fiat_lux @ fiat_lux @kbin.social

Posts

12

Comments

1,008

Joined

2 yr. ago

So they can go and exploit the previous victims of colonialism and current victims of capitalism directly in person? What did the people in equatorial countries do to deserve that?

They already have enough problems without the world illegally dumping yet more hazardous waste on them.

Initial reaction: "Huh, Tennessee? That's unusual"

On further reading: "oh, Nashville Metro Council. It's a city-county council that represents under 20k people."

The title makes it read like a state representative to my foreign eyes.

Edit: my mistake, each council member represents 15-17k people. Thanks @analwound for the correction.

This is why poorer people bear the brunt of climate change danger. Maybe the only thing absurd about Tank Girl were the talking kangaroos.

People have already mentioned testing and abstraction, but what about other developers and security?

Spaghetti code all you like in solo projects. But if someone else is coming along to debug a problem in their toppings, why would you make them remember anything about baking or the box when it's completely irrelevant?

And why should the Box object be able to access anything about the Oven's functionality or properties? Enjoy your oven fire and spam orders when someone works out they can trigger the bake function or access an Order's payment details from a security hole in the Box object implementation.

It's not just about readability as a narrative, even if that feels intuitive. It's also about memory management, collaboration and security.

Is there anything unwholesome about any part of this story? That's so lovely. I'm a complete stranger but I'm happy you're experiencing such a positive shift in your life, it's really heart-warming. Neurotypical people may never get the chance to experience something so amazing.

Please hug your kitty with your new-found energy. And maybe get your wife (and neighbours?) some flowers or snacks as a thankyou. Your new chapter is something worth celebrating with them.

Enough people that the dude is still actively supporting and updating it for new OS versions. The RAR is unkillable.

Not necessarily. For example, I know RAR is a bit out of style, but WinRAR just this week had some articles about malware lurking in otherwise non-executable files

There is no such thing as 'safe' user-generated content, only a spectrum of more or less safe content.

Some of them are definitely those, but we get a bunch of different ones.

The night thing is polite, until you come home after dark one day, and there is limited light on a pathway. Keep in mind that wintertime daylight hours makes that "most of the time" in many places too.

You'll be tiredly fumbling for your keys while peering carefully to see the reflections of webs, and they're completely unpredictably placed because of the nightly rebuilding. Your morning memory of their location is now useless. This was admittedly a much bigger problem before mobile phone flashlights were a thing.

The more permanent web-builders you can at least reliably coax into more convenient places with a little bit of strategic web destruction. You might get a badly placed solitary structural web strand from that spider the next day, but those are not sticky and usually spider-free.

It wouldn't be such a bother if paths weren't one of their favourite places to build. And they didn't have widespread communities that have thrived with human occupation.

Most places in the world were never safe from the US anyway, it has had aggressively competitive foreign policy for the last 80 years.

perform the functions of the job

After attempts have been made for accommodations and they have failed or the job description itself cannot be altered. Yes, in that situation it's fine.

We don’t have a diagnosis for Trump, but there is clearly something deeply wrong with him

We know what is wrong with him. He's extremely selfish and greedy. That is what disqualifies him to be a leader. Our speculations about his medical situation are unnecessary.

Disability should not preclude you from work,but just like people without a disability, you seek roles you are suitable for. It’s not ableist to say someone with alzheimers and associated cognitive decline is not suitable for president.

It's not ableist to say that someone with a predictably degenerative disease which is affecting their ability to make logical decisions, that we have no workarounds or treatment for, may be unable to fulfil the job requirements.

It is ableist to suggest that any incidence of memory loss or shitty rhetoric or bad writing or family history is evidence of a degenerative disease and that they should not be eligible for a role because of it. Especially when that conjecture comes from people with no medical background or relation to the person in question.

If I heat pasta salad in the microwave, is it no longer a salad? Is a leftover portion of pasta a salad before it is reheated? I'm not sure temperature is a requirement.

Also I have to question calling two flavours of Jello "different things", let alone calling 2 flavours of gelatine a salad, but I know Americans are more liberal with the word salad than other places.

Where I am you will rarely see the word salad used in relation to dishes that don't contain some raw chopped vegetables, especially leafy green ones. Or it's the dish's imported original name, like potato salad. Fruit salad is the one exception to that, I think.

Macadamia nuts. Not the roasted ones, not the shelled dry ones you can buy in the store. They are garbage compared to the unshelled ones, even if you do need a special device to open them and they can be very frustrating to eat fresh.

When they're freshly opened, they're opaque brighter white, sweet and even a little juicy. It's a completely different experience from the ones you can buy off the shelf. It's honestly a shame Australia doesn't have a bigger market for the fresh ones.

I hear you. The rare occasion I'm in Singapore I will buy a whole bag and devour them all over a few days.

And when I see them where I am (also often golf ball sized), I message all my SEA friends with the location and price so they can descend like a flock of seagulls.

Technically not my area, but mangosteen. Mostly grown in South-East Asia, it's a sour sweet fruit with the texture and structure like a soft orange, and one big seed per segment. It is seriously delicious.

I am so sick of health condition speculation of politicians. If they have a formal dìagnosis and release it publicly, fine. But this article is just pure conjecture.

1. Not all memory issues are age-related or dementia or degenerative. While US politicians do trend extremely old and this increases the likelihood of having a disability, plenty of younger people have memory issues too that can get better or worse randomly. Covid fucked my memory hard.
2. It's ableist to require peak health 24/7 from people, even your leaders. They have teams of people around them for a reason, to collect and provide accurate information. There are briefings and reports. Redundancy is built into the system, the President isn't the only source of truth. If a President becomes unable to perform their duties in a timely manner because of these problems, like Dianna Feinstein, then we can worry about that problem.
3. Disability is an increasing issue, and climate change and future pandemics are going to increase the rates at which everyone experiences chronic health problems. 15% of all people globally self-identify as having a disability. If you live in a country with a life expectancy over 70, you can expect to spend an average of 8 years of your life with a disability. Globally, 49% of people over 60 have a disability. Protection of society from a single point of failure requires systemic change that builds in failsafes and enforces them. Build
   accommodations

Trump isn't dangerous because his father had Alzheimers and he's (understandably) afraid of developing it. He's dangerous because he has a habit of making absurdly malicious power-hungry selfish decisions.

Have you ever been in a crowd of people? Like a huge close proximity gathering, a concert?

Yes, including much larger protests. The estimate is only 2.2k people for Jan 6th, and that's for all four sides of the building. I was immediately next to an outbreak of violence in one large protest. It's much easier than getting out of the front of a concert, and I don't have anywhere near the strength of a marine.

You can also see them in the pictures freely and casually walking in with a significant amount of space in the images in the article.

Why make up excuses for them? They literally posted on social media afterwards about the second civil war and being part of history. They weren't there under duress.

Title contains misinformation.

former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro

This is like calling Eleni Kounalakis, who is the Lieutenant Governor of California, "the President of the US".

Yeah, I am Australian. Honestly the dangers are overblown, but there are still a few spiders that make me go a bit wobbly inside.

Orb-weavers (different genus though) are one of them to a tiny degree, not because they're dangerous, or even fast. It's because they have thick webs that they spin every single damn night and you accidentally walk through them. And then they freak out while you're freaking out... and they can really grip on to you.

I don't go walking through gardens at night in some areas anymore, I'm happy to appreciate them from a distance. But I still feel that instinctive "do not want" deep down.

They went to an organised political event which turned violent, and instead of 'always faithfully' serving their communities by at least distancing themselves from the most violent by leaving, or even protecting their police colleagues, they willingly continued on to breach a guarded building so that they could prevent elected representatives from performing their duties.

And their punishment is to exist as a common civilian.

Either the Marine Corps oath is worthless, and/or their sentence is not a punishment, and/or this is a tacit admission that being an American civilian is punishment enough in itself.

For no reason other than being born, millions of people experience the same sentence. These two did something.

Personality dependent, I'm afraid. My cat was always so deeply offended that I dare wake her to move her self-heated nest that she would abandon me every time.

She was a big cat too, it's not like I could just shimmy around her or gently lift her. God knows I tried.