Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine buys jujyfruits from the theatre snack counter even though she wasn’t watching the movie? Most unrealistic episode ever.

It was more about ripping off a bit of the Epic of Gilgamesh that the author liked.

And once it’s sluggish enough you can just put salt on it.

Yes but the other party isn’t going to fix everything instantly, so we might as well let the outright fascists win again.

So’s your mom.

Tell that to leftpad.

Relevant xkcd

If I was starting a new project with a possible environmental impact I’d absolutely want to have it cleared in advance rather than risk some huge fine randomly coming up at some point in the future.

So, you have a notation that can represent the entire rational set?

No. That’s not what the meme is about, and that’s not what we’re arguing about.

What exactly is being mimicked?

Fractions.

No. They all need to mimic certain numbers.

Show how 1/3 can be precisely represented in floating point.

And they’ve completely overwhelmed all discussion in the fediverse.

We are better than this goddammit!

Clearly not.

The comment at the top of this thread that encouraged the exact same kind of dehumanization and murder that the Nazis based their movement on? Can you not read?

People have been saying “It’s all a distraction!” in response to every single thing Trump has done for the past decade. They just can’t accept that Trump and his supporters are just awful people who consistently do awful things. Gotta be some Grand Design.

From my interactions with leftists, they think that the Nazis’ only crime was wearing the wrong uniform. The oppression, tyranny and murder? Totally okay. They were just wearing the wrong symbols while they did it.

Yeah. Look at the shitheap we had to settle with when Reddit enshittified beyond redemption. We’re really lucky to have such a well-polished alternative to Windows right now, and I think a lot of it boils down to the fact that Windows was awful from the beginning. If a halfway-decent operating system like OS/2 had become the default then we might be really scrambling right now.

Which prefix?

Tim Antifa?

They’re for scissing. It’s right in the name.