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I feel like Change My View is useful for topics in which reasonable minds might differ in opinion.

Fundamental human rights are not one of those topics.

It’s light blue, white, and pink, which happens to match the colors of the trans flag.

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It’s also a tactic to control the conversation. Even if you don’t doubt it, even just engaging to prove it gives their bullshit undeserved credibility. Every response is a losing proposition; your best option at that point is “fuck off, clown.”

Engineers know better than that.

I’ve known too many idiots with PE licenses to share your optimism.

There’s no time left for voting them out. We’ve already had our last free and fair election.

They’re being used in the exactly the same way the German Reich used trans people.

That’s actually good news compared to whatever the fuck happened to OP’s drive. You might be able to swap the controller board and get it working again if you need the data off it or something.

Trump dances to Putin’s tune because he’s a fanboi who loves Russia and authoritarianism. He doesn’t need kompromat to betray the US; he’s happy to do it.

Yeah, but that wouldn’t give us an opportunity to evangelize.

Been gaming exclusively on GNU for 7 years now, BTW.

Because Putin still has Trump bent over because he has incriminating shit on him, and he also lets Trump think he has a seat at the grown-up’s table

Stop. Giving. Trump. So. Much. Credit.

I’m not saying Putin doesn’t have kompromat on Trump. Hell, he probably does! But it doesn’t fucking matter because Trump is so inherently irredeemably evil all on his own that he’d be doing exactly the same shit anyway!

By suggesting that Trump was coerced you are whitewashing Trump’s evil. Stop it!

That quote could’ve ended seven words earlier and been just as accurate.

You’d be upset too, if you truly understood how many millions of man-hours we’ve wasted with nothing to show for it except destroying the World Wide Web as it was supposed to have been.

then again, California could just not pay taxes

Income taxes are paid directly to the Federal government. They do not pass through the states first, and thus California can’t “just not pay taxes” by an act of government fiat. It would have to convince all of its taxpayers to individually stop.

Adam and his bitch band of bourgeois cronies

Weren’t they actual aristocrats, not bourgeois?

I remember. I think I was still on Slashdot back then – that’s how long ago it was.

“All Good Architecture Leaks”

I see you Transformers.

To be fair, Transformers was always product placement. Not just “full of” it, but “entirely built of” it. They designed a line of toys first and made up a story to help sell them afterward.

Basically, we could’ve had more or less what we’re just now getting with WebAssembly two and a half decades ago with Java Web Start. They’re not completely equivalent — WebAssembly can run any(?) language and interacts with the system via browser APIs, whereas Java Web Start could only run JVM languages (which was an even worse limitation back in the day since things like Kotlin and Scala didn’t exist yet) but interacted with the system using the more desktop-application-oriented Java Class Library. I think JWS applications would still have the advantage over Electron/WebAssembly applications in terms of user experience and feeling “native” (especially since a lot of web apps gave up even trying to resemble native UIs), but would probably be clunkier from a developer perspective since whatever solution they came up with instead of AJAX would likely not be as flexible due to nature of Java vs. JavaScript (statically typed and compiled vs. barely typed and interpreted).

I watched MLP

I watched MLP with my daughters. I’ve come to the conclusion that the show is basically Star Trek: TNG for little girls, complete with Q. It really is surprisingly good, despite the frilly aesthetic.