That’s more a comment on how die-hard committed the political class is to perpetual war than anything else.

Also, while I don’t appreciate Trump being elected… the DNC seems committed to running some of the worst candidates they can find - the fact that there was information that damaging to Clinton that didn’t come out in the primaries is the part we should be mad at.

As a cat owner… house cats are definitely terrorists but I love 'em.

Is the fine more than a hundred billion? If not it’s fucking chump change to Apple.

Not all militaries are equal. Iran != Canada - don’t fall into both-sidesism.

That’s some exceptional watering down of the word terrorist you’re participating in there. Keep going and your both-sides-ing will make it so the IDF’s actions don’t seem abnormal at all!

I am sure the bizarrely numerous Greek billionaires are completely unrelated to their economy being fucked and not a clear sign of how deeply inequal and stratified the Greek economy is! Lots of hyper wealthy and destitute citizens means that everything is working, right?

To be fair, it’s a needlessly permanent and scary sounding term for a regular part of the functioning of a parliamentary democracy.

Most parliamentary systems also allow snap elections - there is usually a maximum length allowed before the next election but the PM can always call one earlier.

This has happened pretty frequently up here in Canada and Trudeau will time elections after good news if the LPC polling particularly strongly.

I think this is an overall good thing, it means that as long as a party is delivering success about once every four years it can remain in power - while allowing it to do the unpopular but necessary things in the interim. A hated party can’t survive in power, but a party that invests in the long term can thrive… it does have a dark side though. The party in power may engage in frivolous bullshit before the election (like unproductive handouts) to try and sway public opinion. It’s up to the public to see through short term bullshit and judge a party more long-term.

Shock therapy produces a twitch in the economy. Whether we’re reviving the dead or whether this is just an on-paper improvement has yet to be seen.

One of my proudest university moments was getting a 50% on an exam. I built this absolutely fucking glorious solitare implementation in Java as a first year student that dove deep into how image buffers work and stayed up all night doing it. I got 100% on the project and 0% on the presentation that I slept through (my prof did offer me some extra credit which I took advantage of).

Never have I ever felt more validated in preferring to be a code monkey with zero interactions with clients than in that moment - I produced unimpeachably perfect results and completely fucked the communication side (thankfully, I’ve worked through a lot of my social anxiety but I’m still strongly in the introvert camp).

Honestly, yea… badass.

It is insanely interesting to me whenever I come across details in old file formats that were included specifically to work around hardware limitations. The wide knowledge required to be aware of all these wild factors is amazing.

As you can tell, I’m fun at parties.

“To contrast, the human brain apparently can’t remember a simple piece of information like not getting attached to their companion cube. I think we know who would be better at a party, the punchcard.”

My dad converted old assembly programs into Cobol for spending money in uni - his textbooks were full of cast offs.

MicroSD cards also don’t look nearly as badass if woven into a skirt.

C++ is pretty sweet.

It definitely has its issues - don’t get me wrong, but it’s pretty sweet.

I celebrate the performance, but the BJP is still the plurality party. Unless a left wing coalition can form a majority (and I’m not nearly familiar enough with any parties outside the BJP and INC) Modi will still be the prime minister just with vastly reduced power.

I’d qualify this less as “fighting” and more “stopping the bleeding.”

In its current form, I agree, but national borders only exist to cause inequality.

Yup, it fucking sucks. Now, imagine how bad it will get if Putin starts embedding FSD agents into the migrants to intentionally attack officers or set off small explosives in the crowds.

The people who will end up the most screwed are the migrants themselves as they’re used as cover.

Hrm, give me a moment to check the ACLs, I’ll be able to resolve all these complex conflicting rules shortly…

Nevermind, it was easier to just globally disable SeLinux so I did that. Your system should be more secure now.