The worst is the exactly wrong amount of smart. Dumb people usually have a limit to the damage they can do.

I use it as my own personal “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”, and follow up by explaining I’m strongly motivated to find the simplest and most reliable solution for any task.

If the rest of the CV was ok, I would fill that cover letter as a positive in culture fit.

But then again, I always say that being lazy is my greatest strength when they ask me in the interview.

It was a nod to the personhood from conception pro-birth argument. But since now Americans get their legal sex assigned at conception, I guess they are all non-binary.

It’s almost like biases and discrimination lead to bad decisions and putting the effort to address them lead to better decisions or something. /S

Nazi Germany didn’t try to get rid of just the Jewish people, it didn’t even start with them. They were sending LGBT people, homeless people, Roma people, left-wing opponents, and even Jehovah Witnesses to concentration camps well before they started rounding up the Jewish people.

The grifters don’t like competition?

The senator for North Mexico needs to stop being such a snowflake.

Welcome to planet Earth. Anything and everything can and will kill you given the chance. The dominant megafauna has evolved to suffer from congenital paranoia and hoarding to cope with it, which allowed them to conquer every part of the globe despite self destructive tendencies. Enjoy your trip.

May they get everything they deserve and more so they can be the vaccine for the next generations’ minds.

Starting?

Depending on the exact reason someone as to be vegan, meat consumption can be considered ok if consent was given. Maybe the pork freely gave part of its meat (don’t kink shame) but the chicken is being held against her will and producing eggs under torture.

As much as there were parts of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and even the Soviet Union that preferred to be part of Germany than part of the country they were in 1939.

As long as the coral cay archipelago south of the peninsula remain the Fidel Castro Islands, I can go with that.

Who cares what the governor of the Cuban Peninsula says?

Ordoliberalism and Christian Democracy are both clearly right wing ideologies and both defend basic social programs like universal healthcare.

Christine Lemmer-Webber (the lead author of the ActivityPub standard) published an article explaining why bluesky is not truly decentralised and how it is different from activitypub.

Funny enough, that’s also the reason that democracy is always in the brink of collapse.

Anyone wants to start an European Citizens Initiative to quarantine everyone coming from the US for the foreseeable future?

Chinese companies are in a catch 22 in Europe because Chinese law is completely incompatible with EU privacy laws.

And American companies are one executive order away from being in the same situation.