Pour one out for Elise Stephanik, who is apparently in the middle of learning that even the Nazis don't trust quislings and converts.
No ambassadorship, no governorship, and now not even running for her own seat. Tossed like the used rag she is.
@Federation_Bot
Protesters express solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers https://groundup.org.za/article/protesters-across-express-solidarity-with-palestine-action-hunger-strikers/
I didn't get the job. We are completely fucked.
@vtrlx take a look at the citation for the claim: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/pascal/ not only does it begin with:
Pascal did not publish any philosophical works during his relatively brief lifetime.
the only other indication of his religious fervor was.......also found on him after death:
During the night of 23 November 1654, Pascal had a dreamlike or ecstatic experience which he interpreted as a religious conversion. He wrote a summary of the experience in a brief document entitled the Memorial, which he sewed into his coat and carried with him until his death eight years later.
this mysterious text began with an introduction from some other fucking guy:
Périer may have exaggerated the other-worldly attitude of his late brother-in-law,
he apparently did write about religion, under a pseudonym (not explained how it was known to be pascal), but it was to defend someone else from church censure:
The Provincial Letters are Pascal's deeply personal, angry response to the use of political power and church censure
then we get to the same concern i had with franz kafka:
Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
so you're saying he could easily have been manipulated by his family, or perhaps even led to death by neglect at their desire
In addition, many of the reported details of his personal life suggest a fundamentalist interpretation of religious belief that is difficult to reconcile with the critical reflection that defines philosophy as a discipline.
which again, is also at odds with the faux-"logical" argument of the "wager"! consider this:
according to Pascal's radical theological position, it was impossible in principle to acquire or support genuine religious faith by reason, because genuine religious faith was a pure gift from God.
which is completely at odds with the translations of the text on the wikipedia page which describe a finite number of lives as a bet. but then it just says this outright:
Given the status of the Pensées as a posthumously published notebook, it also remains unclear whether Pascal endorsed the opinions that are recorded there, or whether he planned to use some of them merely for comment or critique. They are reliably attributed to Pascal only when he expressed similar views elsewhere.
emphasis mine because oh? you're saying there's stuff in this notebook that may not be attributable to blaise pascal? you're just gonna say that as the immediate sentence before mentioning the section which has the "wager"?
@hipsterelectron This subject is honestly worth doing a deep dive on. What you've pointed out makes me think some kind of conspiracy is abound.
New blog post: "Why I Built a Kubernetes Deployment Tool for PHP Developers"
After 15+ years of production PHP and watching teams burn weeks on K8s adoption, I finally built the tool I wished existed.
The premise: the gap between docker-compose and production shouldn't require a platform team.
https://eric.mann.blog/why-i-built-a-kubernetes-deployment-tool/
In what is probably yet another example of optimism over experience. Have filed another bug report on an opensource project. I await finding out what unusual method this project uses to make the end user feel like shit this time...
@quixoticgeek Hopefully it’ll turn out allright this time, thanks for reporting anyway!
The branding team behind MS office looked at clippy, their most hated feature for many years, and thought "what if we make the whole software package clippy. What if it's clippy the whole way day. And we brand it as clippy too. Maybe the. The users will truly love clippy"
And thus they pissed away 30 years of beans identity, and renamed office as copilot app...
@quixoticgeek if Microslop's CEO were really brave he would rename the company Copilot, just like Zuckerberg renamed Facebook after their most popular product, the metaverse.
#Tusky Test can now display quotes! Please let me know how you like it and report any bugs.
@nileane I just found something very interesting.
I use Stylus within Vivaldi to use your Tangerine UI(Cherry) and when I do, it effects at least one specific Twitch stream that I watch, which is this one: https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage
What happens is, I can hear the stream but can't see the stream itself. As soon as I disable TangerineUI then the stream is visible again without any issues.
Frozen fractals all around
Liebe Bonner,
ein neues Jahr ist angebrochen, also wird es Zeit für den ersten Stammtisch unserer fedi-Community in 2026! 🎉
Wann? - 22.01.26, 18 Uhr
Wo? - Makiman 1, Sterntorbrücke 11, 53111 Bonn
Weil die Frage öfters kommt: Ja klar dürft ihr dazu stoßen, bitte unbedingt! 😊
Was erwartet euch?
Nette Menschen, Austausch, gemeinsam was essen und trinken.
Bitte gebt mir bis zum 19.01. Bescheid, ob ihr dabei seid zwecks Reservierung.
One thing I don't really talk about much is that most of my designs work within HTTP and do not rely on DNS.
There are two reasons for this:
- I want to support Onion Services and Tor users in general.
- DNSSEC evangelism sucks.
Detrazione 75% per l’ascensore in condominio, si può ripartire tra coniugi ?
https://www.repubblica.it/economia/diritti-e-consumi/casa/2026/01/06/news/detrazione_75_per_l_ascensore_in_condominio_si_puo_ripartire_tra_coniugi_-425078476/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Economia - La Repubblica @economia-la-repubblica-repubblica
US corporations were the reason for the deal. Heat up the panini press for new double Dutch sandwiches....
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
Bad codegen for comparing struct of two 16bit ints, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/140167.
Excellent discussions about a simple problem in appearance: Comparing a struct with two `u16` could be achieved by comparing one `u32` (bits concatenation of both `u16`, both should be loaded in the same register). Turns out, despite being a nice optimisation, it’s rather complex!
Edit: it also works with `i16` and `i32` of course.
I wonder how many billions it's gonna cost the economy these few days of snow grinding things to a halt...
@quixoticgeek probably more than if we had prepared, and that would have required spending money and no penny pitching liberal would want to spend €1 in preparation, where we could spend €2 in clean up
mo' manca solo una guerra in Asia e una in Oceania e avemo fatto tombola.
