Side question: What do you use as an RSS reading?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a fantastic book about comics and visual arts in general.

This is exactly my training, too.

Venture capitalists funded it, and when their money runs out, they must be paid.

Bluesky users will be advertised to. Their information will be sold. No thanks!

Sad to hear this news.

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

I’ve never seen one of these, but about 5 years ago I saw a gravy dispenser at a gas station for biscuits & gravy.

I passed.

That’s Cameron’s story, of how he survived having a shitty dad and a shitty friend.

Does beer come with that?

Yes, but sleep soundly at night on a big pile of money.

Yeah, I do not think Python is a very good comparison.

I was thinking more like Clojure:

1. Enthusiastic and friendly geeks trying to push their language on the world trying to make it a better place. They are both definitely not a little cultish!
2. Language intended to be simple to learn with a limited and regular vocabulary, but can handle complicated work with ease.
3. They both say that learning their language will make your mind better able to do other languages.
4. A bridge between languages. Vanilla Clojure runs on the JVM and can invoke Java commands. But it has also been built on other platforms like JavaScript (ClojureScript), .NET (CLR), Python (Basilisp), BASH (Babashka), and others I think.
5. The parts of both languages can be broken up, mixed, and matched, and used for other parts. In Esperanto, the fundamental elements can be broken down and made into other words. In Clojure, you’ve got functions and lists - and higher order functions that work on functions and lists, and lists of functions, and functions of lists.
6. Did I mention: Friendly & welcoming geeks that lo-o-o-ove newbies! Seriously, both Clojure nerds and Esperanto nerds are unnaturally nice and would like to welcome you to the club. They’ve got tons of free resources for you to learn it.

Honestly, I think both are right. Both are simple languages that expand your way of thinking, and are probably both worth learning, if you’re into that sort of thing.

The random dumb people would still be bribed.

Wasn’t that Mitt Romney and Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury? (I forget his name.) But I remember him looking like a Bond villain.

About Esperanto, since it’s not a national language (intentionally so) it’s hard to do a census of speakers.

Also, to what level is considered “speaking Esperanto”? Taking the Duolingo course? Having it as a “mother tongue” where both parents speak it in a household in order to communicate? These are both probably countable, and produce wildly different numbers.

Mi pensas ke, vi volis tajpi, “Python (aŭ Pitono) malfeliĉigas min.”

• Mal : Opposite
• Feliĉ- : Happy
• Ig : Makes (Transitive verb)
• As : Present tense.

“Mi malfeliĉas.” : I’m sad.

“Pitono malfeliĉigas ĉiujn.” (Python makes everyone sad.)

Ackshully, Clojure is Esperanto, and I will not be taking questions at this time.

“My pets aren’t spoiled. They are compensated fairly for the services they provide.”

Hot German potato salad is a thing.

There’s always an xkcd for every forum thread topic.

The more complex computers get, the greater probability that we are actually living in a simulation!

“Just give me a plastic bottle of water.”