Mniot

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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 9 minutes ago

When Democrats are in power, the Republicans can stall things because they only have a slim majority and the extreme measures that they'd need to take are unpalatable to 5-30 of the most regressive Democrats. So their majority doesn't count for a lot.

Overall, I think this is partially just that Americans are pretty regressive (possibly because of all the propaganda, possibly because of our poor education). And partially the successful efforts by Republicans to control local government, which allows them to do things like gerrymander federal districts.

 

As opposed to "interactivity". I saw this in a post from wpb@lemmy.world: https://programming.dev/post/26779367/15573661

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Dead plants from before there were decomposers who could properly devour the corpses. Oil is lich-ferns

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

Weirdly, I haven't seen a lot of people who think The Gang in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia are cool role models. I guess the difference might be that Rick is canonically a genius where The Gang are canonically morons.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

It'd be way less offensive if it was just present as an option, instead of dancing around flashing at me

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago

You should be suspicious of American-owned media, but it's not the case they they are running state-issued propaganda at all times.

Rather, the media is following the interests of its owners: American oligarchs. One of their primary interests is "get more money" and any headline that draws eyeballs serves that end.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So: at least 4 years, probably longer :/

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Purescript looks pretty cool, but the author was definitely positive on TypeScript warts. Like, I think the article's main take was, "it's easy to transition to TypeScript gradually, which is why it's a great language. But watch out: that capability also means you can never get to some 'pure' TypeScript."