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That said, I don’t think there’s anything magical that happens at 18 versus the day before.

This I agree with, though the core of the issue is government-recognized marriages which offer many benefits that don’t help someone that young since they’re usually still a dependent anyway. For relationships as a whole, it gets a lot more complex, but I think it’s fairly noncontroversial to say that a significant age gap between a child and an adult partner is problematic.

For non-dependent children, I think it gets more complex regarding marriage benefits, but I don’t think marriage makes a whole lot of sense there either. There could just be tax breaks and government-provided healthcare for them. The tax breaks don’t even seem that unlikely, given enough support, but we know how healthcare is these days sadly.

Either way, people can hold their own ceremonies separate from legal marriage if they want since legal marriage is just getting a paper signed in front of the right person basically. Nothing’s really stopping me from putting some chairs out, ordering a fancy wedding cake, and holding a party with someone random (let alone my partner), aside from cost anyway.

I don’t see any reason to allow child marriages. The pregnancy argument doesn’t explain why legal marriages are needed, and there’s nothing stopping these nutters (pun intended) from going through some religious marriage ceremony if that does happen somehow.

Legal marriages are useful for completely separate reasons, like taxes and health insurance benefits. There’s not really any reason for a child to need any of that.

Also, just saying, but there should be no circumstance where it’s acceptable for someone significantly older than a child to have any kind of romantic relationship with them. The high school argument is another thing since they likely were in the same classes at school anyway, but that can only be taken so far.

Isn’t the goto for pica corn starch or something? Regardless, there are many safer options. Even chewing on a rubber tire is probably safer as long as you wash it first.

Priority handles will be free and “often include full names, multi-word phrases, or alphanumeric combinations.” Rare handles, on the other hand, will be a paid option, and “may be priced anywhere from $2,500 to over seven figures, depending on demand and uniqueness.”

Ok so if it’s a “high demand” handle then I guess they bend you over for it. Domains are like that too, but it isn’t exactly something to strive for.

But more importantly, if you ever downgrade your X subscription, your account will revert back to your original username, and you’ll lose access to the one you snagged through the marketplace.

I really hope someone pays 7 figures for one only to get fucked by this. I want to see it so badly.

On some teams, the backlog is just a way to track tech debt. Backlogs have a habit of growing indefinitely making it so lower priority tasks never get done.

Eithet way, tech debt is generally a bad thing. You’re just weighing it against other tasks, which are almost always more important.

Removing context from quotes or misquoting people is still defamation. You can’t just take part of someone’s sentence or stitch together sub-quotes to make it appear as though someone is saying something they were not.

Also, the video is generated, is it not?

There were once laws against libel and defamation. I guess none of that matters anymore.

Not that I’d go out of my way to defend Schumer, but come on.

Nah, it’s futuristic. It’s the embodiment of the future where car manufacturers sell you rust buckets full of tracking and make you pay way too much for it.

I’ve seen some wrapped ones that look neat though, and anyone who owns a Cybertruck and isn’t wrapping it is just wasting more money than they already did buying it.

I wouldn’t put it past Blizzard to suddenly decide to axe Hearthstone. As sad as that would be, it already has a pretty dwindling playerbase from my understanding.

Although, to be fair, WOTC has been the best advertising recently for any card game that isn’t MTG, so maybe they’re seeing a surge now.

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(The sequels are just as fun, but I saw a post about n++'s 10th anniversary last night so I guess that doesn’t count.)

SSX 3 was basically all I played back when that came out. That game was so fun.

Windows 11 also comes with some new, great features that you’ll miss by not upgrading! Your windows will sometimes decide not to repaint their surfaces, especially under load or while screen sharing. You’ll have a OneDrive ad in the main settings page. Copilot and Teams will randomly install themselves when installing your forced updates. And we can’t forget about all the work being done to ensure you have no choice but to link your account with a MS account!

Look, it used to be tolerable. The bugs made me install Linux, and I haven’t missed it at all.

An ice raid is what I do at the store when I need to cool my drink down or if I’m planning to go on a picnic or something. Surely they’re not protesting this?

ICE is an acronym which stands for “Immigration and Customs Enforcement” and is fully uppercase. I’m sure they know this, but you’d think they’d catch this before publishing the story.

Sounds like you just started the game! If you like the gameplay, keep going. There’s more to the story.

Right to repair does not match well with right wing politics (TL;DR AuthRight need control and in lib-right absolute capitalism having reparable stuff is a surefire to kill your company ) but it’s a murky and difficult subject so I understand why it’s not mentioned.

While I agree, especially around farming, right to repair is a massive topic and advocated for strongly. It’s weird that they’d then advocate against it with their other views, but logic hasn’t existed in politics for longer than I’ve been alive, so yeah.

I can say the same about my Framework 16. Best laptop I’ve owned, in terms of the features I care about anyway.

But also, I’d like to be able to advocate for it without worrying about the association.

The purpose of these communities isn’t to help people learn to not be assholes. A Framework community, for example, is a community centered around Framework’s products and ecosystems.

As far as responsibility, a community is built by its people, and it is not my responsibility to change someone’s views. I have no sympathy towards people who would harm or advocate/celebrate the harm of myself or anyone close to me. They can fuck off.

These views are harmful to communities because when acted on, they exclude entire groups from the community. They tear apart communities, turning it into a political “us vs them” rather than discussions about the original topic.

Nobody is saying people with these views can’t be members of the community, but that they are required to accept the presence of those they are prejudiced against in order to contrbute to it. But if they make the rules, they will forbid those they are prejudiced against from being members at all.

If someone’s actively interested in a discussion and wants to learn, then that’s one thing. But it’s still off topic for most communities.

Note that none of what I just said is specific to far-right views. It’s just most common with them.

It’s his good friend Everyone. They’ve been friends since they were kids, and Everyone has always been supportive of him.

That anyone would even imagine a Dyson Sphere being remotely possible to build is beyond me.

Even supposing you managed to build one somehow, the maintenance cost would scale with the size (and therefore be astronomical, in the literal sense).

I got a simple approach to comments: do whatever makes the most sense to you and your team and anyone else who is expected to read or maintain the code.

All these hard rules around comments, where they should live, whether they should exist, etc. exist only to be broken by edge cases. Personally I agree with this post in the given example, but eventually an edge case will come up when this no longer works well.

I think far too many people focus on comments, especially related to Clean Code. At the end of the day, what I want to see is:

• Does the code work? How do you know?
• What does the code do? How do you know? How do I know?
• Can I easily add to your code without breaking it?

Whether you use comments at all, where you place them, whether they are full sentences, fragments, lowercase, sentence case, etc makes no difference to me as long as I know what the code does when I see it (assuming sufficient domain knowledge).