Lawn grass isn’t native, for one thing.

I have no idea who that is.

You forgot

• pissed that his daughter is trans, and he thinks that Twitter made her that way

This happened a year ago.

Copyright is law which is used to prevent free copying of media, while “intellectual property” is a term cooked up by corporate suits to generalize copyright, trademarks, and patents and equate them with property law. Richard Stallman wrote about this.

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property.” The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Humans are not a threat to the Earth. Do you mean that humans are a threat to the environment? That would mean that we’re a threat to ourselves. It wouldn’t make sense to destroy us to save us from ourselves.

How many Halloween movies are there? How many Christmas movies?

On Halloween, they push candy and costumes. On Christmas, they push everything.

I sometimes wonder about that word “finger”. If fingers fing, then what is finging?

How can they do that if they don’t have enough money

I liked it at first, but then I ran into some really weird shit. Re-installing didn’t erase the previous install, programs I installed disappeared after reboot, etc. This might be caused by the jankiness of UEFI, I don’t know. I’m never buying another HP laptop after they pulled this shit with UEFI. It’s given me so many headaches.

Whenever I meet another web dev, they either have a job as a web dev, they’re looking for a job as a web dev, or they’re trying to create a startup. There are no hobbyists.

I often wonder about this. Does capitalism impose so much emotional freight that it makes coding intimidating? Does having it attached to ideas about working hard and getting a job drain the fun out of it?

I’m beginning to think that I would actually get more coding done if I abandoned it as a career path.

Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.

“Be patient. It’s compiling.”

“Well, when can I use my computer?”

“…Tomorrow.”

If this is in the US, I feel like it would be a violation of OSHA. Or maybe it’s something so stupid that OSHA never thought to make it a rule.

If you’re going to make “as well” into one word, why not add “may”, too? Mayaswell!

I think the employees that are anti-Sam are the ones this letter is addressed to.

I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.

I’ve been using Linux for almost 20 years, and AFAIK in all that time I’ve never encountered a Linux virus. OTOH when I run Windows, I hit a virus within the first six months.