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I don't know what a Mary Sue is. Can you explain?

If there's any universe in which it makes complete sense for someone to be born ultra powerful completely at random, it's Star Wars and superhero movies.

I love The Force Awakens but I know someone who complains that it's really distracting that the three main protagonists have a black guy and a woman, and it's "trying so hard to be woke" that it spoils the film for him. He really truly honestly believes that he's not racist or sexist but the "blatant DEI" ruins it.

NONE of the the main 9 star wars films are particularly subtle or deep, but they're great fun, and if you can't get over one of the lead characters being female or one of the main characters being ridiculously powerful for no other reason and you try to justify that in terms of consistency or good writing, you're definitely using double standards.

I think he should reconsider how racist and sexist he is, and I think bleating about Rey being effortlessly at Kylo Ren's level in the force isn't worth the effort you put into justifying it.

I curse you all.

Unnecessary. Trump is their president. The blight is upon them whether they realise it or not.

"Free speech absolutist"

The Republicans already aren't taking covid vaccines. They want to ban it for other folks because they don't like that there side is dying and getting sick in higher numbers.

I mean, there's an alternative route, but admitting you were wrong is crime number one in the Republican mind.

General strike from teachers, firefighters and police it is, then.

I use it for web apps rather than plain pages, and you can certainly use it with your existing css, and you can roll new css in a clean and non-clashy way with elm-css, but, like I say, elm-ui lets you RELIABLY build your ui.

!important This is my work nightmare, but for side projects I use elm and elm-ui and I just don't need css. So nice, so stable, so robust, so eeeeeasy to maintain. It's genuinely a delight. Boss nopes out when he sees all the whitespace, though, as if semicolons were the only thing keeping things sane.

At last an Onion article that makes me smile instead of weep for the state of politics being so bad that complete and utter batshit crazy nonsense is so hard to tell from news these days.

Dorkmobile? I thought it was called the wankpanzer, but maybe that's just in my country. Is it even legal in Europe? That thing doesn't look like it passed any crash safety tests AT ALL.

Past me has sometimes been a bit of a dick. I forgive him, though.

Uh, you have safe search set to moderate. You'll need to turn that off altogether if you really want to see actual penises.

It's the ceasefire Biden's team that nearly got accepted until Trump phoned up his pal Netanyahu to tell him not to do it until he got elected.

Another thread suggests that the people calling the cybertruck a swastikar might be discouraging other people from buying them.

Significantly worse because the EU/Biden proposals to help rebuild did NOT include removing all the Palestinians from Gaza before starting rebuilding. It's like you don't want to hear how genocidal trump sounds.

Nice. Hope your friend enjoys his time with the boobs. My friend won't be drawn on his main account about what he's into, and has a separate alt on that instance that he won't tell me the name of.

The side project is safe from managerial interference. At work though, nothing is functional. Well, boss always claims we're combining the best of the functional programming world and the best of the object oriented world and the best of the agile world, but what he means is we can have as many buzzwords as he's heard at conferences as long as we're prepared to ignore the actual principles and do it the way we always did it. Give him is due, he is not an unreasonable man and will actually support you and listen to sense, but he's absolutely not interested in fundamental change.

You reminded me of a guy who’s always banging on about how Elm combs the spaghetti in your source code for you and the meatballs and sauce are only mixed in at compile time. He says object oriented programming is like threading the pasta through the meatballs which is OK before anything’s cooked but after that it gets too soft and entangled and the spaghetti won’t thread through so you start again rather than refactor. It was a compelling image and got me curious.

I used it for the second rewrite of a side project WebApp a couple of years ago, and I it felt like I had to do everything from scratch by hand all the time at first, but I have to admit that maintenance has been an absolute dream compared with the old codebase. New features, changed functionality, it’s always good and you don’t need to reunderstand everything because it’s all so separated and I told him he was right. It writes the css for you and I kid you not, I did not miss that flakey nonsense one bit.

Our boss is shit scared of anything even a little bit different, though, so he noped out hard when he saw the syntax and got all shouty about all the whitespace and arrows on the big branching statements before launching into a sermon about how you can’t have a corporate look and feel unless you use css. I lost quite a lot of respect for him that day.

Our code at work is so like the bottom picture. You have absolutely no idea whether you just filled someone's underpass when you build another bridge over the top and sometimes you just have to kill the whole branch you've been working on because adding a f*ing overhead sign collapsed seven other things and no matter what you try, you can't undo whatever it was that collapsed. I swear, one day we're going to find that someone accidentally nuked twelve routes six months ago and there's nothing anyone can do about it any more.

Edit: Oops replying to wrong person sorry.