Daniel Karp

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Lead web applications developer at BoardGameGeek, board gamer, non-practicing scientist, spouse, not in that order. he/him
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A dog we saw at the vet, presumably there because he got into The Jokerโ€™s Smylex gas supply.
Jokes we tell.
Pick the best fallacy
Sunk Cost has been my favorite since 1982
14.7%
Proof by Assertion is best
2.6%
Why y'all hate Strawman so much
3%
I just heard about Recency Bias
6%
If you don't vote Ad Hominem you're ugly
3.6%
Any fallacy fan knows No True Scotsman is best
7.6%
God told me Appeal to Authority is his favorite
4.4%
"Vote for False Attribution" - Abraham Lincoln
2.7%
The best is Circular Argument because it's awesome
8.1%
Category Error is the prettiest fallacy
3.7%
You said Tu Quoque so I did too
1.2%
C'mon vote Bandwagon everyone's doing it
5%
Vote Slippery Slope, next thing you're doing drugs
8.1%
I like turtles and also Non Sequitur Fallacies
9.6%
If Appeal to Probability can be chosen then it is
2.8%
Motte-and-Bailey is best, but I meant kinda good
2.9%
These are all bad and wrong, vote Fallacy Fallacy
14%
Poll ended at .

When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

Well, this looks interesting!
https://programming.dev/post/42658798
Mago 1.0.0 - the first stable release of the Mago PHP toolchain - programming.dev

Lemmy

We at BG Stats love BoardGameGeek! They bring so much to the gaming world and make it more fun. If you're in a position to do so, please consider supporting them in their annual support drive!

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2025 End-of-Year Support Drive | Geekdo

As we approach the end of another year I want to take a moment to express my deep gratitude for everyone who makes up our incredible BoardGameGeek community. BGG has always been a place shaped by its members. Your passion, your creativity, and your love of games are what makes

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Lmao. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service. Microsoft simply doesn't know how to make profit out of AI because it is not profitable for anyone right now. So they are adding AI to Windows 11, GitHub, Office, and everything else they own, hoping that somewhere, somehow, profit will magically show up for shareholders.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

The Register

"A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating."

#JamesWatson #Racism #Bigotry #Sexism

https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

STAT