I have two states of mind while looking at Haskell: - hot damn that's clever! - you think you're so cute you fucking know-it-all

Truly we are only saved by Christ reaching down and pulling us up out of our own shit. Cannot be done by your own will. How fortunate I am, that the only Good person to ever live isn't disgusted by me.

Elon is building the Oversoul and I'm not sure how I feel about that

The gulf between what people like this believe Rittenhouse did, and what can be seen clearly on camera, fascinates me. Do they just not check? You can go over the footage frame by frame just like they did in court. The only reasonable conclusion is Kyle carried out textbook-perfect self defense. Impressive considering his youth, inexperience, and the extreme stress of the moment. Each time, a delay of another fraction of a second would have clearly meant Kyle being killed on the spot by rampaging criminals. We don't have the video of Karmelo slamming a knife into Austin's heart, but the court did, and the verdict was murder. It's hard for me to imagine the life or death scenario Karmelo could possibly have been in at a fucking tack meet.

This man is looking at every little mundane facet of American culture as if he was touring a magical land of powerful Elves, who are so fluent with their own mystical power that they've forgotten how to see it with wonder. God bless you, sir

The thing I love most about AI becoming so integrated with software/IT work is that it shortcuts me through SO MUCH yak shaving that used to take hours or days.

chef's kiss

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

The movie said "Oh you wanted to see luke, here he is, you like that you fucking piece of shit?" As we visibly gasp at Jake Skywalker

Here's a hint: It's called "Starship Troopers". Not "The Big War with the Bugs". There's a reason for that. Heinlein was one of the 20th century's greatest authors, if not THE greatest, and he was also the 20th century's greatest philosopher and it's not even close. So he didn't name things by accident. Starship Troopers isn't about the war. It isn't even about war. And it's certainly not about the fucking bugs. All that shit is just stage dressing for the story is really about. That's why the book doesn't end with defeating the enemy. It ends with Rico meeting his father again, facing future fights together. Starship Troopers is about the military life, the relationship between armies and the civilizations they serve, and what it means to be a soldier and a man. Eurotrash communists failed to get the point, not merely because they have the "media literacy" of a sack of wet hammers, but also because they don't understand soldiering, civilization, or manhood. So, yes, Verhoeven tried to make fun of Heinlein and failed miserably because Heinlein was a better storyteller, a better man, and a better human being by a margin so great that the Earth can barely encompass it. But even though his failed satire makes humanity clearly the good guys, the war clearly righteous, and soldiers clearly cool and heroic, it still doesn't recapture the actual meaning of Starship Troopers. Because the real themes were so invisible, so incomprehensible, to Verhoeven that he couldn't even see them to disagree with. So enjoy the film for what it turned out to be... a fun, campy, morally unambiguous story of heroes squashing disgusting bugs. Suitable for popcorn consumption. Then, read more Heinlein.

Seriously considering insta-blocking anyone who says "USAians"

the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution

inquiring minds want to know

"The Man Who Watched The World End" by @ChrisDietzel might be the single most bleak book I've ever read, and it's stuck with me for years. So much in it to think about.

There have been times when I know exactly how this feels.

And now the Twitters are full of Certified Space Experts who are gleefully judging the Starship launch as if it were the finished product. Right on schedule. Y'all need better hobbies than, "Jealousy so naked it could be an emperor."

people used to think the giant panda was a myth, but its existence was finally confirmed in 1929 when the Roosevelt brothers became the first westerners to collect 5,000 blurry thermal images of bear-like creatures from 2 miles away

me blowing my nationalist dog whistle because I love my country ♥️

Same thing used to happen with Falcon 9 reusability. And even then it was a profitable work horse in spite of the missed landings, which were experimental until one finally worked. People see an explosion and can only think "hahaha what a failure" Do they think the correct design for a light bulb just popped out of Edison's brain fully formed one morning?