They just can’t resist being war criminals for like two seconds

It is in your self interest to be a part of prosperous society and treated with kindness and respect. Which means the collective interest overlaps with self interest quite a bit.

They attacked a US military vessel like 50 years ago, actually killing around 30 personnel, and just got a little fine for it.

Sorry, but there’s no chance anyone’s government is gonna step in to do anything cool about this.

The fucking cop saying “this is what happens” like it’s someone else’s fault he shot someone in the head. Worthless man child.

Yeah, I deliberately stated examples that used tech developed for the web. If you’d like me to list more apps that use shitty UI abstractions I can but it didn’t feel relevant to the point I was making.

Firefox, for example, didn’t use web components previously, and instead used a clunky XML based system called XUL. Which also sucked ass and was a chore to use. QT looks like shit. Visual Basic is proprietary microsoft garbage that requires special software and makes me want to die.

What UI framework do you recommend they switch to for Discord, an application built entirely in HTML/CSS and JS intentionally so that it could run in a browser window?

There’s some generalizations happening in here that are being presented without appropriate context. Using react native is not significantly different from using most other native UI libraries. If you’re going to condemn them for using it you should understand that a lot of the desktop software you currently use is likely built in a very similar manner; Firefox, discord, vscode, to name a few, all use technologies developed for the browser to render their UI. They can be implemented in performant ways with careful consideration.

The problem with using it here is that even at its most performant, React Native is still an abstraction layer that incurs a performance penalty and introduces complexities that could result in unintended behaviors. The start menu is always on, heavily used, and critical for operation. It should be one of the most heavily optimized and stable pieces of software in the operating system, and using react native indicates that it probably isn’t. Which suggests either they have misplaced priorities around optimization, or they’ve completely abandoned it as a goal.

why bother; does he think anyone will forget it?

the Neal Katyal, “You can’t charge them with using slave labor because they outsourced it!” defense.

“I remember watching that video and that’s not the person I want to be, that’s not the person I believe I am.”

MacPherson also wrote a letter of apology to Cash, according to records in his file obtained by the News Journal.

he felt so ashamed and even wrote an apology. but not ashamed enough to quit being a cop and do something else that doesn’t result in people getting dragged out of their houses and assaulted when he feels disrespected. he literally says “thats not who I want to be” but then does nothing to change who he is.

I get why they did but I wish they hadn’t done so much to downplay the feed stuff. The little walkie-talkies they use are the worst example of this. Just use headsets like the book, why give everyone a tiny chrome karaoke mic to lug around?

Still enjoying the show a lot; especially the Sanctuary Moon stuff.

Video clips from Reilly’s Ring doorbell camera, obtained by TV station News 12 and the Times Union, show the series of events. One clip shows the driver walking up to Reilly’s front door with a plastic bag and ringing the doorbell. Another, from a short time later, appears to show the driver back in his car and Reilly exiting his house with a handgun. Reilly then fires a shot into his front lawn while saying, “Go.”

The video then shows Reilly shooting at the car as the driver is making a three-point turn in the driveway. He fires a third shot as the car is driving away.

Kenniff and his firm also represented Daniel Penny, who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in December in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway in 2023.

Police executed a search warrant at Reilly’s house and seized eight illegally possessed guns, including the .45-caliber handgun used to shoot the driver, Hoovler said. While Reilly had a federal license to sell firearms, he did not have a  New York state firearms license or pistol permit, making his possession of the guns illegal, Hoovler said

Sounds like a real cool guy who shouldn’t be flensed and left to bake in the sun.

look, its very difficult to put things into space. especially with all the benefit of information and research made publicly available through a government funded project that accomplished what you’ve failed repeatedly to do more than half a century ago with a mere fraction of the resources and technology.

What about the classic “looks like 12 but actually 200”?

How many rockets did they have to blow up to do this? I hear that’s how you get the best data.

“Never ride in a helicopter” just became even better advice.

Yeah, I did a little googling but didn’t come up with much more than you did. My guess is that the claims of misunderstanding were part of whatever agreements they reached to drop the case. If it was something like loli hentai he could probably still worm his way out of criminal charges even post discovery.

i admittedly have only read the wikipedia summary to refresh my memory but it doesn’t mention any proof that it wasn’t CP, and frames that as a claim by Pitchford himself who also claimed that the reason he had the porn was to study their porn tricks for his stage magic so im not exactly inclined to believe anything he claims about it.

its pretty fucking incredible that he’s still around after leaving a flash drive full of CP lying in a medieval times. the dumb shit that comes out of his mouth constantly is really just icing on that cake.

get killed by righteous vigilantes or sued into ruin by your own shareholders for abandoning your fiduciary duty to generate profit from misery. which way healthcare CEOs?

the only thing he was ever right about got him fired.