And you get to decide what others are forced to do, right?
Are you an anarchist by any chance? Because the logical conclusion to this argument is why anyone can "force" anyone else to do anything.
Readit NewsDefletter commented on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers blog.adafruit.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/ptorrone
You can construe what you want, but I don't put my political (or any other views) into unrelated posts and try to conceal/justify it later.
My point is not about the views - its still free internet and most of us live in free speech countries - its about putting it out there while being fully aware that many people will read the news post about a popular language and then talking how its not a political statement.
You seem to have vastly misread his comment in your defensiveness: 1) his comment is not a concealment or a justification, it's an elaboration. This is more than mere semantic nitpick: he doesn't need to justify anything to you or conceal anything from you; he is not seeking your approval. Similarly 2) nor did he say it's "not a political statement", he said it "isn't some hypothetical political agenda", which to me has the extremely obvious meaning that it's not a virtue signal or other ulterior motive, that he may actually be dead by next week. If anything, he's confirming without a doubt that he included politics in his devlog, not denying it. Did his inclusion of "Abolish ICE" at the very bottom of his devlog really put you so off-kilter? Good grief, go outside.
I like how you call peaceful protests when people throw huge rocks, break city infrastructure and damage property and take 0 accountability for it. And most likely don't pay taxes to fix it up later.
How convenient it must be to blame officers instead of bad actors just because you agree with their side.
This is purely pushing political agenda, you just covering it up.
Since you're so eager to construe his support for peaceful protest as support for civil unrest, I therefore think it's fair if I construe your defence of ICE to mean support for their extrajudicial executions and the people who dress up as ICE (ie: masked men dragging people at gunpoint into unmarked vans) to kidnap and rape people.
D has a GC and it’s optional. Which should be the best of both worlds in theory.
Also D is older than Go and Rust and only a few months younger than C#. So the question then becomes “why weren’t people using D when your recommended alternatives weren’t an option?” Or “why use the alternatives (when they were new) when D already exists?”
> D has a GC and it’s optional.
This is only true in the most technical sense: you can easily opt-out of the GC, but you will struggle with the standard library, and probably most third-party libraries too. It's the baseline assumption after all, hence why it's opt-out, not opt-in. There was a DConf talk about the future of Phobos which indicated increased support for @nogc, but this is a ways away, and even then. If you're opting-out of the GC, you are giving up a lot. And honestly, if you really don't want the GC, you may be better off with Zig.
>because [the King has] heard of what happened in France etc
And, err, in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I
>there is no "bill of rights"
There very literally is a bill of rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
>which is akin to if we handed a bunch of decendants of the mayflower and rich industrialists and priests their own house of Congress.
The House of Lords does need reform, but this is not in any way an accurate picture of it since at least 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999). When you strip away the historical baggage, the House of Lords is just an appointed second chamber. I'm fully in favor of removing the last vestiges of the hereditary principle in government, but hereditary peers do not have a significant amount of power in the current system.
>And when they "elect" a prime minister
Elections really do happen in the UK and really do determine who is Prime Minister. No need for the scare quotes here.
> so basically, there's this constant ritual of pretending they're a democracy when really it's only like that because the king current feels like it.
I'll resist the temptation to point out which country is more pertinently and accurately described this way in the present situation.
> Elections really do happen in the UK and really do determine who is Prime Minister.
Different person, but while this is true, it's also true that the Prime Minister is not elected: they [ordinarily] emerge as being the leader of whichever party commands a majority in Parliament. It's how we've had so much Prime-Minister turnover since the Brexit referendum: those didn't happen because the electorate "determined" it.
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BREAKING NEWS: conservative blames "socialism" for the ills caused by conservatism
People thinking that New Labour is left wing is both frustrating and amusing. There's constant in-fighting in the Labour party for a reason. Thatcher supposedly thought one of her greatest achievements was making the Labour Party agree on the economy. Labour is increasingly socially regressive. Mrs. Snooper's Charter herself became Prime Minister as leader of the Conservative Party and brought in a ton of state surveillance and new terrorism laws. I'm genuinely baffled as to what you think "socialism" even is or what you think it's to blame for here.
We recently had a significant test of this. Boris Johnson asked the late Queen to prorogue (shut down) parliament in order to prevent debate on the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the European Union.
In theory he was asking permission from the Queen. But in practice, everyone knew that the Queen was powerless to reject his request. Even for something as plainly anti-democratic.
The Supreme Court eventually ruled that the prorogation was not lawful.
Lots of people were hoping that the Queen would stand up for the people. It was a complicated moment when she didn't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_prorogatio...
This kind of stuff is fascinating because it's the state interacting with itself. The Queen was powerless to reject his request, he being the leader of the government who governed in her name, whose prorogation was overturned by judges she appointed. She ultimately did not need to act because she had an army of people who acted on her behalf. This is not to say that every misuse of power is always caught, but rather that the Monarch gets to maintain a facade of impartiality because all the partiality is being done by their institutions instead.
Defletter commented on Web development is fun again ma.ttias.be/web-developme... · Posted by u/Mojah
I think this is showing the difference between people who like to /make/ things and those that like to make /things/. People that write software because they see a solution for a problem that can be fixed with software seem to benefit the most of LLM technology. It's almost the inverse for the people that write software because they like the process of writing software.
Surely there has to be some level of "getting stuff done"/"achieving a goal" when /making/ things, otherwise you'd be foregoing for-loops because writing each iteration manually is more fun.