manual windows and door handles have worked since cars were invented

Technically untrue: the first cars didn’t have doors at all.

39. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Try telling that to .

Oh no, it gets worse:

Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

The inscription on the Pantheon has dots between the words.

M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT

everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

Now that’s the way to do it! Make it everybody’s problem, not just yours.

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” — Mao Zedong

So, have you bitched at your state rep about it yet?

And on top of that, pretty much all the platforms, even all the way down to this one, are censored in at least one increasingly-relevant way.

Small town rural Georgia, no less!

I crossed out “small town” because Mineral Bluff is too small to even count as incorporated. Literally all that’s there, in terms of businesses, is a gas station, a Dollar General, and whatever the Hell this is.

Anticopyright diatribes are the important part!

Does this mean they’re Alex Jones’s boss now?

He’s gonna get appointed to Trump’s cabinet too, isn’t he?

they’re hardly mass appeal popular.

100% propaganda pushed by the capitalist (and therefore anti-populist) mass media.

And for those who are still confused: Bernie and Trump are both populists, but Trump is also a demagogue and that’s what’s a bad thing.

Democrats can’t conceive of adapting to the fact that the norms and process are broken because process is all they have.

Frankly, it’s yet another reason the Democratic Party has proven to be unsalvageable.

Yes.

Not only can people be pretty dumb sometimes, once the screenshot is on the Internet, who knows where it might get reposted, potentially without context.

You should censor the scam bitcoin address when you screenshot things like this.

My hot take:

The Air Force wanted the cleanup to happen, but they just wanted it to come out of somebody else’s budget. But since the EPA is about to not exist anymore (fuck, I can’t believe I’m saying that) they’ve got no choice but to step up themselves if they want it done.

That’s really interesting!