Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

somehow people never make that leap though they just want the private organizations to do good for everybody out of some sense of personal justice or idek

a state-owned institution, funded by the people and acting on their behalf and in their interests, has moral, legal, and political responsibilities to meet their needs.

a private organization doesn’t. a private organization certainly doesn’t have an obligation to meet the needs of EVERY person. they can just pick a subset.

if all the private organizations are picking subsets which don’t include you, that’s a strong argument for state ownership.

sometimes the way people talk about companies is as if they think companies should be owned by the state

sometimes these people are even anarchists

yesterday for work i literally copy pasted the XSLT that generates the index pages of www.u2764.com and slapped an MIT license on it and stuck it in a work repository

imagine if tumblr users knew how to throw out a good etaoin instead of an asghfklgs

good ol' linotype, saving us from the boring comprehensibility of the modern era

people who know etaoin shrdlu also have access to a much better set of arbitrary variable names than foo and bar

people who know etaoin shrdlu have a distinct advantage at wordle

ooh maybe TRIES, although it’s not as fun

TARES is also good

you should definitely have both T and S in your first word because those letters are frequent combinators (without them H becomes much less likely); S at the end gives you peace of mind; L or R helps point you to/away from BL/PL/GL/CL and BR/PR/DR/TR/GR/CR

my proposal for wordle starting word is TELOS

coin enthusiasts just can't handle that the high-tech future of money is paper

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nill#English

what does it do?

for ( const $ in new Array (5).fill() ) {
try {
console.log(`processing step ${ +$ + 1 }…`)
throw new Error }
catch ( error ) {
break }
finally {
continue } }

differs from “how much freedom” in that one may have high freedom to choose between a small set of choices, but that would be low valence

used like “how much valence”, “more/less valence”, “increase/decrease the valence”

is “valence” as a word meaning “quantity of options which one may freely choose between” not a common usage?!

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upset that mrrr isn't in the dictionary