Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.

Reddit is quintessential social media.

Sir Terry Pratchett tweeted his own meeting with Death.

It that’s true, and we’re afraid Iran might use them, then it seems like a bad idea to attack it.

You mean we’re not going to get a literal dome over the whole United States?! Like the literal dome made of ferrous metal over Israel?

That announcement that the majority of Americans can’t read above a 6th grade level makes so much sense. They’re all so fucking dumb and illiterate that they can’t follow an argument. TACO bellowed a bunch of insane gobbledegook and was emotionally unregulated at the debate, while Biden got words mixed up and a bit lost while at least pursuing a line of thought to a logical conclusion. But even so, his arguments were still too intellectually taxing for an audience of howler monkeys who decided, “LOUD VOICE WIN!”

This is what I tell people about why we’ll never do anything about school and other mass shootings. We can get used to danger and death, and it’ll just fade into the background as “normal.” After all, we’ve done it with traffic violence.

…no, I’m not invited to parties— why?

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: I believe in due process, so any Republican making a lot of noise about protecting children should in, a just world, at least be probable cause for a search warrant.

It’s the New York Post, though. 100% intentional.

Take a look at configuration management systems like Puppet or Ansible. There are many ways to have a pre-defined, repeatable system configuration in a text file.

I hear a lot of talk about guillotines, but I feel that wood chippers are the sleepers here.

No. As noted, it’s a rivet. It was originally a straight piece of metal rod with a cap (visible in the top image) at one end, inserted into the joint, then the other end deformed with a rivet tool to create a lip on the end (lower image) so it stays in place.

To remove it, use a drill bit about the same diameter as the rivet shaft, and drill it out from the end in the lower image. You usually only have to drill less than a millimeter before the lip breaks free, and you can pull out the rest of the rivet. The trick here is that the rivet is probably hardened steel, that means it’ll take a carbide drill bit, and some time.

This is obviously a destructive procedure for the rivet, and then you need special tools to put in another. It might be possible to replace with a screw, but it won’t be quite the same.

Conservative spaces are not encumbered by pesky things like facts. Setting things their way doesn’t make one correct.

See, this mad-libs-style reversal of rhetoric doesn’t work because of pesky things like facts.

More research is always good, as it can deepen our understanding, but the basic outline of what’s going on is already known. A lot of people just don’t want to believe it, because we’re all stuck on the metaphor that we’re all captains of the ship inside our own heads. You see it in this thread; people want to blame non-voters, as if millions of people all had perfect information and all made decisions based upon it through conscious reasoning. Because they’re just—I dunno—bad people? (Which is a completely bonkers belief when you start to dig into it.)

Actually, neuroscience tells us that consciousness doesn’t really exist, except as an emergent phenomenon of sensory experience. Brain scans show that thoughts, feelings, and decisions occur before we’re consciously aware of them; the conscious mind is basically a rationalization machine, inventing narratives about why we did a thing or felt a certain way, only after the fact. And, it’s notoriously bad at it. (The Misattribution of Arousal is one of the classic examples.) So, if you can affect the way that somebody’s brain works, you can in many ways control what the they think and feel.

And that’s exactly what authoritarian demagogues do.

The Girl Who Could Talk to Birds

Thanks. That is what I’d expect, and highlights the disconnect I saw in this comment chain: I think what some other folks were trying (less-than-artfully) to say is that there’s a difference between what one might expect case-insensitive means as a computer programmer, and what one might expect case-insensitive to mean in human language. All three of those should be the same filename in fr_FR locale, since some French speakers consider diacritical marks to be optional in upper case. While that might be an edge case, it does exist. English is even worse, with a number of diacritical marks that are completely optional, but may be used to aid legibility, e.g. café, naïve, coöperation. (Whether that quirk is obvious or not, or whether it outweighs any utility of case-insensitivity is not something that I have a strong opinion on, though.)

I don’t have Windows here to test, so I keep wondering, are all of these forms the same?

• facture-février.pdf
• FACTURE-FÉVRIER.PDF
• FACTURE-FEVRIER.PDF

Muskegon

Really? This is an example why I’m done with Democrats.

Would it be worse than a fascist dictatorship?