You jest but that’s roughly the story of the “discovery” of Machu Picchu

Gonna pull out my hair splitting razors for a moment…

OP didn’t say more intelligent, they said smarter.

Can one get smarter? Does “smart” conceptually include the quanity of acquired information? Does the quality of thought impact the ability to acquire new information? Does smart include the concept applying knowledge appropriately? Is the ability to do that informed by the quality of thought?

We might have different definitions for a lot of these words, but I think I gotta say “yes” to all of them.

I’m not this guy so I can only guess their experience, but the more time they’re able to spend in a mental state that maximizes the quality of their thought processes, I would expect it would help them learn new things and more effectively apply that knowledge. I’m contented to say that counts as smart.

So ya: More think good make more smarter that guy.

Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.

This is why as much as I appreciate the philanthropy of the ultra wealthy, it’s NOT a substitute for taxation

Yes, we can accept that we’re all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It’s downright offensive.

I think it’ll strengthen everyone’s nuclear resolve. Strategic ambiguity (with the common knowledge that you are a nuclear state, like Israel) is pretty much the only option now.

Iran was playing the game of “we aren’t a nuclear power, but we COULD be” wasn’t enough. Everyone sees that now. The only real deterrent is a literal nuke, now.

I forget how old I am sometimes. I think it was generally missed, which is on me.

It’s the first, iconic line from “The Godfather”.

A man tells his story to Don Corleone, about how he can to America, made his fortune, and did his best to be a “good American”, to trust the police. To trust the system of justice.

He tells how his teenager daughter was savagely beaten by some men who tried to rape her. He went to the police, the men stood trial, but the judge suspended the sentence.

“Suspended sentence? They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom, like a fool.”

The whole scene is brilliant. The whole exploration of the failures of Western justice systems, the alternatives…

The resolution really is, he DOESN’T believe in America anymore.

I understand Toronto isn’t “America”, but I think the parallels in the events, and the story from the film are uncanny. A teenager was brutalized, the sentence was suspended, and the fury brewing in the stomachs of everyone has no legal outlet. The film, a work of fantasy, the father could appeal to Don Corleone. Who do we have?

Maybe I underestimated the cultural impact of The Godfather.

I believe in America.

Edit:

For clarity, I’m referring to this:

https://youtu.be/eZHsmb4ezEk

Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake

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At work whenever we need to build little command line tools, my team is always vexxed by my guideline to have the meat+potatoes in a script that reads well-formatted data off stdin , and outputs well formatted-data to stout. They always wanna have some stupid interactive prompts and saving to files baked right in.

This is exactly why. You wanna save to a file?? > file

You want to read from a file? cat |

You want to save to a file but swap commas for colons? Sed.

You get so much FOR FREE w/ the GNU toolkit, even for what you build yourself, by thinking in streams.

GOOD FOLLOW UP!!

I was about to shit a brick that you went from “go to the official trusted source” to “just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash”

https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc

Directly from my ass, it’s my assumption that the primary maintainers just don’t have an incentivize the cost of supporting older devices and the disparate hardware configurations.

Like, planned obscellesance or not, smartphone churn is going to happen anyways. People lose them, smash them, fall into a pool with them, decide they NEED the newer camera soldered into them, etc…

It’s not like there are old phones in a closet somewhere propping up business critical infrastructure like with computers.

The cost vs utility of maintaining forward features and security patches for a massive catalog of hardware configurations just isn’t there.

They’re either trying to get your goat, or it’s genuine. Either way, it’s not making the world any better by bestowing upon yourself the title of judge and enforcer. You’re either taking bait or you’re a fucking cop. “Ok” is all you gotta say.

I don’t even think it’s true.

This sounds like Trump floundering to take credit for anything. And in the absence of something, he invented a hypothetical

I’m uncomfortable with the idea that the only reason that being trans is valid is because of biological factors.

If we could construct a human that came into existence without being Female at some gestational point, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans? If someone has a thyroid problem such that they their body CAN’T handle a sex hormone, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans?

I feel like we’re looking for a 9-D chess play when a 1-D play is sufficient: you say you’re trans, you’re trans. I’m not the fucking cops

Why?

If they told him D-Day stood for Donald-Day, he’d have been there

Don’t even think that. He’d expose people to lightning before cancelling