I, uh… I don't get it. Somebody help an idiot out? I haven't had my morning cuppa yet so it might just be a lack of caffeine.

But why can a theme make web requests?!

Because we live in a broken world and nothing matters.

On a more serious note, it's a pretty horrifying misfeature. What's even more worrying is that by all appearances Microsoft doesn't give a shit, if they apparently didn't even bother removing the malicious extensions that were reported. Not that I'm surprised, but still.

unzip && strip && touch && finger && grep && mount && fsck && more && yes && fsck && fsck && umount && clean && sleep

Edit: and yes, this joke is older than the gods as evidenced by the presence of finger, and I'm not sure clean is a thing in modern UN*X distros. Not in FreeBSD at any rate

Do you want to learn about probabilistic data structures?

• maybe
• no

“I tell you with confidence: I have changed,”

I tell you with confidence: he's fucking lying

Conservatism as a political ideology is very attractive to psychopaths and sadists (and/or, in a word, idiots) – "the cruelty is the point" isn't just an empty saying, it's very often the literal truth when it comes to conservative moral judgements. Rulings like this are just an example of how devoid of any sort of empathy they can be. It's not a political ideology so much as it is a way for people with dark tetrad personality traits to wield power; conservatives are extremely easy to manipulate due to being on average dumber than non-conservatives, so it's a perfect combination.

Looks like a totally fair election; normal countries always make their citizens vote at gunpoint.

seen doctors force sex change to children that lead to the child killing themselves in adulthood

Why do transphobes lie all the fucking time? Like, is there something wrong with your brain preventing you from not lying?

Can't remember the last time my car with paint on it rusted after a couple of days of rain

The idea that Europe isn't militarily self-sufficient is, frankly, horseshit. The US just has such an incredibly outsized military that anything will look "insufficient"

I fully support Glacerán's or any other somehow differently abled person's right to do anything they want. It's unironically great that she got into politics, and it's great that people with Down's get representation like this which has been sorely missing.

This doesn't change the fact that Down's syndrome does have effects on cognitive function, and there's clear neuroanatomical differences that cause those effects. This doesn't mean she or anybody else with Down's is somehow "less than" anybody else, but it's undeniable that there's going to be some sort of cognitive deficit there when compared to the general population, which is why it's not exactly surprising that Glacerán felt that a conservative party was the most "attractive".

I don't see how it's ableism to point out that there's a lot of research showing that people who endorse right-wing ideals are more likely to have lower cognitive abilities (of multiple types). It's not like I'm saying everybody who has Down's is going to be prejudiced because they're 100% certainly going to be conservative, or that people with Down's shouldn't be allowed to participate in politics, for example. But the fact of the matter is that there's a lot of empirical evidence that conservative ideologies are attractive to folks with comparatively worse cognitive skills, because they're exactly the sort of people who would be motivated to support an ideology that emphasizes tradition and strict social norms, and Down's does lead to cognitive issues.

The biggest threat from AI isn't it going all Skynet on us, but how rich people will use it to the detriment of the rest of us.