people who can count in trinary, people who extrapolate from incomplete data, and

I’ve never been more sorely tempted to post an old man fedi rant that you should get off youtube and onto peertube in my life.

One of my favorite fedi folks, @alice@lgbtqia.space, uses getting to know you questions for bot detection. They use the hashtag #CAPTCHAlice and have all their questions on a website here: https://bunnyalice.com/ . I suspect you’ll find a lot of good questions to spice up your first date there.

I get my access to most of my news through my local library. My library card comes with access to NYT, WaPo, and the Seattle Times, amongst others. I pay my taxes, my library pays a deal with the news site, and everyone’s happy. Seems like a good setup to me.

Turns out ending a war is way harder than starting one; who could have foreseen? (/s)

Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

Unfortunately, this time it really is. “Fire ze missiles” in the US military is an extraordinarily one-man band kinda decision. Certainly, the problem has more complex origins and potential resolutions, but in the extreme short-term, this is a very “one person” kinda question.

Can you even block banned accounts?

Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result, which leads to this perception.

The abuse is weird to me. Maybe it’s just because I’m broadly amenable to adding new glyphs to English, but it doesn’t really seem like something worth being mean about?

Mmm. Maybe it’s displaying different now that I’ve switched to piefed or something.

+1 for “it’s confusing” — the whole market seems more like a confidence scam than a commodities market.

Did you get a new handle? Or is the thorn spreading?

But to your point: the price of gold definitely varies by purity. 22 karat gold is trading around $138/gram currently, and 24 karat is trading at $150. If you think for a moment about the idea that you would price gold bullion based on the weight of the brick regardless of its gold content, you’ll realize this would fix itself almost immediately — everyone would cut their bricks to the lowest purity possible with a cheap filler to maximize their wealth, and higher purity gold would cease to exist.

The only thing I can figure is they bought the new, higher quality bars in Europe first, and sold the older bars at the Fed second, and the price of gold went up in the interim.

No one teaching style works for everyone. What makes you a poor tutor for one student makes you an excellent tutor for another. I can tell you for certain, no-one can deduce whether you’re “good enough” to be a tutor via reddit.

I would say tutor. I think it’ll be a better long-term career move, and there are so many students on the spectrum who could benefit from someone who has a similar experience sharing the techniques they’ve learned that work for them. Barista might be more comfortable, but I think tutoring will build your skill set more long-term. And you can always change! No shame in trying the one, deciding it’s not for you, and switching to the other.

It can be difficult to find something to complain about when we’re winning, but luckily we’re in last place so it’s easy right now. Go Torrent just the same.

I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to consider other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.

I mean it depends on what you mean by internet. There were BBSes but the world wide web didn’t really start taking traffic from the general public until 93. HTML hadn’t even been invented in 90.

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