Did his knowledge of the law leave with Elon, too?

The world doesn’t run on “probably”. Nothing ever gets accomplished by assuming “it’ll probably happen anyway.”

Would it have defeated it if they hadn’t performed their protest and maybe made a few other legislators rethink how unpopular of a bill it was? If they hadn’t protested, would legislative complacency just allowed the bill to pass unremarked on.

The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to something so that other that have the power to do something about it might do something about it.

I’m not saying the bill failed specifically because of the protest, but to think the bill was guaranteed to have failed anyway even without it is naive thinking.

I agree. That’s why it’s called “having the courage of one’s convictions”. The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.

But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can’t protest for fear of “hypothetical” repercussions.

You can’t have the courage of your convictions if you don’t know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can’t know what the consequences of your actions will be if they’re just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.

disrupts the parliamentary process

That’s the entire point of a PROTEST though…

I’m sure he only means it as “this is the shitty way the world actually works”. Not that he personally believes it himself.

They’re not acceptable. In fact I can’t think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.

Who told you it was acceptable, if you don’t mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare’s time.

Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.

I’m a 49 year old male. But I’m divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).

The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn’t matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)

Edited to Add: The rule we always learned in highschool when we were stupid kids with nothing better to do is “half your age plus 7”

51 divided by 2 = 25.5 + 7 = 32.5.

So by highschool rules, you’re just a little bit outside the lines, but close enough that if you’re both attractive most people will ignore it.

This is basically going to make the population choose between smoking and having kids.

Hell I’d start smoking again.

Why do we need a new one?

Calling them “fakers” seems to get them all huffy already. And if you really want to piss off an AI “prompt writer”, point out to them that they aren’t actual artists.

Someone please put razor blades in this fuckers twelve daily bigmacs already please.

I apologize if this sounds flippant, but it’s FICTION.

Literally ANYTHING works if its written well enough…

I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except “good. The time for bullshit words is over”

Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?

I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won’t let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead…

I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.

If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They’d be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort, etc… etc…

But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they’ll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.

(Sorry…off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up…haha)

Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”

Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”

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I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.

Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

For the most part, yes. By design. Conveying something in a movie is more challenging in that it has less time to do it than a book has less time to do it. So it HAS to be, to some degree, more blunt and on-the-nose than a book can take its time being.

You can write five pages of internal description discussing what your main character thinks about the world around them. But you can’t show that in a movie and so you have to figure out how to get the gist of it across in a few lines of dialogue and some emoting.

It’s why show don’t tell is a rule. You have to simplify a movie in comparison to a book or else your audience will be sitting through a ten hour film.

The very first thing written by a something called “proofreading services.com” is functionally wrong. That’s a helluva start.

“exact” and “very accurate” are not the same thing. Not by a long shot.

“Very accurate” still leaves room for innacuracies while “Exact” does not. So why exactly would I trust a service whose very first sentence is an error?

For that matter, why is it called “getting corn-holed” instead of “getting maize-holed”