It’s the Correlation vs Causation T-shirt.

This makes me irrationally angry. Well done!

Is America projecting again? 好没想到的啊！

Pure Opera!

She read Dom Juan ?

Troy coming back with pizzas to absolute chaos in the room is one of my favourite gif.

Haha yeah, that was my experience. “So how are you feeling?” “Yeah, I can feel the juice spreading through my system like I’m on fire. It’s pretty painful” and then I’m out.
That whole experience was a radical way to confirm my pain tolerance seems to be above average so I ain’t complaining, though. It’s a nice change from when I was a kid and having panic attacks at the thought of needles.

Although it was also my first choice, magister is masculine. Latin is a gendered language (with more than just m/f) and AFAIK magister isn’t neutral.

I have this feeling it’s more like a mentalist mind-trick.

We are fed so many inputs from so many sources, we don’t notice the influence, but we end up thinking about such and such, maybe talking about it with other people and suddenly, lo and behold! the algorithm presents us with an ad for the very subject that was on our mind! Mind reading! Magic!

But just like a Derren Brown subject, we just picked the card he wanted us to pick from the beginning.

I reckon the only thing preventing us from being completely subjugated is the amount of actors trying to influence us simultaneously, as we flock through our attention grabbing sources.

Which is why the consolidation of media is such a worrisome phenomenon. One dude controlling an entire network of sources means you are constantly under the same influence.

And then you get MAGA.

I wonder what’s next?

Oh thank fuck, I’m not alone!

Seriously, I was new to frontend and using jQueryUI back then and it took me like a few seconds to lookup the term and parameter so my autocompletes wouldn’t DoS my backend. I’m amazed to see shit like this in prod.

Well, nobody is turning back to rescue them these days, so they better be careful.

Oh dear. I may have done that a few times…

I’ll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!

Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!

Why does it sound like you’re writing plugins for Keycloak?

Nice read, thanks! Reminds me a bit of “when sysadmins roamed the Earth” (IIRC).

PTSD flashbacks to the codebase I started on in 2008 which had… I don’t even remember. Like six or seven levels. Fucking nightmare. I did a printout of the analysis Doxygen gave me and it ended up as a 4x3 meters poster ;_;

Looks like authentic euro Chinese food, yeah.

Or exposure.