Why use a browser that is made by a company that WANTS ads?

“I’ve written a lot about ad blockers in the last few weeks, from Google’s Chrome updates making some popular options inoperable, to alternatives that will work, to my reason for blocking every ad on YouTube. So when I was contacted by representatives from Ghostery, a German company that operates an ad-blocker extension and other privacy products, I was eager to pick their brains.”

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2438114/interview-ghostery-explains-why-chrome-is-working-against-ad-blockers.html

If. You consider it in geological time, yeah…

“But we’re close to World War II because we have people in the White House…”

The full quote is worse:

“Nobody knew what the hell it was either… COVID. They call it COVID. I call it the China virus. But we’re close to World War II because we have people in the White House…”

Epidemiologists knew what it was. They tried to explain it to you. You kept shutting them down.

How that ties into WW II only his addled mind knows.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/morning-joe-hosts-t-resist-124751960.html

The fryer?

“And those French fries were good, they were great. They were right out of the ... they were right out of whatever the hell they may come out of.”

Assyrian?

“Azur-Asians.”

If Biden did this, MSM would be all over it. They’d say he had Parkinson’s.

Instead, it’s NPR and no one cares.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5164570/trump-rally-speech-2024-election

@FreedomATX

I leaned the hard way: global replace a single character name. It’s far easier to do it right than shoot yourself in the foot. Even if it is “index1, index2”’you may want to change those to something more meaningful later on.

@MakerWerks

Majority of my work has been on processors that didnt have more than a couple of K of ram. Arduino is spacious. You can never go wrong being verbose.

I worked on an open source project once and people were deleting comments. I asked why and they said, “Becausr it is obvious from the code”—I quit.

Obvious today. Three months from now? Not so much.

Been there done that.

@IrelandTorin

Rule of thumb: if you feel you”need” a go to, you need to create another function. It costs nothing and adds clarity.

@dietotaku

A President can pardon even if you are not charged (see Nixon). Weird but true.

“ A president can issue a pardon for past actions but not for future actions. He can pardon a person pre-emptively for past actions even if there's no charge or conviction. That's what President Ford did when he pardoned Nixon. It's what President Carter did when he pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders, even though few had been charged.”

Trump just didn’t care.

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539825453/the-presidential-pardon-power-what-are-its-limits

Okay, just a hint: if you are writing C, C++ or any other compiled language you aren’t doing anyone a favor using one character variable names. It literally costs nothing to make things clear. One character variable names are terrible.

While I’m on it, gotos are similarly bad. If you feel you need to do either of these, DON’T.

A good friend of mine said, jokingly, “Good code is hard to write, it should be difficult to understand!”

#development #GitClient

@singlemaltgirl

Oh. I laughed.

@Horrrflmlvr

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
He is just and endowed with salvation,
Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. —
Zechariah 9:9

A donkey, not a Mercedes. These mega church pastors got the Bible all wrong. They are full of hate and anger.

And they have the gall to say they know the mind of god.

Good. People are starting to remember:

“In 2017, Trump threw rolls of paper towels into a crowd while visiting Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, an act that was seen on the island and elsewhere in the country as insulting A former Department of Homeland Security official under Trump also said that he called Puerto Rico “dirty,” its residents “poor,” and inquired whether the American territory could be swapped for Greenland ”

Now vote! He is awful!

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article294648524.html

@carmen

Not much subtlety there.

@impermanence42

It was the Voting Rights Act that squelched (made states get more creative until Robert’s court) by recognizing and making it more difficult for states to disenfranchise.

Then the Robert’s Court said, “Hey, we don’t need the law because look, the states aren’t discriminating!

Like saying we don’t need laws about murder because the murder rate is plummeting.

Once they gutted it, guess what happened? States started disenfranchising voters.

It’s not fascism if you look through squinted eyes.

“20th-century fascists hated parliamentary democracy,” writes Lowry, “They believed in an all-consuming state and had contempt for bourgeois life. Fundamentally, fascism celebrated violence in a nihilistic rejection of rationality and elevation of military struggle.”

Pretend Trump never said “I’ll be a dictator for one day” and he’s not a fascist!

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-rally-madison-square-garden-hitler-nazis-fascist-authoritarian.html

@sentientdessert

This is correct.

@impermanence42

The electoral college was the solution that was agreed upon after all better solutions were tossed out.

It was a system designed to give slave states more power (technically not just during elections: slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person which influenced how many Congresscritters were elected).

So you have to ask yourself, where are all those slave states? Why do we use a racist system when there are no slave states?

I’d say, but you already know.

Trump said, in his defense,

“They had these beautiful, soft towels. Very good towels”

They needed food and fresh water! You know the stuff that was at the harbor but wasn’t released because you didn’t know the island was part of the US?

What kind of unfeeling dolt tosses hungry people paper towels?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-defends-throwing-paper-towels-hurricane-survivors-puerto-rico-n808861