@Reincarnation_6 Yeah, but this is a bit like meat factory testing. You COULD send any result... Until such time as you got sued for listeria or salmonella poisoning consumers.

In that light, it seems like a CYA request from the higher ups?

Not saying it was, but could be read that way.

@mcfate @sjvn Don't look at me, I didn't write the problem. I'm just the guy who has to deal with the fallout of poorly labeled/drawn problems like this.

@mcfate @sjvn Professional math tutor here.

If this is a Geometry class problem, the only thing you're supposed to assume is A) we're working in a flat plane (Euclidian) and B) the bottom line is straight.

So you need to figure out the interior angle of the left triangle is 80°, then the supplementary angle of 100°, then the remaining interior angle of the next triangle is 45°, and finally the supplementary exterior angle there is 135°.

Yes, this is one of those "trap" problems.

@th3j35t3r The only people who had pagers when I was a kid was the high school drug dealer.

So not much has changed. 🤔

Penzy's took a very loud, very public stand.

Their website was down briefly, I guess. Flooded with hate mail.

It's back up though. If you want to read the statement, it's here.

penzeys.com/shop/about-republi

In hacker news:

The world's dumbest hacker decided it was a great idea to hack the central website of the biggest network of cyber security and computer programmers in the world. AND piss off the biggest collective of trolls on the net, at the same time.

It's not going well for them.

bsky.app/profile/aapur.bsky.so

@MrGoat @th3j35t3r I mean, to be fair, you have to be a real wonk to know who Ben Stein was before the game show - if anyone even remembers the game show these days. Or that he was in movies. Or who Ben Stein was.

F**k I'm old.

@MrGoat @th3j35t3r Unintentionally hilarious, because Ben Stein was a Nixon speechwriter. (And this raided dude worked for Nixon, too.)

@b4cks4w @Minholkin @stueytheround @th3j35t3r

For me, nothing will top the Vancectomy.

Bravo. You win the internets today.

@th3j35t3r Fun little story for you.

A friend used to work at CS and nearly their entire job was writing & maintaining a testing bot to ensure that new code was in compliance with all the standards across all the platforms and didn't throw errors before it was committed.

They quit not too long ago. In large part because they got sick of all the programmers not using the software bot to check their work before trying to commit.

I want to call and ask... But also their portfolio is probably 📉😱.

@TBBW1

I was wondering about the CWs I've seen on really basic pictures of *knitting*. Like, no faces, no food, no 🍆. Just "I finished my mittens. Here's a pic behind a CW." I find a lot food pics gross, especially raw meat (seriously, it's the inside of a body, just no), and I'm an bloody omnivore. But cake behind a CW? Seems excessive.

I'm just unfollowing any who do such ridiculous steps. They aren't my crowd. 🤷🏻‍♀️

One of my friends was describing how he wasn't allowed to post pictures of FOOD without a warning label on some furry .social site.

I was unaware this was a thing in the fed-iverse or whatever you call it. I've just been quietly enjoying hanging out on counter.social and bsky, blissfully unaware of the horrors just over the wall.

😅🐺

@NaomiSkarzinski There's a song:

🎵 There was little fly
And he flew into a store.
And he sh upon the ceiling
And he sh upon the floor.
He sh upon the bacon
And he sh upon the ham,
And he sh upon the head
Of the little grocery man. 🎵

/Nosanitize

m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlknQ9sy

@LnzyHou @Novels56 I was about to say this. Media Mail rate is 50% off standard ground shipping. You will just need to leave the box unsealed so they can confirm there's only media inside.

I've had several conversations with friends about retweeting unverified Middle East propaganda. Most have been accepting that due diligence is important.

But one friend could not understand, despite me pointing to where major outlets like CNN say explicitly that "these reports are unverified."

When I showed him the videos of what's been going on in the US, he refused to believe it because major outlets hadn't reported the Arabic chants of "death to Jews."

We are now no longer friends.

Show more

The Big Bad Wolf

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.