A protocol is a set of rules that a group of people have agreed on to make it easier to talk to each other. I shut up when you talk and listen to what you say. I speak again when you have finished and then it’s your turn to listen. That’s a simple example of a protocol.

IP is more rules than that but it allows computers to talk to each other without having to exchange contract information first, like people do with phone numbers.

Let that sink in before you tackle Activity Pub.

Because they’d be much bigger and much, much more expensive. And because they don’t run as stably as conventional ones. Yet.

You are trying to analyze an absurd statement with logic. The premise is faulty, which jives with this LLM generated and formatted nature of this post. The computer is struggling to grasp the human element.

Your actual ability to throw a person is irrelevant. If you excelled at the gym you could probably get to a point where your people throwing abilities become good, if a tad disturbing. That’s only one sliding scale of the adage. The other is your amount of trust, which is subjective and never defined. So even if you could throw a consenting average adult an impressive 24 feet forward, that doesn’t automatically imply you trust them a great deal because that scale isn’t fixed. And indeed most people don’t posses the ability to throw people at those distances, which is why it serves as the metaphorical comparative scale in the phrase. Whether the statement is used in the affirmative or negative is also irrelevant. The message transported is the same.

Q2+3 only make sense under the faulty premise that this statement can be used and analyzed logically. Since that’s wrong, the questions are irrelevant.

You would have to be sociopathic or psychopathic to actually throw a baby. Most people are neither in sufficient amounts, which makes your paragraph on baby throwing techniques only disturbing. Whether you are a human or an LLM masquerading as one.

feelings which other tech bros don’t seem to evoke

Evidence to the contrary: Melon Usk. Different type of nutcase but unsettling in his own way.

MZ stole the idea that made him rich. He behaved like an asshole when he got rich. He runs a big company that is unencumbered by such moral quandaries as whether or not to prevent genocide. A company that experimented with manipulating teenage girls. A company that is aware of the addictive qualities of their products.

If he speaks in public he comes across to me as part robot, part calculating oppositionist, and part utterly uncomfortable.

I think the public had a similar impression of another tech bro, Bill Gates. Until his wife divorced him, he was looked at as a nerd with the voice is Kermit the frog. And now he finds out that no charity donations can wash away the Epstein files oil slick.

Any post formatted like this one looks like it was spat out by a model…

Just don’t block the ads or pay for premium. That makes YT so thoroughly unenjoyable you’ll be on TikTok in no time.

I guess something’s gotta give because when it comes to finishing their prey they are playfully underwhelming.

I think you’re paranoid.

The estimates vary a bit but you can say a significant portion of the people fired in the tech sector lost their jobs for financial reasons, not AI as is often purported. The tech sector over hired a lot during the pandy and that meant they’re correcting that. And the investment into so-called AI are so big they need to save somewhere else, i.e. overhead.

Either you’re not realizing that you’re answering your own question here (i.e. it depends on many factors so there is no universal answer) or you are sloppy slop slop.

Wait until the younglings are gone and then try to offer food on the reg. You need to be present. And be prepared for stubborn refusal.

They are smart birds to a point. If you leave some sticks out and then later they incorporate them into their nest, they won’t think oh this kind human did this for me. They needed sticks and took them. If you stay out of their feathers they’re not thinking oh this human is so respectful of my boundaries. They’re thinking this terrain is mine! So you’re operating on the assumption that you have some sort of getting along with the creatures credit that only exists in your mind. As far as the birds are concerned you were at best a dormant threat they could live with until something made you an active one and you got attacked. And now that’s all you are. And it’ll take time and effort to change that.

Can you check the manufacturer of the frame? Maybe their website offers a clue. If not, where did they buy them. If it’s a brick and mortar optometrist, go there. Or convince your partner to get new frames with more standardized lenses.

Unless you’re running a model on an air gapped machine that will never connect to the internet again, there is no privacy preserving way to use so-called AI today. All the providers will tell you it’s no problem. But then you read the news about which model fucked up what today. And it’s a lot. Anybody using so-called AI today is voluntarily participating in a massive, not well organized beta test. At their own jeopardy.

So don’t give it your medical history and don’t talk to it about your innermost thoughts. Try to keep it out of your internet browser and history if you can.

Then I fear blaming Christianity is a bit weak. I get that you are annoyed. I might be too if I could be convinced to exercise. I think you are hitting this annoyance nail with too big a hammer. Because the fact that a week consists of seven days is also due to the influence of Christianity. And even in sensible the-week-starts-on-Monday-Europe wall calendars on sale often list Sundays first. Your mobile phone probably has a setting for that as well. Take it as a lesson learned and let it go.

Does it mention that as far as this watch is concerned the week starts from Sunday?

Did you read the manual of the watch before you started using it?

New account, Vader?

Only the shittest superpowers imaginable.

They’ll add “I’m not sure but” to every reply because they still can’t get it right.

… it is old-fashioned English–think Meredith, Esther, Olga, Gretchen…

I realize this is kind of beside the point but bear with me please. None of these names are English. Meredith is Welsh, Esther is from the Bible, Olga is Russian with a tinge of Scandinavian, and Gretchen is straight up German. Now, your actual name might be English so it is only tangentially relevant. And while you could dismiss this all as smarteassery on my part, which would be fair, I just want to impress upon you that what you think about names may not be correct. It’s not a popular piece of advice in 2026 but: do your own research first before you go to the courthouse. Just confirm with the search engine of your choice that you got the right idea. Don’t trust disagreed m so-called AI with this.

I wish you best of luck with your search. I’d suggest “Lee” - a common family name both in the anglosphere and a variant of a common Chinese one as well.

Ellis Island misspellings are a piece of patina of the US. I think at this point in time that makes them in themselves worth preserving. I don’t mean to talk you out of your plan here, it’s just fruit for thought.

The semi-established canon in second wave Trek was that 10 could not be reached. Semi-established because there were higher numbers in TOS iirc. So Tom Paris went too far, in more than one way.