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Sounds like you might enjoy people being honest to you rather than enjoying compliments or criticism. Criticism is more blunt when said to someone’s face, but compliments can seem disingenuous, so maybe you don’t believe the compliments subconsciously

Lucifer’s Hebrew name is Helel!

Europe and European colonies have been in wars constantly since the fall of the Roman empire. The first and second Hundred Years, the Napoleonic Wars, the first and second World Wars, the Cold War, the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars…

Not to mention capitalism has brought itself to its knees pretty consistently every decade or so in recessions and depressions

They really think they’re unique from the rest of the world but can’t admit that the USSR and China are the real exceptional ones in history

I’m glad India owns the islands. Not that India is some champion of indigenous peoples, in fact they are an imperial power in their own right. But it would have been worse if some Western nation owned it (like they still do other islands in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, wtf)

The Sentinelese make obvious that lustful chauvinistic gaze of the West that I haven’t seen in other countries, except maybe imperial Japan, which was copying the West anyhow. The whole idea that the world is there is be “studied” and that places like the Sentinel islands are some final frontier is fucked up.

I understand the linguistic and anthropological curiosity a little, though I think researchers should be more humble. Most are humble actually, it’s the general public that still has chauvinism.

The missionaries bother me the most. Christianization has killed off many local cultures, claiming to liberate them but not saying the quiet part about control and whatever prophecy about the end days where everyone needs to be Christian I think. In India, the lower castes and pariahs mostly are Christian, with the promise of equality, but in reality they still have the caste system within their communities and are just pariahs in different ways at large now. So not much has changed. I am also brown and live in the US, so I have felt the lustful gaze of missionaries throughout my life here. I get missionaries banging on my door every week now. It’s kinda scary, considering the KKK were around only a while ago here.

Also interesting fact, the Andaman and Nicobar island were home to British jails for political prisoners. Indian rebels and revolutionaries met in jail there and even founded parties for independence and socialism. In a way, the islands are a birthplace of Indian revolutionary spirit

Phrases like “American Dream” and “Manifest Destiny” are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.

No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.

I think it’s just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies “allowed” indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there’s no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I’ve heard of. So it’s just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.

One time someone said something and I misheard them, so the sentence sounded ungrammatical and nonsensical to me, like something beyond my conventional understanding of the world thus far. I instantly lost my sanity

No worries! Nietzsche’s philosophy is just a pretty tricky subject in general, maybe the most in the field. I just wanted to drop in a comment about that

Nietzsche hated Nazis though , or at least would have. He’s a complicated guy who hates everyone though. He said some shit for sure, but he’s one of those philosophers everyone interprets to death. The Nazis definitely interpreted him very poorly though, likely on purpose.

He personally shot them. Thankfully they were already lined up in rank and file so Stalin saved on bullets by aiming just right

I once tripped hard and believed I died. When I came out from the trip, I still had no evidence I hadn’t finished tripping, and am actually still dying as my mind fires its dying circuits in my deathbed.

But that doubt interferes with my ability to live a normal live which I am used to and strive for, so I ignore the doubt, mostly. I check myself with little tests now and then.

Same with other existential doubts in general. If you want some official names of philosophies, Nagel’s absurdism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and maybe pragmatism would be applicable. Basically: don’t kill yourself with doubt, keep on living with some sensibility in your senses, though keep a curious mind to keep yourself in check now and then.

There are automations. You can even add git hooks iirc. Mostly I find the lint and other code quality integrations nice to have in the IDE, since the inline results allow me to navigate directly to the code

Diffing is a lot easier too

Yes I know, just thought it was funny

Somewhat unrelated to the news but gave me a chuckle, but the judge ruling in favor of the decision is named Dhananjaya Chandrachud.

The first name translates to “conqueror of wealth” and the first part of the last name is “moon.” So he’s literally Moon-Chud the conqueror of wealth.

Remake in Telugu, Gopala Gopala

Damn, thanks for breaking it down. I remember watching a different language remake of OMG and thought it was okay then. I wasn’t going to touch OMG 2 yet though, and will just skip it now for sure

Nitpicking can be automated by a linter, then reviews can actually sit back and review more important things like high-level design and scalability

as if peer reviews could actually spot bugs that tests can’t catch

There can’t be bugs if there are no tests to catch them! Ofc you can also automate test coverage standards. But PRs are sometimes the only way to catch bugs, even and especially with senior devs in my experience bc they are lazy and will skip writing tests, or write useless or bare minimum tests just to check off code standards and merge on ahead

Summary: Google paid Apple $18B in 2021. Apple got 36% of the ad revenue from search activity via Safari

Am I missing something about what you are saying? I thought the fasces symbol itself is the source of the concept and term “fascism” rather than fascism meaning something like “the practice of binding stuff together”

Edit: sorry, I see it now, he translated “fasces” as if it were a verb

Ah yep that triggered the full memory for me…it was a book called Tikki Tikki Tempo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikki_Tikki_Tembo

Oh man this is stirring up some memories from early grade school about an English version of this that we used to sing about a boy with a long name and his younger brother.

I always wondered if that was just the moral of the story: don’t give your children long names. Which my parents did to me 😡