That’s great except I have been told by my boss and my boss’s boss that me looking like a shlub gives me more technical credibility.

I’m not old you’re old.

My dad wore a dress shirt and tie to work.

I wear pajama pants and a t shirt. And sometimes just the shirt.

So I iron a lot less.

It’s weird that the server has a .dockerignore file without a Dockerfile.

They’d probably implement it very poorly, like the AI “image enhancement” that makes things look worse

That’ll work for individual users, but getting all that chat history out will be a problem for the owners once the users dry up.

And I’m sure Discord will do their best to make it impossible.

Serves them right for picking chat software in the first place, let alone one they don’t control.

One problem will be that there are way too goddamn many software projects that use Discord as a shitty replacement for a blog and documentation, and they’re gonna be a pain to move to proper content platforms.

Humans are very good at justifying their actions after the fact. There’s a lot of research about this, especially when our right brain does things our left brain doesn’t know about.

Maybe not Franklin. He’s on record as preferring older ladies.

lol, no, but thanks

I was commenting that even Disney has to deal with arbitrary paywalls

It’s paywalls all the way down

Given the demographics I’d be really surprised if we didn’t.

It’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.

When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone

I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go

But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land

For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand

- Penelope Scott, Rät

Every day I experience a novel disappointment with my species.

I never thought I’d see the phrase “orbital data centers” and not think it’s cool, but here we are.

I’ve done that before when I’m in a hurry, but this was actually people waiting for that initial left turn.

Also this was back before smart phones, so things may have changed. Culture evolves.

One insight was the different behavior when a light turned green with someone at the front making a left turn.

Where I grew up that person would just have to wait, but in the city where I went to college they’d let one car turn left before opposing traffic started.

It was a bit of a culture shock being honked at for obeying the actual law.

I once got an A on an anthropology paper by analyzing body language in vehicles and different driving cultures in different places.