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HN comments: a delightful mix of #ignorance and #snark, where every thread is a #masterclass in the art of confidently incorrect opinions. 🤡✨ Who needs experts when you have armchair philosophers dishing out wisdom like it's on clearance? 🎩📚
https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ #HNcomments #armchairphilosophers #HackerNews #ngated

@cdarwin

Well, this is just wonderful #snark

🇨🇦 welp, after Carney's verbal swipe at Trump, I think we had better prepare for another cannon blast of "angry tariff-setting" from down south.
Everyone duck!

that should be easily done since we're rolling on the floor laughing, right?

#Cdnpoli
#Snark

Another subtoot!

When they consider the lint in their navel an exciting, novel, intellectual discovery

#snark

I’m just going to assume that iOS 18 is perfect and no longer needs updates.

Which makes ios 26 look like the bug ridden piece of shit it is considering how many updates it has.

#snark

If I have to do 2FA auth and/or click a "No thanks, I don't want your app" button EVERY TIME I log in to your website, I really need you to do a big stretch, then turn around in your chair, grab the waistband of your undies with your dominant hand, and then give yourself the biggest wedgie your strength can possibly muster.

kthxbai.

#snark #WebPoopPointOh

So apparently the Telstra outage was caused by their root NTP server going back in time 20 years, taking the rest of the network along with it. The key question is how did anyone notice the difference?
#telstra #snark https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/10/telstra-ceo-deeply-sorry-for-outage-and-admits-risk-of-time-keeping-failure-was-known-ntwnfb

The USDA plant hardiness zone system is very useful, because you immediately know whoever uses it lives on some far away continent with totally different climate and plants and likes using overly simplistic classifications that mostly just apply to one country on earth and model even that one poorly.

#Snark

@s1m0n4

More older and disabled people due sooner saving the govt money?
One of the reasons why COVID was allowed to spread in the first year and people slapped DNRs on us, 'they' thought it made economic sense. Of course long COVID ended up costing more instead, so back to the too many people are claiming lie.

#Disability #HeatKills #Snark

#snark #wit #intelligence #sarcasm

#IrisgTimes Pat Leahy's article on #HealyRae brothers fallout https://archive.is/hS6oo is short on insight/research, but big on #snark. Esp about their da, the late Jackie Healy-Rae TD.

"When Jackie Healy-Rae first emerged, a sophisticate in FF remarked he’d never get elected, not least cos he looked like he combed his hair with a pork chop."

Jackie was elected 3 times as a TD, and founded a dynasty.

But the "sophisticate" was right about the pork chop. 😈😅🤣

#iepol #brylcreem #combover #kerry

@pdebruin Thanks! That's close. It really was just a scatter plot and some #snark. I found this: https://github.com/NahimahYS/ceo-compensation-dashboard
But I'm at an airport and can really open my laptop to recreate the #dataviz.

It's been a week, Bitcoin is at 65k do you know where your twelve grand is?

It might be better if you set money on fire!

🏴‍☠️🐻

#snark #cryprocurrency #currentevents

I’m sure there is no intentional reference at all to the recently concluded Murderbot season being based on a book titled “All Systems Red”.

#snark

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/01/apple-wwdc-2026-all-systems-glow/

🇨🇦 👋
A word to My fellow Canadians Concerned About the Climate Crisis;

Please, don't lose sleep over extracting the dirtiest oil⛽ from Alberta's tar sands project because ,
I'm sure very soon the provincial and federal governments will have automakers install mini-carbon capture units so everyone can participate in reducing carbon emissions as they motor across this great country.🚗 🚚 🛻

#Pathways
#FossilFuel #Cdnpoli #Snark

#Climate #Alberta #Canada

@dillo

Also:

$ ed CONTRIBUTING.md
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If your dev tools can't run in 2 GiB of RAM, probably don't bother contributing.
You're not the target audience.
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😂

#snark

A great many troubles

I am an old man, and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

~ Mark Twain

slip:4a1049.

Pet peeve #7

Web pages which neglect to include two of the most important pieces of information: Who and When. Yes, all web pages. Thou shalt always list the author. (“Anonymous” is a legitimate answer to, “who?’) Thou shalt always list at least a general composition/publication date. Online, it is already difficult to place things into context. Having a Who and When gives that many more clues to place things into context.

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Oration

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

~ Lord Mancroft

slip:4a787.

Conversations are difficult to end well. I’ve spent considerable time thinking about how to end them, and talking to people about how to end them. (I am aware it’s awfully meta to have conversations with people about how to end conversations.) As with anything (making toast for example), it’s good to first figure out common ways to horribly muck it up (try burning the toast), and learning to consistently not muck it up.

Here are three ways to muck up a conversation so as to avoid having a good ending.

First: Drag the conversation on until your conversation partner is exhausted. One might think it could make for a good ending—just the sheer relief of it ending! But alas (poor Yorick), it’s just an ending and not a good one.

Second: Get the last word in. If you’re the host (of the podcast, the dinner party, etc.), insisting on being the last one to touch the conversation baton is guaranteed to make a bad ending.

Third: If it’s going well, always keep going. That way, you only end when it’s not going well. In other words: Actively choose a bad place to end.

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slip:4c2co3c5.

3.5 each

I don’t know why, but I never learned to solve a Rubik’s Cube. I am exactly the right age; the durned things appeared on the scene just before I got to primary school and they were common in my high school. But I never got into it. I had one, of course. I pretty much immediately took it apart (very carefully) to see how it worked… just honestly curious about how it worked, not trying to solve it. When I put it back together, I put it together in the solved state because it seemed obvious that if I put it together randomly it couldn’t be solved by then trying to rotation-solve it as usual.

Aside: Yes, of course I did. Any time I found a cube, I’d surreptitiously mechanically detach and flip a few pieces, and then scramble it. Few people are good enough to quickly figure out what has happened.

…and then I never was interested in solving one after I understood how it worked. Tetris? Okay, yeah, that game ate years of my life—because you can’t solve it, you just do it. Anyway, I’m 50 and I just got a Rubik’s Cube.

And what am I doing? Measuring it: Let’s call it 2.2 inches on an edge. How many of them are there? Wikipedia says 350,000,000. Crap, that’s a lot of plastic. How big a pile is that? How big are 350,000,000 2-inch cubes? …and I was hoping Wolfram Alpha would give me units of Empire-State-Buildings or something. Instead, I learned something about the total number of Angels according to the Bible. (That should get you to click, no?)

What’s that? How many ESBs is it? …oh, sorry, it’s 0.0583 ESB. I know right? We’ve only 6% filled the ESB with Rubik’s Cubes?! We need to ramp up production.

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Some S’s

Sometimes, simple summaries suffice.

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2020 vision

I often known when a bad joke or a terrible pun is coming. My confession is that I really enjoy that feeling of knowing there’s going to be a terrible groaner in… 3… 2… 1…

Except that in today’s case, I already wrote it.

”2020 vision.” As in, “20/20 vision.”

You’re welcome! Go start beating all your friends over the head with “insightful” comments about having 2020 vision for the coming year.

In other news: 2019 was the year I started using reading glasses. My past track record of prognostication and beginning-of-the-year vision statements, combined with my vision deteriorating… nope, lost it, I feel like I had something clever to say here. But no, it too is decagon.

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Day 35/100 – soon…

Walked 4 miles. Forgot to take a picture. Here, have a totally non sequitor photo of me shoveling snow.

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Lunch break at Wegman’s…

Lunch break at Wegman’s…

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