does it only effect privates? what about officers, like, say, captains?

I’m not meaning dump 20,000 children alone in the left half of Wyoming, I mean, keep them with their parents, hire teachers, teach them math and science and…basically a history that replaces a lot of “and they believed their gods said” with “the ruling class decided they wanted to”. What happens to children when they are raised in a functioning, supportive, nurturing society that does not contain religion or superstition?

Yeah, the people of the United States have been so stupid for so long that Europe and Canada have spent the last month scrambling to figure out how to do without all the things they rely on us for, to include computer operating systems, CPU architecture, to cloud computing and payment processing systems.

[insert blue liquid in feminine hygiene product commercial joke here]

Amazing

I thought the two of them had a falling out, which is why a lot of the videos the two of them were in aren’t up anymore.

My instinct would be to use the one that seems to have a functioning door handle.

Then the experiment would yield data.

American components, Russian components, All made in Taiwan!!!

Take ten or twenty thousand children, take over a fairly large portion of a midwestern state, build a large and complete environment for them to live in including towns, museums, theme parks etc. and raise them as normal Americans but absolutely 100% avoid introducing them to the concept of religion until they’re 25.

Clumsy bludgeoning, please!

Let me tell you a little bit about all those various file converter tools, be it ffmpeg, pandoc, imagemagick, whatever.

The majority of them can be used like this: magick inputfile.bmp outputfile.jpg. If all you need is this file in that format, that’s how you do it. They’re ridicluously capable, you can do editing and compositing and such with them and whatever. If you have a use case where you do that a lot, like you just always put a watermark on images or you always desaturate them or whatever, you can write a script, then just run that script.

They’re basically all like that. Fairly simple to use for basic format translation, shockingly capable if you want to write a script.

Then I suppose you’re up shit creek.

Why am I reminded of the case where they thought they had discovered a new bird species but it was just a seagull covered in curry powder?

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That’s gonna be fun for cases like c/trees. Someone somewhere will get the joke, someone somewhere won’t.

Oh don’t worry it was 1994 none of us had internet at home anyway. The school didn’t even have an internet connection in those days.

Yesn’t.

In a nutshell, Social Security is a government run pension/retirement savings system. With a few exceptions you can look up on your own if you’re curious, every American worker pays into the social security system as a tax on income. Each person in the system, so basically everyone working a job in the US, gets an account number, their Social Security Number.

For awhile after the system started, you’d get your SSN when you got your first job. At some point, they introduced a tax credit for parents with children, if you had a child you could deduct them on your taxes. People started claiming they had more kids than they did to pay less taxes. Sure, let’s just tell the government we have 12 kids, they won’t know we only have 5. The solution to this problem was to require the children being claimed had social security numbers. This had two effects: 1. it got rid of those “paper children,” and 2. Signing up for social security and getting a social security number is part of being born; every American now has a serial number, issued on a card.

The kind of people who are ruining our nation right now are opposed to a national ID system because they hate being part of a functioning society. So we don’t have a national ID card the way many nations do. State governments issue a number of IDs of various types, the de facto standard for identification in the US is a driver’s license. The vast majority of Americans have one. But, not all. The only unique number common to (practically) ALL Americans is a Social Security Number.

Numbers like credit card numbers or sanely designed ID systems have built-in checksums, not every number that fits the regex for a Visa card number is a valid Visa card number. A social security number doesn’t have that; it wasn’t intended as an ID number, it’s an account number, you can tell when and where it was issued by looking at it because it’s a serial number. And because most Americans younger than the president were issued their numbers at birth, you can guess a lot of their number based on where and when they were born. The last four digits are a simple serial number…and often used by banks and such as a second factor. “Okay, just tell me your date of birth and the last four of your social.” the bank teller will ask you out loud.

It’s something we’re gonna have to fix after the war.

I actually use them frequently, like I have Ctrl+Alt+L bound to lock my computer, and workspace commands using the arrow keys and the like. It’s easier to do one handed.

Yes, but not as often as the left.

While touch typing, I pretty much always use the left shift key. To type “A” for example I slid my hand over one set of keys and pressed the A key with my ring finger. Right shift ends up used mostly with the punctuation marks to the right, like I actually move my entire right hand down to hit shift and ?

I also strike T, Y and B with different hands depending on what I’m typing.

There may be some other eccentricities but I do mostly touch type properly, asdfjkl; and all that.