It's easy in the original French, but that sort of word becomes really unpredictable in English yeah.

Tiens, on a entendu exactement ça quand à New York ils ont élu Zohran Mamdani..

Et je me souviens de la campagne de salissage qu'ils ont engagée contre Justin Trudeau dès qu'il a été question d'impôts à la succession et de sérieusement limiter les énergies fossiles et d'entraver le génocide à Gaza.

I'm still recovering from the last one (trying to guess the phonology of Early Middle Chinese).

IEEE-754 never ceases to surprise.

One thing I thought was that FPU exceptions were a horrible idea, but apparently they're used by physics sim people to catch blowups (by enabling invalid, overflow and zero-divide interrupts, running the sim and catching faults with Structured Exception Handling).

When you look at the US congress grinding to a halt thanks to citizens united and age and the filibuster and learned helplessness and cowardice, the current moment becomes easy to explain.

Admittedly, US cynicism has long existed (as Henry Kissinger's career shows), but yeah it's off the leash now.

My model for this is Imperial Japan.

Few people in Japan wanted Imperial Japan and it resoundingly lost in elections. But civil leadership got muddled and eventually despondent and feckless, leaving the military to go to ham despite being certifiably b o n k e r s and having no coherent ideology.

And now he's blocked me. Jeez.

Yes, I imagine it's the guy you're talking about (account name is Alex / tifosiotaku).

Ok but why the attempt at character assassination? What's your beef with him?

Lewis Trondheim draws himself as a white parrot.

I really gotta give more love to the metronome. 😅

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

I think there's plenty of opposition to the genocide in gaza in the more moderate left wing.. among people who have no control at all over this issue, and who are not listened to at all by people with the control, whose takes get sidelined by top brass in media, and whose demonstrations get ignored.

I had been wondering where all the elite cynicism had been coming from... And yeah the Epstein files have been, uh, way more instructive than expected on that front.

Yes I would like that, if you would be so inclined. 😅

That's my path and I guess I came out alright..

I wanted to say that "failed-musician-coders" don't decide anything in this world, but then I remembered some old friends from the Tracker music scene now being game studio co-heads and Godot lead devs and whatnot, so I dunno what to say anymore.

This is kinda sobering to read but the reasoning is sound.

What if I'm trying to play more tight? (more on beat, fewer mistakes)

Tiens donc, y'a Nova dans les répondants.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

On dirait du vietnamien... Pas que ça soit plus facile que le Thaï. 😅

Sometimes you just gotta take the Wagner clause when one of your favorite artists go bad or are revealed to always have been bad...

What about it? 😺

J'ai droit au deep cuts?

An adorable raccoon.

Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.

Reminds me of when they talk about objective morality, that without fear of God's punishment, we'd all steal.

Anyone looking at history 30s should be disabused of this: whole countries full of God fearing men who steal people to use them as things and join in with killings motivated by venal goals.

Oof. The Quisling factor with this guy is through the roof.

Vidkun Quisling was shot.