Maybe they’re just lying low so nobody will blame everything on them.

MAGA: “If WE can’t have America, NOBODY CAN!!!”

Longtime software dev here. I complain about code bugs all the time - I’m like, who the fuck wrote and tested this piece of crap?

I don’t even know this game but aren’t you choosing between a heavily armored warrior and a peasant?

Same thing when there’s a really long light with a right-turn lane to a much less busy side street. If you get there shortly after the light turns red just turn right, go partway down the street and make a u-turn, then make another right back onto the main street.

I would call that not a loophole but definitely a nice LPT.

That’s a fairly common strategy - give your kid a gift up to the max amount that isn’t taxable, which they then deposit into their retirement account.

Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

Not loopholes but excellent LPTs!

In general doing anything the old fashioned way takes more time and saves money. But it seems like most people are reluctant to spend the time even if they have it, and will rationalize this in some way.

The one big drawback: it’s still McDonalds

Nice! But I would call that a screwup on their part, whereas a loophole is a glitch built into the system.

Cool story bro, and yes I would like ketchup and ranch with my fries.

“There was a time when…”

Sounds similar to the tactic of serial debt transfer to one 0% interest card after another. Discover probably realized their program wasn’t motivating enough people to use Discover cards for actual spending.

Won’t enforce it when, today and tomorrow?

“Very fine balls on both sides.”

For what it’s worth, I put milk in Earl Grey too. In fact I’m having some right now.

Forget the kids, don’t let Meemaw find out!

Must be talking about a dwarf Trump pays to wipe his ass.

It’s been said that indecisiveness and perfectionism are liberal weaknesses, and decisiveness and being willing to ignore imperfections for the sake of the team are conservative strengths. I think Michael Moore put it best… Liberals say, “What should we do about dinner? I don’t know… do you want to go out? I dunno, do you? Well, if you do. Okay, where should we go? I dunno, where do you wanna go?” A conservative slams his hand on the table and says, “Get in the car, we’re goin’ to the Sizzler!”

I know it’s not actual “intelligence” - and I complain about this terminology all the time - but for the sake of conversation I use the term AI. Even though all it’s really doing is remixing content it has been trained on to produce something convincingly like what a human can do, it’s often useful enough to replace human output. In practice that’s what’s significant - good enough to replace human labor and much cheaper. I have a software dev friend who uses Claude all the time in his work. During a recent in-person D&D game he had it generate a SQLLite database and scripts to help map some things we were dealing with - without even interrupting the game. I agree that people grossly overestimate AI, especially with wild theories that it’s about to take over the world or that it’s already self-aware - that’s just media-driven and movie-driven fantasy - but there are many routine parts of people’s jobs that the stuff we currently call “AI” can handle at least as reliably as a person.