Rule 1. Be happy.

Rule 2. Don’t be unhappy.

I am a certified Java hater, but you’re allowed to like it. If simple and objected oriented is what you want, I can see the attraction, and it has a good and mature ecosystem.

I also think Java is shit, but if you manage to get a NullPointerException while writing a hello world program, maybe anon is just not cut out for computers?

Someone didn’t make it past the first paragraph.

My sibling in Christ, if there is one thing that did not contribute to Trump winning the election, it is not enough shaming by leftists. If anything there is too much.

Committed Trumpists can’t be shamed. They love it when the left try to shame them because that means they’re “triggered”. And as a result non-political “centrists” who “just want to grill” can’t be shamed because they’ve got people on the one hand telling them they should be ashamed and people on the other telling them they’re doing nothing wrong; in fact, they’re doing great! Who do you think they’ll side with?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending either of these groups of people. However shame is ultimately only effective when you can convince someone that what they’re doing is shameful, and to do that you have to bring them on side first. Yes, it sucks having to play nice and be patient with the “non-committed voter”, but ultimately the right has the left outmatched both in the ability use violence and the ability to appeal to people who don’t actually want to do anything.

Anyone who says “your body, my choice” is a lost cause though, feel free to punch those people all you want.

angry people that want to watch the world burn

believe he will return Christianity to the country

They’re the same picture.

they/them nieces ‘n’ nephews

I guess it would be asking too much of the average MAGAt to know the word “nibling”.

Czech Budweiser or American Budweiser?

I have it on good authority that Fosters is Australian for “piss”.

That’s the kind of right hand grip that requires years of training.

What constitutes reliable is a matter of opinion I suppose, but the first concrete statement of fact:

0 emissions

Wrong, right out of the gate.

I’m given to understand that Quentin Tarantino was given one by Samuel L Jackson, personally.

“I’m 14 and this is deep”?

Similar here, I guess. I actually love people, but it breaks my heart that not enough people seem to feel the same way.

I’m not sure that humanity is doomed. It seems more likely to me that it will find some way to limp along unless some kind of massive meteor hits or whatever. But sometimes I wonder if it would be kinder if it didn’t.

What if you don’t hate people, you’re just disappointed in people?

Bacterial flagella are also rotary motors! I did an optional module in biophysics as part of my physics degree and I would recommend it to anyone.

I’ve spent a lot of the week crying. My heart is truly broken for my fellow trans people in the US who no longer feel safe. I feel like things here in the UK will not be so far behind in another five years or so.

So when Britain eventually goes to shit, I should consider moving to Winnipeg?

Liberalism is also quite a broad term, which on its own can only really be said to constitute a belief in “equal rights for everyone including the right to private property”. The Liberal Democrats, for example, are so-called because they were formed from the merger of the (classically liberal) Liberal Party, and the Social Democratic Party. They are more like libertarians in the sense that they were broadly pro-market but less authoritarian than the tories, but their policy platform has always been more like something that would be described as social liberalism.

In my experience, the word liberal is generally not used so much in UK politics (outside of the name of the Lib Dems), but if someone self-described themselves as a liberal, I think it would be generally understood as socially liberal rather than libertarian.

He did murder a lot of people with drone strikes.