I knew that “Deciding To Win” sounded familiar.

Literally zero awareness that it is not 1993 anymore.

https://bsky.app/profile/maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3m4bu6tyoac2t

I figure I might as well link the latest random positivity thread here in case anyone following the Stubsack had missed it.

“Would you like to know more?”

“Nah, I’m cool.”

“I know this!”

Lemmy needs a feature where we can click a button on a comment and make everyone see that comment in Comic Sans.

Funny story: Just yesterday, I wrote to a journal editor pointing out that a term coined in a paper they had just printed had actually been used with the same meaning 20 years ago. They wrote back to say that I was the second person to point this out and that an erratum would be issued.

Please, it’s pronounced “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.”

I used Floorp for a while. (The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100; nobody has a leg to stand on here.) It had a rare but persistent (and thus difficult to diagnose) problem of crashing my laptop hard when opening a private-mode window. Also, they’re planning to incorporate AI on an “opt-in” basis instead of rejecting it on moral grounds.

Aldaquaque is where I took that bleft toin

Please enjoy your free trip to the egress.

And looking that up led me to this passage from Bertrand Russell:

The more tired a man becomes, the more impossible he finds it to stop. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Super-prediction is difficult, especially about the super-future. —old Danish proverb

LBJ’s wife, not Reagan’s.

My only difficulty with LibreWolf on Ubuntu was getting it to be the default browser (it didn’t show up in the list of options). Turns out xdg-settings set default-web-browser librewolf.desktop on the command line did the trick.

Happy belated birthday!

And if you’re here to report the mods for rudeness, lolz

Previous random positivity threads:

Computer warm-and-fuzzies

Books

God damn that’s good.

Convenience link for last week’s comment

Eigenslop