Mniot

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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago

It's a bad headline: seems easy to believe that there's just a lot more journalists around today than there were in the world wars.

Much better would be to highlight from the body of the article that the death toll is also more than have been killed in the invasion of Ukraine. That one's modern, well-covered by media, Russia has repeatedly targeted civilians, and Russia's been attacking for longer. So to have still killed more journalists makes it clear that it's deliberate.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder if the sleep-change fucks up our brains and that's why more people aren't upset about it.

Until this comment, I'd completely forgotten about how the most recent time-change messed up me and the puppy I've been training, because of course she needs to pee as soon as she wakes up at 6am every day...

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

But note that that's about nudity and sex being the same, and the sex is pornographic (that is, the intent in showing it is to arouse the viewer). The OP is about non-sexual nudity. In fact, OP doesn't mention sex at all, but I feel like it's reasonable to extend the argument to non-pornographic depictions of sex.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The subtext of "anti-DEI", though, is that it is not possible to have two competent candidates where one is a woman/minority because conservative Christian English-speaking white men from wealthy families are inherently superior.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's a funny post, but a serious point. The Europe of my childhood was different countries all very different from the US. But over time American media and algorithmic dominance are eroding things toward being America with accents. And what will you get for throwing away that cultural identity? Americans will still sneer at Europe.

I think a trickier question is: if Europe ought to retain its own identity, then shouldn't each European country retain its own identity instead of banding together as "Europe".

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 64 points 9 months ago (10 children)

As a programmer, DST creates tons of bugs for anything using time and is annoying. But whatever, I guess I get paid either way.

As a parent, DST is miserable. It's miserable as an adult, also, but multiplied misery when you have to get up early to ruin your kid's sleep. And then that night they're not ready to suddenly go to sleep an hour early so you lose an extra hour...

I hope Poland succeeds.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Wow! That is a big bean!

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Torture isn't useful as an intelligence-gathering tool, but that's not what it's being used for here. Torture works quite well for manufacturing confessions to use as propaganda to justify further killing/torture/other crimes.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know. I might say "Matrix" and run a private server? But that's a bunch of IT work. It's attractive to use a SaaS because you don't have to do any long-term planning or hiring; just pay Slack a crazy amount of money and it all works.

Corps also like a commercial paid service because they get a contract with an SLA (even if it's rare to actually get anything from these SLAs).

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

enough that voted Trump

Fuck those assholes. The ones that break my heart are the ones who didn't vote at all because "the Democrats are terrible too". Yeah, they are. But voting for the least-bad politician is the minimum-effort thing and everyone I know who skipped voting is not spending their time community-organizing or engaged in violent revolution.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You haven't missed anything; there isn't any such place. There's a bunch of suggestions on how you could patch such a thing together StackOverflow: Is there a way to list pip dependencies/requirements?. Basically either running pip or querying the PyPI API to discover transitive dependencies. Sounds like a fun little programming project! 😀

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