brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait until you see what they do to avoid learning SQL or Regex or JSON Pointer or XPath.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

If you want everything bundled instead of à la carte, that sounds more like eclipse to me. But then, I don't understand how anyone can program in Java.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don't seem to be prearranged.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 26 points 2 weeks ago

I think the rationale is that, when it's a single individual, they can't pass the buck or blame the group. It's a final appeal at a human level.

The trick is not electing a troll.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jg047oJf1B4&t=45s

[–] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, and if that's the only issue that matters to you, and you ignore the impact on all those other people, I guess that's fair to say they are the same. But does all that extra suffering serve a purpose? Are you volunteering yourself to bear any of it, or only others?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Straw men? You understand that these are actually things that are really happening, right?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

The GOP didn't update their platform since, like, 2015, unless you count Project 2025, which Trump claimed to know nothing about. In the 2020 election, it still referenced running against Obama.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion, but you should investigate Popper's Paradox.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago

It would be so much more interesting to see the % of dollars claimed.

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