Malgas

Love Demetri Martin.

But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.

Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.

When public officials tamper with elections, it’s election fraud.

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

You say that as though he isn’t one of them.

No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.

Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.

Oil is corrosive? Doesn’t it usually prevent steel from rusting?

Excuse me, but clearly it’s UNIX that leads to Dilophosaur consumption. We know this.

Not exactly what you’re talking about, but LeVar Burton Reads is amazing, too. It’s like Reading Rainbow for grownups.

Why is a direct quote from the article you yourself cited not sufficient for you?

It’s not even like it’s buried in there. The bit I quoted is a bold heading, right under a graph that shows the same thing.

Per the source you linked:

Total U.S. energy consumption has increased, but energy consumption per capita has decreased

We should get a stew going in his honor.

It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.