Slay and serve are part of the drag/queer community lexicon that were made popular (iirc) in the NY ballroom scene. No one cares when 6th graders use them or if they stop.

If you watch queer media or hang out with The Gays, you’ll hear them all the time. They’re a bit campy, but not cringe.

Also, those are not all separate paths. They are all one, and they lead to the same place.

California.

Not to scale.

It’s going to be a glorious disaster. Didn’t they slash the initial IPO estimate about six months after announcing it and shortly before the whole API thing? I haven’t cared enough to follow it closely, especially since abandoning the platform, but it really seems like the stakeholders wanting to cash in on a sinking ship before it finally goes down.

I just want to point out that it’s not “universal basic income” if it’s not universal. Yes, we all know that some people are going to be paying $250k per year in taxes and getting $10k in UBI, but research has shown that support for a program is stronger if everyone has access to it, that administrative expenses add significantly to the cost of the program without adding value to the participants (and in fact putting an additional burden for paperwork etc on them), and as a result they’re more likely to be decreased or cut. Most of these (with the exception of Alaska) aren’t UBIs, but rather need-based supplemental income (SI) programs.

I’m not against SI programs at all. Unless and until we figure out UBI (which means both technological and social advances), SI can help people through rough patches and rough lives.

The reason why people are interested in UBI (at least some people) is that we’re watching productivity explode but we’re not seeing worked hours go down or salaries go up (except at the highest levels). UBI is the recognition (and the hope) that we will transfer into a post-scarcity society.

I think the first step will be the 32 hour workweek, where we move from two to three days off at the same wage levels, and build from there. I’m still supportive of the SI programs, but UBI is a social transformation and reorientation, not just helping people pay rent.

This is the worst summary I’ve ever read.

This is a good strategy. A solar flare will also interrupt their radio communications and they will be unable to call for backup.

No, that’s not a good example at all. This is closer to Orwell’s Newspeak, in which the government makes a word mean its opposite in order to force a change to the way people think.

A more relevant example is the use of the term “fake news.” The term was originally coined to talk about Trump making up “facts” on the fly that were completely disconnected from reality. Then Trump started using the term to refer to news articles he didn’t like.

He was even asked at one point if by “fake news” he meant the story wasn’t true. He said no - he meant he thinks it’s not something the media should be talking about, true or not.

For his fans and for the media in general, it’s come to mean “false,” but that’s an inversion of the original meaning, which is that Trump was inventing “facts,” mutated to Trump thinking the media shouldn’t be reporting on his extensive dealings with Russians, and finally being interpreted as challenging whether those fully documented and verified meetings even really happened.

They thought about including a pendulum blade but they went back and forth on it.

I absolutely loved House - to the point of distraction - because I identified so strongly with Hugh Laurie’s character. Having myself a tendency in that direction (which I’ve worked, with intermediate success, to overcome), it was very easy so see the world through his eyes.

I even really liked the repeating theme of his always being wholly confident that his initial diagnosis is 100% right, then being proven wrong and being full in on his secondary being right, and finally having his third being right is very very familiar from my own career.

Thanks!

Please sir, what episode was this?

I grew up going to the Natural History Museum in NYC and it’s a huge part of the reason I went into biology. The blue whale is amazing to see and experience. I had a mini panic attack thinking they were taking it down, but couldn’t confirm it on other sites.

I’m very relieved to find that it was just an Onion article.

Team rainbow checking in. This comes off more as a chaser than anything else.

It was war that turned me into a non-survivalist. I just don’t care that much, and the worse it would get, the less I’d care. Previously I could get the whole road warrior thing. Now, I’m just like “who the fuck would want to live through that?”

I know. I’m old enough that I worked through the Y2K problem. Not me literally - I was working on a different class of systems - but I literally sat next to COBOL devs who were paid to work on green screens on an IBM midframe for more than half their time to get rid of the two digit date representations on systems operating cellular communications as well as the ones that ran sales and services for a large telecom company. It was my first real job in the industry, and I remember the Gateway type computers sold at Sears with the “Y2K Compatible!” stickers on the front.

My phrasing was both tongue in cheek and a callback to another problem that similarly had some people dreading the end of the world with nuclear reactors running amok and planes crashing from the sky.

In any case, he had a bigger impact on the world than most humans ever will, and going out peacefully at 85 really doesn’t sound all that bad.

It would have just been really funny if his gravestone could have listed his dates as Born June 6 1936 - Died December 13 1901.

This is an actual OMG moment.

The next Y2K style problem will happen on this date, January 19, at pi o’clock in 2038. I was really hoping he’d get to see that.

He was ironically taken too soon.

Yes, people who are against racism are indoctrinated. You’re totally open minded because you’re a racist, which proves you can think for yourself.

Honestly dude, and I mean this seriously, I hope you get the chance to turn 38 or something and look back on how much of a prick you were when you were 16 and say to yourself that you’ve got some ground to make up, karmically speaking.

Yup. I stop at racism. I think people should. You want to throw out some casual homophobia too?

Just curious - are you a racist troll or do you not get that your post reads as being extremely racist?