Yeah, it helps to have a functioning bureaucracy, the primary tool of civilization that allows strangers to trust other strangers such as when, picking an example at random, buying iceberg lettuce and trusting it wasn’t shat in by the overworked slaves that harvested it.

Not to be seconded by the Founding Mothers’ BL Library.

date -Is my beloved.

Don’t click on random videos

Yeah, a single Chrono Trigger cover will contaminate your recommendations for days.

Instant block to any channel that pulls that stunt.

What about a UNIX epoch HTML color clock?

YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS±zzzz

In the context of STEM students who focus on inputs, outputs, and engines at the expense of considering societal impacts (or simply telling themselves it’s the job of poor humanities students to get elected and pass laws to constrain the most egregious negative externalities of technology) it’s asking who an efficiency is for. Efficiency cannot exist in a moral vacuum. As Kim Stanley Robinson summarized in The Ministry for the Future (2020):

… there is good efficiency and bad efficiency, good inefficiency and bad inefficiency. … preventative health care saves enormous amounts in medical costs later, and is a good efficiency. Eating your extra children (this is Swift’s character’s “modest proposal”) would be a bad efficiency. Any harm to people for profit is likewise bad, no matter how efficient. Using an over-sized vehicle to get from point A to point B is a bad inefficiency, and there are many more like it; but oxbows in a river, defining a large flood plain, is a good inefficiency

One is an inhuman monster who has casually killed legions of human warriors on a whim. The other makes cute noises when Ainz bops her on the head for voicing such thoughts.

Not from a Jedi.

Too amusing to be real. Also, really inconvenient for my mental health to imagine beef growth platforms being conscious.

“My great grandpa got killed by Nazis in a pretty gnarly way so now I get a free pass to kill and torture people who trespass onto land my grandpa’s friends stole for us. It’s pretty awesome. I didn’t make the rules but I’m not complaining. Was this what it was like for Americans in their Cowboys and Indians phase? I think I get the appeal now.”

Shut off their water lines, cut off their power, cancel trash collection, and close their roads. Failure to abide by the laws regulating infrastructure means they don’t deserve infrastructure.

What’s Digg?

Old couple in boat celebrate house burning from What About Bob

They should come back in a few thousand years for Fur Affinity. Then they can see some wild body plans.

It uses lemons for invisible ink used to embed its own serial code in case you try illegally printing truffles or something.

Your location data should be considered part of your personal effects just like the contents of your purse or backpack: only subject to inspection by police with a search warrant. It is entirely unreasonable to be digitally tailed in every public space retroactively though time; if a robots.txt existed for my location, it’d say “fuck off”.

Something something revealed preference.

Do they serve sem-pie here?