This is one of the Mandela effect things, where the correct title (well, right now, in this universe) is the vampire. Where does this image come from?!

Indeed- and the claim of "never sick" is also a lie. Anything relying on IT has outages.

Exact same problem. It has been there for several years. Incognito mode is also a workaround. Do you know exactly which cookie it is? Maybe we can code a Firefox extension to remove it.

I completely agree with the general assessment, but then there are always pesky exceptions. In this case the list entered a JavaScript frontend from the yaml header of machine generated content pages for the website framework Hugo. And, of course, after finding the bug, it is clear that things could have been done differently and the issue easily avoided, but I also don't think this was a completely unreasonable design. Since Hugo actually supports JSON headers (not just via the yaml parser, but thanks for that tip!), that was a quick fix. But I'm also somewhat amazed that it was possible for the strung-together fairly standard set of Python libraries (primarily pyyaml) to not get the strings properly quoted.

Just the other day I had a list show up as ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", false, "g", "h", "i"].

The issue was that, without me being overly aware of it, the data was going through a data -> yaml -> data step.

Yes, the data -> yaml filter was broken for not putting general strings in quotes. But IMO the yaml design invites these odd "rare" bugs.

I used to like yaml, but was happy to see Toml taking the niche of human-readable-JSON, but felt the format for nested key-value was a weird choice. However, I've always felt we could just have extended JSON a bit (allow line breaks, comments, if the outermost data type is an object, the curly brackets may be omitted).

The problem with this is that it would then mean only those with rights to huge amounts of non-fair-use data becomes the only ones who can build AI models. The big rights holder music organizations, big publishers, governments, and rich people capable of paying for content libraries, would be the only ones with this technology.

I guess they failed the captcha

Eeriely reminiscent of this scene from Community: https://youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg

Time travel as a sudden jump seems one of the least plausible implementations, since we have no idea how to do such jumps even in just space or forward in time; and allowing for it would break a lot of physics.

More plausible alternatives include a space-time bridge, meaning both sides can follow Earth's reference frame; or the Primer-type where one can reverse time in an isolated box in a way where you can only travel backwards along the Box' trajectory and you have to wait inside that box for some time while you move backwards in time along that trajectory.

Why would it not make sense to rather better limit access to ammunition and gunpowder? There must be ways to cobble together parts into a gun-like object through other means than 3D printing, but nothing will fire without ammunition, and that seems a bit more difficult for someone to pull of themselves? Or is that incorrect?

Unfortunately for the second scenario is that it also gives someone else a log of everything you 3D print, protrusions or not. And even if it isn't guns, you'd may not want that.

I think you have pinpointed the core issue.

Right-wing republican policies and ideas lends themselves to simple (but often wrong) models of explanation; "it is the fault of the immigrants; the poor; abortion is always immoral", etc. You get candidates that radiate confident leadership spewing simple talking points they believe in.

Left-wing, especially progressive, ideas are often rooted in insight into the incomplete understanding we have of the underlying complexities. People who navigate these ideas won't be as confident: "the cause is a bit of this and a bit of that; we don't really know, but research points at" etc. To confidently sell policies based on these ideas to voters requires a level of cognitive dissonance, and also opens for criticism on being indecisive.

How can we package left-wing ideas in a way that attracts voters who are swayed by simple ideas presented with absolut confidence?