Javascript is like Dungeons and dragons. It’s a mess, weighed down by legacy decisions, too heavy in some places and too light in others, and used in far more places than it should be. It also has some diehard fans, and some diehard fans who have never used anything else.
Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook
Oh yeah, I think that’s part of the fascism standard set. Like first it’ll be non-christians, and then catholics, and then the “wrong” kind of protestants.
There’s some political cartoon that was like
Gay man pushing a trans person off a cliff. nazi smiling.
Gay man: “Glad we worked together to get rid of the trans menace! What next?”
nazi: [keeps smiling]
Gay man: [concerned expression]
nazi: [pushes gay man off the cliff, too.]
Side note: I hate how markdown doesn’t do linebreaks unless you add two trailing spaces on the end of the line, or add a whole ass extra line break.
This is correct. They don’t care. It’s just in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind. It’s “what’s good for me right now?”. There’s nothing deeper.
By any reasonable metric they are bad people
You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?
They don’t care. All they care about is their in-group is strong and the out-group is punished. They’re shitty people.
I had an issue with installing mint. Never figured it out. Got the older LTS and it worked fine though. Maybe try a different version?
One of my lawyer friends was telling me there’s not really a legal mechanism in the US to just like dissolve an organization like the GOP.
I think a lot of people aren’t that coherent. They also just kind of wander from emotion to emotion, so Trump talks like they think.
We should treat people wearing maga-hats like someone wearing a nazi armband. The outfit is a threat.
And I know if we get through this, there won’t be any judgement. People will just be like “oh that’s in the past let’s just let it be”, and people won’t pay for their crimes, and the roots of this problem won’t be ripped out.
Parents often take time off from work to grieve. Classes are often disrupted when a student dies abruptly. This isn’t Skyrim where someone dies and forty seconds later it’s “Must be hearing things”. Plus, as I said, letting the kid die means the resources spend raising and educating them are wasted.
My point is that “oh if he dies it only affects the family” is stupid.
If I’m on my land I’m gonna do whatever I want. I’ll get drunk and do donuts on my lawn. Maybe I’ll set off 10 pounds of tannerite in my backyard because that’s what people do in the middle of nowhere.
[mean words] Edit: I take that back. I’m hangry. I don’t like rugged individualism but that was uncalled for
Should my mom not have allowed me to practice my drums in the barn because the audio was escaping the property and the neighbors could hear faint drumming in the middle of the day sometimes?
Non sequitur.
If it’s on private property who gives a shit. If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don’t do anything about it and he dies that’s on them.
it’s on all of us, because all the money and effort that went into educating and raising that kid is wasted. Plus the rippling effects outward from everyone who knew the kid grieving.
Also the more exceptions you have to rules, the more confusing it is and the more likely people are going to fuck it up.
“Always wear a hardhat on site” - easy. simple. minimal room for interpretation.
“Always wear a hardhat on site when any of the following conditions are true: [a, b, c, d] unless [e, f]” is going to lead to errors, and then people will get hurt.
People aren’t that smart. Especially when they’re not motivated, or distracted.
Saint Luigi deliver us from these horrible “justices”
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That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault. <-- here
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.
a state he won with 64% of the vote in last year’s presidential election
64% of Arkansas voters deserve to absolutely, relentlessly, get fucked. Sucks for everyone else, though.
Why should we have a market for housing at all? Not everything needs to be a market
The first and last points are flawed, though.
Several people are telling you a story, and they’re all slightly different versions of supposedly the same story.
Sometimes the issues are like “We should ban books” vs “We shouldn’t ban books”. They’re not slightly different so much as opposites. For something like “income tax should stop at 40% vs 80%” sure, but a lot of what’s on the table now is not that nuanced.
Which leads me to
You don’t really know any of them personally, hence have no predisposition for trusting the story of one over that of the others or even know for sure that at least on of the stories is the true (i.e. they could all be lying to you).
This implies that information and truth is unknowable. That you can’t open up wikipedia, click through to sources, read a book. You shouldn’t have to go solely on “does their body language seem confident?”. This is supposed to be the information age!
But I guess a lot of people cannot read well, and certainly don’t know how to determine what’s a good source and what’s not. I’ve seen people just go by some youtube video some nobody made and… oh, I see the problem. If you assume everyone and everything is just as credible as anything else, even some pseudonymous youtube video, knowing anything becomes dubious. Maybe this is why you have “Four dozen studies from nineteen universities have shown human activity is contributing to climate change” -> “well, CoolDog420 on their youtube channel said it’s just because the sun is having PMS, and I like his videos.”
That assumption that all things are equally credible is really bad. In college I took an intro to journalism course as an elective, and one of our first assignments was to go through a list of sources and determine which ones were good and which were not. Some were partisan think tanks, some were actually satire, some were real. It was a good exercise. Some students got taken in by all of it, and I think benefited from the professor walking them through how to investigate.
This is probably all downstream from under-investing (or outright sabotaging) public education.
I don’t know how to fix this.
I found a neat looking board game at the thrift store once. I looked it up on my phone to check reviews, and learned it would be cheaper to buy it new than what they were asking. Usually they have good deals but not that time.
I’ve adopted the policy of only buying a game if I plan to play it that day. Works well.
Also now that I’m unemployed I’m not buying anything. Reinstalled Morrowind (OpenMW) and realizing there’s quests I never even knew were here when I played this as a youth. It’s also super janky, but mods help.
I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.
Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.
Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.
So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.
Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.