Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.

There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her

Particularly where security and due diligence are concerned in un-sexy parts of the operation. Crichton actually described very accurately how the structure of the bullshit-and-real-tech combination works in a startup environment, and how it can lead to truly spectacular problems when the two intersect.

This might actually be something we can effect from grassroots. If we can build our local community, start group chats with our neighbors, host Block meetings, etc., we can spontaneously choose representatives to go to our city council meetings and voice our concerns.

I think this is pretty much the answer regardless. If the people are educated and organized and they fight, then over time it’ll come better and better. If the people are not organized, then the best “system” in the world isn’t going to do a damn thing to prevent the end.

Makes sense. Yeah, a lot of things sound great until you put them into practice and then there are 50 different problems with it that were not present in the original purely in the mind genius version.

That’s why I used the specific phrasing “had it downloaded to their computer” instead of claiming that they were the ones to do it. You’ll notice that those users in your footprint also fall into a category of people which this won’t do a damn thing to influence.

Ding ding ding

Maybe so. But Chrome got there some way, their computer didn’t come with it. 100% of the computers in that sample came with Edge configured as the browser and nothing else installed, and 81.95% of them are currently accessing the internet using something else. That to me indicates some kind of decisive action to use something else, on somebody’s part, and also that Microsoft’s years-long endeavor to correct the “problem” by just continuing to ask like a drunk man at the bar in the hopes that the answer will change is not a winner for most people who use computers at this point.

Probably it’s only as low as 81.95% because they do stuff like this. Obviously those people do still exist in a big contingent. My feeling is though that it’s no longer 1998 and there’s no longer this supermajority of AOL users out there who are confused by the very concept of a browser. Those people are in old folks’ homes now, their kids who grew up programming are the middle-aged people of today who aren’t hip to apps and TikTok, but they do understand about browsers. That’s just my feeling and a narrative I produced out of my ass, sure, but it does seem to match the data.

Citation: It is known

How many of them? How do you know?

“Many. It is known.”

I also like how you put “users” in quotes for some reason. Anyway, good talk.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q1

Check “Market Share by OS” and switch it to Windows. Every one of those 67.359% of people who is using Chrome had it downloaded to their computer on purpose instead of just clicking “Internet” and getting Edge. Obviously they feel strongly enough to do that, so I don’t see how they would be amenable to losing all their bookmarks and settings and just going with Edge when one day their OS tries to trick them into it.

I love how in their minds this is going to be a win. Like there are going to be all these people out there who just quietly accept that they’ll use Microsoft Edge from now on, and also in addition not form any kind of revision to their brand impression of Microsoft going forward.

I am sure there are some people who just kind of don’t give a fuck about computers who that will be accurate for, but I feel like it’s a much smaller minority than Microsoft seems to think that it is.

Sure. Show me the full context, where before saying that Clarence Thomas was a greater man than MLK Jr he says, “I’m going to list out a few examples of statements which, if you ever hear someone say after a blow to the head, mean they should go to the hospital right away. Number one:”.

Make it hierarchical. Every 50-100 people in their little community elect a leader. Then, all those leaders get together into groups of 50-100 and elect a leader of that group. And then, all the leaders of those groups, et cetera you get the idea.

Do away with this concept where people are voting for random dickheads in faraway lands who will never interact with them, they have no daily concept of and no familiarity with, and there is this weird middleman involved of a distant organization that is deciding who out of hundreds of millions of potential candidates are the 2-3 that are permitted to be on the ballot of us to vote for. Do away with the team sports aspect where people are coalesced into artificial groupings with colors assigned to them and then the default is for them to vote for whoever’s got the right color attached to them.

Obviously it doesn’t mean that whoever’s at the very top of the pile gets unquestioned power. You could have it as a sort of parliamentary system, where the top person carries executive power and then ones below them (or maybe 2 levels down) are the parliament or legislative branch. And then the courts are just separate from that, similar to today.

Maybe make it so that anyone who can gather 50 votes can be in the L1 grouping. So you can choose to organize yourselves into little communities without needing to be in the same location or having districts drawn by some suspect person. All the people who work at one company, all the people who like Linux, all the people who care about one racial or cultural grouping’s issues can always put their person in L1 if there are enough of them. And then, any number of the L1 people can put in an L2 person. And so on.

Maybe there are flaws, but I feel like the lack of information and day-to-day familiarity with the people you’re voting for, and the barriers to entry for ordinary people, are some of the biggest problems with all of this right now. It would be dope as hell if everyone who frequents one particular game store or college or housing project could get a couple of their people up into the very lowest levels of government just by all deciding. But, the person they’re going to pick is based on actually knowing and respecting (at least vaguely) that person, not on TV commercials. And then the L1 people can do likewise, they obviously will start to know each other and they can develop some consensus about who should go up to the city council on their behalf or whatever.

This is just my random pipe dream but I think it is a good idea

Holy God man. I expected it to be bad and it was so much worse.

I do understand saying deliberately wrong things just to get attention, and I think assassinating anybody is a horrifying and wrong thing to do, but out of all the variety, the thing about Clarence Thomas being greater than MLK Jr makes me want to go punch his corpse in the face.

Just to make sure, it is still a good idea to have a contractor over to take a look. Water may have been in the walls for a while before it came out the downstairs ceiling, and if you now have issues with mold or rot, they will be cheaper to resolve the sooner you start trying to resolve them.

I was extremely tempted to go to the user’s profile and downvote a bunch of stuff at random.

I decided that was childish and inflammatory and changed my mind, although I do still think it would be a little bit funny. I also did find the mod’s original comment, and discovered you can still downvote comments which have been deleted out of cowardice. It’s now at -31 votes so presumably some other people had the same idea.

large red öniön, Turkish yoghurt on the side. A pint of beer with it. Mmm.

I am sorry to report, I’ve lost my faith in your nutritional science capabilities

Edit: If I am to take it out of the realm of sarcastic dismissal, I would say that you spun up this whole narrative about how the person you’re talking to is addicted to sugar and needs to eat sweet stuff constantly throughout the day, just because they said they can’t go a full day without eating. I don’t even violently disagree with most of what you’re saying here, most of it I agree with if it is applied to someone who is constantly eating and whose metabolism is adapted like you said, but it seems unlikely that that applies to the person you’re talking to. It feels like you sort of applied a whole bunch of stuff that’s more a you situation or something you’re familiar with, to the other person without bothering to gather the information about what’s going on with them. And then talking about the large red öniön just brought it into the realm of the surreal for me.

Your body needs a lot of trace nutrients that are not found in the fat stores, for all kinds of different things.

Also, if it starts to feel like the food supply is threatened, it won’t just happily burn through all the fat reserves down to 0 just trusting that there’s obviously more food available if things get really dire. At that point it’s life and death, and it’ll start to fight. All of these metabolic systems were designed and tuned for environments a lot more unpredictable than modern supermarket life of someone who always has money. Sure, you can “train” it to use up the fat reserves. But it’ll also start concluding that resources are scarce, and it’ll start hoarding in fat whatever it can get its hands on, and ramp way down on resource consumption for a few different pretty important things, among them running the brain and maintaining the physical structures in the body.

If you want your body to run through its fat reserves, do intermittent fasting. I have no real idea, but I suspect that the regularity of it is detected by the body and interpreted as a signal that things are stable and reliable, and it’s okay to reduce the fat reserves which will then carry a few other benefits which are evolutionarily good things. Just “eat less sugar ignore when you’re hungry to train your body to burn fat” isn’t necessarily wrong I think, but it needs a whole bunch of asterisks to really become complete good advice, as far as I knkow.

Years upon years ago, I was working as a laborer, and my GF at the time learned that I loved little kids’ snacks, fruit snacks and gummies and things like that. She started packing for me little packets of treats in my lunch, which I enjoyed.

One time I made the mistake of offering one to one of my burly Romanian coworkers. I didn’t want to be rude and bust out snacks without sharing them. “Want some lucky duckies?” I said, and offered him the little packet of cheese crackers shaped like ducks. He looked at it, confused, and asked, “What is this?” I explained. He looked back at it with pure contempt and said, “No. I do not want this.”

His loss man, lucky duckies are fucking delicious.