I personally can, but that’s because my empathetic response is unusually overblown.

My failure as a benevolent dictator would actually be becoming too detached from ordinary problems, so I’d need to have consistent town hall meetings where ordinary people could redress grievances, petition for aid and so on.

At that point it goes back to being a normal government, since the (un)elected official is trying their best to do the people’s bidding while remaining accountable.

I’ve been watching that and Deep Space Nine.

DS9 is the more well known, but I think Babylon 5 was more hard sci-fi

They’re both good

Farscape was also on TV way back then right after so it was amazing

In well-established cities, over time there becomes a demand to facilitate long-distance travel throughout the entire city core, which necessitates the construction of highways. When such a thing is not possible due to the abundance of skyscrapers and other allocated lands, they repurpose or repave certain streets into parkways or “avenues”.

Sometimes, no modifications are made whatsoever except for the traffic signaling system where there are discrete “blocks” of green light traffic allowing you to travel a mile in the city before you hit another red light (for instance heading north on Broadway, New York City).

Zigzagging through local streets is a surefire way to run into red lights and stop signs, reducing your “average speed” and increasing your total trip time.

What if I told you that North-South travel on a grid based city system is much faster than East-West, and although mathematically zig-zag is the shortest distance, pragmatically, the logical path is the one with the fewest turns (especially left turns) taken?

No. Hyperdimensional math is required here, I feel.

I used a flip/dumbphone for most of my teenage and high school years.

It’s like asking what would make me go back to having a DOS computer and playing Wolf3D after being in full body virtual reality with Half Life Alyx.

Can’t reproduce.

I know; I’m just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments.

This is like putting up a tall fence to obscure the view of your neighbors and being surprised they don’t cease existing on the other side

You don’t want to just block users, you want to unilaterally ban them

There’s a difference between fair and just

That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:

Assumption table

1. Graduate student in academia
2. Running a simulation for data
3. For a conference
4. Haskell

The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

Yeah but that’s like $15 in Etsy credit

But the bard’s song will remain 🎵

Cool comic, but to answer this question honestly, I technically don’t have “enemies”, if at all possible in my power, I avoid conflict until it’s unavoidable.

The few times that the situation has occurred in the comic, it’s always been terrible, and you’re missing the injuries of the protagonist as well: one man dies on the field, the other dies in the field hospital.

Some people play checkers, others play chess

Easy to trap even a powerful opponent when they are playing the wrong game

Genius moves, Banksy

Dang. Invidious seems cool but it fails to load because it thinks I’m a bot.

No cat videos for me, I guess

Human nature is a double edged blade is why

Doomsday Cult disables satellites to reduce forewarning of hurricanes

Unexpected results at 12

It’s a good argument but it still just makes you an asshole

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What’s an “immutable” distro? Is this like the OSS version of a closed/prop kernel?

This post is hella sus

Honestly that’s a genius marketing strategy

I have no idea. It’s already compiled so it’s pure state and runs on any platform. It would be a monumental project to reverse engineer the kernel at this point.