Reggie, Journeyman Confabulist

Playing Code Names. Got to use "Wagner" as a clue. (For "Germany" and ”opera" of course.)

Do you want to know what programming in English looks like?

Look at a legal contract. Because a contract is basically a program, written in English, that runs on the court system.

And so exists legalese: a specialized dialect with very specific semantics that outsiders can't easily understand.

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I agree with this in theory, but in practicality most of the people saying we need to streamline regulations want to do so by removing them entirely soooo...

The effect that an individual legislator can have on ANYTHING is small though.

If you have heard me rant about asshole boyfriends in FVNs (or how nuking Echo would be a *good* ending) this opinion will be familiar. >_>

Should amoral characters pay for their crimes? Audiences might be unintentionally pining for the days of the Hays Code, or maybe they're responding to something else.

That said, I agree with the article that ultimately gets linked.
I will accept stories where shitty people get away with crimes, but I don't LIKE them, and that they seem to be such a large portion of ambient media is frustrating.

buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

Once again asking people to realize that something can be disgusting without being evil and vice versa.

Don't want to see something? Don't look at it. It's not like the artist is holding a gun to your head.
Moral police, on the other hand...

"All you have to do is check over the code it wrote" my guy I have spent an entire day now trying to cajole my teammates into reviewing this PR of mine because apparently 60 lines of change is too complicated. People HATE reviewing anyone else's code. 😒

And definitely don't get a tattoo of their name, or else the breakup will be so catastrophic that one of you will end up in jail and the other in therapy.

Jane Austin was the sister of Stephen Austin, of course. She wrote about complicated social drama on the Texas frontier.

Argh came across a Why Developers Must Adopt AI thread and would like to respond but no time right now and it's awkwardly long for BS anyway.

Long story short: much like in other artisan professions, AI takes over the enjoyable parts of the job and leaves me with just the shitty parts.

This isn't even the only topic like this. There are piles of mushy contextual social distinctions where trying to set down universal rules is just a disaster.

This. Definitely this.

Do I think that some types of things should never be published? Yep. Do I trust any government to actually make the decisions on that topic? Absolutely not.

Continuing on the train of rejecting things He *literally said* I see. 😑

"Our production guarantees a diversity of viewpoints by requiring each employee belong to at least two distinct taxonomic families."

I originally read "hybrid only" as a 'sona species requirement. 😅

Yep! If the billionaires move somewhere else and stop interfering in local politics, that sounds like a benefit to me.

You know what *does* spend money locally? Furry conventions. Just saying.

My state is currently developing an income tax on $1m+. Predictably this has led to "but all the rich people will just move away!" which I would find a stronger argument if I thought super-rich people spent much money locally in the first place. 😒

"I want to fix my smartphone addiction, so I got glasses that will beam notifications and do smartphone things directly into my eyeball so I don't have to look at my smartphone."
Did nobody at any point in pitching this story point out the glaring issue with the premise here?

a tote bag printed with the text "normal human items"

this would be such a good fursuit tote topatoco.com/collections/...

TIL that the song "Hey Mickey" is actually a cover of a song "Hey Kitty" and OMG this explains those words in the lyrics that feel like they're supposed to rhyme but don't quite.

Ooooh the King Arthur buttermilk pancake recipe will use up all the remaining buttermilk, it looks like.... Okay going to try this.

oorrrrrrr I could make a bunch of things and then freeze THOSE....

I hear you can substitute like, skim milk and lemon juice or something, but I've not figured out how to do that yet...

I bought some buttermilk because I wanted to make banana bread but there was so much left over so now I've also made muffins but there is STILL half of it left and it expires in a week and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Man, my itch library has so many FVNs that just... stopped.