Yeah, there’s never a hard dividing line between a species and its immediate predecessor. Merely a gradual chain of mutations that eventually results in distinct populations. If those populations can’t successfully interbreed even if transported to meet, they’re different species. The definitions for asexually reproducing organisms are even more fuzzy. This concept that taxonomy doesn’t have fixed divisions confuses a lot of anti-evolutionists.

The proto-chicken was a mutant Red Junglefowl. Just like a proto-dog was a mutant wolf.

The US has no national ID system.

The business is genociding the out-group. It is just the cost of doing business to them.

I always knew Mondrian was painting cow production machines.

The photograph example has local hidden variables. The quantum version doesn’t, but nothing has ruled out non-local hidden variables. Locality is a nice property we want the universe to have, but the universe doesn’t have to obey our desires.

Quite happy. I’ve made some bad decisions, like hanging myself, but I wouldn’t be who I am today if I hadn’t, so I don’t regret them. I’m just happy to have learned, and come out OK. If I hadn’t done that I’d have graduated university a year earlier, gotten a different job than the one I have now, never met the woman I’m married to, etc. My life might have been better, but it would certainly have been different. And I very much like the life I have now, so even though I’ve made some objectively bad decisions I don’t regret them. I cannot change the past, and doing so would not be worth the cost, so I have no regrets. I am content.

Were you not in the age group to watch Mr. Rogers? Because he turned out to be exactly what he appeared to be: kind.

A lot of his works are still good. I just won’t buy new ones, I won’t give him any profits.

None of them, really. Mr. Rogers was genuinely as awesome as he seemed. As a young adult, John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, and Claude Shannon became my heroes. None have anything particularly bad that I’ve seen.

There are some people whose work I admire whom I don’t like, e.g. Harlan Ellison was famously an asshat. But they’re not my heroes, and the work is not the creator.

And the ability to schedule deliveries to happen on a day of the week when you’re likely to be present. And the notifications that your delivery is near, so you can be ready to pick it up (important for expensive items).

It’s never been SemVer.

Notably Death Cap mushrooms aren’t present worldwide. A number of the poisonings are from people who learned about mushroom foraging in one area, then moved to California and didn’t learn that the safe mushrooms from their home have deadly lookalikes in California.

NixOS user, Rust programmer, and bagpiper. The socks go higher than S, but usually get folded down below the knee. And they’re not rainbow, that wouldn’t match the outfit.

I think it depends on why you all meet for the first time.

You’ve all seen an “adventurers wanted” poster, gone to the listed address, passed the interview, and been hired? Fine.

You all randomly meet in a tavern, hear a rumor from one of the locals, and decide to work together with complete strangers? Stupid.

You’re all agents of the authoritarian wizard king “Friend Wizard”, assigned to enforce their authority. You’re also all members of different prohibited secret societies with secret missions to steal from & sabotage Friend Wizard. If you die Friend Wizard will resurrect you, the first 6 resurrections are free and more 6-packs can be purchased. Your DM is running Paranoia in D&D, wacky hijinks will ensue. Silly.

With lentils, I like to use stock instead of water for cooking them. That also works for potatoes, beans, and quite a few other boiled foods.

Selling products below cost is legally anticompetitive behavior. Anticompetitive behavior is only illegal for monopolists, which Valve aren’t. But they have been accused and sued, part of why those suits haven’t lead to them being declared a monopoly is because they don’t engage in enough anticompetitive practices. So adding anticompetitive practices would be extremely risky for Valve.

That’d be anticompetitive and would be used against them in lawsuits. By Epic, who use anticompetitive exclusivity agreements & subsidise giveaways, but aren’t in a dominant market position so it’s totally not hypocritical.

People always point to email as a decentralized system that works. They forget that originally nearly everyone got email through their ISP, and now nearly everyone gets their email through their OS vendor (Google, Apple, or Microsoft), or for businesses one of the few commercial mass mail services like mailchimp that don’t get blocked by spam filters. Self-hosting email is likely to result in a major hassle with undelivered emails due to anti-spam measures these days.

Blue lights suck. Yellow lights suck. White lights (6000K full-spectrum) are good, but more expensive and harder to find.