Sorry, but if you’re capable of signing a $44 billion contract and the other party has a reasonable expectation that you’ll be able to produce that $44 billion, you’re capable of doing the same steps as someone who wasn’t “joking”. There is no “lol jk” exceptions in contracts.

And honestly, with everything he’s doing now with Xitter and influencing public policy, I believe he knew exactly what he was doing and the “joke” and “uh oh I didn’t mean it!” was part of that

public boolean isMale() {
    return !isFemale();
}

public boolean isFemale() {
    return !isMale();
}
          

isMale

I am friends with nobody here, even if someone was sympathetic.

I am, in fact, a programmer (old enough to have not learned any language as a child) and am well-aware that “!” means not in many languages. I also have enough self-awareness to realize that not everyone would make that connection, and figured someone may have hit the symbol button on their phone keyboard instead of shift and hit “!” instead of “A”. Somehow that seemed more plausible than “assume everyone knows programming syntax, even in a place like Lemmy, and choose to use that”

Fun fact: my job has made me dabble in a system so old and archaic, it uses “'” (single-quote, to save you a squint) as the “not” operator. “!” is used for newline.

Again… Wat?

Wat? I made one comment replying to one word in which a letter was replaced with an exclamation point. I wanted to be sure I didn’t misunderstand anything before I said too much. Where did I claim to be smarter than anyone, and what evidence did I make to the contrary?

If that was a typo for America, and you are trying to say you’re American, you’ve got at least one thing in a prior comment that’s a dead giveaway that you are not.

For sure. And Elon would just shit talk the aliens, pass along misinformation about them on Xitter, and we’d get zapped after finding it it was possible when we first learned of them.

We went from first flight to landing on the moon in less than 70 years, and are worlds ahead of where we were then. I totally get that we wouldn’t be able to leave tomorrow, but in the “could be minutes, could be centuries” scenario it’s hard to imagine the answer being more than 70 years starting now, and that’s what I’m curious about

One thing I’ve always wondered: let’s say we NEEDED to go to the moon right away, even if it meant taking a few safety shortcuts. Like, aliens landed there and demanded a face-to-face meeting before they destroy our planet and we don’t know how long they’ll wait for us (could be minutes, could be centuries, but who wants to find out?)… What’s the fastest we could, in theory, get there?

Lycos.

It looks kinda symmetrical, I can dig it!

I mean, it’s not like people would check that dedicated webpage on their own, and they are less likely to click on that webpage to get the additional details. Just put it on the platform most people are using and don’t add extra steps to see what’s needed.

If they’re looking to Xitter it could be copy/pasted instead, but then updates get harder to manage.

It’s not the chicken (as in, the piece of a dead bird) that’s the issue. You can get that anywhere. When I go to a restaurant or make something for myself, I’m looking to explore different flavors, cooking techniques, and ways of using that food. If I go to a mom and pop Italian restaurant, I want their recipes. If they just reheated something from the Olive Garden I could get it fresh from there. And I wouldn’t have any way of knowing prior to ordering that that’s what I was getting.

Now, they’re not just serving a piece of chicken. They are transforming it into chicken and waffles. Maybe they came up with a waffle and stuff that perfectly complements the seasonings Popeyes uses. It gets murky, but I would think that a freshly fried piece of chicken is the centerpiece of the dish and I’d be pretty upset to get a reheated unoriginal piece like that.

Also, typical satellite has horrendous lag. I used to work with someone who was in a remote area (didn’t even have cell service) and the quality was fine talking with him through VoIP, but it would take a few seconds to get a response for anything. I can only imagine video. Current boss has Starlink and I wouldn’t know a difference.

Heck, up until a few years ago my father-in-law had 1.5mbps DSL and that was pretty much unusable.

I understand, just found the word choice to make that point amusing

free labor for pennies on the dollar, and sometimes nothing

🤔

Big capacitor loves you though

Arguably it’s not wet if it’s cold enough

So simple I can have my father-in-law do it. And support him over the phone from a few states away. Simple.