THEM: "any big plans for the weekend?" ME: "Well..."

SO MANY people commenting on this equate "bad parenting" with "the mother should be prosecuted." They're totally different things! The bar for upending a family due to bad parenting needs to be SO HIGH. Way higher than "I personally would not make this choice."

Just put the opinion in the bag your honor

Law firm goes to the doctor, says its partners are leaving and it’s worried the firm will disintegrate. The doctor says “treatment is simple. The great restructuring firm Weil is available tonight. Go and see them for advice on your options” “But doctor…”

The Platonist: now surely you admit that it is just for the best flautist to receive compensation for his talents Batman: very true The Platonist: then we must consider a man whose talents lie in robbing banks Robin: Batman don't listen to him!!

I went out for some half-and-half yesterday. They had surgical scissors, gauze, sutures, body bags, even a bone saw. But no half-and-half. Twenty minutes wasted walking to and from the coroner store. I suppose I should have called first.

Yeah, something really wild has happened to our collective moral compass over the last ~12 years

Good example of the rationality gap between how people behave when it matters and how they talk about the same thing when it matters less update.news/p/the-rationalit…

“While the act of creation is inherently satisfying, there’s a danger: one might find satisfaction in the labor itself and mistakenly believe that a high-quality piece of work has been created,” he said. very insightful comment from miyamoto

If Americans had to deal with the dog ownership rules of Denmark, the UK, or Italy, their heads would spin. Our failure to properly regulate dogs is one reason why I think the need for a pit bull ban here is actually greater than in other countries.

If you ever stop to really really think … it’s *mindboggling* that our our densest, more expensive cities have more dogs than little kids It’s dystopian to a Brave New World degree

did this for my tennis ball machine! strongly recommend

I genuinely do think there are a lot of basically good people who have never really thought about the ways in which they are behaving badly as dog owners, because nobody ever really calls them out for it. If your dog is ever off leash, you are being antisocial and behaving badly. If your dog ever jumps on somebody who didn’t specifically ask for that to happen, then you are behaving antisocially (even if the dog is just being “friendly”). If you have an invisible fence in your yard, but your dog comes running right up to the line at full speed only to stop at the last minute and bark at everybody who walks by, then you are behaving antisocially. Honestly, even behind a fence, this is an aggressive and annoying imposition on anybody walking by. If somebody has ever respond with fear or annoyance at something your dog has done and you’ve reflexively protested, “oh don’t worry, he won’t hurt you” or “he’s friendly” then that’s antisocial behavior. (You should just simply say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I won’t let it happen again” and then you should work to actually make it not happen again. Telling people not to worry, that you think your dog is just peachy, is bad behavior.) This is all bad behavior. It’s all antisocial. And I have these experiences with dogs and their owners routinely. This is all extremely common stuff.

If you are a lawyer and you sell real matter files to a data procurement company, you should be disbarred. I don't care what they say they redact. This is not hyperbole. You should permanently lose your license to practice law.

Art by Don Maitz for The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

the problem with proactive ai is that sometimes it is proactively insane

It's one of those fun times when infosec people start saying stuff like "you should buy some devices that work without an Internet connection, like pistols, shotguns, and rifles."

We’re like one hack away from me finally being able to get my medical records easily

This was just 30 years ago. But it seems a million years ago.

The ACLU is a good example of an organization that is being hollowed out by activists who don't understand its real mission. The goal is not to protect "vulnerable" communities. The goal is to protect civil liberties.