Yeah, and they don’t even have a clue how clueless they are.

Several designers pointed me to Ian Storm Taylor’s article, “Design Tip: Never Use Black.” In it, Taylor argues that pure black is more concept than color. “We see dark things and assume they are black things,” he writes. “When, in reality, it’s very hard to find something that is pure black. Roads aren’t black. Your office chair isn’t black. The sidebar in Sparrow isn’t black. Words on web pages aren’t black.”

Taylor was correct. The problem is applying it badly. You can back off from absolute black and white while still having good contrast. This is especially true for dark mode.

The author later compares things to newspapers, which are traditionally black on white. Except not quite; newsprint paper isn’t bleached white, and I’m guessing the ink isn’t quite as deep black as it first appears, either.

More importantly, there’s an important distinction between newspapers and computer screens. Newspapers only reflect light around them, while screens give off their own light. This means screens can be significantly brighter than the environment around them.

That’s why dark mode works so well. It keeps the bright points on the screen to the parts you need.

The Administration’s idea is that the 2026 election will be rigged in their favor.

Which might not work. Congressional Republicans may not be in on the plan, at least not all of them. Even if they are, they might be getting cold feet. Same with Republicans at the state level, and they’re the ones who have direct control over elections.

Don’t rely on them falling apart on their own, though.

Political lean can be a funny thing. States move together. It could very well be that it doesn’t shift enough to pick up those extra 3 states, but if it does, there will probably be several more.

Maybe, but they’re also fucked if we disappear. Corn as we know it is so far removed from the native plant that it can’t spread itself around without us.

There’s a Westly Sweater minifig.

You sound like the reason women choose the bear.

Salt participates in chemical reactions of cooking beyond just being salty. You do notice in other ways.

I know someone who had to go on a salt-free diet for a while. She said that she once broke down crying because of how bland everything tastes.

My wife also has an aunt who’s doctor told her to cut back on salt. She interpreted that as no salt, ever. You can always tell what dish she brought to dinner.

Funny how I never seem to have these issues with fems and non-binary people. Even the ones who grew up masc. In fact, most of the problems there are a direct result of really shitty behavior from men and trying to cope with it.

Instead of going “not all men”, maybe try to point out shitty behavior? Maybe one day, we can get past all this.

Try an experiment: go on Fetlife and setup a profile as a fem. Start collecting DMs. It might be enlightening.

And by your own definition, you’re also the worst.

Yes, you’re very smart.

It’s most useful because it’s popular. I can travel to the other side of the country, find a local game shop, and sit down at a group and have a shared understanding of the rules.

I’ve directly heard the argument from creationists of “they were wrong about Pluto being a planet, why would they be right about evolution?” Yeah, misunderstanding how all this works does matter.

Xbox is failing at this point. I suspect Rockstar might have to bump the timeline of the PC version.

But I’ll still do what I did with GTA V and wait for it to hit bargain bins.

The shutdown would end tomorrow if Republicans were 10% less cruel. That’s really all the Democratic demand comes down to.

On the one hand, it’s more of the same establishment Dem strategy of spending a lot of effort to get very little. From a political perspective, though, I can see the appeal here. Dems aren’t asking for much. Just be slightly less cruel. It’s an easy sell to the American people that Republicans would have to compromise very little, and therefore continuing the shutdown is on them.

As a pansexual man, men are the worst. If it wasn’t mandated by evolution, I don’t know why women would put up with us.

He keeps trying to start a war. Other countries see it for what it is and mostly ignore it. Iran, Venezuela, and now Nigeria.

I bet it comes with a condescending “you really need to think things through” attached, too. I’ve ran into the type before.

The next fad will be Thunderdome. Are you ready to go beyond that?

No, it won’t. The DRAM market is dominated by three companies, and they’ve colluded before. They get their wrist slapped by some government body, they promise not to do it again, and then they wait a few years and do it again.

Reject LLM. Return to Markov Chain.