If they don't include the I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-JVM, they aren't running Android in any useful sense of the word...
If you don't include that(and the various system-provided widgets and APIs and things that depend on it), 'Android' is just a slightly weird Linux kernel(unless they've finished the merge, I can't remember offhand) that typically ships with a rather spartan collection of userspace applications. If you aren't going to include everything you need for full Android compatibility, you might as well not bother, at least you'll have a reasonably complete linux userspace to work with.
And why, pray tell, did this dropbox employee have a list of user email accounts stored in his dropbox?
Unless they run things rather differently than everybody else in the universe, user emails aren't exactly zOMG Super Secret; but they tend to reside somewhere in the bowels of the system for mailing-list and password reset purposes handled largely by automated tools, not in list form in human file storage areas. Outside of the relatively small number that might collect during the course of handling support requests or the like, why would an employee have any use for a substantial list of addresses, stored insecurely?
So you have no problem with the laws of the US but a problem with the state of Arizona actually enforcing these laws? Fan-friggin-tastic.
I simply can't imagine why somebody might prefer a state where being flagged down and asked to produce your papers is still an unlikely event, even if you look like you might be of the foreign persuasion...
Shockingly enough, it is entirely possible to agree with a law and disagree with a given method of enforcing it. Except in rare cases, when the law actually explicitly prescribes its own enforcement methods, the two are actually very different things.
While it would be nice to stem (honestly, unintentional) the brain-drain into designing ever more esoteric securities, I have to wonder whether the allocation in prize form is the best way to do that:
Specifically, does physics have a bigger problem with promising people who have done good work(the sort who would stand to win prizes) slacking off and/or selling out, or does it have a bigger problem with fresh blood burning out or selling out during the (by all accounts) highly arduous and ill-compensated PhD/postdoc stage?
It is my (admittedly, quite possibly naive) suspicion that you would be more likely to get more and better physics done by spending relatively modest per-person amounts, but doing so predictably, in order to ease the path for aspiring physicists, rather than offering low-probability jackpots to those who have already done notable work. Especially if you can't compete with the magnitude of the low-probability jackpots offered by Wall Street, it seems like you'd be better off focusing on the areas of the field where people have effectively zero money and thus a very high marginal utility per additional dollar...
In a world that already knows that programmers produce video games, somebody with the, um, youth appeal of Mitt Romney is going to get people interested in programming? Seriously?
He has also been largely consistent in his assurances that, while being governor of Massachusetts does make him Serious and Experienced, he is absolutely against any policy he endorsed or enacted in that office, and is particularly horrified that this great nation has been saddled with the a medical insurance system practically identical to Romneycare...
It will actually be interesting to hear if any call centers that claimed Serious Redundancy And Stuff were a tad... optimistic... and will find customers going elsewhere in the near future.
It's not like backup power is total rocket surgery; but things that cost money all the time and only prove useful occasionally have a nasty habit of being neglected...
If the concern is 'proliferation' and the specific area of concern is a technology that makes it cheaper, easier, and less obvious to enrich fissionables, how exactly does 'staying ahead' help us and how do we monitor where the technology and (minimal resources) go?
In terms of nuclear arms, we already are ahead. Largely by brute-force large scale application of relatively primitive enrichment processes; but ahead nevertheless. That has its virtues in a MAD-style scenario; but doesn't really help us much in countering proliferation.
As for this specific technology, the entire concern is that it makes monitoring considerably more difficult, and the more it is used, the more likely it is that the necessary details of how it works will leak out or be worked out by undesirable parties.
This doesn't change the fact that trying to put it back in the bottle won't really work; but your suggested courses of action don't seem terribly relevant.
The Olympics take advantage of tax payers by building arenas that never pay off, they don't compensate athletes, the stars of their show, for their hard work and all the while, the IOC gets billions from ads and tv deals.
The athletes work for no pay, the city builds the stadiums and provides staff and security so what do the IOC spend their $$$ on???
Its a huge scam, screw them!
It's worse than that, I'm afraid.
Like a mythological vampire, the Olympics can only come inside if invited(in fact, given the competition each round, you pretty much have to grovel at the IOC's feet to get one). So, if your city finds itself in the unfortunate position of hosting an Olympic event, you are witnessing the end-stage political rot where whoever is in charge has (in the face of considerable competition) to knowingly invite a hugely expensive debacle to town in order to drum up some PR and have an excuse to farm out a bunch of sweetheart contracts on top of whatever part of the city doesn't meet their approval.
If the Olympics were some sort of outside force, imposed by IOC occupation troopers, it would actually be less pernicious. Alas, it is a parasitic organism that shows up to produce the especially grotesque symptoms of uncontrolled unaccountability in local governance, rather like all those exotic cancers and fungal infections that show up in immunocompromised patients.
This isn't to say that burning down the IOC would be a bad thing, of course, plenty of blame to go around; but your only real solution involves wheeling in the guillotine at the municipal level...
It was my understanding that 'frisk and/or harass the undesirables' has been a well-understood police work technique more or less as long as there has been such an institution... Is this 'predictive analysis' with its fancy computer machines and numbers and things actually a genuinely novel angle, or is it largely the process of paying IBM to build a model that provides an objective, scientific, reason you can give for doing what you are doing if anybody complains?
The case of New York comes to mind, a city that has both been on the leading edge of 'computerized, data-driven' modelling/performance stuff and rather tastelessly overt 'stop and frisk' approaches toward anybody that they don't like the look of...
Where, exactly, in the whole farce of the Facebook IPO is the 'discipline' of the capital markets?
We saw the Respectable Institution fuck up the offering price, we saw the assorted insider shenanigans, we saw the hyping and pumping of the noise-trader losers upon which the more sophisticated feed, we saw the following price drop when the hot air started to leak out...
I'm just not seeing the 'discipline' here
Frankly, were it not for the observable fact that real investment banks and NASDAQ and whatnot where involved, I could have been convinced that the whole thing had been cooked up as some sort of elaborate marxist performance art piece...
Certainly. The incompetent and/or unlucky get subdued and taken into custody before they can detonate from time to time, and suicide-vest munitions are no more immune to the occasional dud or unexpectedly low yield than are more conventional ordnance. It's reasonably rare; because executing a suicide bombing isn't exactly rocket surgery; but some quick googling will pull up a decent number of news items(substantially more if you wish to include the caught-in-the-planning-stages ones; but those are sort of iffy because their commitment to the idea hasn't really been field tested yet).
How could something like this come out of nothing? And people wonder why evolutionists are considered dumb.
The problem for 'natural theologians'(aside from, y'know, this crazy 'science' stuff that the kids are doing these days...) is that a look a nature suggests that its creator is kind of an awful person, if atypically clever by the standards of sociopathic sadists.
Regardless of whether you believe in one or not, you'll bloody well be hoping that the chap responsible for this world doesn't have control over your eternal afterlife after just a semester or so of a decent parasitiology class...
Suicide bombers think they're being altruistic too.
Are they incorrect? Suicide bombing is rather... downmarket... in these days of advanced robotic munitions(and so tends to be done against, rather than for us in particular); but if accepting a mission with a near-100% fatality rate in order to advance your in-group's objectives doesn't qualify as 'altruism', it's hard to imagine what would... Nothing about the definition of 'altruism' requires that your in-group be especially large, or not a bunch of raging assholes.
we should expect that level of Altrusim from political leaders of all parties - ship em to Afghanistan
You don't want to go there. Among termites, the leader lies immobile, too bloated with the next generation of sterile workers to move, constantly licked and tended by fanatical servitors controlled by chemical signals.
Are there really any world leaders that you would want to imagine holed up in the basement of their respective governance structures, their bloated, naked, abdomen stuffed with fetuses to the size of a 747 fuselage, being fanatically tongue-bathed by their aides as they pour forth the next generation of citizens to serve the nation?
HINT: If we start confiscating wealth, then nobody will bother accumulating it in the first place. Your plan will work great for all of 6 months and then the entire world will be in the shitter rather than just large parts of it.
Purely as a matter of empirical psychology(I really cannot stomach another tedious " 'communists' vs. 'free marketeers' " flamefest), I have to wonder if that is true...
As you accumulate more of it, the marginal utility of money plummets. There are only so many luxuries one can actually find oneself capable of enjoying. For that reason, I have to speculate that people who end up accumulating enormous amounts of money(especially if they do so over a number of years, rather than becoming wealthy all at once and then quitting) must have a rather weird relationship with wealth. Unless your job is also the hobby you like most in the world(or unless wealth accumulation is essentially a game that you approach with the zeal of a Korean stereotype), what kind of nutjob are you to still be busting ass at work if you've already made a big pile of money?
Given the dubious rationality of accumulating significant wealth for its own sake, it just isn't obvious that a higher effective tax rate would necessarily change much(though, given the dubious rationality, it could also turn out that spite magnifies the effect compared to the hypothetical 'rational man' scenario).
Building Open Source software specifically to make porting drivers easier is not supporting Linux? Ever heard of DKMS?
I apologize if I wasn't sufficiently clear: Dell(and their ilk) do care about being able to ship their systems in a functional state with what their customers demand(in sufficient volume), and the more you are paying for the support, the more they are willing to support you. Linux on Poweredge is both fairly popular and comparatively likely to come with a nice support plan. Workstations can expect somewhat less enthusiasm, Optiplex desktops a bit less still, and consumer crap least of all(I've dealt with all these support levels, and it really does make a difference).
Eh, I'm not sure that it'd be as difficult as you suggest.
Yes, Dell and friends want to get into software support like they want an extra hole in the head(which is why, unless you are paying for a nice support contract that lets you talk to a real support guy about why the TOE feature on the BCMXXXX LoM is corrupting packets under Server2000whatever, the advice is 'reboot, reimage); but if somebody came to them with an order for a suitably large number of standard-configuration boxes, they'd take it, no problem.
Consider Dell's existing "Hardware and Services for OEMs" program. Currently, it's mainly server-based, with offerings for people who make assorted enterprise network appliances, but workstations are also available. Basically, you, the OEM, supply the software and the customer support. Dell fulfills all hardware orders(with Dell designs, dell branded, unbranded, or customized-chassis, depending on volume and how much you pay) and handles all hardware replacements and FRUs. Dell ships more whiteboxes, you get to sell your linux softswitch or firewall appliance, or enterprise search widget, or what have you without developing any hardware supply chain or expertise. Simple enough.
Certainly neither Dell(nor, for that matter, Valve) would want to get dragged into the morass of 'let's support "linux", everything from antique versions of Redhat to Timmy-tweaker's ub3r Gentoo ricebox!'; but Dell wouldn't blink at shipping and (hardware) supporting the box of your choice if the volume were right, and Valve presumably wouldn't have any problem with saying 'Steam Just Works on Ubuntu Gaming Groundsquirrel LTS: if you can get it working elsewhere that's cool too".
Windows 8 is a catastrophe only for those who use it with a keyboard and mouse.
It's also a catastrophe if your business model involves running a 3rd party app store. Good luck competing against Microsoft, Gabe.
+1 for identifying the second horn of the dilemma.
On the one hand, if MS underperforms, their historical platform buddies face the real risk(at least outside of enterprise stuff, where entrenchment goes a lot deeper) that Apple will eat into the desktop/laptop/portable segment(and Apple has made it fairly clear that 3rd-party vendors are forbidden on iOS and grudgingly permitted, for now, on OSX) with Sony on consoles and a somewhat chaotic flux of Android devices on mobile.
On the other hand, if MS does a good job, they have their fingers in, or heading for, so many of their platform partner's pies that that won't clearly be a win for those platform partners. They've got their own application store, their own cloud/SaaS thing, their own console, an unknown-but-enough-to-make-the-OEMs-nervous amount of their own PC and tablet hardware, their own pet phone company...
Getting the Steam catalog to 'Just Work' on linux isn't going to be a picnic; but you can't exactly blame them for looking for plan B.
The author doesn't just wax poetic, he links to some SEO slime who has an entire series of articles bemoaning how retro and 'undemocratic' it is for search engines to use links, rather than 'social', to assign pageranks...
I'm not sure when the grand act of mental inversion that convinced SEO scumbags that search engines are supposed to be working for them, rather than working took place; but it's the bloody twilight zone over there now...
Why would anybody be surprised by the ubiquity of these 'photos with text on them'? Lo, such things are truly the chosen of ceilingcat and his blessing is upon them and their remixes unto the 7th generation.
Slashdot Mirror
If they don't include the I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-JVM, they aren't running Android in any useful sense of the word...
If you don't include that(and the various system-provided widgets and APIs and things that depend on it), 'Android' is just a slightly weird Linux kernel(unless they've finished the merge, I can't remember offhand) that typically ships with a rather spartan collection of userspace applications. If you aren't going to include everything you need for full Android compatibility, you might as well not bother, at least you'll have a reasonably complete linux userspace to work with.
And why, pray tell, did this dropbox employee have a list of user email accounts stored in his dropbox?
Unless they run things rather differently than everybody else in the universe, user emails aren't exactly zOMG Super Secret; but they tend to reside somewhere in the bowels of the system for mailing-list and password reset purposes handled largely by automated tools, not in list form in human file storage areas. Outside of the relatively small number that might collect during the course of handling support requests or the like, why would an employee have any use for a substantial list of addresses, stored insecurely?
Can we please just get the robotic-uprising-and-enslavement-of-mankind over with already and dispense with the assorted sordid intermediate steps?
At least that part will have laser guns and gigantic deathbots, rather than gnawing ennui and postindustrial globalized cube hell...
The solution is sleeping tubes. Or arcologies. Possibly arcologies full of sleeping tubes.
So you have no problem with the laws of the US but a problem with the state of Arizona actually enforcing these laws? Fan-friggin-tastic.
I simply can't imagine why somebody might prefer a state where being flagged down and asked to produce your papers is still an unlikely event, even if you look like you might be of the foreign persuasion...
Shockingly enough, it is entirely possible to agree with a law and disagree with a given method of enforcing it. Except in rare cases, when the law actually explicitly prescribes its own enforcement methods, the two are actually very different things.
While it would be nice to stem (honestly, unintentional) the brain-drain into designing ever more esoteric securities, I have to wonder whether the allocation in prize form is the best way to do that:
Specifically, does physics have a bigger problem with promising people who have done good work(the sort who would stand to win prizes) slacking off and/or selling out, or does it have a bigger problem with fresh blood burning out or selling out during the (by all accounts) highly arduous and ill-compensated PhD/postdoc stage?
It is my (admittedly, quite possibly naive) suspicion that you would be more likely to get more and better physics done by spending relatively modest per-person amounts, but doing so predictably, in order to ease the path for aspiring physicists, rather than offering low-probability jackpots to those who have already done notable work. Especially if you can't compete with the magnitude of the low-probability jackpots offered by Wall Street, it seems like you'd be better off focusing on the areas of the field where people have effectively zero money and thus a very high marginal utility per additional dollar...
In a world that already knows that programmers produce video games, somebody with the, um, youth appeal of Mitt Romney is going to get people interested in programming? Seriously?
He has also been largely consistent in his assurances that, while being governor of Massachusetts does make him Serious and Experienced, he is absolutely against any policy he endorsed or enacted in that office, and is particularly horrified that this great nation has been saddled with the a medical insurance system practically identical to Romneycare...
You, um, might have missed a memo or two about the, er, 'demographic re-targeting' of the GOP brand...
It will actually be interesting to hear if any call centers that claimed Serious Redundancy And Stuff were a tad... optimistic... and will find customers going elsewhere in the near future.
It's not like backup power is total rocket surgery; but things that cost money all the time and only prove useful occasionally have a nasty habit of being neglected...
If the concern is 'proliferation' and the specific area of concern is a technology that makes it cheaper, easier, and less obvious to enrich fissionables, how exactly does 'staying ahead' help us and how do we monitor where the technology and (minimal resources) go?
In terms of nuclear arms, we already are ahead. Largely by brute-force large scale application of relatively primitive enrichment processes; but ahead nevertheless. That has its virtues in a MAD-style scenario; but doesn't really help us much in countering proliferation.
As for this specific technology, the entire concern is that it makes monitoring considerably more difficult, and the more it is used, the more likely it is that the necessary details of how it works will leak out or be worked out by undesirable parties.
This doesn't change the fact that trying to put it back in the bottle won't really work; but your suggested courses of action don't seem terribly relevant.
The Olympics take advantage of tax payers by building arenas that never pay off, they don't compensate athletes, the stars of their show, for their hard work and all the while, the IOC gets billions from ads and tv deals.
The athletes work for no pay, the city builds the stadiums and provides staff and security so what do the IOC spend their $$$ on???
Its a huge scam, screw them!
It's worse than that, I'm afraid.
Like a mythological vampire, the Olympics can only come inside if invited(in fact, given the competition each round, you pretty much have to grovel at the IOC's feet to get one). So, if your city finds itself in the unfortunate position of hosting an Olympic event, you are witnessing the end-stage political rot where whoever is in charge has (in the face of considerable competition) to knowingly invite a hugely expensive debacle to town in order to drum up some PR and have an excuse to farm out a bunch of sweetheart contracts on top of whatever part of the city doesn't meet their approval.
If the Olympics were some sort of outside force, imposed by IOC occupation troopers, it would actually be less pernicious. Alas, it is a parasitic organism that shows up to produce the especially grotesque symptoms of uncontrolled unaccountability in local governance, rather like all those exotic cancers and fungal infections that show up in immunocompromised patients.
This isn't to say that burning down the IOC would be a bad thing, of course, plenty of blame to go around; but your only real solution involves wheeling in the guillotine at the municipal level...
It is probably worth mentioning that Twitter was/is NBC's 'partner' for coverage of the Olympics... That's sort of a salient detail.
It was my understanding that 'frisk and/or harass the undesirables' has been a well-understood police work technique more or less as long as there has been such an institution... Is this 'predictive analysis' with its fancy computer machines and numbers and things actually a genuinely novel angle, or is it largely the process of paying IBM to build a model that provides an objective, scientific, reason you can give for doing what you are doing if anybody complains?
The case of New York comes to mind, a city that has both been on the leading edge of 'computerized, data-driven' modelling/performance stuff and rather tastelessly overt 'stop and frisk' approaches toward anybody that they don't like the look of...
Where, exactly, in the whole farce of the Facebook IPO is the 'discipline' of the capital markets?
We saw the Respectable Institution fuck up the offering price, we saw the assorted insider shenanigans, we saw the hyping and pumping of the noise-trader losers upon which the more sophisticated feed, we saw the following price drop when the hot air started to leak out...
I'm just not seeing the 'discipline' here
Frankly, were it not for the observable fact that real investment banks and NASDAQ and whatnot where involved, I could have been convinced that the whole thing had been cooked up as some sort of elaborate marxist performance art piece...
Certainly. The incompetent and/or unlucky get subdued and taken into custody before they can detonate from time to time, and suicide-vest munitions are no more immune to the occasional dud or unexpectedly low yield than are more conventional ordnance. It's reasonably rare; because executing a suicide bombing isn't exactly rocket surgery; but some quick googling will pull up a decent number of news items(substantially more if you wish to include the caught-in-the-planning-stages ones; but those are sort of iffy because their commitment to the idea hasn't really been field tested yet).
How could something like this come out of nothing? And people wonder why evolutionists are considered dumb.
The problem for 'natural theologians'(aside from, y'know, this crazy 'science' stuff that the kids are doing these days...) is that a look a nature suggests that its creator is kind of an awful person, if atypically clever by the standards of sociopathic sadists.
Regardless of whether you believe in one or not, you'll bloody well be hoping that the chap responsible for this world doesn't have control over your eternal afterlife after just a semester or so of a decent parasitiology class...
Suicide bombers think they're being altruistic too.
Are they incorrect? Suicide bombing is rather... downmarket... in these days of advanced robotic munitions(and so tends to be done against, rather than for us in particular); but if accepting a mission with a near-100% fatality rate in order to advance your in-group's objectives doesn't qualify as 'altruism', it's hard to imagine what would... Nothing about the definition of 'altruism' requires that your in-group be especially large, or not a bunch of raging assholes.
we should expect that level of Altrusim from political leaders of all parties - ship em to Afghanistan
You don't want to go there. Among termites, the leader lies immobile, too bloated with the next generation of sterile workers to move, constantly licked and tended by fanatical servitors controlled by chemical signals.
Are there really any world leaders that you would want to imagine holed up in the basement of their respective governance structures, their bloated, naked, abdomen stuffed with fetuses to the size of a 747 fuselage, being fanatically tongue-bathed by their aides as they pour forth the next generation of citizens to serve the nation?
HINT: If we start confiscating wealth, then nobody will bother accumulating it in the first place. Your plan will work great for all of 6 months and then the entire world will be in the shitter rather than just large parts of it.
Purely as a matter of empirical psychology(I really cannot stomach another tedious " 'communists' vs. 'free marketeers' " flamefest), I have to wonder if that is true...
As you accumulate more of it, the marginal utility of money plummets. There are only so many luxuries one can actually find oneself capable of enjoying. For that reason, I have to speculate that people who end up accumulating enormous amounts of money(especially if they do so over a number of years, rather than becoming wealthy all at once and then quitting) must have a rather weird relationship with wealth. Unless your job is also the hobby you like most in the world(or unless wealth accumulation is essentially a game that you approach with the zeal of a Korean stereotype), what kind of nutjob are you to still be busting ass at work if you've already made a big pile of money?
Given the dubious rationality of accumulating significant wealth for its own sake, it just isn't obvious that a higher effective tax rate would necessarily change much(though, given the dubious rationality, it could also turn out that spite magnifies the effect compared to the hypothetical 'rational man' scenario).
Building Open Source software specifically to make porting drivers easier is not supporting Linux? Ever heard of DKMS?
I apologize if I wasn't sufficiently clear: Dell(and their ilk) do care about being able to ship their systems in a functional state with what their customers demand(in sufficient volume), and the more you are paying for the support, the more they are willing to support you. Linux on Poweredge is both fairly popular and comparatively likely to come with a nice support plan. Workstations can expect somewhat less enthusiasm, Optiplex desktops a bit less still, and consumer crap least of all(I've dealt with all these support levels, and it really does make a difference).
Eh, I'm not sure that it'd be as difficult as you suggest.
Yes, Dell and friends want to get into software support like they want an extra hole in the head(which is why, unless you are paying for a nice support contract that lets you talk to a real support guy about why the TOE feature on the BCMXXXX LoM is corrupting packets under Server2000whatever, the advice is 'reboot, reimage); but if somebody came to them with an order for a suitably large number of standard-configuration boxes, they'd take it, no problem.
Consider Dell's existing "Hardware and Services for OEMs" program. Currently, it's mainly server-based, with offerings for people who make assorted enterprise network appliances, but workstations are also available. Basically, you, the OEM, supply the software and the customer support. Dell fulfills all hardware orders(with Dell designs, dell branded, unbranded, or customized-chassis, depending on volume and how much you pay) and handles all hardware replacements and FRUs. Dell ships more whiteboxes, you get to sell your linux softswitch or firewall appliance, or enterprise search widget, or what have you without developing any hardware supply chain or expertise. Simple enough.
Certainly neither Dell(nor, for that matter, Valve) would want to get dragged into the morass of 'let's support "linux", everything from antique versions of Redhat to Timmy-tweaker's ub3r Gentoo ricebox!'; but Dell wouldn't blink at shipping and (hardware) supporting the box of your choice if the volume were right, and Valve presumably wouldn't have any problem with saying 'Steam Just Works on Ubuntu Gaming Groundsquirrel LTS: if you can get it working elsewhere that's cool too".
It's also a catastrophe if your business model involves running a 3rd party app store. Good luck competing against Microsoft, Gabe.
+1 for identifying the second horn of the dilemma.
On the one hand, if MS underperforms, their historical platform buddies face the real risk(at least outside of enterprise stuff, where entrenchment goes a lot deeper) that Apple will eat into the desktop/laptop/portable segment(and Apple has made it fairly clear that 3rd-party vendors are forbidden on iOS and grudgingly permitted, for now, on OSX) with Sony on consoles and a somewhat chaotic flux of Android devices on mobile.
On the other hand, if MS does a good job, they have their fingers in, or heading for, so many of their platform partner's pies that that won't clearly be a win for those platform partners. They've got their own application store, their own cloud/SaaS thing, their own console, an unknown-but-enough-to-make-the-OEMs-nervous amount of their own PC and tablet hardware, their own pet phone company...
Getting the Steam catalog to 'Just Work' on linux isn't going to be a picnic; but you can't exactly blame them for looking for plan B.
The author doesn't just wax poetic, he links to some SEO slime who has an entire series of articles bemoaning how retro and 'undemocratic' it is for search engines to use links, rather than 'social', to assign pageranks...
I'm not sure when the grand act of mental inversion that convinced SEO scumbags that search engines are supposed to be working for them, rather than working took place; but it's the bloody twilight zone over there now...
Why would anybody be surprised by the ubiquity of these 'photos with text on them'? Lo, such things are truly the chosen of ceilingcat and his blessing is upon them and their remixes unto the 7th generation.