Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I think you’re having trouble distinguishing between the future tense and the past tense. Just as you’re having trouble distinguishing between the obvious reality and the Party line.

Rump is incredibly stupid. A very very very very stupid man, who believes most of his own bullshit. But he understands how stupid racist Americans think and it’s very plausible to those ears.

To hypothetical rape. And Russian soldiers raped Ukrainian women and kidnapped Ukrainian children to Russia too.

Maybe formerly communist China will behave better than formerly communist Russia when they invade their smaller neighbour to try to pretend that their leader has a big dick.

Why not stick to the improving lives of the Chinese people instead of wasting money and effort on a vanity war? China is one of the world’s oldest civilisations, with one of the best long term planning governments the world over. Silly and short sighted to throw the maturity and respect away on a vanity war like Putin’s war. Everyone used to think that Russia’s land forces were unstoppable. Not any more. Woe to China if it follows someone as vain as Putin to think that war is simple and short. USA keeps having to learn that lesson over and over b feverish their leaders are short sighted and they think that because their military is the strongest they can easily and quickly win wars and change countries to be like them. They’re wrong. Every stupid war they start ends up with them looking weaker. Putin made the same mistake. Why would wise old China follow the idiots to the fool’s gold?

Just like Russia was doing completely innocent military exercises near the Ukrainian border in the run up to waging all out years long war on its much smaller neighbour. Oops, sorry, no, you don’t call it that, you call it a three day “special military operation”.

/s in case you missed it.

Good plan. One paradigm shift at time! All the best with the rust project.

“I had to kill him, officer, he was attending self defence classes with the intent to hit me.”

/s

Functional programming is very different in how you get stuff done.

I would recommend learning Elm first for functional programming before trying anything hairier like Haskell etc.

Elm is a small and lovely language for writing web pages/sites/user interfaces, and has a blisteringly fast compiler that is also the most genuinely helpful of all the compilers I’ve ever used.

It’s a blissfully stable antidote to JavaScript’s exhausting “that whole approach is so last month” churn.

I think the borrow checker is trying to tell me to use clone on recursive calls inside a double nested loop!

Rust is not a hard language to use or learn

Rust is a superb language, but it is famously not easy to learn.

Thank you.

The UK has more of a set of conventions and principles than a constitution. We found out how weak that is when Boris Johnson broke the rules of Parliament to avoid losing a vote on Brexit, and made the Queen lie about it publicly in the formal announcement of the proroguement.

One of the principles is that no Parliament can bind its successor. For example, there was a fixed term parliaments law from 2010 or so that said that you need a two thirds majority to call an election before five years is up (rather than at whatever time suits the incumbent prime minister); when a new Parliament was elected in 2015, one of the first things they did was rescind that law, with a simple majority.

I worry that Farage, friend to trump and follower of Bannon, will become prime minister and lead us to such destruction that we will write an actual constitution, but that didn’t do America any good once the supreme court was stuffed with Republicans loyal to trump.

I think the trick is to not elect tyrants, but Putin’s propaganda reaches worldwide and the far right is rising everywhere. Perhaps it really will be global thermonuclear war this time.

it’s so fucking awesome

That’s three words.

Can’t resist correcting “you’re”! Sorry sorry sorry.

Do you always use literally literally, and are you careful not to talk about the enormity of perfectly innocent large things?

Language changes. People make mistakes. Neither is worth getting too upset about.

Question: you don’t believe in the flying spaghetti monster or that the moon landings were faked?

Perfectly acceptable answer grammatically: No.

This is excellent. We should never have left the EU.

Because trump wants the news cycle to move on from the heavily redacted Epstein files in which he nevertheless appears a great deal. He’s quite happy to bomb innocent villagers to this end.

Unmask.

What? People are still looking for a reason for this happening other than to distract the media from how much trump is in the Epstein files despite being redacted from it in such vast quantities?

What happened?