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“If NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South — and thus become something profoundly different — or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,” he said.

It was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense in Europe. Why would NATO have to "engage with the Global South" (whatever the fuck that means in this context) to do that?

But oh boy is it a flashy good-looking structured cool code! It doesn’t work, but it’s cool!

Purely out of curiosity, I used the Cursor IDE for a personal project involving a lot of math-y stuff, and this really wasn't my experience.

Not only was most of what it produced wrong (ran just fine, but mostly produced complete garbage), the code quality was absolute shit. Overly long functions, often with parts that repeated, kept shoving more and more parameters into those overly long functions, no sense of using abstractions to cut down on code length etc. etc.

Might have partially been a question of language choice; I was using Julia, and there's definitely not going to be as much training data for it compared to something like Python (🤮), and a lot of the code that is out there has been written by people who aren't coders but scientists

Fuck me am I glad I'm out of the corporate world

I wish users would report their problem istead of what they think is the solution.

And when they do report the problem, they should report the actual problem they had and not what they think the problem is.

So instead of eg. "my computer's been hacked!", it's actually "I saw a scary error dialog I didn't understand"

I know so many ops people who are practically functional alcoholics and I'm not surprised at all

I hope you wear the velcro shoes for your own sake

I wonder what the daily recommended allowance of irony is

I mean I'm like 99.9999% sure the post itself is satire, but what worries me is that I'm not sure if the concept of "higher order vibes" is itself satire or not

… ok so I had to look up what the heck that means, and found this article by The Independent that explained that

According to the dictionary site Merriam-Webster, “86” means to "to throw out,” or “get rid of,” and derives from a 1930s slang term for “sold out.” The number 47 is believed to refer to President Trump, as the 47th president.

Oh 47 is believed to refer to Trump? 😀

Also, fuck me it really activated my almonds to see Loomer and Gabbard pretend to be shocked by this to the extent that Gabbard suggested jailing Comey:

Conservative MAGA pundit Laura Loomer also expressed her shock on X.

“WOW! Former FBI Director James Comey just posted this on his Instagram 2 hours ago, with the caption “cool shell formation on my beach walk”. It’s a pic of shells in the form of “86 47”. This is a call for the assassination of President Trump by the former FBI Director!,” she said.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she felt that Comey should be jailed for the post

Conservatives call for the murder of leftists (ie anyone left of the Strasserites, and even they would probably be too "woke" for them) all the fucking time – eg Vance has publicly endorsed an author who wrote a book saying that leftists aren't even human but should be tortured and murdered en masse – and those fucking inbred plastic cunts have the gall to cry about fucking sea shells?

edit:

About Vance's totally normal and acceptable views:

• https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance
• https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trumps-trump-card-the-dangerous-ideology-of-u-s-vice-president-jd-vance-a-745736df-8c02-4ef0-b166-f51f31d48d82
• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jack-posobiec-jd-vance/

Never forget that this is now mainstream conservatism. They literally want to murder you.

This sort of reminds me of my experience with Quebecois French. That shit gets pretty wild the further north you go, and I can barely understand Montrealers

But he’s speaking too clearly and enunciating too well

he what

mOvE fAsT aNd BrEaK tHiNgS

I could understand mmmmmaaaaayyyybe like 70% (if we're being generous, and we are, aren't we?) of what the dude in that video was saying.

Regional accents can be really hard for me to understand sometimes, but I still love hearing them. The "standard American" accent and RP get so boring