George is whimsical?

That was basically the premise of Seinfeld.

I have a big head, so every pair of headphones I’ve used will eventually break there. At least these can be repaired.

The trouble with publishing best practices is it’s a blueprint for how to break in, like publishing a map to your house with all the locks and cameras labelled. If you establish that 2 factor authentication is required, with SHA256 encryption and passwords at least 16 characters, numbers, upper and lower case, and special characters, changed every six months, then the hackers know what they need. They need to spoof someone’s cell phone, they know how long it takes to decrypt sha256, and they know if your password was FuckingBullsh1tsecurity!3 two years ago, it’s probably FuckingBullsh1tsecurity!7 today.

Because people want to share documents across various computers. A secure cloud is better than people emailing classified pdfs to authorized distribution lists, or carrying around the document you’re working on in a thumb drive.

That said, I wouldn’t trust Microsoft, either.

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I would just think you’re trying to be funny. If you keep a deadpan face, you might succeed.

Telescopes would be fun. Everyone doesn’t need their own, if you can sign it out on a clear night and return it in good shape.

I oppose it simply because it doesn’t work. It is not a deterrent, and it does not serve justice to put people to death, and it costs far more to execute someone than it does to rehabilitate them (the most expensive alternative - I’m not suggesting rehabilitation is an option for everyone).

And sometimes we execute innocent people. Like, how many of your family members would you be willing to put to death to keep the death penalty? Every innocent victim of the death penalty had a family, and that family never imagined it could happen to them.

I would argue that it would impact the effectiveness of the effort, but the intention is just as important.

Like if you want to make the world a better place, you can pick up litter in your local area. You could volunteer at the library or conserve energy in whatever way is easiest for you. The desire to move forward is critical, because nobody has all the information. Nobody can know all the angles, and be aware of every impact. Everyone is just doing the best they can with the information they have.

Wanting to be better informed is also a progressive ideal. Know better, do better. We might discover that something we thought was beneficial is actually harmful. The difference between a conservative choice and a progressive choice is that when new information demonstrates that behaviors conflicts with values, the progressive changes their behaviors while a conservative changes their values.

I don’t think it’s helpful to think in terms of left and right. That presumes that each side is roughly a mirror analogue of the other.

Think in terms of forward and backward. Will your ideas and political leanings push society forward? Will you be making the world better than you found it? Or are you trying to resist change, fighting against progress because the status quo, or the recent past, benefits you in some way?

Bull, and I cannot emphasize this enough, shit. Everyone is not a little bit bigoted. That’s something bigots tell themselves when rationalizing their own prejudices. You should probably take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if you’re the problem.

“Progressive” describes a position, not a person. A person can be many things. A person can hold contradictory viewpoints, and fully believe two incompatible thoughts at the same time. It’s tragically naive to assume that people are rational or consistent.

Can a person think they are progressive and also be a bigot? Of course a person can. Everybody is the hero in their own story.

There are thick, uncrossable lines, and there are a lot of people who don’t mind crossing them. You cannot compromise with a bigot. You cannot find common ground with a person who would subjugate you, or someone who sees you as less than human.

We can have disagreements about many political issues, but when you are standing next to pedophiles, rapists, fascists, and bigots, you shouldn’t be surprised to be called a Nazi.

So the question becomes, what is the test of “purity”?

Oh yeah, that’s a point I hadn’t considered.

Is fiverr still a thing? I had luck there years ago, but I don’t know if it is still around and legitimate.

Sure, it’s fiction, and Superman’s powers and limitations are whatever the plot demands.

But if he could move that fast, and he was in a real major city with real people and real problems, then he would be saving people nonstop. Because he could. If he’s faster than light, he could go save everyone without anyone noticing he left the room (setting aside physics, of course). But he’d never be able to stop, and he would never run out of people to save.

And none of it would be supervillains and giant robots or space lasers.

But then, applying any sort of real world rationality to Superman never ends well.

He has super hearing and super speed, and can hear everything across the city. In NYC, an approximate analog of Metropolis, there are over 37,000 car accidents with major injuries or fatalities every year. That’s 100 car accidents each day, every day, just car accidents. If he were to actually try to save everyone he could, he would never have any time for anything else, not even sleep. It’s one thing to go take a sudden bathroom break when Lois is dangling from the ledge on the roof of a building. It’s something else to leave the room every 15 minutes of every hour because people can’t stop texting while driving.

What the chicken fried fuck are you talking about?

Fridging is a form of reductionist misogyny. It’s not just that somebody died, it’s that a woman existed only to die in a brutal fashion.

Yeah but that’s because many human cells are really big.