I think they were alluding to Israel.

I don’t want you to come to me with problems. I want you to come with solutions. I’m going to schedule some action orientated soft skills training for you next month. There is a push to increase our education KPIs so budget is available.

😬 I am familiar with the PTSD trigger words.

Noted. I’ll talk to Jeff in FX and get all the .wav files reversed. Shouldn’t add too much to storage. I wonder if lip sync will be affected? I’ll mention it to Sue when she gets back next week.

Can’t you just swap x for -x. Run some unit tests just in case. We’ll push to prod next Wednesday. Sound good? Got to dash, strategy meeting started 5 minutes ago. Seeyoubye.

I’m having a go at the reasoning more than the value. If having matching phones and headphones is important for social status then something is very wrong somewhere.

I’m not arguing they shouldn’t have a phone. I’m saying there is absolutely no need to have exactly the same model and headphones.

That’s says there is something wrong with their social group.

The phone was bought so the friends could match. This implies there is something negative about them not matching.

A discussion about materialism, peer pressure and fashion is what is needed.

This logic is fine for concerts, restaurants etc. but it doesn’t stretch to friends having the same model of phone.

What do you tell it now?

Burqa bans come from separation of religion and state. This is Authoritarian vs Libertarian, not Left vs Right.

I’m still not sure what “this” is being banned.

What is this hypothetical argument exactly?

Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sales taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers.

The digital exchange seems to be centralised.

Defcon 1 is white? I’d expect it to be red.

Decompiling an executable into human readable code could be useful. But you would probably train on the opcodes, not the machine code.

Much closer if you live near Elton John.

To piggy back off your thoughts, why don’t we send another probe to act as a relay between voyager and earth?

Seconded, on the condition he isn’t Harry Potter.

Troughs enable pooh stick races with cigarette butts.

In the CCTV photo he is wearing a similar coat and backpack, but definitely not the same clothes as the shooter.

Are we supposed to believe he shot someone and then changed his clothes, but not the color or style?