I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.

Saying “on the count of three” before you start counting is optimal, in timelines where that tradition is widely known. It’s more words the first time but many people need the time provided by saying them to mentally prepare, and then if you need repeated counts no such preparation is necessary and each one takes only three beats.

Miniskirts were a thing in the 1960s.

Encouraging more teen pregnancies seems like it might cause problems for the education system, but that’s okay; Fox News loves the uneducated.

Personally I suspect that the best cure for a low fertility rate is a good 60 to 100 years of declining population size. It’s worth a try anyway.

Such power. The world will tremble before my mighty ability to salivate.

Hooray! Encryption for everyone Encryption for client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface who remember to turn on “additional encryption” option when sending an email.

No mention as to whether it follows any standards or is interoperable with anything else in the world.

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Yeah, I was somewhat dismayed to see Little Snitch getting so much attention on mastodon despite it not being free software. I don’t see the appeal.

OpenSnitch does the job quite well. Things in debian are mostly well-behaved, but it’s caught quite a few games running under wine that were up to no good.

It’s gambling all the way through, but sure enough there’s some amount of information to be found in the way people are betting.

As I understand it, the psychology of other participants does come into it in much the same way it does in a poker game or the stock market. One doesn’t strictly bet on the outcome of events — in all such markets that I heard about positions can be taken up and then sold for profit as opinion shifts, before the predictions are ever constrained by actual outcomes.

The goal of “prediction” markets is to make money for the people who operate them. But sometimes they’re right anyway.

True, but the lack of an appropriate amount of negativity from the chatbots is one reason some people prefer humans over LLMs.

You wouldn’t be tempted to rub yourself against its leg?

People can think about whatever they like in the shower, including iron age Anatolia.

It’s possible at any age to get trapped in a world where there is nothing but suffering and pain, if you’re so inclined.

Okay you win that’s the dumbest response so far

Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

Finland wins again!

It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.

Don’t laugh.

Oh I’m not laughing. They’re really pulling out all the stops to try and lose, and it’s appalling.