Sadly it is more common these days. Upstanding of you, of course, to support her so in the end.

My own girl, I simply cantilever side, despite having just met her. It’s ionic, but by all appearances she’d crumble without me.

Simply dreadful the degree of false columnry one finds in even a modest house of late.

You’re not alone in that my good chap. In my time I’ve had a series of rows with false columns. The things tend to loom quite suddenly when one least expects them.

Well, that certainly satisfies the curiosity I’ve long held regarding the issue of the false columns. Carry on then.

Better rule: when someone sabotaged surveillance state infrastructure, don’t post footage of them doing it

Nothing. Nothing makes me think that. Why would you think that I think that?

I want to see it move

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When a person asks the question in the thread, it allows other readers to know the answer without their own searches.

I’m cracking up

Is “he” her father here?

At the time I didn’t even think anything of it. It just clattered against the wall next to my head and I was a teenager and I just went back to work. In my 40s now and that guy and I would have serious words. Can’t believe how trivially I treated my own safety back then

So it wasn’t accurate when you said he “couldn’t” figure it out.

Sounds like it was a last resort if he “couldn’t figure out” whose machine it was.

I had a dishwasher throw a chef’s knife at my head once

This is why I promote the distribution and carrying of pocket horns. We need to have more honking and flipping the bird during pedestrian interactions.

our most evil things happen when we create systems that allow us to remove the humanity from one another

This alienation is, incidentally, why conscientiousness is more reliable than empathy as a mechanism for ensuring people are good to one another.

Empathy doesn’t scale. It’s possible to have empathy for people that one knows closely, or sees often. But empathy for incidental strangers is harder, and empathy for those one only “sees” abstractly is even harder than that. Empathy isn’t built for extension to millions or billions of people.

Conscientiousness – for example treating people fairly because it’s the right thing to do, as opposed to treating them warmly because it feels good to do so – is actually scalable. You can make a commitment to treating everyone fairly, and then you don’t need to rely on feeling good about a person in order to do right by them.

In Denver, a person with a house gets subsidized rates for electricity. By parking their EV in their garage and charging overnight, they can pay 4.2¢ per kWh.

Meanwhile, a person like me who lives in an apartment and must charge his car during the day at public chargers like EVGo or Electrify America, pays 59¢ per kWh.

This means that assuming a typical 70 kWh charge (from almost empty to almost full) costs:

• For the house-owner: $2.94
• For the apartment dweller: $41.30

That’s almost a 15x difference! (Yay for EV economics).

We don’t have an economy. We have two economies. We have a severely bimodal economy.

Laser pointers drive cats insane

We have a certain minimum level of dignity all interactions must abide by.

Nah man. Nah. I do believe you’d get your ass kicked saying something like that, man.