Trailblazing Braille Taser

I’m not convinced the author of this meme knows what “fungible” means

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I do see where you’re coming from!

At some point, I radically rejected the concept of blame for extreme cases — all the way from drunk driving to murder. I think it’s necessary to prevent these people who are acting irrationally from hurting others, but it just feels like a waste of my emotional energy to assign blame to someone who’s behaving in a way I can’t comprehend.

For context, someone in my family was killed when I was a kid. I still feel anger at the perpetrator, but I can’t even pretend to understand what would go through their head to make them act the way they did. My conclusion was just that they’re basically an alien to me — a broken person who can’t be trusted and has to be locked up. But did they commit a sin?

After writing this, I realize it’s the same sentiment as “Larry Ellison is a lawnmower.”

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think “oh, the lawnmower hates me” – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/

While technically true, it feels kinda blamey and thought-terminating. I prefer to view addiction as a medical condition because it puts the focus on treatment and prevention rather than who did wrong.

Did you ever accidentally set your pants on fire or melt a hole through polyester? This is a real question, by the way, I have no idea whether cigarette butts are still burninating when you’re done with them.

Hey man, don’t bring IEEE 754 into this unless you want to discuss how negative zero, infinity, NaN, and subnormals relate to the qualia of color perception.

Heavy cream / whipping cream works great

There’s no emoticon for what I’m feeling!

-Comic Book Guy

https://youtu.be/gsQAQlDeXYM

The higher abstraction level is the price you pay for idempotency!

If you simply change your scale, you’ll find that they are the logarithmic middle class

Also, if they’re so smart, then why are they dead?

Yeah, there really should be some expectation of stewardship in exchange for absurd post-Disney copyright durations.

In fairness, kids these days will have all sorts of formative memories unfathomable to previous generations

Shakespeare wasn’t one person, he was actually a collection of Bibles writing under a pseudonym