Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.

• Vernon Law

Oh right I see what you mean. If you pretend China is a democracy my point is automatically disproven, that is true.

Don’t forget Taiwan as well. They have HSR although to be fair it’s also a very small country.

I don’t know, man. This sounds like some “the enemy is both strong and weak” BS to me. When they can’t build a HSR in California they are an unplanned economy but when I point out the cost of China’s flavour of government suddenly the US is a dictatorship?

I’ve got no issues acknowledging when China does some good things but come on. I was rightfully making fun of the implication of your meme here and you come back with doublespeak. There’s really no need to pick a side and defend it at all costs, we can acknowledge the positive and negative things.

Now I’m confused, what do you mean? I never said they didn’t have a great high speed rail network. I think they’ve done a great job and I’ve got no problem acknowledging that. I was just poking fun at the implication of the meme.

Very good point and one that people often forget. It’s literally impossible to build high speed rail without first becoming an authoritarian dictatorship.

It was a joke on the dual meaning of “user repository” which I didn’t think about that deeply but that would have been smart.

And the Arch User Repository is really handy when you need some more users.

🎶 The hills are alive … with the sound of uzi’s 🎶

The clockers born starin’ at an empty plate

Momma’s torn hands cover her sunken face

We hungry but them belly full

The structure is set ya neva change it with a ballot pull

Oh man this was rough. Virgin GTA player vs chad Driver player.

Not just the web UX unfortunately.

The thing that bothers me most is that it’s marked as urgent but clearly there is no action required.

YouTube for Android is testing

I call BS, the amount of bugs I regularly run into I don’t think they test much of anything. I sometimes wonder if they even use their own products. The current mini player regularly bugs out for me plus I run into general bugs in the YouTube app pretty often. I guess nobody gets promoted at Google for fixing bugs.

(1/2) = (1/2)

(1/2) = (1 + 1 / 2 + 1)

(1/2) = (2/3)

QED

• Terrance Howard

Why do our brains hate us?

As long as it cannonises Darth Jar Jar I’m on board.

And probably some pretty good games

I definitely disagree with this take but I think I see where you’re coming from. The sequel trilogy was a mess and I think that’s being quite generous but we wouldn’t have gotten something like Andor under Lucas I don’t think.

That’s fair, I think you’re right that it’s subjective. I think Disney managed to pretty much kill the main Star Wars movies at least for me. That said, we also got some pretty great stuff that we definitely wouldn’t have gotten otherwise so it’s not all bad. It was really sad to see LucasArts gutted and EA get exclusive rights to the license for a while though.