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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I think they were referring to the recent events in Israel in this case but the instance was problematic from the start.

    I’m usually fine with interacting with people from all over the political spectrum, but genocide is way over the red line for me.

    The amount of heavily upvoted comments there about white washing genocide, trying to deny it or somehow justify it was disgusting. I’m not talking about recent events but mostly those committed by regimes that called themselves communist, no matter how far they actually were from it.

    I don’t agree with communists in general but I also don’t agree with many other ideologies. I don’t mind being around communists if we can talk respectfully. But I consider tankies the left wing version of neonazies.









  • It’s not really about that, sometimes conservatives also agree that a change is needed but they disagree on how to get there.

    They see the current state as something that was built up naturally over a long period of time and everything has its place for a reason. Sometimes those reasons are not apparent immediately and making a sudden change will bite us in the long run in an unexpected way, maybe 100 years down the road.

    They might agree that the status quo is bad but they think change should come gradually in small steps, allowing things to settle down a bit, and reflect on the consequences before moving forward. They might say that at least we understand the situation and the rules of what we have now, we shouldn’t stray too far ahead into the unknown.

    For example, imagine that you live in a country under foreign rule. Should you start a war of independence and risk getting crushed or should you try to force concessions gradually over time and risk not getting anywhere? This is roughly the debate that took place in my home country in the 1800s.

    While it’s true that the extremes are that conservatives want time to stay still while progressives want to burn the world down and reform everything in a single day, but most of the time people are somewhere in between, or even change their positions depending on the issue.


  • Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’, I’m not talking about Republicans) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.

    Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.

    Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.

    Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.




  • The title makes it seem like it’s a wide spread thing in the industry but according to the video it’s 3 frameworks.

    Yeah, it’s additional work but I’ve found that really convoluted or complex type definitions usually mean you should consider refactoring. Of course this is a bit different when it comes to developing frameworks where you might want to support a bunch of different use cases.

    Maybe I’m biased because I’ve been using TS ever since it first came out.