the function never gets called, but the running code reads the source code of this function to extract important constants, and if you delete the function, everything breaks :)

Even our language has been perverted. When we like something, we call it good - a word that is derived from god: we put it in god’s vicinity. Therefore, it is instilled in us that everything we like must be close to god.

Satan isn’t close to god but i still like them. How do i convey that in a single word?

What’s needed is to simplify the government to the point that people can actually understand what it does.

It’s overcomplicated, the laws are written in arcane gibberish that nobody really sees through (if you haven’t studied the laws for 20 years at least), there’s bureaucracy hell, things need to be simpler. that does not mean less government, i.e. handouts should still be paid, but it should happen in a predictable, simple way.

Like, y’all, i’m maximally confused.

How do i even put this …

What even is a good life according to you? Is it one in which you constantly work and that defines your self-worth?

Like, what i don’t get is that i see both people here on this forum, on lemmy, advocating for “communism means workers own the factories they work in” (i.e. workers are solely upheld by their own productivity, example) and “people’s lifes shouldn’t be tied to their productivity” (this comic).

Please, y’all, make up your mind. Do you define yourself as somebody who inherently works hard and out of that draws their self-esteem, or is your self-worth independent of your productivity?

Communism is “worker control of the means of production” not “state control of the means of production”.

There’s lots of interpretation of communism though …

I think the so-called communist countries in the 20th century (like the soviet union) failed mostly because they didn’t motivate enough people to work hard enough.

The 20th century was a time of much innovation, where lots of growth was required to keep pace with the ideas people had. So, for growth you need hard-working people to do it. Capitalism had that because harder working people got higher wages. In communism “we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.

Nowadays, the situation would be very different because we don’t have so much growth anymore, so there’s less demand for human workers. So even if we can’t motivate that many people to work hard, it would mostly be fine because we don’t need so many people to work in the first place …

actually i do want free stuff by the way

does anyone know what the difference between OsmAnd and Organic Maps is?

finally. i’ve been waiting for this for a long time. finally a worthwhile software development project again.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

especially social networks are important, as it allows people to connect and exchange messages outside of the influence of US big biased algorithms.

does anybody have a link to the project website, where one can sign up and contribute?

idk it just seems complicated, with all the keybindings and i think it even has scripting inside the text editor … i never bothered to learn it.

the problem with custom keybindings i have is i work on a lot of different machines (i used 3 different desktop computers yesterday) and keybindings presumably only work on my machine.

saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.

well i’ve seen cats breed just fine in “captivity” (i.e. living in a human environment). i think it’s a bit more complicated than that

i think that’s blatantly wrong because people in the US in 1960 had a lot of wealth and also good education yet had a lot of children.

yeah i have been saying the same thing to a friend just yesterday

MANN: In this crowded city, it’s hard to see the scale of depopulation and rapid aging already underway. But Li works in China’s sagging real estate industry, and she says she’s already feeling the change.

LI: Housing prices will fall, and the number of home buyers will decrease as well.

Oh no, what a tragedy. (/s)

i can confirm 4K and up add nothing for me compared to 1080p and even 720p. As long as i can recognize the images, who cares. Higher resolution just means you see more sweat, pimples, and the like.

edit: wait correction. 4K does add something to my viewing experience which is a lot of lagging due to the GPU not being able to keep up.

by the way i’m not a science denialist, i just cannot follow that one particular argument (about the planck length).

please please no, i don’t want a huge wave of normies infiltrating our space.