Good question! I have heard that there are people who exchange money for labor, and I require money to purchase basic necessities such as food and shelter

Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.

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We downvote conservative propaganda here, enjoy

Wow, really? I was under the impression soda is good for your health. Tell me more.

Have you tried believing in something and being against the status quo

$375 million in today’s dollars would cover (adjusted for inflation) the marketing and development of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop

I’m not afraid of becoming Fieri, because I never want to own a restaurant. But I wouldn’t mind hiring his PR team; they’ve done an incredible job.

No it isn’t

It’s not our fault that alien genitalia is more interesting looking than ours

I didn’t do a great job communicating it, but I was joking with that last bit.

The critique that it’s ridiculous to be thinking about this in these terms is correct and primary.

But even if you take it on its own terms, this is almost certainly false. People who experience the eclipse are likely to have a boost in productivity when they do get back to work, and the travel generated a ton of economic activity. Plus optometrists will likely see a huge boost.

I think this is a great point. However, and I don’t think this takes away from what you are saying, the kids (in your US-centric example) would have a better chance of getting along than if they were kept together in society. For one, shared hardship has been shown to be a very effective means to breaking down tribalism. For two, being left in society would mean they’d have external forces bearing down on them to keep them in tribal lines. It’s precisely “civilization” that creates and inculcates these prejudices. But people take the opposite lesson home: that apart from “civilization”, humans become brutal and violent.

Is it? A lot of people seem to have come to the conclusion that its characters are realistic.

The novel is styled as allegorical fiction, embodying the concepts of inherent human savagery, mob mentality, and totalitarian leadership. However, Golding deviates from typical allegory in that both the protagonists and the antagonists are fully developed, realistic characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies

Golding’s work is a powerful exploration of the inherent capacity for savagery within human beings when societal structures are removed. The novel touches on themes such as the loss of innocence, the struggle between civilization and savagery, and the fragility of societal norms.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/

it serves as an interesting look at the dark side of human nature and how no one is beyond its reach. Plus, anyone who had a bit of a rough time in high school will probably not find the events in this book a huge leap of the imagination

The scary thing about this book is how real it is. The Lord of the Flies bespeaks the brilliance of realistic dystopian fiction, it gives you a possible world scenario, a bunch of very human characters and then it shows you want might happen when they are thrown into a terrible situation: they act like monsters (or humans?)

the author very realistically portrays human behavior in an environment where civilization no longer has meaning.

If you have never experienced the amount of destructive power that is possible in that short time-span, you might think Golding exaggerates. Unfortunately, I can see any group of students turning into the characters in The Lord Of The Flies if they are put in the situation.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies

If it’s not supposed to be realistic, he did a shitty job of communicating that.

Lord of the Flies is bullshit. When a group of boys actually got stranded together, they peacefully cooperated with each other to solve their problems.

Does that make him a poor craftsman or an extremely good craftsman

Obviously taken to an extreme it’s bad, but I think it’s fine to have a function that can do one thing two or more different ways and ignore a certain parameter if one of the ways doesn’t need it. I’ve done some programming against the Win32 API and this is what jumped to mind for me, and I think it’s the typical case here. If I were designing from scratch I might split it into n functions that do it one way, but it’s such a small difference I wouldn’t fret over it. And of course making a change to the Windows API is an undertaking, probably not worth it in most cases.

The other day I went Tumblr to make sure that I’d turned off their opt-out AI data mining and literally could not find the login page. I eventually had to use the URL in my password DB. Turns out I’d deleted my account already. Good riddance.

Imagine thinking that any for-profit company built on VC funding won’t end up data mining.

c’mon man knock it off

signed, a fellow linux user