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The blue shirt guy thinks fast and comes to the conclusion that life isn’t worth living because of things like past due bills and intentionally gets hit in the head in order to die.

Age of majority would be the English term for it.

What sort of background are you coming from? That might help recommendations. This is a great resource for example if you’re coming from a YEC background, but not so much for other backgrounds that don’t deny science:

https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

Doesn’t really help much. Seems to be some spin on blockchain/cryptocurrency, and doesn’t really do a good job of explaining the value proposition.

Yeah, I think this is where they were trying to go with the joke from the previous strip. That one just wasn’t absurd enough

Create, enable and scale economic and digital exchange across and between diverse sectors.

Seems cryptocurrency related. Lot of marketing fluff.

Beckn Protocol is perhaps the least well-known project outside of tech circles, but is likely the most impactful of all work Nilekani has championed since Aadhaar

Who and what are those?

The github repo is slightly better, but not by much:

Beckn is an open protocol that allows local businesses across any industry to be discovered and engaged by any beckn-enabled application. Beckn protocol helps businesses co-create solutions for the masses seamlessly, by combining services of any form or provider.

Beckn protocol is a collection of open specifications consisting of protocol APIs, message formats, network design and reference architectures to allow any two entities to execute commercial transactions without being on the same platform.

This server-to-server communication protocol allows any consumer facing online platform to discover and transact with any business with minimal implementation overhead. The server-to-server nature of the protocol allows rich user experiences to be built by bundling services from multiple independent platforms.

Beckn protocol decouples the demand side digital infrastructure in the form of apps and other channels from the supply side service provisioning infrastructure. It does this by making integratedservices available not just on a single platform but potentially on any online consumer interface, (online maps, messaging, wallets, voice assistant apps and devices) that have mainstream adoption in a city.

Beckn is a protocol, not a platform. It adopts a decentralized architecture that obviates the need for creating a centralised platform in order to integrate services from multiple providers simultaneously ensuring privacy and security by design by enabling secure, encrypted iteractions.

The project could really use a “What problem is this trying to solve?” section. Is it aiming to replace something existing like HTTPS/Visa/etc?

I look forward to seeing it! Based on responses to other old comics that I’ve posted, people will understand that it was a product of its time, unless it’s really mean or something. See here for a recent example: https://discuss.online/post/18096035

The closest thing I could think of is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiquatedLinguistics

Yeah, they’re definitely still the standard. They’re not really replaced by comments, comments are more for explaining why bits of code are the way they are. Docstrings are kind of like comments for functions/classes/etc that Python knows how to handle specially. The interpreter will parse the docstrings and make help text out of them available to the help builtin function

Lemmy used to hardcode it, and you would’ve needed to patch the code to remove it:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

It’s now editable in the admin settings of the site. I’m not sure if the Lemmy devs inserted a default value or if it was manually set by @jgrim@discuss.online, but right now it just filters that one word and variant spellings on discuss.online. So IMO not really censorship in the same way that lemmy.ml does it

Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to *removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.

I also don’t get why he’s old and she’s not 🤷

See glowie if you’re confused about the joke:

From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA removed glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

Oh thanks, should’ve clicked the back button before asking 🤦

Is that referencing something? Did the New Yorker write an article critical of them?

You might enjoy reading The Egg by Andy Weir, if you haven’t already

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

Don’t say that too quickly. Now that I’m posting the old comics again, we’ll see if it’s any darker now than the early comics 🙂

It’s not as big, but there’s another community-discovery community on discuss.online: !newcommunities@discuss.online

Not really sure how that works with federation. You’re not “using” lemmy.world, you’re using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.