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  1. Comment on Scott Adams dead: Dilbert creator was 68 in ~comics

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    It’s really unfortunate that Adams turned out to be such an awful person, but when I read about his passing it occurred to me that in my occasional musing over pop-culture artifacts that epitomize...

    It’s really unfortunate that Adams turned out to be such an awful person, but when I read about his passing it occurred to me that in my occasional musing over pop-culture artifacts that epitomize various decades I had neglected Dilbert, which was a very 90s comic.

  2. Comment on Remembering Erich von Däniken, 1935 – 2026 in ~books

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    Same here. I was around 12 when I read it, really the perfect age for that sort of claptrap. I thought it was so exciting, but ironically enough the arguments in Chariots of the Gods? are so...

    Same here. I was around 12 when I read it, really the perfect age for that sort of claptrap. I thought it was so exciting, but ironically enough the arguments in Chariots of the Gods? are so flimsy that it is the ideal subject for a lesson in critical thinking. Even as a credulous teen I was pretty quickly dissuaded from taking it seriously.

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  3. Comment on ‘Sell America’ returns to Wall Street after Donald Trump ups the ante against Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve in ~society

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    Trump will probably say that he "fired" Powell when his term expires, and his idiot followers will lap it up.

    Trump will probably say that he "fired" Powell when his term expires, and his idiot followers will lap it up.

    12 votes

  4. Comment on US strikes Venezuela and says its leader, Nicolas Maduro, has been captured and flown out of the country in ~society

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    Yeah, I imagine this will put the standing of the US in Latin America back to where it was sometime around 1970.

    Yeah, I imagine this will put the standing of the US in Latin America back to where it was sometime around 1970.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on The hardest working font in Manhattan in ~design

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    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it. Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese...

    I was so happy to read this article. I’ve been in love with this typeface for a long time without knowing anything about it.

    Another place it (or something very similar) turns up is Japanese websites when they need to render the Latin alphabet. That’s where I first became consciously aware of it. It seemed so wonderfully functional and no-nonsense.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots in ~tech

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    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I...

    I think it does expose something real, though. I’ve had a couple of disagreements where I genuinely couldn’t believe that anyone addressing the topic in good faith could disagree with me. I assumed it was a misunderstanding of the issue, but when I tried to explain I was accused of being condescending. Fortunately these haven’t been terribly important disputes, but something like the “scissor statements” the story posits do seem to exist.

    6 votes