I had this book when I was a kid.

Yes I’m old.

So when is the rest of the world putting sanctions on El Salvador?

Lie on the beach in winter: the sun is pathetically un-warm.

Adjusting the angle at which you recline won’t make the sun any warmer.

So your intuition is off here.

Imagine someone puts an opaque shell around the earth at cruising altitude, and cuts a metre-square window in it.

Put that window directly over the equator, wait for noon. You will have a metre-square patch of sunlight on the ground.

As the sun heads towards the horizon, the patch of sunlight stretches into a long east-west tail, just like a long shadow.

The same amount of energy is coming through the window, but it’s spread over a much larger area on the surface, so there’s fewer watts-per-square-cm hitting the ground.

Now move that window north 30 degrees. Wait until noon, and the patch is already smeared into a long tail north-south, and that’s before applying any east-west smear. As the sun heads for the horizon, it’s going to be even more spread out into a great big enormous oblong, extended in both directions.

Now, entirely replace that shell with windows, and through the raytracing gets more involved, the same principles are at work.

That’s why mornings and evenings are cold, that’s why winter is cold, that’s why it gets colder towards the poles. You’re getting a smaller and smaller share of the sunlight hitting the area where the earth is.

You’re always going to a chunk of political support by oppressing minorities, anyone considered ‘other’. A percentage of people are always going to hate, mistrust and blame the out-group for everything wrong with their lives, and this makes them very easy to lead round by the nose.

Stoke enough hatred, and people will gladly give up due process, human rights and social equity in the name of oppressing those they see as the enemy.

And once you can do that, large corporations can exploit the absolute shit out of the population, way harder than they could with all those pesky laws, regulations, oversight, etc. They can use slave labour from the concentration camps, steal the land and wealth from the people they kill or imprison, and they can rewrite laws to suit themselves, secure in the knowledge that anyone opposing them can simply be disappeared off the streets.

I use dashes all the fucking time, mainly becasue I feel selfconscious about the number of semicolons I’d otherwise use.

I have a bajillion old (pre APIgate) posts on reddit, so perhaps some of the blame for the AI penchant for the things rests on my shoulders. Sorry 'bout that.

edit: :reads harder: oops, as opposed to normal hyphens. Yeah, nobody human got time for that.

I worked for a company once that installed a remote-activation killswitch in their drivers, as a secret weapon to force the customer to stay current on their maintenance contract.

The CEO was a fuckup however, and the code killed their system even without being activated - resulting in a bunch of angry phonecalls and some of the most egregious lying I’ve ever heard.

god, he was a piece of shit

Until he dies, you say?

Interesting.

I am actually ok with this

Sorry, but he’s driving up to a mcdonalds, not a festering heap of shit. Fix your meme.

STOP GETTING OUT OF THE WAY

Stay at your post for fuck’s sake. Make them fight you. Drag it out, make it slow and expensive, make them look bad.

Don’t just offer them your chair and the keys to the kingdom and tell them here let your stooge take over, have fun

“DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE! RESIST!”

:pre-emptively resigns:

And then fundraise on that

Well, yeah. Same organs, longer tubing, slightly different cell types lining the insides.

Also the scrotum is just fused-together labia majora (you can even see the seam), and the penis is just an enlarged clitoris that wraps round the urethra.

Maleness is just a minor tweak added in post-production.

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Yep, they’re just modified ovaries; they’re plumbed into the abdomen and all the wiring comes from there.

Mix that with a nice dessert wine, and you get garum marsala

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

Butlerian Jihad when?

In wolfenstein? No.

YA THINK?