Where did you get this weird take on neck beards? Stallman is the archetypal neck beard. I guarantee you he has no subscriptions to anything.

I like this take. A lot. But I can’t just pass by here and not point out that

1. The big bang was not an explosion and didn’t take place in a vacuum (because there was no space yet).
2. There is no “edge” of the big bang for light to come from.

The problems you’re talking about are not problems of hosting email. Hosting email is trivially simple.

The anticompetitive practices of big tech have to be dealt with a different way. Requiring all schools to host their own email would go a very long way to ending one of those practices. You would see the opaque, unresponsive spam filterers disappear overnight.

I’m aware of all of that, but wasn’t looking to write a novel about it.

I am of the opinion that feeding students’ information to AI and to advertising algorithms is not a legitimate educational purpose. Particularly when hosting your own email that doesn’t do that is so trivially simple.

ETA: btw, my nickname is potateo. You could say that’s an arcane spelling of potato!

In the US we have a law that says we must keep student records confidential. Yet at my school our email for both faculty and students is provided by TinyFlaccid. I know for a fact that they are scanning and indexing all of that email because that’s the only way they could make reply suggestions. They also have copilot enabled and there is no way to turn it off.

It’s a long walk, but totally worth it

False!

-Dwight Schrute

Being the world’s original source of silk is not something to be ashamed of.

or, hear me out, off and then…

The number of dimensions in space is three, and that has nothing at all to do with language. When you eliminate one of the dimensions (“up” in your example), you are left with two, and you’re describing dimensions in a plane.

The reason all languages use four words for the two dimensions is because there are two directions per dimension.

ETA: why there are three (plus one for time), and how do we know that, are very interesting questions (to me).

Lately that’s true but it wasn’t always. Early on in the subreddit there was a lot more diversity. Dad joke just meant a kind of play on words (or ideas), not necessarily a pun. I miss that.

It’s almost like that’s the definition. If you don’t want it, it isn’t success to you.

There are lots of ways to watch youtube videos without feeding them any revenue or data. So I’m all for it. Let them pay for the storage and bandwidth, and we’ll use it for free!

Of course, there’s no way to post the video without giving them data… so that sucks.

There are other ways to talk about this. We don’t have to torture these words into pretending to be something they are not.

High court precedents are not the the same thing as a constitution because they are not above all branches of government. They are of one branch.

Israel doesn’t have a constitution.

The only way we can make moral decisions is by doing our best to anticipate the results.

The business of being human and the business of speculating about the future are one and the same.

What is the point of this hostility? Do you not get the point of this community?

Read the room

Anyone who has done any fight training at all, even for simulations, could “wipe the floor” with me.

But Keanu could wipe anything he wants with me, if you catch my drift.

It wasn’t in North America.