What you’re saying is more consistent, but I don’t think it’s more readable

I’m fine with let or var…if the compiler is going to infer the type thats all well and good. But it’s a replacement for the type - why would you write both? It should be either or

And if the type is being inferred, the next thing I want to know is where it came from. That tells you the type and more, I don’t want to have to see a type name that may or may not be there

I’ve been waiting for someone to post the link, ty

Counter argument - putting the type first makes it easier to see where it is declared. Which is more important than the name or the type

Yuuup… It’s all a game where the points don’t matter, but also ends the world

The government job is to reign in out of control elements, like companies releasing products bad for mental health

This isn’t about parenting because the goal is not about children. It’s about surveillance and control, not even for the government but for a class of technocrats who found a way to subvert democracy

People want cheap products in a general sense, they don’t like off shoring, it was hugely disruptive to jobs and the quality nose dives (at least for a time, sometimes permanently). They didn’t ask for or choose it, they’re the low information side of the system

Of course they’re upset at things being tariffed, they don’t want prices going up. They likely have some preference to buy things made locally, or by a country with a reputation

None of this is a choice made by consumers, it’s a generalized set of incentives and pressures created by the market

It’s like planned obsolescence… People hate it, it’s being sold to them

The first two are debt related, and the third is off shoring

People didn’t ask for any of that… It was sold to them for profit

Good job boing

Microsoft basically took it from Bethesda and cleared out a bunch of their core staff

The IP might not have been transferred, but Bethesda’s product ownership has been revoked. They didn’t even let outside teams touch their offshoot projects (like apps), and now the IP is probably going to be milked

Maybe obsidian will do something interesting with it before it inevitably is reduced to slop

She’s a way better writer than she is a person

She is a pretty shit writer though

Don’t worry, we can’t bail them out this time. There’s just not enough money, each bailout is exponentially bigger than the last one and this time the bubble is bigger than the rest of the global economy

We’ll probably destroy the global economy buying them just a few more months anyways though

Not exactly secret or illegal, they are actively selling driving data to insurance companies already. Stuff like speeding, hard breaking, etc.

It’s not widely advertised, but it’s less secret and more “hidden in the fine print”. It’s right there in the open though

Cell companies can give those out for free if they want to… What they offer to consumers is absolutely not the same as what they might offer to a car company at bulk rates. They could even have the car store data and wait for low usage times to upload, it would cost cell providers almost nothing

They might even leverage it to use up bandwidth so they don’t have to sell to secondary carriers if they wanted to one day…

One of the major complaints of the luddites were quality too. The (quite literal) orphan crushing machines made a lot of cloth. So much new uses for cloth were created, because no one needed so much cloth before

But it was cheap cloth that wore down much faster. It was also the birth of consumerism

There’s a lot of aspects to the struggle of the luddites that very much apply to modern issues, this aspect has been on my mind in relation to AI lately… The displaced workers aren’t the only victims, society gets worse for everyone at the altar of profits

Exactly. We don’t need “socialism”. It’s just a word, one that has been deeply tainted through generations of propoganda. We can discard the label if it doesn’t help good outcomes… Material conditions are what matter, no matter what you call them

I love to fight someone forced to directly defend unaffordable housing and medical care. Please, tell me more about how you hate the common people and want us all to die. Speak up for the camera

Not slightly. We’re already having problems with food and water in even “first world” countries… Just little hiccups before a true systematic failure

The disasters will get worse and way more common, but those aren’t where the true horrors will be. It’ll be the disease, conflict, and mass starvation

We could certainly overcome it. Humans are very adaptable… But it’s already starting, and we aren’t doing anything. We can’t even organize enough to agree we should do anything at all to save ourselves

So things will get horrific. It could take billions of dead to figure out a new way to live at this rate. Every lesson will be learned though desperation. And then one day, we’d reach that new worse normal

But if we got our act together and started actually preparing, it wouldn’t be bad. Scary and hard, but we’d get hope back. We’d regain connection to each other, and be united against an outside enemy. We’d share a dream of bringing the green back. We

We could come together pretty quickly once we accepted the necessary sacrifice of the old ways of living… But each day it progresses and we do nothing. It’s depressing and terrifying, but the truth can’t be ignored anymore

There’s very few “original” Pokemon. Most of them come from Japanese folklore

There’s a reason Nintendo didn’t use the trademark angle, they would have lost very quickly

I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement

You do have to belong to such a church already though

That is absolutely massive for a browser. Like multiple orders of magnitude too big. Like what are we even doing

And I don’t care if everyone is doing it, it’s still too big!

Apartment buildings have multiple circuits that connect to the grid. Sometimes my power partially goes out, so like these outlets work but those don’t, because there’s three circuits and one tends to break first