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They think free speech means no one is allowed to disagree with them. Otherwise they say their right to free speech is being violated.

He did at the inauguration.

I hesitate to ask, but how was he trying to stimulate himself that he ended up pissing all over himself?

Great quote on sexual attention: "it's like one person dying of dehydration watching another person drowning"

So, basically, everything I said was true about you. I wonder why you spend all this time and effort trying to sound otherwise. Why not just say "of course" at the start? Or even "I see no real moral distinction between Biden/Harris and literal fascism, and will always find ways to blame Democrats for the evils of trump" it would have saved so much disagreeing with me.

I was especially amused at the characterisation of the only two real world choices for president as a false dichotomy! You're so living the stereotype of an ivory tower theoretical communist.

Now that we've been all around the houses and you've evaded the real life D vs R question literally every time I asked it, I'll just put my original point here:

I have the feeling that you would be inclined to deny the distinction between the Biden presidency and the trump presidency that followed it.

I don't think you've proved me wrong in any meaningful way whatsoever.

You are unable to coherently make any genuine criticism of Mr Trump without watering it down to the extent you can switch blame onto Biden or the Democratic Party for it.

This is not because there aren't extraordinarily stark differences, nor that you're unaware of them, but because you refuse, despite evidence to the contrary, to shift from your belief that in politics there is black and there is white and there exists no grey.

Maybe someday you'll realise that the real world isn't perfect and that if it were, we wouldn't need socialism or communism in politics anyway! Maybe you'll realise that awful comes in different degrees as well as different flavours.

You said this a lot, but you seem more like you took offence than like you're moving on.

It comes across as you dismissing people's points because they didn't debate by the rules you invented for them to speak.

It's not a computer science word, it's an IT word, and I'm afraid you're going to have to live with people being a bit imprecise with it.

Why not link to the article coining the term? It's well written and explains well.

Satya Nadella has given an evasive answer there and both Zuckerberg and the journalists have been taken in.

It is common in programming languages that have a lot of boilerplate to use code generation, where you take some information about data and generate code automatically, like code that translates data between formats (for example reading and writing xml for saving to disk or json to send over the network). Being very routine to write and easy to deduce logically from other information, this process has been automated for years and years, long before AI existed.

Microsoft's flagship software such as operating systems, office software, is unbelievably vast and complex, far beyond the complexity of most business software, and has been developed over decades. They absolutely have not replaced 30% of their code since the very recent advent of useful AI. I can believe that 30% of it is automatically generated, but not by AI.

I think you'll find that I've mainly been asking you questions rather than misquoting you, but OK.

I thought it was very very clear indeed what the two alternatives were for who is in the Whitehouse, and I'm sure we'd agree that they're are theoretically much, much better alternatives like actual left wing parties, but no, I wasn't asking you a theoretical question about parties that had no chance of winning in the USA at all, I was asking you about the real world. I'll try again.

In your view, is it better for America to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse than a Republican, or not really?

Would it have been materially better for Harris to win rather than trump?

Would it have been better for Biden to win than trump?

And in your view, is it better for America to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse or not really?

Are you in any way able to criticise Trump or the Republican party directly, or for you is public enemy number 1 the Democratic Party?

I was thinking of posting that I was in a relationship where my partner regularly got cross with me for not figuring out what she wanted or needed "You could tell I would...." No, no I could not. (I think I'm mildly neurodivergent with aspects of ADHD and asperger's.) The thing is that I was always in trouble for not anticipating my partners wants and needs, but I found it upsetting to be berated for not reading minds. Getting cross with me for being out doing perfectly normal things but later than expected for better, but I wanted to warn you that I found that affection was increasingly frequently withheld for my crimes and we completely lost our love life. It was We ended up friends, but not lovers.

Things that stood out to me include telling you that you had to do the washing up and then being cross that you did it. That was set up exactly so that there was absolutely no way that you could avoid being shouted at.

I worry that you both believe that everything is your fault and nothing is your partner's fault, and I'm particularly concerned that there is anger and shouting in your home that you had absolutely no way of stopping happening and that your partner is blaming you for that happening.

There's a book/pdf called "Why does he do that?" that I've come across online that's written to help women who are in abusive and controlling relationships (with men) come to an understanding that that's what's happening to them, and that they can't win because not being able to predict what will upset their partner to the point of emotional or physical abuse is by design. I don't think this is the situation you're in, but it has echoes of it. I don't think that being emotionally manipulative or abusive is exclusive to men, but I think the book is worth reading anyway.

Something needs to change and I'm not at all convinced it's even remotely close to being all your fault that's there's shouting and withheld affection in your relationship.

How did your wife learn to not do these things??

How did your wife learn to not do these things??

I have the feeling that you would be inclined to deny the distinction between the Biden presidency and the trump presidency that followed it.

Trump is gonna be so butthurt that after he told Canadians to elect PeePee who was gonna make Canada the 51st state, Canadians took away his seat. Nope nope nope.

Well, it's not a toe.

Oh, I thought you were going to stick them on tesla wankpanzers.

Excellent. Good to know that some young people have intelligence and principles.

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