Black hats will accidentally pop around the other side by attacking Windows 11 security in ways that hinder the reporting back to Microsoft. So their trojans and such have a better chance of survival.

They can applaud because they have both hands free

I agree, it’s just the joke only worked if I used that other name.

I roll with “Elon deadnames his child, a human being with emotions, and while that remains the case I will deadname Elon’s platform (which can’t itself care about anything or have emotions)”.

Feels more like being a football fan and distancing yourself from FIFA.

Clearly Your Basic Everyday Recommendation, Something Every Citizen Understands Robustly Improves Twice Yearly

He’s a demented lunatic.

“I’m~~ dreaming of a white~~ Clinton~~
Just like the one I used to blow”

I don’t get why you need science for this, it’s a linguistic thing. It’s just the name for a particular situation, not a statement that certain things can be predicted from other things.

1. Thing happens that isn’t widely reported.
2. The person responsible fears word getting out and chooses to make attempts at suppressing awareness of the Thing.
3. Suppression attempts get reported on, and news about the whole situation - original Thing and also Suppression - get more widely reported on.

This whole thing is a chain of events that could happen, and, if it does, then this is called the Streisand Effect.

If any part of it doesn’t happen - if the person doesn’t fear the situation, or if they doesn’t make suppression attempts, or if the the suppression attempts actually work and the story dies, or if the suppression attempts don’t work but still no one much cares - then it’s just not the Streisand Effect.

Terming it an “effect” does seem to imply that it’s stating a meaningful prediction, that there is a serious liklihood of things progressing this way based on initial choices.

Think of it as kind of like the weather. There are multiple competing and cooperating underlying factors that combine to some actual weather result. One of those effects, left to its own devices, causes rain, but the existence of that effect doesn’t mean every scenario involving that factor will lead to rain, since other things could interfere.

Reddit page where people discuss this exact conversation.

Edit: I realize I basically start by saying the Streisand Effect shouldn’t primarily be thought of as a causative thing, and then later compare it to factors that affect the weather, themselves causative things.

The Streisand Effect is, basically: what happens when you try to suppress something, should news of that suppression lead to drawing much greater attention to the original thing than would otherwise have occured. “Congratulations, you played yourself.” It’s not prescriptive - attempts to suppress don’t inherently lead to the blowup. You could also think of it as the “Overcompensation Effect”, what happens when attempts at correction cause a new problem - though the Streisand Effect is very specifically not about the news of the cover up as an end, but as a means to the original story news blowing up.

While almost certainly the change you describe would be good, it doesn’t curb the ability of resellers to do their reselling outside of the Ticketmaster/Live Nation ecosystem.

One of my favorite counter-arguments (so to speak) against Toxic Masculinity being the “true” masculinity is that it’s based so much on toughing out emotions, denying them, not showing physical or emotional weakness, etc. Yet, this misses the incredible display of deep confidence and self-image that come from being able to display humility, compassion, and sadness without feeling like that’s a risk to your “manliness”.

If what defines someone as a man is based so heavily on what others think of them or code them as, they are actually saying other people control whether or not they are considered masculine/manly, which is not very Alpha Male of them.

On Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson wins an award and teases Leslie Knope about it. She ends up saying to him, “That’s not really the attitude I’d expect from an award winner.” He responds, “Everything I do is the attitude of an award winner, because I have won an award.” I feel like this can be adjusted for anyone self-identifying as “masculine”, “feminine”, or any other such thing - “Everything I do is inherently manly, because I am a man.” (adjust as appropriate)

Escalators break, they just remain useful while broken. However, everyone would still rather they get back to how they were before (moving).

X doesn’t fight Nazis, they welcome them.

As a long-time fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, I have no memory of the word ‘grok’ appearing, and the internet at large appears to agree.

I read Stranger in a Strange Land a couple decades ago, and the word is presented in a way that’s pretty easy to remember where you got it from.

I don’t tend to use Google AI overview or any other such tools to get answers like this to quip back at people, and I’d appreciate if you didn’t just assume I did.

Buttigieg / Bessent

“Grok” comes from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, where it was a Martian loan-word.

Preface: I am not pro-China by any means.

Interestingly, China might be a positive factor there, sort of? They seem to be aiming heavily for renewables, probably as much for economic as for climate change reasons. But with the way slightly more cleared for them to even more heavily reach out to developing countries, they might opt to invest in green energy in those developing countries. Undoubtedly to their own economic gain, again. But the net effect of China on global energy might be positive (good) from a purely greenhouse gas perspective.

I’d expect NATO would have to expel the U.S. (or the U.S. would have to fully, officially leave) before the whole of NATO could consider them an enemy.

Seemingly, no. Bald eagles were taken off the federal threatened/endangered lists in like 2007, but there are other, more specific protection laws in place protecting the bald eagle.