Where I come from we call these, “up only” stairs. Kind of like how Perl is a write-only language.

Santa is a stand-in for Jesus… for children. They’re both magical beings that can perform miracles and have similar methods: Both Santa and Jesus have naughty lists and forms of punishment that come later; much later (both are equivalent lengths of time to a child though 🤣). Both bring “gifts”. Both have traditional appearances. Both have followers that wear silly hats and strange clothes. But most importantly…

Both are imaginary.

If you believe in Santa as an adult you’re ridiculed. If you believe in Jesus as an adult you’re just labeled, “Christian”. Yet the fact that nearly every child eventually finds out Santa isn’t real is quite disturbing to a lot of Christians. After all, if they could stop believing in Santa–who is so similar to Jesus in every way–then they could stop believing in Jesus.

Trying the back button to get out of an ad infestation? You get a new ad! Trying again? Believe or not, straight to another ad!

There’s vastly more malicious code now than there was back then. Every company that has an online presence is constantly under attack. Constantly. There isn’t an IPv4 address that exists that isn’t scanned and have an attempt at hacking performed within seconds of being connected.

Not only that but today’s malicious code is much better at what it does with hundreds of amazing features and methods of branching out using different attack methods. Today’s malware is so good it updates itself very carefully/as secretly as possible so that some old compromised machine that no one thinks about anymore can become the next vector of attack inside your network.

All it takes is one active vulnerability

Keep all your shit up to date, people! When was the last time you checked your router to see if it had updates? Hmm‽

People are accepting of ads because ads are literally everywhere. A world without ads would be very strange indeed!

Every logo that exists and every product that has its own name/brand printed on it is an ad. Every product name in a catalog or simple list is an ad.

A world without ads would be like hundreds of years ago when you could buy soap that just looked like soap with no labels and no packaging at all. When the only food you purchased was bare produce/meat (or the whole animal). But even then any assembled/manufactured product would have some sort of “maker’s mark”.

I mean, how long have humans been branding cattle? That’s the original use of that term!

Sounds sooooo second class to me. I only deal with first class languages so I can enjoy my curry with a satisfying closure 🎩 👌

OP doesn’t realize he’s an AI.

What their next prompt will be.

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Liberalism. (noun) a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution.

What they’re saying is that revolution is the only option.