Is this gonna be on the test?

Jake Peralta?

Exactly my thinking. Could have been born and raised in much worse circumstances, considering everything going on in the world.

This is like a condensed movie! Jump scare, epic battle, moments of stark terror, problem resolved - or was it? Clearly open for a sequel. And also a better love story than Twilight!

All bets are off when the Attorney General says anyone who thinks the Justice Department’s strength is justice is “sadly mistaken.”

Putin’s living organism status needs a downgrade.

Somebody once advanced the theory that the pyramids may have been public works projects, to keep the whole economy from collapsing. The pharaohs had accumulated so much of the available wealth, they spent some of it to put people to work. I think that’s an interesting speculation.

People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we “know about computers.”

My favorite version

A year or two ago I read about some guy who is still managing the trailer park he inherited from his dad with a TRS-80 (I think), using an app he wrote way back when. If it works it works!

The main point is that these interactions happen much less often IRL than online, where the anger trolls post relentlessly. If they acted like that in person almost nobody would ever talk to them, but for some weird reason they get a lot of takers online.

People who naievely pipe AI output directly to end users are ignoring the fundamental principle that writers need editors. AI isn’t at fault any more than a junior copywriter would be at fault for screwing up. In both cases their job is to produce rough copy which an editor is supposed to make a pass over. The problem lies with the management decision to remove the human editor from the process.

Mediocre managers have always looked for magic bullets to fix problems they aren’t smart enough to handle. They’ll bring in consultants who give a seminar and leave a set of binders behind, and say do everything this way now, believing the sales pitch that said it would revolutionize the whole department. These same talentless managers are embracing AI with the same false hopes and implementing it just as clumsily.

Absolutely agree. There’s a minority of highly polarized people who encourage a false binary view of the world - where anyone who doesn’t 100% agree with you is your enemy, and questioning even a subtle aspect of an opinion is an all-out attack. These people post so much they dominate forums and create the false appearance of trends. Most people aren’t nearly that polarized.

Companies pandering to a money-spending public - son of a gun, who would have seen that coming??

When I was a kid in the 60s outerspace was filled with little boomerangs.

Solar is too woke and Marxist for the current US government.

Brak likes corn!

I personally don’t think the word “master” should be considered offensive - my wife has a master’s degree in deaf education - but I’ve switched to “main” because that seems to be the convention now and it really doesn’t have to be an issue.

Stories about “science gone awry” are almost always about non-scientists screwing up.

“Step in?” Well, because the world isn’t run by a mom and dad who step in and make governments do the right things.