It’s serious. Looking at a cat is interpreted as threatening. To be non-threatening, you have to look away and even close your eyes. By ignoring the cat you show that you aren’t a threat.

That’s why cats always approach the person who doesn’t like them. That’s the only person looking away, so it’s the only person who is signaling that they aren’t a threat.

I’d like to see Zappa perform.

I could be wrong, but in the case of Mikayla Raines, the subreddit wasn’t necessarily discussing self harm, but was promoting online harassment which led to suicide.

Assuming the lenses can be removed and replaced, opticians should be able to cut prescription lenses to fit.

When my wife had her practice, we had a machine that could cut patterns using the frame. Then the pattern is used to cut the lenses. I’m sure it’s even easier today.

Makes a ZZZZZZZIP! sound.

Probably followed by a scream.

Later on, I learned that an excess of comments is actually not considered a good practice.

Pointless or uninformative comments are not good, regardless of the quantity.

Useful and informative comments are always good, regardless of the quantity.

I learned that comments might be a code smell indicating that the code is not very clear.

When I’m looking at someone else’s code, I want to see extensive, descriptive comments.

Good code should be so clear, that it doesn’t need comments.

That hits me like something a teacher tells you in a coding class that turns out to be nonsense when you get to the real world.

I’m not sure how others do it.

As I’m coding, the comments form part of my plan. I write the comments before the code. As I discover I’ve made incorrect assumptions or poor decisions, I correct the comments with the new plan, then correct the code to match the updated comments.

As a final step in coding, when I feel it is complete, I’ll review comments to determine what should remain to help future me if I ever have to dig into it again.

Variable names should be reasonably memorable and make contextual sense, but that’s it. That’s what they exist for. Don’t overload the purpose of anything I’m the code.

So, what you’re saying is, don’t fuck with P00ptart.

Got it.

Now come on, I’m sure plenty still are.

Not to mention that they aren’t the ones who’d be deported.

They’ll be scooped up just like everyone else. They just think they won’t be. They’ll believe it’s all just a big mistake right up to the end.

From the show I saw, the early choice was between foxes that would immediately try to kill you versus foxes that would be willing to let you live. The floppy ears and curly tails happened very gradually in the process.

The “not selected” foxes were snarling and snapping and generally being nasty as hell.

The coolest thing about that experiment is that just selecting for tame and docile foxes also caused them to develop floppy ears and curled tails.

It’s the only way the right is progressive.

We need another banana for scale.

No way.

In that situation, you didn’t hire door dash, Best Buy did. You paid Best Buy for a product. If they used a delivery service that stole your product, then Best Buy didn’t deliver what you paid for. Best Buy would have a brief, reasonable opportunity to do the right thing, then it would be a charge back.

If you’re looking at the bottom, you’re not going to find fraud and waste in large amounts. To find fraud and waste, you’re going to have to look at the top.

In other words, the fraud and waste are in the administration leadership. That’s not what DOGE was looking at. They didn’t lay off the people at the top. They laid off the people who actually do the work.

As others have said, it wasn’t about fixing anything. It was about breaking everything.

Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re at the point where it may be the only way out. It’s just nothing to look forward to, and suggesting Europe “does it better” isn’t comforting.

Even in Europe when things would get bad enough for the people to put aside their differences and kill the ruling class, the differences tend to re-assert themselves once the common enemy is gone. That’s where things go south. Cutting heads off is like eating potato chips. You can’t just stop once you’ve started. Eventually you’re pulling crumbs out of the bottom of the bag.

If it gets bad enough for the American people to unite to kill the oppressors, the oppressors will definitely have a bad time, but you better be ready for one hell of a rough ride after.

I can imagine a loving God allowing these vile creatures to exist, but I can’t believe he would allow them to speak for him.

Imagine for a moment if the fortune spent on the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was instead invested in reducing our dependence on oil.

Operation Man-Baby Tantrum.