Didn’t realise Andrew Hunter Murray was allowed to make brochures

I look forward to his work with hentai

It’s most amusing that most authors ended up retracting their support of the lawsuit

I agree that aggregate data is the best way to improve things for the most number of people, you can’t help every single person, but also knowing the edge cases helps you find out things you don’t know.

It’s what decisions are made with that data that’s the concern. A lot of “privacy advocates” believe that society can exist with the government not knowing anything about their population. I can’t think how:

• a transport service can operate without knowing where people go and when
• consumer advocacy can work without knowing what people will buy
• what needs to be addressed in society without knowing what the issues are
• what to educate people on unless you find out what they don’t know
• a health service can adapt to the needs of aging populations without good fertility data

You’re right, all this data can be used against someone for malicious reasons and like in the China example it’s easier to locate dissonance by listening. But evil can be done without data collection, it’s impossible to do good without it.

New York Times gonna blame this when he falls from a building in January

Having relatives in Perth, I know their recent black Friday purchases from Sydney may not arrive in time for Christmas

People have watched worse

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13940818/

Lewis Carroll was a garbage human who mainly wrote to help self re-affirm his fundamental Christian beliefs and to justify to his wife why he didn’t want to have sex with her. He also thought calculus was wrong because he didn’t understand it and therefore it shouldn’t be taught to anyone.

A cursory search for “How does Trump owe this man (who got a Wikipedia page today) money\favours” shows that the law firm he is a partner of international trade at represented Trump at one of his 2020 election fraud cases.

King & Spalding - Wikipedia

The fall of the Berlin wall can be largely attributed to a boarder guard getting pissed at all his higher ups being at a party celebrating 40 years of the USSR and refusing to return phone calls (amongst hundreds of other improbabilities occurring on the same evening)

Oh they are going to love microplastics

You too could find out the dev left out a space in an rm command in an install shell script

We don’t know what Belle and Beast did after retreating for the evening after their dance, but we do know Belle didn’t say “I love you” during it.

To he fair the Federation was born from NASA and SG-1 came from a military program

Start the reactor Quad?

My reaction to Sounding was “this is just like a different flavour of pegging, this makes sense to exist”

Pascal: “I am having the best Christmas right now.”

Did everybody get this as a maths problem nearly every year in primary school, and again in high school when triangle numbers were brought up?

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Perfect representation would actually by sortition (selection of public office by jury duty type random selection), but that scares people because “I don’t want just anybody to be in power” but that doesn’t stop people who should from getting it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition