If you don’t at least mention that damning fact on your polygraph, of course it is!

The person that made the svmjs library I used for a blue monday.

Those are’t the prime slots. Before 8 in the morning (before school), and somewhere between 6 and 7, during or right after dinner (make it a family activity)

Are there really parents that would force their children to say it anyway? This feels like such a bizarre thing to have a fight over.

Absolutely. Children have been disowned and cut off for not following the faith of their families. Many parents take the "under God" part seriously.

I think it reasonable to assume that the principal, at least, would be such a parent

What? This is incredible if you don’t think a sizable portion of parents in America would force their children to say it.

I think it's slightly unbelievable to us who grew up in secular societies where being agnostic/atheistic/non-practing-believer is fairly common and not so out of the ordinary. Then we start hearing about the experiences in christian-nationalistic countries and how it is growing up there, and it's just very different from what you expect from a modern country.

I'm guessing Aeolun might be from one of those places/countries/states :)

I’ve never been Christian, but I have lived in the US my entire life, so I was always at least peripherally aware of “Christian culture”. I knew about Christian Rock and Christian movies, Christian video games, those weird Christian TV channels, etc. There has always been a distinct “Christian media” that is separate from the regular secular media.

For nearly my entire life, I had assumed that it was like this everywhere in the world, until I spent two weeks in the UK in 2022, when the topic of “Super Noah’s Ark 3D” came up (I believe because of a Steam sale).

The people I was with were extremely confused by the idea that there is a version of Wolfenstein 3D themed around Noah going around the ark firing food at goats, and I said “oh you know, it’s part of that whole Christian media culture”.

They had no idea what I was talking about, so I had to explain the weird dual media economy that exists in the US.

Kind of eye opening, I guess one of those stereotypical American things of assuming “everything is the US”.

No idea, but this was an overwhelmingly conservative part of Florida (Niceville, probably most famous for being where Matt Gaetz is from), so it wouldn't surprise me if some of the Southern Baptists or Pentacostals in the area would get their children in trouble over that.

Even twenty-three years later, I'm still a little surprised that they sent me to the principal's office over it. It seems like it was a waste of everyone's time, considering it would have been considerably easier to just roll their eyes and let me sit in class.

Well those pearls weren't going to clutch themselves, you know.

Not sure. That level of size variance where the median falls off the middle seems to indicate a large extent of obese people.

The distribution in Japan would be very different.

I buy shirts with a collar and length size. Surely it can’t be that hard to do the same with waist size?

Wait, I buy my pants with a waist and length size. So the problem is already solved?

80% of the people are saying that this is highly complex software. We should not expect to serve more than 4 requests per second without a full kubernetes cluster backed by 27 pods, a cloud spanner database, and 200k lines of code.

I present, our contact form.

I just recently played “The Last of Us” for the first time, and I feel like the US is going full steam ahead towards establishing that FEDRA service they had. Or at least, turn ICE/DHS into the same damn thing.

I played Deus Ex and the FEMA camps are now ICE camps.

Empires do not fall with dignity or grace I suppose.

The ACLU released a report on these camps in August of 2024 called "Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention".

Here's some of the issues it highlighted:

- forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way you're gonna get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE doesn't have to give an excuse to send you into solitary confinement. CoreCivic sells this labor to companies

- extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints"

- dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect

No doubt these issues have only gotten worse since the publication of this report.

https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati...

Google’s AI is not open by definition because their API’s are such a massive pain to use.

This is so bizarre

the wording with truce makes me think, I know they choose their wording from probabilities, but "truce"?

I agree. The title is incomprehensible.

[An] AI agent [wrote] a blogpost to [shame] the maintainer who [closed their initial Pull Request to matplotlib]