JasonFruit

Obviously that picture was altered by Google, which works with the P&G Satanists. Search for any health or beauty product category on Google and see how long it takes for one of the P&G brands to pop up. It's no coincidence.

> so we will make everyone equal by law and politics

I hope you mean that we will treat everyone as though they were equal, not attempt to make them equal by government-enforced handicapping.

Congratulations on your decision to be part of the problem?

Yes, I was warned against drinking their "cuck coffee", but I never achieved clarity on what their unforgivable offense was.

I see that now. Interesting. Well, I'm wrong on that text — but I still think the idea, as I had previously understood it, is a good one, and we have the technology to make a 6000-person House of Representatives workable.

No, it puts the minimum number of representatives at about 6000, one per 50,000 people, where right now there are 435, one per about 650,000. That would be a significant change, in my eyes.

Do you count concern for the welfare of your compatriots as a kind of spirituality? I could certainly see how it could motivate a person to work to improve national institutions.

There's a solution I like: ratify the original First Amendment, which would have greatly reduced the number of constituents per representative, which would a) have made representatives more responsive to their constituents, and b) made it harder for wealthy special-interest groups to capture every election for the House of Representatives. It was originally understood as correcting an inaccurate wording in the Constitution.

Here's the text:

> After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

For reference, right now each representative is supposed somehow to act on behalf of almost two thirds of a million people! How can one person vote on behalf of so many, who are inevitably drawn from a mix of rural, urban, poor, wealthy, and every other varied circumstance of life? How much can any one person feel represented, or hope to influence who represents them or how?

I understand if you think we're too fragile to hear the word "cult", but the way you chose to obscure it is... not an improvement.

It's not so much a bait-and-switch; the subtitle says none of them are about music. But you're right, it's a show-off list that tells more about his influences as a critic and writer than anything that "Changed How I Hear Music" — and it's not even flaunting anything very impressive. But I suppose it's hard to write an article every few days without running out of true things to say.

I only now realized that lemp10, with regard to my laptop, refers to LEMur Pro and not Duncan Lemp. I had far too high hopes.

It does if you want your article about it to be on the front page of Hacker News. I could see it mattering if you want to be a part of the community supporting an editor in Rust, because you think it offers great potential to be more stable than an editor in another language — but the author makes it clear that they want an editor which is stable right now.

I said it's poor reasoning.

They turn there because what could be less establishment? The establishment gives its imprimatur to the news media, and they've proven untrustworthy, so the (weak) reasoning goes, why not turn to whatever the establishment condemns? Listen to Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Q, the Doomsinger of Alexandria (okay, I made that one up). They don't trust any of it anyway, except a few of the worst Q addicts, but they figure, we know CNN lies and twists, and they hate us, so might as well listen to the liar who's on our side.

I always thought it was, "eggs on the juicy side," which again sounds like sunny side up.

> the gap left by GTK, Qt...

What happened to Qt? As far as I've seen, it's actively developed and as good as ever.

That has improved for me as my hearing has declined. The problem is that now my improved focus is not necessarily rewarded with better understanding.

I want someone to develop an Emacs minor mode that algorithmically generates music that increases in intensity the deeper you are in a syntactic construct. So, when you're at the top level, it's pretty chill, but once you're about seven levels deep, it's like the velociraptor is coming for you in Jurassic Park. I think I'd feel as though I was accomplishing something more exciting with background music that makes my mental effort audible.

That sounds like an elevator pitch.

I think trolley problems are mostly linguistic. Take this wording: "Oh no! A trolley is careening into a crowd! Should I try to turn it so it goes through the sparsest part of the crowd?" I think most people — by a wide margin — would say yes, because it's worded as still hitting the same thing, just hitting it in a way that does less damage, and we feel differently about that than hitting a different thing, "this guy" instead of "those guys".

It looks to be a 4-cylinder inline, and if it's a two-stroke engine, I wonder what its intended application was. Certainly not aviation, at that point. (I was going to say that there were no 4-cylinder inline two-stroke motorcycles, but I looked around and found that in 1911 there was at least one company, Pierce, manufacturing them.)

EDIT: now I see that the Pierce was not a two-stroke, despite what I had initially read.

I am looking for a new car big enough for a family and capable of pulling a loaded utility trailer, but without the extras. Basically exactly what's on your list, but I don't need power windows and locks or remote start. Does it exist?

Anytime you get to say, "I got you, you old lop-eared bastard! " as you're buzzing along low to the ground, it's a good day. I love stories like this.

I do wonder about that two-stroke engine in 1913, though.

I would have assumed it's the Debían package that includes cowsay and related tools. Relies on cowtools-common.

In the context of Linux, ten year old hardware is widely supported, and will not limit what base OS version and software is installable, though its capabilities might affect usability. We're not really discussing OS X here, where planned obsolescence is such a huge factor.

I'm interested here, because I've noticed that there's a loophole to the gendered nature of "asshole": I wouldn't call a woman that because of what she's done to me, but if she offends my wife, we might agree that she's an asshole. I'm not sure if that's a common usage or not.

This is totally broken. It still lets me say "damn". I'm calling the police.

There's a song that goes, "Wouldn't it be loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still?" Still just a euphemism, but an example that can be used with children who lack self-control with their language.

"Nig" is sometimes used as a racial slur by older, lamer racists.

A lot of people have responded that way to what I wrote, but I didn't really mean it as negativity. I'm glad that they opened it before abandoning it, but I'm trying to emphasize that that is at best a first step for this project. Without someone willing to follow up by maintaining it, it's still dead. The tone of these announcements lately has not reflected that reality.