What a funny way to spell “shine on you crazy diamond” 😉

“Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby”

I started a new job some months back, and my boss straight up told us in a team meeting “we’re not paying you to give 100% all the time, that’s not possible. We’re paying you for your average effort. Everyone has good days and bad, so don’t worry about it. Just do the job as good as you can on any given day and if we were right in hiring you, that will be enough.” Kind of blew my mind and confirmed I’d done the right thing signing with that company.

Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the “deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic” side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn’t work all that well :)

Heh, haven’t seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades… Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world’s population is about 80 million people.

You’d have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it’s confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there’s no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.

I’ve always been partial to the phrase “the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they’ve experienced”. Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.

BizTalk was (is?) a solid and also quite impressive product. That said, I’m happy I haven’t had to work with it for years 🙂

Dopesmoker by Sleep clocking in at a nice 63:29 minutes 🙂

Also why life on earth is dying off as well…

Well, it was Zippo lighter fluid, so I guess my second mistake was calling it “gasoline” 😉

Watch out with that, I did it for years but eventually had to stop because I got sore skin from the gasoline in the Zippo. And I quit smoking so didn’t need it any more 🙂