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They were not inching towards nukes though, were they? And why is the threat calculus here their fault when the Israelis attacked Iran unprovoked? This top-voted comment is consent-manufacturing tripe.

I thought for a second this would be about the use of a spreadsheet as a general computation device.

Or that generative AI is ethical at all

You gotta wonder if this has been a reaction to a shrinking Cocoa/ObjC and SwiftUI talent pool

> the left still has no serious intention of addressing any of the legitimate grievances that working class has

Cliché at this point, but worth remembering the Democrats are not a leftist party by any means.

Until America sheds the anti-communist gene and produces an actual, bold left-wing movement rooted in Socialist thought, all you'll have is chauvinism wrapped in politeness optics.

China, famously exploiting poorer nations through infrastructure investment and a focus on trade.

Having worked on an FP7 programme myself and having a family member involved in project audits, I’d say some skepticism is warranted—particularly regarding the incentives that attract private sector partners and the talent they actually allocate once funds are secured.

Funding is tied to employee qualifications and effectively subsidises salaries, which creates room for misalignment. No-shows of allocated employees were not uncommon, since a company willing to accept lower-quality deliverables can assign junior employees to do the work at a fraction of the cost, while the salary difference for their PhDs simply becomes added margin.

My father was disqualified from getting DBS due to concerns around amplifying his dementia. Had I known then what I know now, I would have gladly signed a waiver, because DP has completely destroyed his body and mind.

I suspect this is mainly a regulatory issue

I have ADHD. This is absolutely a health and safety hazard.

If we're losing net neutrality then ad traffic should be entirely financed by ISPs

It was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision song contest, so it won the Portuguese contest.

Both sides of the right wing, the only wing.

No jest, I just recalled this formulation incorrectly as being tail-recursive. Thanks for reminding me.

Have always appreciated Haskell's tail-recursive one

  fib = (fibs !!)
      where fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
    
  main = putStrLn $ show $ fib 1000

PSVR2. Gran Turismo 7 is the only game I found was worth playing with it, and the progression loop sucks, so I've no use for it.

Guess I better get cross out my "buy fresh meat from Smithfield at 6am" item from my bucket list soon...

I think we can go harder on the std lib :)

  HANDLERS.flat_map { _1.node_names.index_with(_1) }.inject(&:merge)

(nb: assuming there exists a `.node_names` to expose the constant... just because I like always using method calls)

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Consent manufactured.

You have to be joking

Anarcho-libertarianism, ofc

I could smell it from across the Atlantic

We should stop defending an imperialist establishment which relies on the rampant exploitation of the global south and is committing genocide and calling it rules-based order. More like America rules.

The containment rhetoric/logic is long past its use-by date - the US's pretense as guardians of a common moral high ground was shattered at the very latest with the Vietnam War, and in 2024 it is an absolute tragedy of a joke in poor taste.

You gotta think this rules-based order is designed to drive anyone decent crazy. What else can happen when you hear pieces of shit like Blinken wax lyrical about the human rights of Palestinians while supercharging weapons deliveries to Israel, or the very existence of the UNSC veto which will guarantee outcomes that reinforce unforgivable and unforgettable mass crimes, beckoning awful consequences for the whole world.

Two days younger than my grandmother... time to call her.

I remember this, how annoying! I think you'd work around it by pasting.

WinXP was mostly a cosmetic upgrade on Win2K right? AFAIR there strictly were no technical reasons why Win2K wouldn't be able to run XP software, only stuff like version checks and what not

My understanding was that the language in the charter included the term "jews" as a metonym for Israel.

You're overlooking facts in a way that serves the Israeli narrative and calling opposition to crimes against humanity as "moralizing about being mean". I don't wish to engage with that nonsense (I wonder if you were similarly unimpressed when John Kirby moralized about the Russians "being mean" to Ukrainian children), but lest someone be inclined to believe it:

- After invading their territory and forcibly displacing them from their homes in 1948, the Israeli government would eventually imprison 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza, severely undermining or outright depriving them of their right to food, movement and labor. Rather, the question is why would the Palestinians welcome an militarized immigrant movement whose stated objectives included the total demographic overwhelm of Palestine, changing the "facts on the ground", supported by an interloping British Mandate. This is as true now as it was then.

- So, while the IDF may be engaged in urban warfare with the armed wing of Hamas, their practical goal is the cleansing of the Gaza Strip, including the genocide of Gazans, evidenced by this past year's perfidy-ridden bombing campaign against civilians. (And the March of Return, and Operation Cast Lead, and Operation Protective Edge, and the bombing of the AP office, then the largest number of journalist assassinations ever witnessed... etc etc)

- Aware of the legal liability of this, the American and Israeli governments have been lying about these aims and attempting to generate plausible deniability by claiming the IDF is measured and surgical in their use of long range heavy bombs, and pretending the infinitesimal ratio of enemy combatants killed is Hamas-engineered. They redefine "human shield" and "Hamas combatant" to suit the moment.

- Of course we know that the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, so nobody who is informed and in their right mind believes these soul sucking, sugar-coated "upper establishment" statements about due diligence or accountability or whatever and pearl clutching about hostages never mind the overwhelmingly higher number of Palestinian hostages taken and tortured by Israel. Despite their toothlessness, the UN, the ICC and the ICJ have allowed the world to show, one inconvenient determination after another, that the truth is plainly visible.

Ultimately, it's just whether they see war crimes when they see children and families being killed systematically, and whether they're cool with it.

Even if Hamas hadn't eliminated the anti-semitic language from their charter in 2007, that argument would require one to accept that preventatively mass murdering whole families and generations of children is a moral means of dealing with a political opponent.

Options? Israel (the people anyway) has always had the option of finally dropping the ethno-nationalism and apartheid of their foundational principles, and accepting that the Palestinians have a way more material right to Palestinian territory than an American or a European who Israel brought over on a birthright trip.

If there is a pressure to have Israel de-escalate, this must be it.

Zero accountability, forever. This is as grim as it gets.