Read as in, with their eyes? Or how to ingest it into some other app/script? Cos I’m vaguely aware that awk can be used in some way for this, but wouldn’t have a clue how.

Good post.

Wrong community.

they’re not blocking access

Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? “Your operating system is not supported”, except that it totally fucking is.

There’s no misunderstanding, just pragmatism. I’m saying that the fact is that today there is a national government, and that elections for that government should not be run in a fractured way that makes it easier for bigots to take control.

the solution isn’t telling people what not to believe

Absolutely correct. However, I think far too often in society we err too far on the side of respecting religion. As some examples:

• Religious institutions or individuals should not be permitted to discriminate on the basis of either religion or religious belief. A sexist teacher can’t choose to not teach women. A racist bus driver can’t say “no black people on my bus”. A religious doctor, or any doctor at a religiously-affiliated hospital, should not be allowed to refuse to provide certain procedures because of their religion.
• Religions should not receive special taxation status.
• Religious rituals like prayers should not be involved in any civil procedure like the opening of parliaments and city councils.
• The only time religion should ever be involved in actual Monday-to-Friday schools should be as part of dispassionate academic discussion of theology, not from the perspective of evangelising.

Etc.

I fucking hate these videos. Why are they always playing what looks like an old windows xp screensaver? I fucking hate the robotic voice. These are somehow even worse than those shitty upworthy links that just screenshot a Reddit thread one paragraph at a time with ads between each.

There are very good cases for decentralisation. But if you’re going to have national elections whose results affect the entire country, the rules for them should be consistent and overseen by a nonpartisan national body, not by the highly partisan state legislatures of each state.

What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

I disagree. The problems materialise whenever a person enters the real world and their beliefs affect how they act.

For example, a religious doctor choosing not to administer birth control, or not to perform abortions. That’s a real-world problem caused by religious people’s own beliefs impacting how they personally choose to act, and having a negative effect on society at large.

Pure belief and spirituality is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

Was. If you said was critical, I would agree with you. But certainly not is. We have no use for woo-woo and belief in nonsensical claims today.

I agree that imposing a test to vote is a dangerous idea that should not be done.

But it is worth stopping to consider that America’s history is not the only way things can be done. As everyone is hopefully aware by now, America has a uniquely bad democratic system. Rather than taking the sensible approach of having a single, nonpartisan, national electoral commission, they have each state and even county run elections according to their own rules. That allowed the implementation of extremely hard tests in predominantly black areas while white areas had easy or no tests. Something a unified national system could not do.

Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It’s all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.

Of course, with an embedded direct link, you could put the title text in as alt text:

Unfortunately that won’t always show up in the same way title text does.

part of every xkcd comic is the hover text.

Yes…that would be why you would link directly to the comic…?

This comment perplexes me. A direct link to the image? Why not either embed that link so the image appears here on Lemmy without clicking a link, or link to the comic page which has both the comic and the title text?

And I hope youhave learned to sanitize your inputs not fucking use generative AI for grading

Ftfy

I thought it was “things a programmer says to a client (while rolling their eyes) after the client gives nonsensical feedback.”

The highest-ranked person I’ve received classified intel from is the Secretary of the Interior. I must not be important enough. :(

Holy fuck this is deranged

Hmm, I wonder…does “my favourite pirate streaming service” count as avoiding big tech?

To be fair to JavaScript (I feel gross just saying that), it does have the ability to do some more functional-like programming as well. For example, many of its more recent array methods like filter, map, and reduce are pure functions.

Nothing wrong with classes in functional programming though. Just return a new instance of the class from your method, rather than mutating an existing instance.