MagicShel @ MagicShel @programming.dev

25+ yr Java/JS dev

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TBH, you got me. TBH, I'm never going to remember their username, TBH.

You're a new account who shows up and immediately starts arguing with people and insisting your interpretation is the only correct one. And you keep fighting and fighting and fighting long after you have anything new to add. Frankly you come across as the bully or at least you hold no moral high ground.

And I say this as someone unafraid to call out the zeitgeist when I think they are wrong. I take my downvotes when it happens and I engage honestly and respectfully with people I disagree with. I don't think I've ever had a comment deleted.

So it's not that you're being censored for your views, but because you're an asshole about them in places that don't tolerate that. And frankly I would rather an asshole on "my" team be censored than someone I can disagree respectfully with.

Food for thought. Come back when you're ready, if you want.

I think Target and McDonald's have figured out the solution to that: surround the supports with concrete pillars.

From now on, unless I see three declarations of honesty, I'm going to assume they are being at least somewhat dishonest.

I'm 50 and pong was my first video game. I had to play it on amateur with the bigger paddles because the small ones were insanely small.

I have a drink I've nicknamed the one-and-done.

• 2oz bourbon (I currently use Elijah Craig small batch)
• 1oz citrus vodka (using Smirnoff)
• syrup to taste (I've tried a bunch of different combos; currently using about .75 oz triple sec syrup and 1.5 oz homemade honey/peach)
• top with soda or tonic (or don't, I'm currently out)
• garnish with lemon
• sip slowly

It lives up to the name.

I don't think he'll endorse anyone except maybe for pay. And I don't think anyone will want his endorsement. Most of his endorsed primary candidates failed (as I recall, valid to double check that). It may not be a mark of death, but it doesn't look like it helps.

Don't put words in my mouth. I addressed the scenario you posed which said nothing of legality or not. Generally a pedestrian has right of way so legal would be the default assumption.

To the point of your post, I don't know if she was legal or not. I haven't read the article but obviously I'll have to. Did she hand signal? Do we have video or are we taking the driver's word for that? An unsafe lane change would put her at fault.

Edit: absolutely nothing in the article to indicate she failed to signal.

If I legally step into the road and a truck strikes and kills me I can be both right and dead. That's why wrongful death suits are a thing.

This is a very weak argument. I don't even own a bike and that's obvious to me.

Cynical take, but not without an element of truth.

Kamala by nature of being the Vice President.

I'm not sure why I care enough to say this but... like... I don't necessarily trust the FBI here, either. I ought to, but the past 8 years has shown a lot of people are willing to put politics over doing their job. Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't struck by the actual bullet. It shouldn't matter compared to the fact he was shot at in the first place.

I recognize my own bias here. If they said no he wasn't it would just confirm everything I already think about him. And now that they've said he was that doesn't dissuade my doubts.

Anyway it's the final word we are ever likely to get on the matter. Maybe if Trump wasn't such a duplicitous fucker I'd give him the benefit of doubt. But he's just so fucking vile I have none left for him.

Unless he himself has been saying that, you're painting with too broad a brush. We aren't all accountable for what our political allies do. Thank fuck. There are plenty of people on the left with more enthusiasm than ability to reason and communicate in public.

And I say that appreciating the irony that I will hold republicans accountable for allowing Nazis in their midst. But the difference to me is they don't speak out. Some of us will call out the left on bullshit (e.g. Gaza) even if we share similar ultimate goals. I see very few on the right ever do that.

Also, Vance fucks furniture is sort of obvious humor that no one takes really seriously, anyway, so probably not worth tackling that as a serious subject.

Weird aside, is profile a new thing? I don't have any way to set my profile in my app, nor can I find a place to read one. Wondering if either my instance or my app needs upgraded to support it. Or maybe I'm just too stupid to find it.

Even through the web UI I can't see it.

I love the size because you can sort of develop recognition and trust with people here, but it's still anonymous. Obviously Lemmy needs to grow but I feel like eventually anything cool like an online community or vacation spot eventually grows to where they aren't the original thing any more, now they are something new.

The vacation spot is still beautiful but now it's overrun with impolite tourists and dubious vendors, for example. Small communities are great. At least if Lemmy gets too big, people can retreat to their local instance instead of interacting more with everyone out there. That's not bad.

It's frustrating that if you fight against a thing and beat it, folks think there was no need to fight it in the first place. No. We routed evil temporarily. Great victory; still needs to be defeated again every time it rears its head.

I have not. I'm working on a side project with a partner in Portugal and he said they don't pay nearly what I'm used to, so I've never looked further. I guess I'll take a look and see this weekend.

I do not approve of denigrating the clitoris, but I guess you do you. Er.... wait.... that's not how I meant that to sound.

No one is dismissing their value. It's exciting to see them energized. The youth vote has been trending up and that's awesome for many reasons. But we may need another election or two to see if it will hold or if it's a reaction to Trump that will revert to norms once he's gone.

If it holds, I think we are likely to see some changes in political calculus.

Thank you for reading it so we don't have to. You're doing a great service.