python is IMO the closest thing we have to a platonic ideal scripting language: it’s pseudocode that actually runs and you can just slap together libraries with minimal mental effort until it works.
Great for gently getting into programming so you quickly see results without having to learn arcane incantations, and for writing small tool programs; not so great for writing a kernel in.

because that makes people click

well, i’m glad the US government is at least aware what C and C++ are!

i still do not fathom how mastodon is difficult, do people just expect the platform to read your mind and do everything for you? How is it any more difficult than youtube?

import yhwh  

def interventionSort(unsortedList):
    sortedList = yhwh.pray(
    "Oh great and merciful Lord above, let thine glory shine upon yonder list!", 
    unsortedList
    )  
    return sortedList

fennec is so this week

the software equivalent of leaving the dirt on your vegetables to harden your immune system

they mean the wake agenda, all these boats disturbing the water’s surface are going to bring an end to society

there’s a very trivial solution that always works actually, it’s called “stop being a prude”

ultimately the people responsible are the ones giving people tools that can be misused, you don’t hand a gun to a child.

snow and light pollution, on a cloudy night you just forget that the sun ever set

you get to see the sun?

ah but you see someone else owns the woods so you can’t live there, now keep being a good worker drone and buy the latest iphone

this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.

people (like me) who only have abuse-tolerant plants are like druids who failed to keep their creatures alive and thus turn to necromancy so they won’t be responsible for further deaths

there’s a thing you can add to a server to mirror everything to a proper indexable website: https://www.answeroverflow.com/

Chili dogs… Chili dogs never change…

it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what other “of” you were talking about, “couple of bits of toast” looks so clunky to me

granted, i pronounce it as “cup’la bit’sa toast”

how on earth do you get through life without baking butter knives?

thankfully they are also aware of how delicious potato peels and general kitchen leftovers are, and that rolling in wet mud on a warm summer day is absolute bliss.