It’s a stupid thing that

• exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
• is not used consistently (since you still write 25¢ and not ¢25),
• doesn’t follow the way you read it (it’s “five dollars” not “dollar five”).

It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.

I’m more irked by “less”, the noun there is dollars so it should be “fewer”…

I saw glimpses of someone playing some weird shit on a mobile phone, so I texted my bff group chat that it looks like someone’s playing a pokemon game but it’s anime girls racing around a track or something, but it was 18:30 in public transit, hard day at work, really hot, so I was like probably I’m hallucinating something

Then the responses I got were like “ye it’s probably this very popular Umami Horny Derby game where you date horse waifus, everyone’s been playing it for weeks” and I haven’t been more depressed in ages

Anyway, they say it covers Node and to any question regarding Node the answer is “no”, I don’t need an AI to know webdev fundamentals

It seems that the test itself is generated by autoplag? At least that’s how I understand the PS and one of the comments about “vibe regression” in response to an error

The Player of Games in which a smart nerd like themselves get recruited as an agent to bring down an empire a bit like our own by being really really good at games.

I’m sorry, I have no idea what this book is, but calling it “The Player of Games” is so funny to me.

adjust fedora I am not a gamer, I am A Player of Games

Chat-GPT is more powerful than anyone on earth (if you squint)

xD

No sorry, let me rephrase,

Lol, lmao

How do you even grace this with a response. Shut your eyes and loudly sing “lalalala I can’t hear you”

Just the usual stuff religions have to do to maintain the façade, “this is all true but gee oh golly do NOT live your life as if it was because the obvious logical conclusions it leads to end in terrorism”

You must first read this 4500-word blogpost, and possibly one or two 3000-word follow-up blogposts”.

This, coming from LW, just has to be satire. There’s no way to be this self-unaware and still remember to eat regularly.

Ah ok, I’m aware of what this is, just never heard “work trial” used.

In my head it sounded like a free demo of how insufferable your new job is going to be

it was a bit of squeeze to add even Gemma3n:e2b onto it

statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

This is so funny, I don’t think I’ve seen this before

Like imagine a cryptobro circa 2020 being like “no, we’re not early, this is actually the honeymoon phase and it’ll just get worse”

My immediate gut reaction to a rule as general as this is that there’s fat chance it’s universally applicable, there will always be cases where active would be clunky.

Like I can’t imagine an RPG protagonist exclaiming that “Someone trapped this chest!” instead of the 100% more natural “This chest was trapped!”

This article is wild already, on the first page there’s this quote

‘Do not use the passive voice when such use makes a statement clumsy and wordy. . . Do not, by using the passive voice, leave the agent of the verb vaguely indicated, when the agent should be clearly identified.’ [Edwin Woolley, Handbook of Composition, 1907, p. 20]

Emphasis mine on… a clear usage of the passive! In active this would have to be “when you should clearly identify the agent” or something of the like, the fuck, how hard is it to not expose your whole ass like this mate

Wait what, TIL there was/is a crusade against… the passive fucking voice?

Some people just need to invent problems for their life to feel meaningful, don’t they

so businesses and employees who get real value out of the stuff.

I have really bad news about what percentage that would be

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I’m sorry but what the hell is a “work trial”

Exactly, like the whole point of their schtick is that they want to legitimise plain old racism as something more sophisticated, so I don’t see a reason to entertain them as such.

I really don’t see a reason for us making a linguistic distinction between “low-brow bigotry” and “high-brow bigotry”, which is essentially what this is in practice.

When my uncle drunkenly complains about how “those stupid immigrants are everywhere and they ain’t even speaking our language” - it’s racism; but when a guy with a university degree writes a treatsie about how immigrants will take over and that’s a problem because his bayesian priors say they’re statistically less intelligent - then it’s suddenly “race pseudoscience”. No, both of them are the same breed of racist, the only difference is the latter had enough money to attend Yale.

but at what point do we start calling it race pseudoscience

I think the word you’re looking for is “racism”