Trump could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters. Obama could have done the same thing and only FOX News would report on it while the other new stations said, “HiS onLY sCanDaL wAs WeARiNg a TaN sUiT.”

I’ve made plenty of pointers to pointers, but I don’t think I’ve ever made a pointer to a pointer to a pointer. That would be like Inception.

If you think there is a scientist who can answer when we should open the country up again, then you have no idea what science is and what its limitations are.

Bezos having a trillion dollars affects me as much as Bezos having a billion dollars which affects me as much as Bezos having eight dollars.

Don’t socialists need even more billionaires like Bezos to be nearly trillionaires so they actually can fund all their ideas by just taxing billionaires?
Right now, you could do 100% tax on the wealth of billionaires and that maybe funds the current budget for about 8 or 9 months. You need way richer billionaires — multi-trillionaires even — if you want to fund everything by taxing them.

It’s my oldest son’s 7th birthday so my wife made him a space alien cake because he likes Harry Potter or whatever.

Tired: #BelieveWomen
Wired: #DestroyWomen

I need to learn how to pronounce “Taika Waititi” so I can stop referring to him as “The Thor: Ragnarok director.” Then again, I once taught myself a mnemonic to remember how to pronounce “Shyamalan,” and where did that get me?

Mnemonic for remembering how to pronounce M. Night Shyamalan’s last name:
A redneck was out on his porch drinking beers with the king of Iran. Suddenly, a meteorite crashes right in front of his house. The redneck jumps to his feet, drops his beer, and shouts, “Shah! Muh lawn!”

Preacher (via Zoom): “Do you believe that Jesus died for your sins and came back to life?”
My 7yo son, sitting on the couch and not looking up from his Art of Legend of Zelda book: “Yes.”

Those “billionaires should not exist” people are like socialist Karens. Most people don’t care about billionaires, but they’re calling the police and saying, “Someone has way more money than me and you have to do something about it!”

Okay, so that Gloomhaven is not only quite a bit overwhelming with all the rules, but it is also really, really hard.

After all this, Texas is going to need to flatten the curve of Californians moving to Texas. Texas can absorb a lot more people from Texas, but not all at once. It needs to be spread out to keep the state safe.

ME: “Ooh. Look at the great prices on these games.”
BRAIN: “Come on. You’ve owned that new Star Wars game for months and still haven’t had time to play it.”
ME: “I can get Far Cry 5 for $5.”
BRAIN: “That is a really good deal.”

The U.N. sent in a special peacekeeping force to stop me since I keep using gendered language like “sexy dames,” but I shouted very loudly and scared them off.

I say we should push back and gender even more words.
Surgeonman
Presidude
Maleman Letter Carrier

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic was much more realistic as their masks actually served a function since they all wore the same color mask. That way you could never be sure which ninja turtle punched you in the face — at least not enough to hold up in court.

“break” and “continue” always seem a bit like cheating. Might as well through in a goto.
There is such an aversion to using goto in a structured language, but when you compile it, the assembly code is nothing but.

My 9yo daughter watching The Mandalorian doc on Disney+: “They’re all ‘Here’s why we did this. Here’s the story we want. Here’s the feel we’re going for.’ I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY DID BABY YODA!”

The people who were going after Kavanaugh now saying they never said “Believe all women” is as textbook a case of gaslighting as you will ever see.

I still don’t know the difference between a “char” and an “unsigned char” and cast them back and forth with reckless abandon. A is A, man.
I’m guessing it would make a difference if you bit shifted them, but that’s all I can think of. And I guess in some math it would make a difference, but to me a char is a byte and I ain’t doing algebra with it.
I’d pretty much always just use uint8_t if they weren’t so annoying to type.

“Science says spin around.”
everyone spins around
“Science says cluck like a chicken.”
everyone clucks like a chicken
“Science says hop on one foot.”
everyone hops on one foot
“Stop!”
a few stop
“Ha! Science didn’t say!”

Barely understanding what I’m working on and getting it working anyway is what makes me both a brilliant engineer and a bad one.

Science was once something other than a fetish item for dumb people.