@chris @t_mkdf @andreaswiedenhoff Also let's not forget, on top of that, how uneven that population density is. More than half the country lives in an almost perfectly straight linear region with a population density on par with Spain. Great spot to put a high speed train if you ask me, but alas, I'm told Yukon has a ton of empty space so, QED, checkmate transit advocates, on to the next highway project
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Being a bit spooked by having literally a rabid raccoon outside our house which the police ultimately decided *not* to deal with, I'm a bit anxious about animal-to-person disease transmission right now@cwebber on the topic of toilet paper, I hate to be the stereotypical bidet guy that pops up every time something vaguely related is mentioned, but: I had some incredibly lucky timing and bought a bidet attachment in February 2020, and if I hadn't heard about it via memes I never would have known about the early COVID TP shortages. They cut down on TP use so much that I'd low-key consider them a good disaster-preparedness investment
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three years for a shit feature absolutely no one asked for as opposed to any few minutes to review PRs opened for forever to add functionality people have been desperate to see added.@djsundog In the evergreen words of @researchfairy: "Unfortunately, Eugen."
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"An artificial intelligence smarter than humans" doesn't even make sense as a concept unless you're literally a character in a sci-fi@researchfairy
Tech bros: We should go all in on STEM education, kids don't need useless antiquated liberal arts subjects in today's world
Also tech bros: This computer is conscious, intelligent, and speaks the truth, three things that are notoriously easy to define and don't have entire subfields of philosophy dedicated to them!