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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Maybe it’s just worse when written. The period at the end of the sentence makes it hard to see how it could be misunderstood.

    To your point though, not sure if I’m aware of any programming language that would continue a statement with a following if block. Far more likely that it would fail due to lack of an element to apply the 6 to rather than having a pointer to the previous object, or he would try getting what ever the literal version of a 6 would be, or maybe some slang version.


  • I think the question he has is why would you have to ‘invoke’ a right they literally spelled out to you just seconds before?

    If the cop pointed to a glass of water on the table and said ‘you have the right to drink this water’ and you drink the water, and later you’re prosecuted for stealing water, or your blatant disregard for property was used against you in court, because you didn’t explicitly state ‘ok, i am invoking my right to drink this water’…

    Aside from emotionally abusive relationships, what other party of life are you explicitly told you have the right to do something and then abused for doing it? It’s basically manipulation disguised as helpful information.


  • From the squiggly lines coming from their heads, my current guess is that it’s like sometime dropping their heads into their hands after working hard on something just to see it carelessly ruined and knowing they’re expected to just do it again, like a bunch of workers spending all day putting up a brick wall and then someone backing into it with a car.








  • Well, can you imagine being given a million dollars and someone coming along and saying ‘oh, sorry, you didn’t withdraw that in time and now it’s no longer there, and you owe use a $100 transaction fee’. That would really suck, wouldn’t it?

    Now imagine that happening 10 times a day, and you can start to imagine how horrible some of these billionaires feel every day!

    Of course to make it more realistic, your job wouldn’t require you to actually ever come into the office or do anything, they would occasionally double or triple your salary based on the stock market, and instead of it being a million dollars, it would be a dollar or so every once in awhile and you wouldn’t know what the transaction fee was because it is effectively less than a rounding error on your current balance. Also banks will loan you money and just write it off if you don’t pay it back with no impact to your credit score.







  • Except for ‘genius’. A PhD meant you will likely be extremely well ‘informed’ about a specific topic in a very narrow field. So well informed that you will be able to come up with ‘something’ worth saying even to others that are well informed in that same field. It’s a pretty low bar with an extremely high motivation/focus/effort requirement.

    I think it’s similar to a job we were hiring for that was essentially cold calling companies too sell licenses for Microsoft. To apply you were required to have a BA. A BA in what, you might ask? Well that didn’t even make it onto the form we used. It was just a checkbox. It was literally a gauge to see if you’d been able to stick through a program like that.