If you go through your day and meet one asshole, they were an asshole. If you go through your day and keep meeting assholes…

…maybe instead of expecting the world to get more i tune with your sense of humor, the person who needs to make the adjustment is you. The Internet is made of strangers who can’t hear your tone of voice or see your tongue-in-cheek expression. Poe’s Law basically defines the Internet.

China seems to think it can be friends with everybody.

The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out

PiS isn’t pro-Russia so much as it’s anti-EU. They see Brussels the same way they see Moscow: as a sinister foreign power that wants to control Poland, and they see Poland as surrounded by the EU and Russia, with only the USA as a trustworthy ally keeping both in check.

In principle I agree. The problem is that there are countries which don’t care about respecting law and if you kill AI in the West, all that will happen is the West will get left behind.

Fun fact:

“Reign” is what a monarch does. “Rein” is the strap with which a rider controls a horse. When a rider allows a horse “free rein”, it means the rider is holding the reins loosely so as to allow the horse to steer itself.

I have saved you a letter!