yeah, they don't teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn't build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

i gues we're all living in the post-scarcity utopia then, because otherwise such growth would exhaust resources.

i think this one is my favourite so far.

him referring to lysenkoism in this context is extra weird; the scientific racists and lysenko are but another facets of the antiscientific ignorance

these guys should really stop using words they don't understand. (i know, in case of the muppet quoted below it's almost impossible.)

like, one racist motherfucker is already one too many… how is that not obvious to the enlightened ~~reactionaries~~rationalists is beyond me.

i'm not doing databases for living but the idea of stringifying a perfectly cromulent unique number in order to store it in the database comes as slightly weird to me.

nah. there are too many billionaires though.

it doesn't. that's why we're calling it “spicy autocompletion” .

yes. and you wouldn't believe¹ what's in the replies when you make this simple and obvious statement.

¹ who i am kidding. of course you know.

“(…) perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, comprehension, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making (…)”