Teenage programmers can understand legacy code. These ones didn’t. Don’t dis teen coders.

In the infinitive, ne pas verb is the correct order.

but the person you are talking to didn’t. That’s the very premise of this conversation. Please find another justification, homie.

Screw you. The peasant is not the imperialist.

@harsh From your values, sounds like I would welcome you to my country.

I don’t like it. Might be accurate, but it brings to mind “feminazis” a usage which undermines the usage of nazi as a suffix. Even though “Zionazi” wouldn’t be undermining it on its own, the precedent ruins it. “Zionist Nazi” is better IMO.

I’m a woman. Yeah it’s bothered me my whole life. I used to be really angry about it. Now I just accept it as the status quo. In the last few paragraphs of your post you are basically describing the Smurfette Principle, Two Girls to a Team,and other tropes. Also the Bechdel test.

I heartily recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Season 1 is rough, but it’s got good gender equality.

Nowadays though, you get a lot more racial diversity on western TV than you used to. I think that’s something which has improved quite a lot.

Sometimes I do get what they mean though when there are women or other minorities when coupled with bad writing. I can kind of understand why people complain about “woke” media when I see shows like Supergirl or Star Wars: The Adept. Meanwhile, - Andor, Rogue One, Alien are great and have diversity, and people don’t complain about these being “woke” so much. So, I guess, shitty writing can score an own-goal.

Thank you.

What are some major relevant events that were predicted but haven’t happened yet?

Oh I agree. I wish software was not so dumbed down these days. Still, you have to admit they’ve gotten pretty far, as it were.

You will not get very far with calling people stupid.

On the contrary. This is why most companies try to make their UXs foolproof. It’s the general wisdom of engineers to assume that the user is stupid. It is this sense in which I mean “people are stupid,” not something directed at anyone in particular.

I didn’t mean to imply that smoking and drinking were mutually exclusive, nor that one is an alternative to the other. I meant that people would be surprised by seeing these labels on alcohol, and then start to doubt all health-and-safety-related labels, then deduce that cigarettes must not be that bad.

Please note that I think this is poor logic, as I do think alcohol is unhealthy. I merely predict this response from people overall.

What I’ve learned over the past five years is that you have to be very careful with this kind of mandate, or it will make people despise and doubt your whole organization. I actually think that this kind of warning label will increase the amount of cancer people get, because they’ll start smoking cigarettes again, which are much worse.

Edit: To clarify, the reason people would start smoking cigarettes is not because it’s an alternative to alcohol; it’s because they would lose faith in health and safety warnings altogether. It’s stupid, but people are stupid.

Sounds like you had a bad experience in academia. Most academics I know are pretty thoughtful.

Out of curiosity, are any other department heads elected? (Canadian here, don’t know US system well.)

The article’s link goes to X (twitter) though, not to imgur.

Downvotes are for low-quality content, bad-faith content, etc.

Most bright-line example of this is: if OP asks “what’s your favourite fruit” and somebody says “bananas,” don’t downvote it just because you dislike bananas.

It gets harder when somebody says something you disagree with politically, but argues it well and in good faith. I would still not downvote in this circumstance.

For an example of when I would downvote: if OP asks “do bananas contain potassium?” and commenter says “No, only potatoes contain potassium.” – this is low quality content, they could have confirmed their answer with a quick google search.

Downvotes are not for disagreements.

I’d swap tuesday and thursday, and sunday and saturday. SMTWTWFS

It’s really about (a) sending a message that we don’t support Musk or other fascists and (b) discouraging other people from buying them.

It’s true that some people might have Teslas without having monetarily support Tesla somehow, but not very many, and if they got their Tesla for free then they aren’t really losing anything.

To that end, vandalizing Cybertrucks would send the clearest message, they’re the most obviously Musk thing. If enough Cybertrucks are vandalized, the media will report on it, and people will get the point. It would hurt Tesla’s sales, Tesla’s stock, and Musk’s image.

This is just theoretical mind you. I’m not advising you to vandalize anything, since that would be illegal.

~75 I think