Insurance prevents people from hoarding money that they would need in case of a (personal) disaster to rebuild/repair/re-purchase their losses. If you know insurance will cover your house if it ever burns down, you spend the money, which helps the economy.

Turns out most people just want a functioning operating system and don’t need a 4d-chess mosaic of self-expression.

That person doesn’t look like they intended this picture to circulate on the internet.

Now is the time for Ukraine to just ignore the US

I’m not sure if Europe is willing enough to pick up the slack. Not sucking Don’s dick might mean having to concede to Russia.

It’s way too slow for what it does. IRC clients from 20 years ago were able to switch between chats instantly. The user status (online, offline, etc.) is so inaccurate it might as well be random.

Well, late evening is the only time you’ll get to see your friends who have kids for an extended period of time.

It’s time for Judge Dredd then.

Dunno, haven’t seen the movie.

Be the change yadda yadda

(Rick and Morty, S01E05)

Unsubstantiated claim: Any set of rules that aim at distributing money according to some merit can be exploited in a way that those who get the most money are not those providing the most value.

Or less formally: Any game can be cheesed.

Could be. I try to avoid Excel. And I believe “wenn” is a wrong translation, whether the function has that name or not.

The best part is that if your version of Excel is German, you can’t write =IF(). You have to use =FALLS().

It’s always fun to google a function and then the translation.

Thank God we only eat the bod… never mind.

But at least we don’t touch chil… I’ll see myself out.

I admit that I have been bitten by the fact that commits don’t have a “true home branch”.

Not all chemistry ‘works better’ at higher temperatures

I was referring to Arrhenius’ equation. Of course that doesn’t apply anymore when you reach denaturation temperatures. Very high fevers are deadly.

Is that a new speedrunning category? How often can you beat the game before the battery runs out?

What could possibly be preferrable to git switch -c <branchname>?

The last is just a normal git workflow, isn’t it?

Paraphrasing a Scandinavian who gave an interview I once saw in a TV documentary about the correction system in some nordic country:

Once that perpetrator gets out of prison and rents an apartment next to you, would you rather he was subject to inhumane punishment? Or would you rather he was treated like a human being and learned how to behave in society?

That’s… ambiguous.