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Alex

@bara

4 years

Time for a new pinned tweet. And keeping it on topic with the old one... Looking for information on BASICTutor

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@SevaUT @MorlockP I was born in the wrong century.

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Containment had been breached. I repeat, the meme is no longer contained.

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And yet, when Mr. Bezos commissions a few hundred engineers to build him a vanity spaceship people still complain.

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Did you ever get to the final boss in River Raid?

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@EricRichards22 This is one of those questions where every answer is right.

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Evolution is amazing. Look what it did in a few decades of middle school dissections.

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Weird literacy flex, but I'll allow.

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@SonerCagaptay

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Every recored battle in history --also why the EU was such a a good idea

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@PancreasThief @Nymdok You mean people would download a random executable file from a discussion forum and run it locally? Crazy times! (To be fair, it is still safer to do that than browse the web without an adblocker.)

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Off by one

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@sabrinaesaquino

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Make a programmer cry with 4 words

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In case you were still wondering if she's an op.

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He was a man ahead of his time.

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The smarter you are, the more elaborate rationalizations you can come up with.

TracingWoodgrains

@tracewoodgrains

2 months

Yes, I will vote for Kamala Harris. Someone sent me this comic the other day, though, and I confess I've lost my patience. I will vote for Kamala Harris. But in return—well, as my relief at Biden dropping out a year too late has settled into disgust, I do have a few words. For

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Anybody who has studied technique for any art - drawing, playing an instrument, framing a photograph - know this is false.

DocRocketScience

@DrRocketScience

2 years

@the_moviebob It's 1995, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art. It's 2003, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art. It's 2016, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art. It's 2022, and I'm explaining onli

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The "two weeks" joke from last year was good. But let 's come up with a slightly less disrupting prank for 2021.

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2 years

There is no rational world where this is Christianity.

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@JoLuehmann

2 years

I am a Christian and I HATE Easter. I hate the narratives about salvation from sin. I hate substitutionary atonement theories. I hate pretending a dude died for a weekend and then that means I won’t have to be tortured by his daddy. I hate Easter and I love Christianity.

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Just saw a Facebook post to an article headlined "Why Men Don't Apologize?" Got unfriended for replying "Because we did nothing wrong."

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@ShakariSBriggs @lwgowin Search for "engage with readers" and read that bullet point and the next.

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@hispaniccosmist @jkrwld "The penalty for being late is death."

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@strawman2222 Man rediscovers hunting and live posts it to the Internet. What a time to be alive!

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@RationalMale My old prediction was Meghan filing for divorce within two years. Now it's that Harry catches her cheating with a fitness coach.

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5 years

I built a house. I wired it myself. The smartest device on the electrical system is a mechanical timer. Do yourself a favor and stay away from "smart" stuff. Best case, you're in the dark until AWS is back up. Worst, you're locked out of your house because a server in China died.

NYT Wirecutter

@wirecutter

5 years

People take light switches for granted because they’re—well, pretty boring. But smart switches can let you control an entire house’s lighting with one tap, whether you’re at the office, on vacation, or in bed for the night.

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2 years

Mathematicians, your time to shine is next.

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I'm starting to think they trained to fulfill all the memes.

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I too agree only people who understand physics on a fundamental level should vote.

Nikolaj🥥🌴🐝🇺🇦

@nikicaga

2 years

Might be conservative-coded opinion but it genuinely pains me that these people have equal voting rights to actual political activists and organizers and educated people actively paying attention to politics

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He will later introduce you to his little friend.

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@politicalmath @bendreyfuss According to Ben real "shadowbanning" has never been tried.

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I expect no SS benefits when my retirement comes so I'll happily stop paying into that scam.

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@ProteusMorrill @ouranometrian I bet he was shocked a number of times.

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Let's tap the sign again: "The penalty for lateness is death."

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@OzraeliAvi

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Ottawa Police Chief says even if protesters “retreat and go home”, they’ll be hunted and punished. Meaning they have ZERO incentive to leave. Because cowering won’t save them.

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Lord Bezos's patience is not infinite.

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@ClayTravis

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The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.

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@PCGamesN @orthonormalist In the M1 Tank Platoon manual from MicroProse, back in the '90s they tell the story of how they ended up FOIA'ing the manuals for designing the in-game screens.

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1 year

Reminder that "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. Someone else who, in the best case, does not care; and in the worst, actively hates you.

Rare, Exquisite, Alabaster

@whois_John_Galt

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@Grummz

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He's complaining about waiting ONE Week for an Amazon delivery. LOL!

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*cough* @MorlockP *cough*

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@Grummz @MikeStackpole @bpardoe870 Check the full story as told by Blaine himself here:

Being Canceled and Prevailing - A Reality for Conservative Authors...

After writing in the BattleTech universe for over 36 years, Blaine Pardoe was canceled by a handful of woke activists who lobbied his publisher. Many thought...

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@ChopShouter @MorlockP I'm going to use an AI image generator that can't get the number of arms/hands right to create a facepalm image. Because two are not enough for this.

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@frobnosticus @othiym23 @MammonMachine My $0.02: SEO vs. search engine has been a cat and mouse game since forever. But things worked because ad money followed the better engine. Two things broke that: Google taking over most of the search market and becoming its own ad dealer. Incentives changed.

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Reminder that these are the women who picked the bear. I'd question their judgment.

ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕙𝕪

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ROFLMAO 🤣

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And that's why the most famous musketeers were known for swordplay.

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@coolmathgame_

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creator of the musket: yeah this thing is great. just don’t miss guy: what happens if you miss musket creator: just don’t miss. you’re fucked if you miss guy: well does it have really good aim musket creator: no

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Ken standing for Kamala was not on my 2020 bingo card.

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cc: @MorlockP @Bobthewelding1 Please don't block me! 🤣

Things China Doesn't Want You To Know

@TruthAbtChina

2 years

When a Chinese welder is told to weld something but some of the parts are the wrong size, does he tell his boss? No. He has been trained since birth with CCP propaganda to be completely subservient, to not think for himself & to never question authority. So he just does his job.

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@RahmSJ @ElamBend Works the other way too. Try explaining the line "and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear" (David Bowie, Space Oddity) to a 12 year old today.

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Proudly part of the problem.

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Heinlein called this "Bad Luck".

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@nypost

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Target fans slam embattled chain for locking up essential items: ‘Behold the dystopian nightmare’

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@vijai_john @TheBabylonBee Fact check: false

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2 years

Our error was making AI like the average human instead of aiming for the best ones.

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For me one of the biggest surprises about current generative AI research is that it yields artificial pseudo-intellectuals: programs that, given sufficient examples to copy, can do a plausible imitation of talking about something they understand.

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@catalystgamelab Are you announcing the "parting of ways" with one of your top authors too?

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@drethelin "The other two referred us to their lawyers for comment."

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Mock an iconic classical painting in front of a world-wide audience. Nobody bats an eye. Sell French tacos at the Olympics. Everyone loses their minds.

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I will watch this remake of the Dukes of Hazzard; but it has to be set in Florida.

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@Kirioth @raptros_ Halfway through it I was wondering "Why don't these guys play orks?!" Disclaimer: I play orks.

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@BostonDelendEst @wewiththey The only reason you don't have Mexicans playing hockey is that we're conditioned that when you tie a blade to someone's foot it's a fight to the death.

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@mirriam71 @Cernovich Recently discussed the 7-people-you'd-have for dinner thing with friends. 5 of 7 on my list I follow on twitter.

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Okay, maybe it's not a bad day after all.

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Tag yourself.

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@_its_not_real_ @mornings0da @ChrisExpTheNews Dammit, I chuckled and had to explain chess cheating to my 12 yo.

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@JoeSilverman7 I was half-expecting him to unbuckle his belt and pull out his dick after he started fiddling with it.

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@BrowningMachine @GlomarResponder God creates Mexico rich with resources. Angel: "Isn't that unfair?" God: "I'll add Mexicans" -Mexican Joke

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Someone left Lucifer's Hammer and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress at the office shared library. Based. I may need to start wearing my Clark hat to work.

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@MorlockP @padrebrendon If you learn Spanish and Latin they include Italian for free.

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@eigenrobot Germany's GDP per capita lower than TN's. Ouch!

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@unconed Two decades ago you could walk out of a hotel, step up to a vendor cart and get a baguette with ham and cheese in under 5 min. Retvrn to actually French fast food.

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@dmalcolmcarson @tracewoodgrains You have an unorthodox definition of quality. Care to explain?

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@carronJphillips Let's see how you fare showing your face in public.

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@FreeStateNH Jeremy claims he did not depart voluntarily. Can you explain what happened here?

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@itsmaggydude I assume "outdoors in Finland". :)

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@erik_kaars I'm a Mexican living in the US for the past 14 years, and I can't say that the Germans are wrong. 😁

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Seems helpful, but personally I want to make computers harder to use for wordcels, not easier.

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@NoLongerBennett

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"Why pemdas?" is a good question, and wordcels should be able to put their calculators in L-R mode if they want. Probably a computer calculator that looks like a cheap 80s Casio should by default behave like one.

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@TellYourSonThis I consider myself quite smart (+3 std dev at least). I don't consider myself smarter than centuries of accumulated wisdom, thus I'm religious.

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@politicalmath She's got a point. Flying after 9/11 has gotten way worse. :P

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@bara

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LOL, they can't even get the slur right, we call them "Bluechecks" (apologies to all the cool bluechecks I follow, you now I say this with love).

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All this Opinion stuff and drama going around has me wondering if Clark was really a Hat.

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And now there's a "this is how I got my boobs video". Her handlers know they screwed up and want you to look that way.

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This Dog Man reboot looks promising.

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@Corntea0503

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도대체 누가 머리를 호환되게 만든거야

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"Trust the science." "Sure, where's the evidence?" "You do not deserve the evidence!"

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@kitten_beloved I assumed you were a cat.

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@ApatheticCrow @stone_toss

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2 years

HAHAHAHAHA

Steve Bainbridge

@PrawfBainbridge

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Harvard's insurer won't pay Harvard's legal fees in the affirmative action litigation because somebody forgot to tell the insurer the school had been sued. Somebody in the general counsel's office needs to walk the plank.

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@St_Rev @MorlockP I think a trained vet using GPT as a tool would be even better than either alone. It worked that way for chess players and engines.

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I encourage anyone involved with @FreeStateNH to watch this video and seriously reconsider their contribution. Just like Jeremy, the day you are disliked by someone in their "corp structure" you will be kicked off (but they'll keep your money).

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Like, uh, from a cannon.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

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BREAKING: Bloomberg reports that Argentina's President Javier Milei is planning to fire 70,000 government workers

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It was a good run, but the web is now thoroughly broken. Coworker asked for some reference to compare Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL. The first results page of all major search engines are useless farmed content with zero insight on the question.

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@orthonormalist Everyone in software has read The Mythical Man Month. Everyone who got promoted to your skip's position in a big corporation did so by making promises that ignore its lessons.

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Chaser:

ConvoOfCosmos

@Real_Lets_Talk

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@mattcasey Never forget this gem

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The way this guy refuses to acknowledge that others may experience different qualia reminds me of people who have no empathy.

Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦

@StuartJRitchie

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My hot take: this isn't real. Nobody can actually "see" stuff that doesn't exist in the way implied here unless they're actively hallucinating. This is just an issue of these things being extremely hard to explain using language, and people using words in subtly different ways.

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Senator, would you please, without googling, tell us the name and price of one @Wendys menu item, to the nearest dollar?

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

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. @Wendys is planning to try out “surge pricing” — that means you could pay more for your lunch, even if the cost to Wendy’s stays exactly the same. It’s price gouging plain and simple, and American families have had enough.

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@ESYudkowsky Any self-respecting scientist would only ask that question to a parent of twins, because of course you need a control group. :P

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Amazing that the guy that invented the basilisk is now kneeling down to suck its dick.

Roko 🌊🧊🏙️

@RokoMijic

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I'm thinking of drafting a "𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲" contract for people to sign. It would specify the following deal amongst all humans in the multiverse: - We will all work together to create a human-positive singularity in which

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I tried to message @HoustonChron , but they don't take DMs so I guess they want it public. Does your paper support this behavior from your employees? [screenshot for when it's deleted]

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@AHelleneAuthor The Beatles are overrated. It's the truth. Deal with it.

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@XUDems You did know it was a Catholic university when you enrolled, right?

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The American Revolution was an illegal rebellion. If you don't break at least one law today, you're doing it wrong.

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@EduardHabsburg Embassy staff in a month or so: "Why do we keep getting these toys and who are is this Primarch Eduard they're addressed to?"

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@EricRichards22 This image summarizes my thoughts on Javascript.

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@brianwhelton @VessOnSecurity It's all @Foone 's fault.

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@Tom_Winter @jonathan4ny Hey Jonathan, why does your story avoid mentioning his political affiliation?

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@SwiftOnSecurity Violates 1.2 and arguably 2.7 of the ACM code of ethics.

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3 years

And now we're moving into the realm of unintended consequences

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@lawyer4laws

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OSHA as of 9/2021 If as a condition of Employment VAX. is mandated *Any adverse reaction/Injury is considered Work Related and will be Recorded as Such . .

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@normalcatpics I'm not sure if this is machine learning being absolutely right, or terribly wrong.

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