Notices by Bujold (bujold@dice.camp)

@illumniscate @futurebird 📰 "Humans Fail at Basic Communicative Dance Tasks, are 'Unintelligent', Bee Scientists Find"

@AnarchoNinaWrites Dude ran out of nazi dogwhistles some time ago and is now blowing into nazi dog-tubas

@cwebber on the topic of toilet paper, I hate to be the stereotypical bidet guy that pops up every time something vaguely related is mentioned, but: I had some incredibly lucky timing and bought a bidet attachment in February 2020, and if I hadn't heard about it via memes I never would have known about the early COVID TP shortages. They cut down on TP use so much that I'd low-key consider them a good disaster-preparedness investment

@researchfairy
Tech bros: We should go all in on STEM education, kids don't need useless antiquated liberal arts subjects in today's world
Also tech bros: This computer is conscious, intelligent, and speaks the truth, three things that are notoriously easy to define and don't have entire subfields of philosophy dedicated to them!

@JorgeStolfi @futurebird Boy do I have some good news for you: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-global-timekeepers-vote-scrap.html

@futurebird There's this Tom Scott video where he spends ten minutes explaining all the weird edge cases that make writing code involving dates and times such a nightmare. If your idea came to pass and he wanted to update the video, it'd probably be ten full minutes of screaming in horror and despair at the camera