I mean even Python uses colons for definitions and loops, and going waaay back to BASIC, you still had semicolons and X=10 etc

unless as mentioned you are using Scratch

Probably “structure” would make more sense to a kid. They learn how to diagram sentences, when to use commas and periods etc.

I was gonna say Obelix is about to fall into that as a little boy

that’s why I’m deliberately rude and obstructive to AI to accelerate it, just in case.

You’re telling me that the US Government, Northrop Grunman, the us armed forces, the UN, and all the equivalents in Russia are conspiring to fake nuclear weapons despite live testing them over 2000 times over 70 years and that North Korea had a credible test in 2017, we just gave up in the mid 90s and were like “nah I’m bored now”?

nukes probably aren’t real

extreme doubt, my dude

time and the speed of light also both exist and their mechanisms operate efficiently, too.

equally, AGI could be as baked-in a limitation as exceeding the speed of light or time travel - any model that includes it has to put a lot into fictional solutions that have no bearing on current reality.

I have a Tile on my keys, it’s good for finding my keys. I could live without it

when I dress for myself it’s usually in funky, slightly silly clothing

when I dress for others it’s as low-effort business casual for a zoom meeting square as possible

the vast majority of actors probably earn less than four figures a year.

I sometimes write the (temporary) line number to get back to a suspect section quicker

Alex Kidd in Miracle World was the built in game.

He thinks protestors and activists should be shot and killed by the police if they cause even minor disturbance.

A cold comfort, but in expressing his distaste for the current government he would be hoist by his own petard.

in America I can pay someone a handful of grain and gain access to every piece of data about them.

you fool, as n approaches infinity the mass of the toothbrushes collapses into a black hole

I mean down that road you end up at “what is anything? does anything exist? does free will exist?”

I know why they do it but I always thought it weird that you see what happens after you die.

In real life it doesn’t even go black.

I mean some people say his depictions of beautiful men were inspired by real men he physically admired

While I’m not saying they don’t both exist, there are plenty of people writing the original definition for tech products, too.

And I’d argue that purely scientific papers are often written to promote products and viewpoints, too.