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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • Math.min isn’t the minimum integer; it’s the minimum of a list (and max visa versa)… the min/max of an undefined list is the same… IDK what it is, but this probably the most reasonable of the “WTFs” they could have put there i think… other languages would throw an exception or not compile (which JS definitely SHOULD do instead of this, buuuuut lots of JS has aversions to errors)

    *edit: okay the curiosity was killing me: Math.min() is Infinity and Math.max() is -Infinity











  • and which side is protesting against the police use of force and wants change?

    you say that the “woke” crowd want DEI enforced by a police baton, and then move the goalposts to that if we make the rules we won’t have any control over the use of force to enforce them, while it’s a subset of that exact crowd that are chanting “defund the police” while the anti-woke are “thin blue line”

    the woke crowd want to be able to live life like anyone else, and doesn’t want anyone to face police violence… it’s the anti-woke crowd that want more police violence and more reason to use that violence on everyday people who don’t fit the mould





  • you have a systemic problem… idk what the path out is, but if you simply forgive people who changed their mind only because they got directly hurt by this shit they aren’t going to vote differently next time: they’ll follow the next fascist who might not be quite as incompetent

    1 man isn’t the problem; the entire GOP enabled this shit… you think ron dessantis would have been better? you’ve got an entire administration actively enabling this and the entire GOP refusing to act against clear violations of the constitution and law

    this

    is

    WAY

    bigger

    than the next 4 years


  • apologies don’t mean you’re sorry… people that express a sincere point of view, are called out on their shit take, and then apologise to save face are still pieces of shit: they didn’t apologise because they realised the things they said were wrong; they apologised because they got called out and want to fix it

    i’m not saying that apologies from public figures can’t be sincere, but the bar is pretty damn high because what they stand to lose by not apologising is so large that people tend to take a hit to their ego - saying something they don’t mean - rather than express their true feelings


  • (i feel like i do need to start flagging that im an australian citizen, living in australia so this… kinda ain’t my place… but also, over the last 70 years the US has made it the worlds place without giving us much of a choice… point being, providing external POV without actually having intimate knowledge of culture etc etc)

    i can agree with that: deal with the problem at hand… but what happens in 4 years time? let’s assume that the US doesn’t descent into complete dictatorship for an indeterminate amount of time (because if so any discussion is irrelevant)… what do you do then? you’ve won: do you live and let live? or what if MAGA tries to stay in power and causes a violent conflict? from what i understand, a lot of the current situation is buoyed because you allowed the confederates to maintain their identity during reconstruction

    if the democrats get voted in in 4 years, the problem isn’t gone: the same people that voted trump didn’t suddenly gain a new found empathy for their fellow man… do you let it slide because the current crisis is dealt with and through a combination of luck and incompetence it somehow worked out?





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