Template writers and clipart generators are peachy. Saves us time. People who develop those, they have mostly positive intentions. There’s nothing wrong with sustainable research and progress in software of this sort.

You should be focusing on the salespeople, the investors (speculators), the marketers, the corporate buyers. These people have mostly bad intentions.

God bless NoScript.

A lot of language is subjective, and jokes are notoriously subjective. They translate horribly across cultures and languages.

If you have a different definition in mind, I’m all ears.

It’s interesting how people try to redefine the word joke. If there’s nothing funny about it, it’s not a joke. So maybe they mean that they were trolling just for fun, which is not the same thing.

The second point is that if they say something horrible and then you call them an asshole and then they complain that you’ve gotten too sensitive, which is a very common chain of events, it actually shows that they’ve gotten too sensitive. If you’re not supposed to care about what they said, why should they care about what you said? … But of course actually they don’t care about what you said, and they’re just grandstanding. But even if we accept their internal logic just for the sake of argument, it still makes them giant assholes.

That’s why you gotta go yourself.

There can be only one.

Telling me stories isn’t going to impress me with the party that’s done very little in the last 20 years to make life better for the average American, even when they had Congress and the White House.

I want to know what’s going to be different this time. I want to know that the Democrats are actually going to pass legislation to make things better in the medium run and in the long run. And we’ve seen some good ideas. The idea to reform the Supreme Court, that’s a good one. I want to see more ideas like that, and I want to see centrist Democrats being pressured into publicly endorsing them.

I want Democrats to refuse to take money from crypto billionaires. I want Democrats to tell all of us how they’re going to stand up against monopolies. I want Democrats to risk angering the large corporations that dominate US politics, because I know that’s the only way that life will get better for the average American.

Of course you can’t always get what you want. So if the Democrats want to tell stories better, I guess that’s better than nothing, but don’t expect me to respect them.

Oh, we know who’s listening. The NSA is definitely listening. Depending on your device, it’s quite possible that Apple or Microsoft or Google is also listening.

Of course there are steps that one can take to mitigate these risks. The first would be to not post about one’s illegal plans to social media.

People love to say “nobody thought” or “nobody acted” when in reality they did, but the speaker ignored it and doesn’t want to feel responsible now.

Circuits are connected to the circuit breaker, so it would power whatever is on the breaker. (Or more precisely, whatever is on that leg of the hot.)

If you have a cabin or an RV that’s wired for electricity, but you don’t have any power coming in on the mains, or you don’t have mains, you can backfeed the system by plugging your generator into one of the outlets.

The proper thing to do is to use a special outlet that’s made for a generator, and perhaps an isolator switch as well, but if you don’t have those then you might think to yourself, why don’t I just make a male to male plug? It definitely works, but it’s also dangerous if you or anyone unplugs it while the system is hot.

Try a Gilette razor with a battery in it that vibrates. Keep the electric razors far away. They’re too risky.

No no no. You can just post and hope that it complies with the rules that you didn’t read, and then if someone takes it down, you have the choice to either complain or cope.

That is definitely not true these days. Too much internet out there.

Twenty plus years we could have shared pop culture. If it was on the radio or popular cable TV, maybe many people saw it. But now there’s too much information, period. Everyone specializes. If you expect people to know their memes, you’re pressuring them to consume the same media they do. Not cool.

So, float the meme, why not. But expect it to flop. Be happily surprised when it doesn’t.

As you pointed out, this is partly a matter of interpretation. So opinions could reasonably vary, and I respect that.

I believe it’s clear enough that in this case, saying that the situation is just a riot, is a way of taking focus away from the other things that were happening. Perhaps it wasn’t a riot and then turned into one, and maybe we should be focusing on what happened first. Or perhaps there was a riot happening along with something else, and that second thing is worth mentioning.

No. It’s not “just rioting”. Try that again without the value judgment.

We see this type of hidden judgement on a regular basis. The key words are “just” and “only”. It’s an annoyingly effective rhetorical device, because the statement looks like an objective description of things when it’s not.

What mistake did you make? That’s definitely relevant, since the definition of “mistake” is playing a major role.

That all depends on the industry in question. I’m not sure about Shell.

But the key point is that regulating individual action, or focusing on individual action, is only a small part of the problem. We need to focus on the big polluters first and foremost. And we know who they are, even if we don’t know exactly how to parse the data.

You fell into the trap that this post is exposing. Of course personal action matters, everyone knows it and there’s no chance we’ll forget it, but the heavy polluting companies want to focus our attention on that alone, to keep it off of themselves. Please don’t assist them in doing so.