, it would be better to destroy the entire democratic world than just the United States, and Trump could have done that if he’d just moved more slowly on some of his actions (for instance, if he’d remained quiet about Canada until after our election then we’d be in a very different situation now.) Trump’s just an idiot, plain and simple, and the people he surrounds himself with are either idiots themselves or too cowardly to call the idiots out on their idiocy.

It’s a mistake to think that either he or his handlers have some kind of master plan and that everything Trump does is the result of expert manoeuvring that just looks like stupidity. That promotes defeatism and gets people to surrender prematurely. As long as people stand up to Trump, he will lose.

When you’re recruiting for an organisation that makes it its entire mission to spread suffering and destruction around the world, you’re not going to get the best people.

Hats?

I like it. Simple but effective.

But it’s okay. I’m sure the people who couldn’t be bothered to pick up a ballot will be happy to pick up a rifle.

Just take a common word and remove a vowel or two. That’s still hip, right?

Why would a programmer own a printer? I almost never print anything and when I need to I just go to a library.

Except if the game is designed to be multiplayer-only, but even then we should be able to set up our own servers. If the original Half Life could do it in 1998 then why can’t we do it now?

Star Trek (at least from TNG onwards) is a dystopia who’s inhabitants have convinced themselves is a utopia.

Really? People have been talking about it since the Bush administration. Until now things hadn’t gotten bad enough for people to actually do it in large numbers, but people saying that if the Republicans win they’d move to Canada has been repeated so often over the decades that it became a bit of a joke.

is it possible that fascism is the only logical conclusion a nation which was founded solely by white landowners to do wholesale on genocide on native Americans?

No, but it is the only logical conclusion of a nation that continues to venerate those genocidal landowners as heroes.

If you’re trying to get from Missouri to Oregon and you end up in Wales then you’ve got bigger problems.

You don’t even have to go to the website. Every Mastodon feed can be accessed via RSS. You just have to add “.rss” to the end of the URL.

Hey, no cursive here, this is a family instance.

You need to upgrade your fibre.