@discord I just noticed a bad design choice you made. It's not a problem for me, today, but it's likely to become one someday, and to be one for other users, right now.
Let's talk about it.
@discord In order to change one's contact email address on Discord, one has to be able to receive an email at that contact address. But what happens if one's email host goes out of business without warning, and one needs to replace one's contact email address with one that is up to date.
@discord This is far from being a mere hypothetical case. Internet providers go out of business quite frequently, and often without bothering to tell their users.
What do you suggest that your users do, if this happens to them?
@SomeBitchIIKnow From: "Flame Warriors" by Mike Reed.
"Artful Dodger is a nimble and elusive Warrior. When strongly attacked he changes the subject with a diversionary counterattack."
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"For example, if in a moment of pique his opponent refers to him to him as a "sonofabitch", Artful Dodger will not only demand a public apology for the insult to his own mother, but will castigate his opponent on behalf all mothers everywhere."
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"Knowing full well that staying on topic works to his disadvantage, Artful Dodger will not allow himself to be pinned down."
@BWLH_ "That stupid poem," as you put it was written in 1883 and put on a plaque that has been there since 1903.
It greeted generations worth of immigrants who came through when Ellis Island was still turning people away.nps.gov/stli/learn/hisβ¦
@BWLH_ You're calling for the destruction of History based on contemporary political concerns. Support for open borders would have been widely considered an extreme (and irrational) position in the US as late as the 1980s.
Any reading of it into an 1883 poem is anachronistic.
@BWLH_ Let's take a look at what that poem really says, as opposed to what @BWLH_ seems to want to pretend that it says.
@DarkandtheLight @henri_fjord My understanding is that they're allowed to leave a fire burning on the Sabbath, they're merely not allowed to light one.
A fire can keep burning on its own, for a very long time.
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@DarkandtheLight @henri_fjord Also, if you look up the climate for Jerusalem, you'll notice that even in the two coldest months (January and February), the average nightly low in 44 F / 7 C, and the average daily high is 53 F / 12 C or higher.
One can sleep in a 40 F room and not freeze to death.
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@DarkandtheLight @henri_fjord Not just guessing on that last one. I've done this, before, for months at a time during a Midwestern winter.
No harm done. Throw in a fire and some walls, and the inside of a home is going to be noticeably warmer than the nightly low outside.
@chicago I had to laugh for a little bit after seeing this map. Like the Universe was picking on us, personally. Again.
Welcome to Chicago! π π€£
But there are going to be people who will really need our help, and I hope we'll all try to be there for them. washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/0β¦
@chicago Today's high humidity and high temperature might be funny when one is in one's early 20s, and is living in a well air-conditioned house, but if one is elderly, this weather can kill, especially if one is overheating at home, too.
@chicago We're going to be running errands for our older relatives and friends, and doing wellness checks on some of our neighbors.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 That's easy, because the problem isn't a completely new one. You've heard of ghost writers, right? These people who write things that other people pay to put their names on?
The old worry was that students would have ghost writers write their theses.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 In order to keep students from getting away with that, schools make students who are going to get their PhDs defend their theses.
It's just you, a piece of chalk and that blackboard in front of a few college professors asking you hard questions about your thesis.
@LioIsFinalyBack @FearedBuck @Sir3O3 If you can't answer those questions, no degree.