chrislynch42

Abortion, Gun Rights and Religious Freedom are low hanging fruit. To my mind, as a nation we are becoming less tolerant rather than more tolerant across the board. One of the reasons I have largely disconnected from Social Media.

I had already read it and didn't see anything compelling. Basically it says its hard to maintain a tolerant cohesive society with intolerant nincompoops running around.

We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

Same here. Paid for 2.0 and it was unusable between by Win 10 and Ubuntu boxes. After fighting with it for several hours I just uninstalled and wrote it off as a loss.

Slippery slopes are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

I was surprised by the responses about Optionals. Will have to look into it. As an alternative I have been looking to use the following to guarantee that certain methods cannot/will not return null (below). Maybe that is the better way to go?

return Optional.ofNullable(applications).orElseThrow(NullPointerException::new);

return Optional.ofNullable(applications).orElse(new Application());

var seems like a bad idea to me. One of the things I like about Java is (strong?) typing. Recently learning C# and was put off by 'var'. Why is it a good idea?

This is my reasoning as well. Also I am currently returning Optionals from any method that can result in a null.

I don't agree. If sexism refers to the negative issues only then what is the word for the positive issues of dividing people up by sex?

No. Having separate bathrooms for men and women is sexist, by definition. What I hoped for was discussion on whether all sexism is bad.

Being a rapist is illegal, while identifying as a man is not.

I would think a better analogy is that a rape support group would not allow male victims as most rapists are men.

As defined by merriam-webster.com I certainly do. Why do we consider all sexism bad?