jtrek

Fuck Microsoft. It's easy to not buy their shit. I've been doing it all day.

Break up Facebook

I also don't have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.

But either way, fuck Microsoft.

Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about these people. Calls them "Business Idiots"

Conservatives just say things for the intended result. They don't care about facts or truth or internal consistency. They're like cognitohazards.

What do you call the action of putting their grades together like this, without the sentences you put after it? (this is the most important question of this comment).

Why are you stuck on "cannot" when the point of the idiom is about the (repeat pun) fruitlessness of comparing things by inappropriate standards?

You clearly can come up with a way to score a math test by the standards of an art class, but that is not typically a useful endeavor.

I've never heard that expression before, but that's pretty good.

Microsoft should be broken up. A lot of problems go away if we just stop letting power consolidate.

Are you confusing "can't" and "can, but is fruitless" (pun intended)?

Like, if someone says to you "you can't put nails in with a screwdriver", are you going to say "You totally can. Just whack the nail with the handle. I don't see the problem".

Or, like, "You can't eat crayons" do you respond "sure you can. chew it up and eat it. i don't see the problem. it's just like a cookie"

You should be allowed to stand your ground and shoot dead anyone rolling coal. They're assaulting you and everyone around you.

You could go down that train of thought, but you'll find it impossible to make any decisions for fear of making things worse. "Should I put out this fire in my kitchen? No, what if the house has to burn down to stop double-mecha-hitler from being born??" is not a useful way of thinking.

"This orange sucks. I can't just bite into it and enjoy it like an apple." That's not a sensible assessment of the orange. That's applying the desired attributes of an apple to an orange.