No wait nevermind they were just between the couch cushions here. Haha that’s so funny I don’t know why I would assu- … wait… WHY IS THIS ON THE NEWS

I’m sorry sir, we stopped serving breakfast at 11 30

Maybe there’s a good argument for nonviolence but “the means dictate the ends” isn’t it imo. It could be that there’s more to it in the book but presented as is I’d say it doesn’t follow logically, I’m going to want to see proof that it’s actually true which is going to be tricky because there are obvious counter examples.

The easiest one is probably Ukraine. I’m sure most Ukrainians want to live in a peaceful and nonviolent society, but if they took your principle to heart there would be no Ukraine right now.

We’re a family here! You know, one of those toxic shitty kinds of families where the obligations only go one way and we all just pretend that’s cool, 'cause we’re a family!

They are often found residing on or near couches though

Not only that but I thought comedy was explicitly ok as well! It’s so confusing, you have to ban so many accounts before you get free speech apparently.

You’re right and I really wish you weren’t.

Yeah, I agree she is at fault for spreading harmful and fucking racist misinformation online. At the same time though it must be wild to have a president candidate pick it up and run with it. It’s a shame it took this kind of experience to make her see the potential harm of her actions.

He wants a perfect body. He wants a perfect soul.

That’s pretty metal

I seem to remember one of the GTA games (maybe Sam Andreas?) had a stand up set from I think Ricky Gervais as something that would play on the TVs.

A few years ago deciding I actually didn’t owe my dad my participation in our relationship.

I dunno, it’s already pretty good at writing code and only going to get better. I agree with your conclusion though, mainly because as a software engineer writing code is actually not even the most complicated part of the job. If an AI could write perfect code every time it’d make my job a lot easier but I’d still have to do a significant amount of work such as:

• Figuring out which code to write in the first place! Work discovery if I’m senior enough or clarifying requirements.
• Co-ordination with other teams. Depending on the exact work this becomes more or less important
• Managing the lifecycle of a change including testing, deployment, monitoring and triaging issues.
• Ongoing maintenance. Staying on top of upcoming changes in adjacent or foundational teams, making sure our stuff will keep in working.
• Architecture design. You mentioned this in your post, understanding interactions with adjacent systems and how to organise our own systems to meet current and (reasonable) future requirements.
• Conducting non project work such as interviews, involvement in working groups to help decide overall technical direction of my group, upskilling myself and those around me.

That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure I’ve missed some things. As much as I love writing code I honestly feel like if an AI could do that part it’d just take stress out of my day and give me more time to focus on those other parts of the job. Of course in reality more work would probably just be piled on but that’s just life I guess.

Never admire an entire person, only the aspects of the person you find admirable.

I would say it depends on the human. Same reason why I only eat jerk chicken.

I’m trying to say… exactly what I said. That your message didn’t tell the whole story. In fact it’s not much of a stretch to say it’s actively misleading. I’ll try and do more to articulate why, see if you agree with me.

You said:

The 1 child policy only ever applied to around 30% of the population anyways. It was just Han Chinese in major urban centers.

First of all, the statement itself is actually false because whilst it was changed after a few years, it did in fact apply to everyone initially so you can’t truthfully say that it “only ever” applied to 1/3 of the population.

Secondly, the 35.4% figure is of people who were subjected to the original one child policy restrictions. There was still a one child policy in place even for rural people except in the case that the first child was a girl. Given this happens about 50% of the time, effectively around 67% of families would still be restricted to one child, even under the revised policy. I’m neglecting the exception for minorities as by definition they are a small share of the population.

So yes, I maintain that what you said did not provide a complete or particularly accurate picture. It’s true that the policy wasn’t as simple as “nobody can have more than one child ever” but your comment was about equally accurate as that statement I would say. By saying the policy only ever applied to about 30% of people you are in my opinion misrepresenting the sheer scale and impact of the policy.

Hopefully that helps to explain why I felt the need to comment, but feel free to tell me if I’m wrong or misunderstanding something.

Indeed, everyone certainly made a meal of it.

The Emptiness Machine In My Ass

What if I only eat my own meat?

The sheer Depp’s people will go to with these memes