But of course, these questions imply the existence of doubt, self-reflection, introspection, stuff like that, before even mentioning morals and such.
I’m not convinced the people in power really have that capacity.

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Is it really murder though?
Are poor people still people?
/s

Rachel?!

À complete mystery. We probably need more AI.

Haha, nice! Laughter and pleasant sights seemed to do the trick, thankfully ;)

Definitely giving me a bout of tachycardia, with some very localised hypertension.

Impressive 😮

“Please remove before driving” on windshield sunscreens…? That sort of stuff?

That’s user error. “Everything is working fine on our end. You figure it out, champs”.

UTF-16 is fine for the vast majority of Chinese characters. It has been standard since 2008 for C++ (at least for code that wants to be running on windows; Microsoft moved everything to w_string back then).
C# uses UTF-16 natively for strings.
Dunno about other languages

Lucky you! She wrote quite a few of those Meredith Gentry novels if you like that sort of things. She was doing bit lit before it was a thing, really :)

It’s kinda amazing how she started as an Ann Rice wannabe but then the erotic angle took more and more of the novels and then the Meredith Gentry series started pretty much full on porn right out of the gate.

It’s not theDog.walks(), it’s 狗.走()

Conjugate this you anglocentrist fuck!

Now? Laurel K Hamilton was writing A Kiss of Shadows in (checks notes…) Two fucking Thousand! You kids are way behind!

That’s probably what the urban planner who didn’t put a pavement where people are clearly walking would say ;)

The heart wants pavement eh?

It’s like the “is it plugged in?” thing. There is a reason it keeps getting asked.

Those poor planes were probably up in the air to save themselves from the waves lapping at the flanks of their carrier. Can’t be too prudent these days.

Certainly would be a vibe to see the puppet’s video on that set while you’re trapped in that contraption.

It’s called the third hand for a reason!