Inui [comrade/them]

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Cake day: August 1st, 2024

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  • The word vegan, and the Vegan Society, was originally invented for people to clarify their beliefs vs. people who didn’t eat meat but still consumed dairy. Clearly, we need a new word to separate ourselves from the people who only eat meat on Tuesdays. I propose vegetarian. Wait a second…

    I’m now imagining a scenario where one of these people shows up to their local “Vegan meet up” and orders bacon then complains online when those same people look at them funny the rest of the night. That has probably actually happened.








  • Hey, I just went the opposite direction, lol. I stalled out on Total War 3K because the sheer number of battles I was experiencing each turn in my Legendary Yellow Turban campaign was too much to handle. It’s like 4 battles a turn with myself owning half the map and Cao Cao owning the other.

    Thought I’d dip into Warham 3 and been bouncing around campaigns a bit but kind of waiting for the SFO update coming out next week too.

    Lu Bu sounds pretty solid for a “This is Total War” campaign, since everyone hates you already anyway and you’re so strong. I’ve been working on trying to accomplish hard stuff like that and Legendary campaigns, which I’ve only recently started playing on.






  • Rust excited a lot of younger developers because it lacked decades of tech debt and has safety features built into the language. Those younger developers leaned more progressive, many of them being trans, and there are relatively fewer Rust communities full of bigots.

    So it’s a combination of multiple things, I think. The first being an unwillingness of older and more conservative developers to give in to the new technology that is coming for their favorite crusty old tools. The enthusiasm of the younger crowd wanting to use Rust in any and all cases, sometimes where it doesn’t really make sense, greatly annoys them.

    The second is the obvious support of the overall Rust community for groups of people they don’t like.

    And the last, also relevant here, is a difference of opinion on “Use Rust and do something right the first time, but (sometimes a lot) slower” vs. “Use Python or Java and do things (a lot) quicker, but relatively less efficiently”.


  • No worries, I’m just sorting out how I actually feel about what you’ve said and under better conditions with a cooler head, I’d probably agree a lot more readily. Scrolling the news makes it hard to do though given the flood of new occurrences every day. I’m sure I’d think differently if the people had absolute power over what comes next, ala the original question posed by OP.

    It was my bad for not being clear, I was sort of jumping between points while I was thinking about them. I do appreciate the substantive replies though.



  • It’s kind of split. Some suburbs are basically extensions of the cities, but the further away you get, the more typically rural conservative you get. There’s also places like Bloomington in the south, which is very close to the cities, but used to be a Republican holdout and still maintains some of that. There’s a lot of people out there who at a minimum think the people killed shouldn’t have been there to ‘disrupt’ law enforcement, if they aren’t off the deep end ICE devotees.