A third of Americans believe in a god that really, really hates them? Cool.

I know a lot of folks are against circumcision

As far as I know, people are against forced circumcision. It boils down to mutilating someone, usually a kid, preemptively for… reasons. I don’t think anyone care about medically mandated procedure.

I admire you for having this much blind optimism after the last ten months or so.

Isn’t ICE one of the biggest budget of the US now? How is that vulnerable?

It’s kinda weird. A few years ago, for work, I had to travel to Tchad. I was somewhat worried, but since I was staying in the capital and not straying away, I didn’t hesitate much.

I’ve always been worried to travel to the US. Back then it was mostly about TSA and the weird “are you a terrorist?” thing, but it did change slightly to “I’m not sure I’ll be able to come back in one piece”. Not a great look.

I’m also somewhat uncomfortable when some stranger disrobe in public, but hey.

That was true a long time ago. And remains true in some places, but since we started pushing the different bins, things progressed on that front. Plenty of place have actual recycling facilities (although their efficiency is another topic). Of course, in some far away area, it is not practical to sort stuff, but it’s kind of a chicken and egg problem. Infrastructure see no point in making large facilities for processing recyclable if they’re not sorted, and people see no point in sorting their trash if the infrastructure isn’t available. Putting colored recycling bins everywhere to initiate the process was cheaper.

Eh. No jokes, no. The most engaging thing I remember seeing around in the city was a “vote” panel for cigarette butts with silly questions; but even that has gone away.

It is unfortunate that we’re at this point. Hopefully other places do fare better.

People throw their waste everywhere because there’s not enough waste bins in comfortable walking distance

I see almost daily people throwing trash on the street in front of an empty recycle bin. I think the issue is more about people not giving a shit than convenience of finding a trashcan or keeping stuff in your pocket until you do.

that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides

The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.

and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything

well, yeah. Even the old 3-2-1 backup policy is against that.

It’s not even that. Porn is just a bystander here. The first step is put in place a very large framework for making some form of verification mandatory on arbitrary services and sites under the guise of whatever (terrorism, child protection, and extremely niche content are good candidates). Once it’s in place, it becomes the new normal very quickly.

Then, as the government, you suddenly have the power to extend the provision of said system to whatever the fuck you want. That’s where things gets funky, and not the good kind.

They just need to get the fuck off of people’s life.

They’re asking everyone to act like buffoon while striking poses in front of their phone instead of addressing the core issue. Great.

You can already generate 5s video for free with adobe firefly (two daily), and for static images, you could already do them for a long time on commodity hardware with your custom prompts.

This isn’t a fight they lost quickly, this is a fight they lost before showing up, but still showed up.

How can it be too late if he didn’t do it, but just planned to do it sometimes later… wait…

Wow, prejudiced much. The JS ecosystem evolved a lot over the year, and polyfills for most environment are next to non existant. The worst environment to me (react-native) do heavily use them, but they’re built-in anyway.

Also, about stuff being slow when made in JS… people that make slow clusterfuck in JS would also make slow clusterfuck in other languages. React is guilty of that too, trying to re-implement core language features OVER the language itself, and that is stupid. Still, as with every language, it is possible to use it decently. You’ll never get to the point of raw optimized assembly performance, but even higher level scripting language can leverage JIT compilation and work well on any modern (<10 years) computer. Taking as an example the worst developers out there using the worst way to do things is not exactly a good benchmark.

Hey USA.

What the fuck.

Sincerely,

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Rest of the fucking world

Backward compatibility and not seeing the future. Some decisions are taken at one point in time, then a new use case show up, then a new paradigm evolve, then… etc etc.

It’s really the same thing that holds back a lot of languages and libraries. And even when replacement shows up, old habits from devs and old projects maintenance keep all these things well alive too.

Lives gets destroyed, everyone pay for it, money is diverted from actually useful stuff, but all this is a low price to pay for a handful of mafia bosses to get even richer.