such a sore looser loser

I’ve heard it as, “Nothing will materially change until the plutocrats fear for their lives.”

The Origins of Virtue

by Matt Ridley

I always felt connected to my inner Americium, but my mom said I’m a lanthanide through and through. My actinide father said, “don’t sweat it, she’s acting like a typical halogen.”

Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

Follow Creators, Not Platforms

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It’s interpreted.

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @[email protected] seems “shallow and politically motivated”.

A “jig” is a fast lively dance, usually somewhat comical in appearance.

Because jigs were often performed as comic interludes or sketches at the end of plays, the word “jig” started to mean a a piece of entertainment or a “performance.”

Eventually, slang-users in Elizabethan England started using “jig” to mean a clever trick or a “con.” If you were “playing a jig” on someone, you were fooling them.

“Up” means that the “time for the performance is up” or concluded. The most common way we use “up” to mean finished is in relation to time. When a clock runs out, the time is “up.”

Imagine a cup being filled with water. When it reaches the brim (the top), it is full; it can’t take anymore. In the same way, when a situation or a “jig” (a trick) reaches its limit of time or tolerance, it is “up” at the brim.​

In English, we often add “up” to verbs to show that an action is finished 100%. This is known as a “completive particle” in the study of language.

symbolic

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash with tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

It is.

“Dumb” people who don’t demonstrate their stupidity loudly are of average intelligence.

It’s George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

“Mediocrity” (sort of) implies “middling”, etymologically, which is what most people are. Average.

Reminds me of some lyrics by the Foo Fighters, “There goes my hero; he’s ordinary.”

What’s the reasoning behind it?

We crave validation from others and ourselves by being considered “rare” or capable of creating “rarity” in an ocean of mediocrity and banality to justify our state, choices, and attitudes. We consider “rarity” as inherently valuable and a virtue to aspire to.

Helix for terminal has been fantastic; I like GUIs so for me Zed is my “S-Tier”.

Yes, Zed allows you to turn off the Agentic LLM integration off in settings.json:

{
  "disable_ai": true
}

LibreOffice:

So, appeasement spiced with a paper tiger’s threat? This “proposal” is insulting.