is there an up to date list of banana republics somewhere? uk, italy and lots of other “free” countries have put large-scale censorship into place recently. as always, think of the children
Tag: stupid
PHP function names
Turns out that 18 years ago, PHP had ~100 functions. The function names got put in a hash map. The hash function chosen? Strlen. Thus, the function names were chosen so the hash collisions would be minimized (by creating a uniform distribution of function name length). Which means the origin of all those insane and inconsistent names in PHP is even worse than I’d always thought. I am literally blown away. I can barely conceive of a more mind-shatteringly idiotic thing.
Affluenza
I thought the perpetrator was a victim because of the Justin Bieber haircut, but this is amazing too:
You have this problem, if “you have too much and you don’t know how to distribute it.” in his view, this “defense” is “not exclusively for the rich.” So, good news—if you live in poverty but have too much stuff to distribute, this defense may also be available to you.
2022-01-31:
Responding to the tragedy with a triumphant show of support, members of a local community came together Monday to express hope that killing 2 people in a drunk-driving accident would serve as a wake-up call to the promising young rich kid responsible. “With any luck, this little mishap will be a turning point for [perpetrator of DUI manslaughter] Greg [Nelker], and he’ll graduate and go on to Yale without incident,” said concerned resident John Morgan, adding that he was sure the 17-year-old high school senior and frequent drunk driver realized how lucky he was that nothing worse had happened.
Upworthy Generator
i gather upworthy is some sort of slacktivist clickbait thing.
Santacon PSA
remember that president obama has issued shoot to kill orders for santacon for anyone caught outside in santa gear.
Tab Closed; Didn’t Read
interstitials: even more desperate and even less effective than the pimples of the web, social media buttons.
If you’re going to insist on obscuring your content with some stupid social shit, a promo for your shitty app or a full-page newsletter signup form, then I’m not going to read your content. Or click on your ads. Or help you generate revenue in any way.
Wedding scams
the wedding-industrial complex thrives on a string of mistakes nearly everyone makes. it starts with paying a fortune for a material that isn’t actually rare (diamonds) and continues through overpaying for every little bit that is somehow wedding related.
Because this event is (ideally) once in a lifetime, that also means that vendors can appeal to consumers’ sentimentality, urging them not to cheap out on the “most important” day of their lives. Because of similar concerns about guilt-tripping salespeople, the Federal Trade Commission requires funeral homes to provide its bereaved customers with an itemized price list.
US Loons
Our new and exciting series presenting a representative sample of American loons.
the world would be better off without all of these. as you click through and read their particular flavor of loony, the blood curdles.
Fluff
Another terrible company going down. Path CEO quote from better days:
I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
Against comments
“A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for 2 people to “debate” on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.
now some philanthropist needs to buy twitter and shut it down, for the same reason.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 