Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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  • It’s complex I guess. There’s a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.

    Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.

    We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.

    Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.

    The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.








  • anaemic* (Sorry, that bothered me for some reason.)

    As for capture groups, you’ll have to find another way. Perversely, perhaps BusyBox continues to be included on certain systems because they know that the extra space is required for the code that works around BB’s shortcomings. That sounds asinine until you realise that “solving the problem properly” most likely leads to that one XKCD comic about the proliferation of competing standards.

    At worst, multiple sizes of BusyBox itself.





  • If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I’m not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he’s been gone for quite some time now.

    Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

    Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

    I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn’t take long for people to notice.


  • I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.

    At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

    Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That’s still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.

    Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.

    “LOL u smel” is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.

    We have to be better than that.







  • Other than the psychopath angle, there’s also those who are mentally ill and/or delusional and believe they’re terrible people when they’re not far off average, maybe even better.

    Likewise, perfectionists, but maybe I’m repeating myself.

    Got to hope that you’re not right for their sake.

    Personally, I’m hoping for oblivion. Like it was for the billions of years before I was conceived, I assume, not that it’s possible to remember that.


  • Fun fact: The past tense of “wend” was once “went”, but that was co-opted for the past tense of “go”, and the past tense of wend is now “wended”.

    “But what was the past tense of ‘go’ before that?”

    Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but “goed” does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular “yode” / “yoed” is closer to the old form and is also possible.

    Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as “do” becoming “did” suggests a less likely “gid”, “gig”, “ging” or even “gang” (compare “sang”).