you started this thread to complain to people not getting a government id ?

enjoy your stay at lemmy.

“why does this keep happening to me ?”

I prefer:

The people fearing their government is tyranny. The government fearing the people is liberty.

We can’t all be Napoleon. My psychiatrist said so.

Vancouver Never Plays Itself … a classic

if you want to learn more about team organization and project management most definitely seek out subject:

“managerial calculus”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

They weren’t geniuses …

Actually some of them were Enlightenment polymaths.

I’m not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

I had to update the video link as the original link that I posted was not the one that I wanted to post.

That erroneously posted video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9gU8L5Wv0

… is an addendum to the lecture about Pepys and his line of historical editors and his use of a cryptic shorthand.

when i see someone swiping on tinder and then they phone made that grindr

I will update my internal dictionary to winker

Thank you.

Alan Davies from QI taught me that instead of “shut the fuck up!” one can say “shut the front door!”

Reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show stuff

the chicken and the egg are laying in bed sharing a post-coital cigarette.

the chicken says, “Well I guess that answers that question.”

It is all made up. That is the point of an imagination machine … other than installing the divine. it makes up words.

And sorry(?) that the creation of language doesn’t happen under the rule of one man or rule of law it must keep you awake at night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrdXRZ3PUE

learn to love the power level

and that is why I always keep my receipt

it is a figure of English speech

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/synecdoche-metonymy-usage-differences

There is a difference between “can’t identify” and “being paid to not identify”