…Right next to the oil furnace in the basement, trying to figure out how to rig it to blow and burn the place down.

“An admirer of the physical sciences are we, sir? Jolly good. Let me get the special tools.”

That looks like what’d happen if one put APL in a blender. I don’t know who came up with whatever that is, but they need to get outside more. Or, you know, just once maybe.

No. Not just no, but hell no.

Sounds like they’re arresting the right people then, doesn’t it?

Sure, you demented dickhead.

Fucking technologically illiterate nincompoops.

If I were dumb enough to own one of these pieces of shit, that screen would see constant need for repair under warranty.

“Sorry, the darned thing fractured spontaneously again. Seems to happen every time something I paid for shows me an unsolicited advertisement. I guess the fact the some dickhead would do that to their customers shocked me so much that I tripped and hit the screen with my fist by accident. As it made my knuckles bleed, I’ll have to sue you pricks for damages.”

Good for him, even better for us.

I’m Danish, so you won’t find me disagreeing with you.

So, how is electing a serial rapist con-artist working out for you, America?

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Glad to hear it!

This isn’t even just a pretext for Russia to go and get as fucked as they so rightfully deserve. It’s an accurate assessment. Russia isn’t a country - it’s a criminal syndicate claiming to be a country. It’s structured that way, it’s run that way. What else would anybody sane call a country where the husband / wife team managing Wildberries have hired armed PMC personnel having shootouts in their offices because they belong to different power cliques? Or where graveyard mafias are opportunistically exploiting the influx of war-dead to make illicit profits off the bereaved families?

The whole place is a shit-pile. If you invest in a shit-pile, your ROI will predictably be a pile of shit. It’s perfectly sensible for the EU to caution against that.

I don’t care if he enjoys it or not. If it prevents him from passing on his clearly defective genes, I’m all for him chasing that Darwin Award.

I’ve always done that with both my parents, but then again I’m Danish. It’s a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It’s usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it’s an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.

“An asshole’s an asshole.”

Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there’s no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.

I’d be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you’re willing.

The AI industry is apparently in need of a file system check.

I’m emphatically not saying somebody should soccer-kick Altman repeatedly right in the scrotum, I’m just saying I’d enjoy a good drink with a sigh of contentment if someone did.

Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit’s relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.