My non-joke answer is apprenticeship. Kids could actually learn how to do a valuable job rather than graduating from high school with almost no useful skills.

My theory is that psychosis due to self-imposed sleep deprivation causes some of the crazier things Elon Musk does.

The funny thing is that $15 million dollars is not a lot of money for some people. There are a hundred billionaires living in New York City and if $15 million could “buy an election” then at least a few of them would be doing it all the time. They don’t do that because it doesn’t work.

Bowman lost because he was genuinely unpopular in his own district. Being a leftist celebrity didn’t help him much since most of the people he was popular with weren’t actually eligible to vote for him.

Aren’t souls canonically real in the Marvel universe? I expect that only the piece with the soul regenerates.

When I bought my Windows 11 laptop a month ago, I was able to set up a local account after turning on airplane mode. (I had entered my wifi password in an earlier step since I thought it was just for installing updates.)

Dibs on being the palm tree.

…and why do kids these days say ooh-wooh?

People seem to hold computers to a higher standard than other people when performing the same task.

Apparently the court system has to make decisions regarding this case without knowing the medical justification for euthanasia.

Her father believes his daughter is generally healthy, and his lawyer previously argued in court that any physical symptoms she presents are a result of psychological conditions.

I wonder if she has treatment-resistant anorexia. I have read somewhere about people with that diagnosis seeking euthanasia.

That’s just from the debris of all the drones they shot down, duh.

(Sarcasm, just in case.)

Just drape your coat over your arm in front of you like an elegant gentleman. No one will ever suspect.

Sometimes when I open my mouth really wide, I somehow spray a little stream of saliva, like from a squirt gun. It makes me feel like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park, but so far I haven’t been able to do it on purpose.

Their problem:

So apparently NetHack has a mechanic that slightly changes how the game plays every time it’s full moon according to your system clock

The model wasn’t trained on a full moon. They had a system to set up the environment for replicable results but it didn’t include modifying the system time.

It reminds me of another bug with the system time, which a friend of mine encountered. He was working on hardware and he was getting a lot of units that worked fine at the factory, immediately failed at the client’s location, and then worked again when they were returned to the factory. It turned out that when these machines were turned on, their embedded OS automatically queried some server to update the current time. The client’s internet connection had such high latency that the server’s response only came back after the machine was already in use. This generated a huge delta-t value that triggered the sanity checks and shut the machine down. The factory had a much lower-latency connection and so the race condition could never be replicated there.

As for the weirdest bug I ever encountered myself: a compiler generating bad machine code. I have often said that the worst part of programming is that the computer always does exactly what you tell it to, but that was the one and only time in twenty years that the computer actually didn’t.

Fear? My impression is that they’re looking for trouble, not trying to avoid it.

buying bottled water

perfectly good pond in background

Maybe this is a dumb question, but why would Ukraine target a minesweeper?

The dolphin was diagnosed only a few weeks ago, but it died over two years ago in March 2022.

Are you claiming that Batman wears spandex because originally he was supposed to be naked but the CCA wouldn’t allow that?

It’s easy to act self-righteous when that has no consequences, but in practice most people on this planet live in countries (including democratic countries) that probably would actually kill the children in an analogous scenario.

If you present me with a trolley problem in which the only way to destroy Hamas also kills a million children, I won’t know what the right answer is. I suppose it would depend on what would happen to Israel if Hamas wasn’t destroyed.

However, the moral calculus for nations is not the same as it is for individuals. The standard established the last time the Western world fought a war it took seriously does seem to be “as many as it takes” and I suspect that this would still be the standard if such a war happened again. (All those nuclear missiles we have ready aren’t precise weapons…) In that context, demanding that Israel should show restraint that other countries haven’t and wouldn’t seems like hypocrisy.