"Our roll of toilet paper is equivalent to 234 rolls of our competitor's toilet paper!!!1"
chunes
This is actually more plausible than many think.
In that case it would be because it provides genuine value
Closer to being done with all this silliness.
(I think it would work best if you edit that into your original reply and describe how the new distance makes you feel. Then we can delete these ones)
How far did your father flee after he abandoned you as a kid? Why do you think he chose that distance?
Just a reminder that COVID-19 shaves off 3 IQ points when you first get it, and 2 every time you're re-infected. Even more for long covid and hospitalization.
We can't keep pretending this hasn't had a noticeable, immediate effect on... everything.
I don't. All the anti-intellectual technophobia we're seeing right now will be a small footnote in history.
Solved most 2025 Advent of Code problems using an alien programming language called Uiua.
This is what my day 2 solution looks like:

If people used a language that actually leverages the strengths of dynamic typing, they wouldn't dislike it so much.
I encourage every programmer to build a Smalltalk program from the ground up while it's running the entire time. It really is a joy