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Re:The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:07PM (#50344566)
Still not as Orwellian as the Biden's administration's re-interpretation of Title IX to include men under the definition of women (if they identify as such).

Biden enacted it on his first day in office. Trump rescinded it on his first. Presumably president Cortez will revert back to Biden's definition on her first day in office.

Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:47PM (#50341605)
You're the victim of misinformation.

In the past there were no hard associations between sexes and gender and it was possible to find boys wearing some pink clothing, but it was never the case that people associated pink with boys and blue with girls.

There are some limited examples that contribute to the misunderstanding. For example blue is often associated with the Virgin Mary and red (not pink) was considered a manly color often worn by warriors (e.g. the British, the Romans, etc).

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This is essentially the way reporting works. If you write an article showing that in the past it wouldn't have been bizarre for boys to wear pink you don't get much traction. But if you write how pink was actually worn by boys and it was considered shocking for girls to wear it, then people find that very surprising and you get a lot of views (truth be damned).

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:45AM (#50301671)
> cargo culting

I don't think you're using that term right. Not knowing how something works doesn't mean you're cargo culting.

People are not so knowledgeable about the other coins because the whole point of magic internet money is that it can't be controlled by anyone. If your entire account exists in some box somewhere under the control of some entity, how is that any different from a bank (which also mostly doesn't operate on cash but just moves bytes around)?

While I'm a right winger and I think all these changes are stupid, including Mt. McKinley, I do appreciate how much of a brilliant move it is on Trump's part. It forces leftist to waste so much time complaining about meaningless things.
> I can't use "else" as a conjunction in normal speech, only in computer programs.

Not true. Here's an example from 1876 in which "else" is used as a conjunction.

> My brother is poor, and I want to look as much like him as I can, else he may feel distant from me.

-- George Eliot ( https://www.victorianlondon.org/etexts/eliot/deronda-0047.sh... )

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:37PM (#50267911)
> If AGI is here, why does OpenAI need us to prompt it?

Because AGI is artificial general intelligence, or human level intelligence. If you have access to multiple "people" you need to tell them what to do.

Presumably you meant to say ASI: artificial superintelligence. But we don't really have that yet.

Re:Go Piss, Girl: The plight of the public potty on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:36AM (#50139794)
It is hard and taxes are irrelevant.

If taxes are what matters, America would have the best public restrooms in the world because it's the richest country.

But what really matters is culture. If you have a small percentage of people who are bad actors and are not punished for it, they ruin it for everyone.

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Let me give you a small example of culture and enforcement. I live in a small city in Romania. I once traveled by plane to London. The airport in my city is very small. When boarding, despite the fact that the zigzag queue was 3 lines long, people lifted the cordon and went straight to the door. I was probably the only one who followed it.

When we arrived at Heathrow, people did the same thing. The zigzag queue at Heathrow is very long, so it feels slightly fairer to skip it if there's literally no one in front of you (it was 2 AM or something). But as soon as the first person skipped the line and a second person was going for it, a guard noticed him and ordered him to go back. He tried to "negotiate" but the guard only lifted a finger and told him to "go back".

No one tried to skip after those two.

When you have a culture with no enforcement, a small minority (maybe 2%) of people ruin it for everyone and you feel like an idiot still following the rules. This makes the majority imitate the bad actors because "I might as well too".

No amount of money in the world can fix bad culture.

> He did it to defend his [boy]friend's honor, or something.

He murdered Charlie for his boyfriend? What are you talking about? No such accusation has been made. You're literally just inventing stuff.

You clearly have not read the bible if you think it says that only.

> Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel... Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Why should people act civilized towards the uncivilized. He murdered 14 people (people often say 13 because the don't count the baby). Why should any humanity be shown towards him?

You don't defeat your enemies by being softer than them. You win by being harder than them.

It's a rogue court in that it's not derived from the will of the people. In democracy, the people are sovereign and have a say in what their laws are. American[1] citizens don't have a say in what international laws are, they can't invalidate them, so why should they be subject to them?

This is akin to the Nuremberg trials, where Germans were tried by foreigners, without the consent of German citizens... The major difference is, the Germans lost the war so Americans got to impose their will on the vanquished. America did not lose a war to India, so why should Americans be judged by this Indian?

[1]: I'm not American, but like the US, I also wish my country was only subject to the laws of my people.

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:00AM (#50018356)
Interesting, that makes no sense to me. I assume you don't touch type.

If you touch type, you hold your 4 fingers on ASDF. If you want to press Ctrl+C, you move your pinky to Ctrl and press C with the index finger or middle finger.

On Macintosh, you have to hold your pinky much too close to the index finger to press Command+C which are very close.

If, instead, you use thumb and index that also puts the thumb in an awkward position because you have to cross the fingers (Command is to the left of C)

What fingers do you use?

> Fun fact: Skydance was originally started as a vehicle to buy David Ellison an acting career [1], which spent $60M on Fly Boys. It grossed $17M. There's a very real "failed in Hollywood to alt-right" pipeline, actually.

Fun fact: Ellison also started Annapurna, which is Megan Ellison's vehicle for pushing gay propaganda to children through games. "Mixtape" bombed hard despite overwhelming praise from bought critics.

John Mearsheimer is the same guy who justifies why Ukraine deserves to be occupied by Russia.
> Jews must be the textbook example of "with friends like these, who needs enemies?"

Aren't you people supposed to say "Israelis" so that you can pretend your antisemitism is "legitimate criticism of the country of Israel"?

He said "current regime". He obviously means the previous regime didn't do this (as if Snowden didn't happen under Obama).
> Ukraine is never going to recapture the territory that it has lost without European troops on the ground.

This is such a defeatist attitude. By that logic North Vietnam would never have recovered South Vietnam.

A lot of things can happen if you just refuse to be defeated. Hannibal killed almost the entire Roman army at Cannae, but the war ended 15 years later with full victory by the Romans.

In 1940, Britain was the only country in Europe fighting Germany. Many had fallen, were neutral or were fighting with the Nazis (Russia, Italy, etc). But in the end Britain won.

Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:46PM (#49837133)
Okay, I'll bite. What did he do that's racist and fascist. And please provide receipts.

For reference, here are the definitions:

racist: a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races

fascism: any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition

Re:TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:44PM (#49748817)
Most people don’t have “é” on their keyboard, yet they still spell “fiancée”.
Singapore is a city, Australia is a continent. Singapore is a poor analog for pretty much every other country. It was founded precisely because it sits near a busy sea route. It makes sense for Singapore to be very open to trade. That does not mean it works for Australia.

(I'm not arguing that the reverse is true, just that Singapore proves nothing.)

Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:05PM (#49730732)
> as it's a very common style to find for informal writing all over the internet

No it's not. It's common in chats where those people don't bother with punctuation at all, often writing a single sentence over multiple lines.

It's not common for blogs or long form content.

Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:02PM (#49730685)
It's not derived from that. Most people don't use IRC anymore and there are basically no open chat platforms left. Most people now use phones to chat, where the keyboard automatically changes case for you after finishing a sentence.

So typing in all lowercase is a choice. I think it's a way to signal "I don't follow norms". It signals membership in a group.

Re:Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:54PM (#49730576)
What is the logic behind transforming `FreeBSD RCEs` to `freebsd RCEs`?

If what you're trying to communicate is that, like Sam Altman, you're too cool the press the shift key, then why write some initialisms in upper case? After all, there is a style of acronyms that are always written in lower case: Latin ones ("i.e.", "e.g.")

Re:Unified Arabic on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:43PM (#49600268)
Mao did not simplify Chinese. The First Chinese Character Simplification Scheme simply adopted simplified characters in common use.

But if it was such a great idea, why is it not an issue in Hong Kong which does not use it?

> The pedantry of being angry at the US for being the only country that actually has the word "America" in its name

That is not the reason.

People say that Columbus discovered America. They don't mean the country, they mean the continent. The people in the continent of America are called Americans. About a century ago, US Americans came to view America as two continents.

Many countries still hold to America being a single continent, but there's no name for the people of America because US Americans stole it. The is very equivalent to how the EU is stealing Europe/European.

> Canadian truckers were doing bad things and A/I were doing good things

That is such a platitude that I'm not sure if you're serious or you're just attempting Reddit humor.

But if you're serious, at least try to justify what A/I is doing by saying things like terrorism is in the eye of the beholder like Piker does.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:48PM (#49530793)
Am I missing something? There's no SH in what GP said. What does SH even mean?
Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU on Saturday August 29, 2026 @01:21PM (#49491579)
> Polls show the population regrets Brexit.

They also showed that Brexit wasn't going to pass and Trump wouldn't get elected.

Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:26PM (#49482548)
Do you really not care to know what the terrorist organization was before you assume that "they are fighting against oppressive bullshit"? Is A/I and ISIS the same to you?
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:59PM (#49482218)
OKRainbowKid asked if antifascism is an extreme movement.

xienze said that an organization which defines itself as antifascist COULD be extreme.

You're asking for a definition of terrorism so you can say that A/I is not a terrorist organization. But that's not what's being argued.

xienze is saying that antifascists CAN be terrorist, not that all of them are. For example, the Red Army Faction committed numerous terrorists acts: bombings, kidnappings, murders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction#Criminal_acts

OKRainbowKid, of course, started from a false premise that "antifascists" are being persecuted because they're against "fascism".

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