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Had 5 or 6 people, including myself, in my various Wordle text groups who reported no green letters until solving the puzzle yesterday. Today, all of use had no yellow letters until puzzle was solved...

Was this one of the Cameron shows in the 70's or the Dean Dome shows in 93? I was at the latter, the former were a little before my time..

I've always said the Covid thread over there (even though it glitched out a few times, so I'm not sure if reams of posts got vaporized during any of those incidents) would make for a great historical document as a snapshot of a cybercommunity dealing with it in real time. I mean, that's...

Nor I, but they could spare me the "best interests of the community, subscribers and staff" boilerplate. Somebody got offered more money, period. I doubt the "best interests" (whatever that is) of the community came into it at all. And again, that's fine, but you don't have to act like you...

Caption from the main pic of that article. AI, I assume?: Red Panda perfumes at halftime catching bowls on her head while riding a unicycle during a game between the Vanderbilt Commodores and Kentucky Wildcats in Nashville, Tennessee

I offered the guys in the Wordle thread at IC to come over and check out this place, if for nothing more than to participate on the Wordle thread. Hopefully they'll come over and stick around. One good thing about the wordle thread (here, there and mostly everywhere, I would assume) is no...

And on the payroll...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250618-how-the-grateful-dead-shaped-social-media

Capitalism is also the system we've inherited and billionaire dominance is certainly not a direct contradiction to that. Quite the contrary, actually. I suspect that you have some ideas on capitalism. I also suspect that they wouldn't go over very well with most participants in our current...

I'd like the Cliff Notes version of this episode...

There have been a lot of smart people who didn't think democracy was a desirable social/political arrangement. Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche. LOL, maybe even Marx. Well, he believed in democracy as long as it led to socialism, but is it really democracy if it must lead to a predetermined end...

The idea that building a fairer society is more important than having a system that allows for billionaires is a personal belief. Implementing the means to achieve the former at the expense of the latter is absolutely codifying a personal belief. And I'm not saying that's not my belief as well...