Maybe they’re short on closet space.

Brain imaging studies show that in people with congenital cortical blindness, this area is often repurposed for tasks such as language, memory and reasoning. … Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more stable ways of interpreting the world, reducing the risk of the misfiring predictions that characterise schizophrenia.

If that’s true, do congenitally bind people show improvements in general prediction tasks? Could that be why there are so many legends about blind soothsayers?

Just looking at the words in your title, “country”, “random”, and “imagine” were all borrowed from Old French.

If it seems like multiple unrelated people are doing the same thing, it’s more likely an issue with your own perception or interpretation of them.

That was Jefferson—he wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

The population of the whole island is about a hundred people—their basic concept of “humanity” is probably limited to people they’ve seen grow up from birth. (Which would explain why they attack outsiders on sight.)

In theory you might be able to pass yourself off as some kind of supernatural figure, but not without knowing anything about their belief system first.

RSS feeds seem like the obvious replacement—how is your vibe-coded solution better?

It matters when the votes are for representatives who represent the voters indirectly.

It works because votes in excess of the winning threshold for each representative are effectively lost, and districts can be redrawn to give one party an unequal share of the excess votes.

So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. […] These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted

What’s to prevent the author from faking upvotes, if the votes themselves aren’t public?

Your self is the private reservoir of knowledge and experience you draw on to interact with the world in a way that’s distinct from anyone else (and that couldn’t be predicted without access to that internal knowledge).

So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?

“Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.

CJK (East Asian) fonts include Latin characters, but they’re often an afterthought (or placeholders from the font design template). You may just be seeing these placeholder characters that are part of the site’s main CJK font.

Did he try offering them FIFA Peace Prizes?

The country wouldn’t have an infinite hotel—the infinite hotel would have a tiny, forgotten basement called “the rest of the known universe”.

Great Caesar’s ghost!

Congratulations, you’re the inaugural entry in my “people not to have over for dinner” list.

Sagitarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

“Charlemagne” literally means “Charles the Great”.

Those are things Congress or the states would need to do—the president can’t (and shouldn’t) make Constitutional amendments.

Nah, they’ll just add a “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer to the government itself.