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  • I am flabbergasted. Who would have thought that a man with decades long ties to Russia, who's met with and spoke highly of Putin, who had russian spies crawling all over his first presidential campaign, who's backed by russian oligarch money, would say such a silly thing about Ukraine.

    They're planning an offensive that has moscow scared enough they are rattling their nuclear sabers. Seems like a poorly thought out move for a "destroyed" country and that their hegemonic buddies would advise them against rather than helping them tool up for the fight.

  • Jeez, you don't need the gun. I would have come willingly if you'd mentioned the numbers stations. Watching some boring Netflix movie kinda sounded lame anyway. Here's an edible, where are your headphones?

  • Eh, technical merit is only one of many factors that determine what language is the "best". Best is inherently a subjective assessment. Rust's safety and performance is the conceptual bible rustacians use to justify thier faith.

    I also know religious people who have written books about their faith too (my uncle is a preacher and my ex-spouse was getting their doctorate in theology). Rust has the same reality-blind, proselytizing zealots.

    The needs of the project being planning and the technical abilities of the developers building it are more important that what language is superior.

    I like rust. I own a physical copy of the book and donated money to the rust foundation. I have written a few utilities and programs in rust. The runtime performance and safety is paid for in dev time. I would argue that for most software projects, especially small ones, Rust adds too much complexity for maintainability and ease of development.

  • The most important skill for driving is learning to observe your surroundings calmly, but alertly. The things you mentioned as distractions are the things you need to be paying attention to because those are the things you must navigate around.

    It's easy to get worked up about all the things demanding your attention. A lot can go wrong while driving, from road hazards, to accidents, to traffic, to mechanical problems with your vehicle. My advice, take it at your own pace. It's a speed limit, not a speed requirement. Highways and some types of special roads have minimum speeds, but the worst that happens if you drive slow enough to feel comfortable behind the wheel is some asshole who is in a hurry is grumpy.

    It just takes time and practice, just relax and keep your eyes on the road.

  • Omg, so many opportunities for evil:

    • retrieve earplugs from purse, put them in, press the button, hand the staff a $5 cash tip and a pair of earplugs.
    • loiter outside offering pairs of earplugs to anyone entering the business
    • call the business, pose as a vendor so I get transferred to the manager, and play a recording of the sound.
    • leave fake reviews claiming the employees are on a covert malicious compliance strike and to show solidarity everyone should push no-tip.
    • before hitting the button ask to speak to the manager and push no tip while making eye contact with them.

    The real problem is the employee who didn't create the policy would generally be the person subjected to any mischief so it'd lose its fun about the time the manager barred me from coming back the fourth time I no-tip stared them down.

  • How is 🙂 an asshole mood though?

  • Both. I have a desktop running Ubuntu (though I am strongly considering switching to debian) I use that for most computer related tasks and activities. I also have a gaming laptop running windows I dig out for some VR (it has a better gpu) and professional gigs like design or video editing.

    I would install linux on the laptop, but I can't live without a few programs I have never successfully gotten running under linux (Resolve and the affinity suite). I could dual boot my desktop into rock linux (which is the only "official" resolve distro) and try to get affinity running under wine. I have been out of work for a few years though, so removing windows from the laptop isn't a high priority.

  • I know religious people who could not explain their faith so specifically.

  • Is it really just old men saying stuff should remain in C/C++ to preserve their nostalgia? What a bunch of petty bullsh!t.

  • Melissa McCarthy, she has a good sense of humor which is great because my life is kind of a joke.

  • There aren't many ways to organize raising the money required to build a better youtube or reddit. You could kickstart it, but you'd better hope whoever does the dev doesn't sell. Another option would be a large open source ngo funding the development, but you're still talking long timelines to completion.

    There definitely is room for a more pro-social social media platform that isn't a clone of something else. Paying for it is another matter.

  • Stunts make headlines, not change. Change and fixing the problem these groups are fighting against takes work and lots of it.

    I think those of us who care about our climate would be better served by larger scale collective action aimed at the profits of companies benefitting from destroying our environment. Even the groups you mentioned by name though probably couldn't collectively agree on where to apply pressure.

    We're going to all get a lot more done if we're willing to compromise and find common ground than all trying to do our own things. In my opinion the time for uncompromising idealism and lofty goals is past. We need targeted, specific, collective action anyone who cares to can participate in. The hurdle will be finding consensus on what specifically to apply that effort towards.

  • Yes, but not in the way you mean.

    The cybertruck is the most American truck because it was created by a narcissistic, political demagogue and built by underpaid, overworked, non-union workers in grueling conditions. The design is laughable and the functionality exists only in marketing material. The vehicle is manufactured as a single model and "optional" features are toggled on or off if the owner buys the upgrades or displeases Musk.

    The cybertruck is the ultimate in performative, conspicuous consumption and reality-blind design. What's more American than that?

  • Write several different versions of the assignment each containing pieces of what the students need to do to pass. Give the different versions out randomly to the students and break them up into small groups to discuss what they're supposed to be doing.

    Instruct the students to compare their handouts and look for commonalities that might suggest what the assignment actually is then have each group present their findings to the class with a small Q&A and point out where students were lead astray.

    You could also find a real news story about a highly polarized topic and pull articles on it with differing takes (nothing current). Have the students write a short essay about what actually happened and what opinions the author shared but presented as facts.

  • Of the possible ways I could die prematurely I think I would be fine dying because what I believe is too dangerous to be allowed to continue. For one, if I'm dead, I no longer have to deal with the soul crushing reality we live in. But more than that I would honestly love it if anyone cared enough about me to fry me to a crisp in the first place. I'm lonely and disenfranchised enough, even being hated and feared sounds kind of nice because at least someone cares.

  • If a dozen people I have encountered in my life remember me when they're that age, I would be surprised. My parents and siblings probably will, maybe my ex-spouse, two or three people that have been close friends, and a few former coworkers.

    I'm mostly a loner though because I have a very difficult time making and keeping social connections.

  • What's your company culture like? What are the perks of working for antifa?

  • I sincerely hope his plea goes unanswered. I might be mixing up a few empty suits, but wasn't mitch the guy that played chicken with shutting down the government during the Obama administration and was yhe leading voice in the "the scary brown man can't disrupt our plans for the court" bullshit that happened during Obama's time in office.

    Shame we don't live in a just world.

  • I sincerely doubt I would ever be within scent range of him.