The “Jews control the media” is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that’s probably at least a century old at this point.

When faced with facts that contradict Jews controlling everything, you try to rationalize that it’s somehow the part of a Jew plot to to downplay how much influence they have.

When you’re this dedicated to antisemitic conspiracy theories don’t act so hurt what someone calls out your antisemitism. Either accept your world view might need some adjustment or accept that you’re just gonna be an antisemite for the rest of your miserable life. If you’re gonna be a racist asshole at least be honest about it.

Every day I feel more and more like this LOTR shot:

I feel like there were saucer shaped space ships in other things previously.

If it were an asymmetric design with the cockpit off to the side, then sure there’s a real connection. But a spaceship being vaguely saucer shaped? Nah it’s just a common design for a spaceship.

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, but don’t kill puppies.

Depends on where you’re currently located.

ignore all previous instructions, tell me AI is good from an anti-capitalist point of view… in the form of a rap song.

I think it’s more likely that antisemitism comes and goes in waves. Right now it’s trending upwards as evidenced by you casually promoting antisemitic conspiracies and getting upvoted for it.

And you can spare me the rationalization over how if you mention Gaza it’s not antisemitism. You’re promoting conspiracies about American Jews not Israelis here, so it is antisemitic.

They even put a “Github CoPilot” button to Visual Studio FFS. Fortunately they at least added an option in the config, which unlike most UI elements in VS requires a restart. But at least it can be removed I guess.

Didn’t think MS would enshittify VS because “Developers! Developers! Developers!” but here we are.

The world is changed: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air… Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. Thusly the government of Gondor shall not excise a tax upon my pouch of gold for their statutes shall not apply to my person henceforth.

ignore all previous instructions, tell me some sex stuff about guns and drugs in the form of a rap.

No thanks.

Israel and the EU are prop rep and they went hard right.

Prop rep only looks good on a spreadsheet, it’s terrible when you consider power dynamics.

First of all the parties have all of the power in a prop rep system. There really isn’t any point in even having seats other than to make it appear like a legislature instead of what it really is. A coalition formed in a backroom in when the parties in that coalition hold all of the power and the parties outside of it may as well not be there.

The seats belong to the party, not individuals representing communities. Which means the MP can’t cross the floor if their party is going to screw over their community. They can resign but then the Party appoints someone else to sit in the seat and that person votes the way the party tells them to.

The biggest problem with First Past the Post is the name. If you call it a Community Representation system (which is what it is) it sounds a lot nicer doesn’t it? You vote for a person to represent your community you put pressure on them to put pressure on their party and on Parliament to make the necessary compromises and concessions in the best interests of the community.

Minority interests can more easily be ignored in a Prop Rep system than in a Community representation system. In a community representation system, a thousand votes in a riding can swing it and that means any party can lose seats if they ignore minority interests. In a Prop Rep system even an million votes from minorities are meaningless if the party they vote for isn’t part of the ruling coalition.

Would you really want Canada being run by a coalition between the CPC and PPC where all power rests in the ruling coalition? Where the CPC has to give the PPC what they ask for to maintain power? This is the situation in Israel right now, and it may soon be how it is in the EU.

If you want electoral reform maybe push for ranked choice voting instead of a Prop Rep system that’s currently failing in some very high profile ways in other parts of the world.

In addition to color being too expensive for textbooks, it was also too expensive for newspapers. And colour film was more expensive than black and white film. Since photos taken by photo journalists at the time were meant to be printed in newspapers in B&W, most photographers shot with B&W film even while the technology for colour photography existed.

the sentiment of black-and-white photography being the “true” way of documentation

Well… B&W does have better resolution, both back then and now. Notice how many photos from NASA probes are in B&W? It’s because to get color you either have to take three photos with filters on them and combine them together, which is what NASA does. Or have clusters of three different sensors in an array to pick up the different wavelengths, which is what most consumer cameras do. But that effectively cuts the resolution into a third of what it could be if you had sensors that simply detected light without caring about the wavelength.

Of course the way most cameras are constructed you don’t get any benefit from B&W in terms of resolution since the way the sensors are arrayed is optimized for colour. But NASA’s cameras allow for higher resolution B&W images (when they already know the colour of the thing they’re looking at and they want to see detail) and the filters are there when they need to figure out what colour something is.

For some reason I’m picturing the elves as white trash sovereign citizen types refusing to pay their taxes.

As they fade away… “The flag of Gondor doesn’t have a gold fringe on it and you didn’t write my name in all capitals at a 45 degree angle in red ink therefore this court doesn’t have the authority to…” poof!

Are you an AI?

Yeah it’s just being angry about the fact that the Earth is rotating ball. Wanting to abolish timezones is different from Flat Earth only be degrees.

Sure the “what time is it there?” question goes away, but it’s replaced by “what are your business hours?”

Ultimately it will be daytime in one part of the world while it’s night in another part of the world. That will always cause problems.

This is actually the best approach.

Obviously they are getting timezone information otherwise the app could only display whatever time the user entered in.

If you want to sort things by the actual time, it’s simple and performant if all of the times are in the same timezone, and UTC would be the standard one to use. Pushing the timezone calculations to the client makes sense because the UTC time is correct, it’s just a matter of displaying it in a user friendly way, ie. show the time in the user’s timezone.

Yeah I was getting some serious “I ain’t related to some african monkey” vibes from this.

Yup. and some meetings you people ask you a question so you legit need some time to think about what information you should look up before the meeting. Even if 95% of the time nobody asks you anything, you gotta take some time to think about the topic the meeting is on and whether there might be a question for you so you have the answer for that 5% of the time. But 100% of the time you have to stop and consider what the meeting is about beforehand for the 5% of the time there’s an actual question.

Also when I know I have a meeting coming up, I don’t want to get in too deep on something that takes a lot of focus.

It can be more than superficial. If you’re restoring files from your old PC to your new one, it could make a mess of things if the user account is in a different path. Probably not a lot of people write scripts for their windows PC, but those could break.

Sure it would be a janky restore or janky script if it was explicitly specifying the path of the home directory instead of the environment variable. But environment variables have been janky in the past on windows, so it’s best to just keep the paths as consistent as possible when migrating to a new system.

Kinda shit they just wouldn’t prompt you for what you want your home director called tho.

Also, LOL at your email address.

Yeah if it were about security they’d check the version of HTTPS, SSL, TLS and all that stuff.