I want a recalibration on what makes someone a crank.
Being against universal free healthcare is just as much of a crank position as flat-tax or anti-vax.
Oh, that guy is anti-nuclear? That's a little silly, but if you're pro-AI then you're doing way more to increase fossil fuel use.
Rereading Book of the New Sun.
I just went to pay for something online and the part of the form that wanted an email address would not accept input that had a . or an @. It said "use english characters."
Obviously it wouldn't accept an email address without those either.
Love living in the age of vibe coding!
How Green Was My Valley and Grogu
I remember people sincerely and unironically declaring that a flaw with 4E was that people actually looked forward to and enjoyed combats, and thus had no incentive to try and avoid them, something something combat as sport versus combat as war
OP means well and I don't want to single them out, but also, fascists lying and/or being ignoramuses about the past does not mean we should cede the ground to them, even aesthetically. The strangeness of the ancient world is a fantastic antidote for "Victorian morals are timeless and eternal."
Do you like constant background noise? Repeatedly cleaning up messes you didn’t make? And things being randomly broken or lost? Kids might be for you!
Probably to nobody surprised, I run a lot of #OpenSource apps on my #Android phone
Why should Google be able to impose a tax on every app written?
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
