will_dev_4_food

It’s not a silly example but rather a common one. Many years ago it was only the fat that were attractive because they were the financially secure. Many believed that royalty were th only form of legitimate government, and colonial activity among “savages” was doing them all a favor.

Science, academics, and even personal experience vary with time. Not all variance that follows is truthful...some is exaggerated purposefully or accidentally, though most is considered good information at the time.

When you say it’s like this one way but not the other, you have conceded to relativism. You have basically said there is a time and place for stealing someone’s wallet, and that acting as a moral agent in society can be suspended under the right conditions.

Visa likes their 3% which is auto deducted from your purchase, so I guess many “real people” will be cheering for Visa.

I, too, would like to pat myself on the back for having excellent code management skills, and problem solving. But most of all, for going completely meta on people.

A built a free password helper for iOS because I’ve accepted that password reuse sucks, but so do traditional password managers. So this app takes snippets from valid site information and uses a secure hash algorithm which creates a binary, which I map to an string of ascii values to generate a password. It includes a per site salt and a device specific code to counter reverse engineering attempts. The salt can be which whatever you want, and you must remember a final passphrase (if you use one) to get the passwords regenerated. You have to kind of keep track of the length of these generated passwords yourself, because it’s truncated for differing password lengths. Anyway, on the whole imho it’s more secure than many a password manager on the market, save that it’s still new and requires use of copy/paste buffers. But, all of that is of course predicated on using the tool correctly, and using caution with passwords, which you should do anyway.

The App is DyfynderX if you’re interested. The name comes from dyfnder, which is the Welsh word for depth.

It’s nice to see a team of marketers working so hard to convince the masses. Kudos.

I have two free password managers. Both iOS. One open source, and one just free. https://github.com/UCFirefly/Pythonista Or https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyfynderx/id1345759526?mt=8

I do. And I will honor all requests of the CIA to your metadata. Still ok?

On the other hand, I suppose having big tech act as the ministry of truth is great, as long as you’re on the top of big tech.

Unless they represent what is classified as a utility. How to classify a utility? Ask what would be nigh impossible without it.

I’m not a functioning utility, but when I get there, yes.

I think the bigger idea is that Simpsons is trying to be more representative of the social norms in the United States, for better or worse. In US culture, the outsider is always punished, regardless of intelligence. In traditional US culture, the independent intelligent woman is looked upon largely as the “old maid” of ages past, having a very limited societal fit.

I don’t think anyone wants to shun people like Lisa, but that’s always what societies have done. The greatest inventors have often been punished, whether by not fitting in, not being understood, or causing hardship by upending the power structures of the elites.

Society is and has constantly been more concerned with continuity, than progress. Not my preference, but certainly my perception.