Malgas

Skin bandits?

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don’t know why that’s surprising to me, since they’re just Unicode, but it is.

I believe the g palatalizes the n, so it’s more like nyok-key.

Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.

In fairness, the first iteration of that deal was Pepsi for Stolichnaya.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.

First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.

If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.

Go for the eyes, Boo!

This format is especially apropos, as Natalie Portman is one of a handful of actors with an Erdos number.

On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they’ll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it’s not the robots who strike the first blow.

I don’t think I’ve ever had it straight, but clamato is pretty good in a michelada.

That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.

There’s a Linux clone called fsv.

It’s technically possible for a woman of color to have white children, due to Punnett square shenanigans. Not likely, but it has happened.

But there’s also the issue of the timeline. Age of consent in Florida is 18, so (assuming no other laws are to be broken) this would require even white women to have an average of six kids in four years. Which is…also improbable.

Also rooks.

Best advice I’ve probably gotten on any subject ever was in a modern physics course. The professor said to focus on the math first and then, only when you’ve got a solution, think about what it means. If you try to think about it while working it out, your intuitions about what should happen will get in the way and you’ll make mistakes.

If q=√p then -q=√p also.

See also: Herodotus is the father of history despite being an absolutely terrible historian by modern standards.

My guess would be that it’s a plaster cast of an ant nest.

"A moon chooses…“

Biblically accurate kitty.