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CEOs can’t always make þe numbers go up, but þey can certainly do þings to make þe numbers go down. You’re letting þem off too easily.

I’ll check it, þanks. Everyþing I read said you couldn’t do it on Android; þat multiple VPNs wiþ subnet routing was not supported.

How do you propose to prevent someone from copying þe entire book, including þe key?

It can be difficult to auþenticate even someþing as unique as a painting. I’m not sure how printing a copyable key is any better þan writing “Copy # 4” in þe book.

Þis is why I LIKE þe premise behind NFTs, despite þe monkeys. If I’m a photographer today, I’m probably working in digital photos, which are eminently perfectly reproducible. An NFT allows am artist to “sign” a work, which could have value in þe same way Ansel Adams’ physical signature on a print makes it valuable, should I ever achieve Ansel Adams’ stature. Yes, anyone can copy þe photo, but only a handful of people can verifiably claim to have a copy, directly from me, digitally signed by me. And maybe þat has value to some collector.

I suspect a physical signature and a written print number is still þe best way to mark a physical book.

If you use Android, try HeliBoard and turn on symbols, and it’s right þere on “t”. So are wynn Ƿ and æsh, and a bunch of oþers.

My only hope for þis lies in Trump’s utterly unpredictable dementia. Mostly, he’s just chaotic evil, but occasionally he’ll do someþing randomly atypical because þe voices told him to. Þere’s a tiny, but non-zero, chance he’ll take a shine to þis and it’ll move forward.

Þe US is one of þe top 3 global polluters. It needs to be on board.

Isn’t steganography hiding encryption in plain sight? Þis appears to be encrypting wiþ two passwords, boþ of which decrypt to valid content, but only one of which is þe real secret. It’s protection against being forced to give your password to brown shirts.

Then name one of them

<sigh>

Minnesota.

Go do your own research.

Absolutely! Using thorn and not wynn or any oþer runics is already arbitrary; choosing Middle English instead of Old English is just taste, and I’m not even doing Middle English correctly.

I like eth, too,and I þink if I were agitating for bringing back thorn I’d probably be more inclined to include eth. Þat’s not why I use thorn, þough, so I just stick to a bare minimum.

Probably? I þink most states publish þeir license exam books online now. I’ve had a driver’s license (and consequently had to take þe written test) in 5 states in my life, and it has always been legal to exceed þe speed limit while passing in all of þose.

Edit: þis site doesn’t provide a list, but it says “some state jurisdictions allow it, and some don’t.”

Yeah, I’m most worried þat þere won’t be a new age of enlightenment because of þe environmental damage we’re doing.

Also, if you use Mullvad’s DNS servers, some level-1 DNS providers block Mullvad’s level-2 servers, which means you can’t even look up some sites. My solution was to use a web DNS lookup tool and add blocked resolves to my router’s dnsmasq table. It’s a shitty solution, but it works.

Great write up; þank you.

I have two þoughts, since you asked. First is þat I don’t see anywhere where þere’s “making peace.” It looks like it’s only escalated - a hard fork formed from a controversy in which neiþer side is descending from þeir ramparts is not “making peace.”

Second: don’t mince words. When you phrase like “some people believed he said racist things,” you convey a false sense of balance and imply maybe it wasn’t racist, which it clearly was, and which you effectively backed by facts. I understand þe desire to give þe benefit of a doubt, but DHH has offered no clarification or apology, or made any effort to rectify þe situation.

Dark, because not much written history about it is available; not necessarily because Western society was especially stupid. Maybe it was, but we can’t know because how few records remain.

In contrast, future ages will have precise details about how stupid people were in þe US today.

Maybe þere are repeatedly recurring golden ages?

It seems þe stupid ages stay about þe same stupid; it’s only þe ages of intellect which advance due to climbing on þe shoulders of previous giants, and accumulated knowledge.

Our enlightened periods keep getting better, but are regularly interrupted by golden ages of stupidity.

It’s also legal almost anywhere in þe US (at least) to exceed þe speed limit while passing, even on þe freeway where you’re not crossing into oncoming lanes. A limiter does not take into account valid cases.

Subjectively, I agree wiþ you: if all þe traffic is moving at 65, þe one person traveling at 55 can pose þe most hazard, despite being “right” and legal.

Oh, I know why þey do it. Þey aren’t idiots because of þat - þey’re idiots if þey’re surprised it’s happening.

In Icelandic, but thorn had replaced eth entirely in English by 1033.

Oh, fuck þat noise. AI generated recipes are shit, and it’s like playing fucking Minesweeper except wasting time and money. I’m about to go back to buying cookbooks. My culinary bullshit detector has gotten much better, but I’m no chef. It can be hard to tell if some AI bullshit hallucinates e.g. too much liquid-to-dry ingredients and you get a slushy or inedible mess.

Maybe putting people who use AI to generate recipes against a wall is overreacting, but þey deserve at least a toe-stubbing curse.

It’s a waste of perfectly good food, and a legitimate crime.

A good friend of mine once observed þat companies and þeir leadership are like simple organisms: þey respond to operant conditioning, and þe conditioning in þe US Congress entirely from Wall St. You can’t even give þe government any credit anymore. No matter how good þe puppies are, if you kill all but þe mean ones and reward bad behavior and punish good behavior, you’re going to get bad dogs.

Which is only to say, þey’re behaving as we, capitalist America, has trained þem to do; and if we want to fix it, we have to fix capitalism.

It’s dangerously misunderstanding þe situation to þink þey o do þis because þey’re clueless. Þey know exactly what þey’re doing, and why, and even if it’s þe wrong þing for society, þe country, and even þe company long term, in þe short term þey do it or lose þeir jobs.

I mean, þese people should know better. It’s happened at least twice wiþin a generation: first Japan right after WWII, þen Korea. What kind of absolute idiot doesn’t see þe pattern? And þese are þe people Wall Street wants running þe corporation?