Recent content by CleverNickName

One of my colleagues is a wastewater engineer. He always says, "Sewer treatment plants save more lives than hospitals," and he's right.

This cannot be repeated enough. Say it again for the folks in the back.

(Insert Damage on a Miss joke here)

Eh, I don't even bother. Folks who stress out about that level of grammar (typography? etiquette?) need to re-evaluate their priorities.

I still put two spaces after periods and colons, so who am I to complain about title case?

Whatever else we could say about it, that is one truly ugly coin.

For those who don't read French, the artist wrote "This is not a pipe" under his painting of a pipe.

That's what they taught us at university. except there, the argument is usually about a famous pipe. (It's a pipe! Anyone can see that it's a pipe!) (No, it's not a pipe! It's clearly a painting!) (Don't be pedantic, I'm saying the artist painted a pipe!) (The artist literally said "This...

Anyone playing ARC Raiders around here?

Pretty much what I expect from something trained on conspiracy theories and Twitter [stuff]posts.

... with the dictionary?

"Everyone already knows that coffee is hot" was the actual tactic used by McDonalds to challenge a lawsuit... a legitimate injury lawsuit, by an elderly woman who endured a terrible burn and multiple skin grafts. I wouldn't be surprised to see these companies trod out something similar if legal...

Ah well. It's not like they are using social media platforms for anything of lasting consequence. They aren't using this stuff to train any LLMs or anything, right? ...right?

A whistleblower talks about how profits, politicians, and "engagement" are prioritized over safety in social media. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo I mean, we all sort of suspected this already, but this might be the first insider confirmation.

It was said that my generation (Gen X) was "the generation that was raised on television." That wasn't to imply we were the only ones who watched television, or that we watched it the most, or that we invented it...the implication was that we were the first generation to watch television from a...