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russellbeattie commented on Turtletoy   turtletoy.net/... · Posted by u/ustad
cryptonector · 6 days ago
LOGO lives!
russellbeattie · 6 days ago
I want to preface this by noting that as an adult, I totally understand the intent behind LOGO, its use as an educational tool, and understand its historic place in computer history.

But as a pre-teen kid in the early 80s? I hated LOGO! I thought it was a baby language and I wanted to get back to doing cool stuff in BASIC. Ten year old Me thought LOGO was soooo dumb - you couldn't make a video game, so what use was it?

It seemed every year we'd have a grade school class using LOGO - for a math lesson, or an art project, or an "intro to computing", etc. I was always a classic 80s young computer nerd snob about it.

russellbeattie commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
PKop · 23 days ago
You mean aren't there already massive problems with high healthcare costs here? Yes. And housing costs. And car insurance costs. And property tax costs.

Having millions of foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers doesn't make it better it makes it worse. Cost of living goes down massively if we were to deport 30 million illegal aliens.

Then there's the H1B and other visas fiasco. Wages go up for Americans if this program is scrapped. Part of the discontent with Trump is he is not acting aggressively enough on any of this. So he has approval problems from all sides. And whether people agree with those like me that identify cost of living pressures as caused in large part by immigration, those same people and everyone else are going to have general "disapproval" and unhappiness with the effects.

When you have an average of 2.4 million new people pouring in for 4 years, the collateral damage is bad and eveyone is feeling it now.

russellbeattie · 23 days ago
> "foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers"?

This is a straight up falsehood, using any measure you'd like. Why do regressives insist on just making things up to justify their prejudices?

The recent surge in immigration is going to lower the deficit by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.

Unauthorized immigrants pay federal taxes yet receive no federal services. They commit less crime, fulfill unmet labor needs at both ends of the skill ladder, and cost less than the average American in terms of healthcare.

Your whole worldview is based on stuff you just made up in your head and right wing fever dreams.

russellbeattie commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
russellbeattie · 23 days ago
Housing costs? Nothing to do with immigrants.

Crime rates? Nothing to do with immigrants. They commit less crimes than Americans.

Healthcare costs? Nothing to do with immigrants. Don't believe lies about unauthorized immigrants getting Medicaid, it doesn't happen.

Insurance rates? Nothing to do with immigrants.

Why would we support people wanting to emigrate to the U.S.? We are a nation of immigrants. Full stop. It is our greatest strength. Name an American with Mayflower ancestry who has done anything of any note in the past 100 years. It's all immigrants and their first generation children.

I'm sure you're totally fine with Elon and Melania, you just don't like brown immigrants.

And again, besides pleasing your political hatred, how does deporting anyone make you happy?

russellbeattie commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
bigyabai · 23 days ago
Sure, and Charlie Kirk was murdered by a US citizen. It's okay for us to correlate a rising trend in political violence with something other than immigration.

It's not as pleasant or vindictive as saying "the nonwhites did it" but it certainly seems to hold true when the political pot boils over. It's rarely the immigrants taking potshots at the president or storming the capitol, but instead deluded ideologues who are naturalized Americans.

russellbeattie · 23 days ago
You mean "natural" citizens. Naturalized is when one is not a citizen, but is made one.

On that note, the administration has started the process of de-naturalizing immigrants, which is something I'd never thought I'd see except in extreme cases.

russellbeattie commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
aerostable_slug · 23 days ago
Let's talk about those unfortunate migrants who are having their lives ruined. In West Oakland, much ado was just made about ICE attempting to pick someone up near an elementary school [0]. Some locals swarmed the cops to try to protect the poor man from being "kidnapped."

Turns out ICE conducted a targeted immigration enforcement operation to arrest Gonzalo Ramirez Martez, whose rap sheet includes multiple arrests for DUI, domestic violence, driving on a suspended license, etc. I don't know of a developed nation that wouldn't deport a habitual drunk driver who beats women.

In my county, every local ICE apprehension has been the result of targeted operations against criminals with substantial records, to include domestic violence, rape, aggravated assault, and meth trafficking for the cartels among others. No exceptions have been found by the local press, and it's not for lack of trying.

Is my life better because these criminals are being deported? Yes. So long as one "side" pretends it's all innocents being kidnapped, the rest of us will ignore you, because it's obviously and demonstrably not the case. I don't want woman-beating violent felons in my immediate location, and if an American were doing the same thing in another country they would absolutely deserve to be sent home in handcuffs.

Do I have trepidation about the methods being used? Sure, it's why I'm in this thread. But let's not pretend there's no benefit to what's going on, because it seems pretty clear to this observer that removing repeat offenders is a good thing.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/ice-hoover-eleme...

russellbeattie · 23 days ago
What are you talking about? For all intents and purposes it is all innocents, and you know it. Arguing otherwise is just that - an argument, said just to try to "win" for your "side".

You're advocating that we assume everyone is a violent criminal so that we can jail that 1 in 9,000 that actually is dangerous. Guilty until proven innocent. You can't get more un-American than that, really.

russellbeattie commented on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns   apnews.com/article/immigr... · Posted by u/jjwiseman
lesuorac · 23 days ago
Not sure the phrasing of "undocumented immigrants have had their lives ruined" is the angle you want.

The angle should be that CBP is causing a lot of unjustified problems for legal residents and citizens. People having to spend 20k to get back property that the government never should've taken is not good for deterring undocumented immigrants. When CBP agents need to spend 20 days of the month rounding up people on farms and home depot to meet quota those are 20 days _not_ spent searching for drug dealers.

russellbeattie · 23 days ago
I'm not looking for a political angle, I'm straight up asking: Has the 70,000 people put in concentration camps and then deported made their lives demonstrably better and happier?

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russellbeattie commented on Why don't people return their shopping carts?   behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/ohjeez
helterskelter · a month ago
I never return my carts. I used to bag groceries in a grocery store and whenever I got sick of customers and/or coworkers I'd go get the carts. The more carts far out in the parking lot the better, I could an entire shift without being inside talking to customers.
russellbeattie · a month ago
I'm now completely torn! I always return carts just out of habit as a nice thing to do, but I totally see this as a legitimate reason not to return them! I never worked at a grocery, but I have worked at other jobs where there was that one task that got you out of sight of management so you could take your time and mentally relax for a while. Taking the trash to the dumpster way out back, restocking the walk-in fridge from the basement, etc. It was less about not working, as it was about the freedom.

Then again, they still have to go out to the cart return areas to collect them which takes time, so in that sense leaving carts around just makes their job a bit harder. Hmm. Not sure now!

russellbeattie commented on Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)   needleful.net/blog/2024/0... · Posted by u/gudzpoz
russellbeattie · a month ago
> "Opinions on his coding style are divided, though general consensus seems to be that it's incomprehensible."

I wholeheartedly concur with popular opinion. It's like writing a program in obfuscated code.

Hmmm... his way of basically making C work like APL made me wonder: Is there a programming language out there that defines its own syntax in some sort of header and then uses that syntax for the actual code?

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