Ben H @equal@mastodon.technology

What's the bet that america wouldn't have even gotten involved in WWII if Germany had have half-assed the bombing of England? Cos, you know...

Signal is pretty good.

I am not a C# programmer, but I don't think LINQ gets enough credit for bringing MS-centric devs really far into the world of functional programming and making it look easy with relatively sensible function names.

10, 100
10, 30, 100
10, 20, 50, 100
10, 20, 30, 60, 100
10, 15, 25, 40, 65, 100
I think I like the last one best

Favourite random username I've seen today: "AllBunsGlazing". Which reminds me, where does one find a vanilla slice around here?

IMPURE DATA DETERIORATE HUMAN MIND

CHAOS INSIDE MIND CREATE DANGER

PERSUE ENLIGHTENMENT CREATE STRONG CIVILIZATION

HUMAN MIND WEAK ACCEPT SHAPERS

Best rant I've ever seen about why US healthcare is such a shitshow: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8pwocc/vandalized_billboard_in_louisville_ky/e0f64dl/

ME: *having an prolonged intensely horrible experience*
BRAIN: Oh, it looks like you're really thinking a lot about this!
BRAIN: Here, have some bad dreams about this made 30x worse!
BRAIN: Aren't I creative?

Of course this would not fix existing problems like psychological manipulation of voters and fearmongering. It might make things more fluid as people could vote on issues rather than parties. How would we implement something like this? Voting on smaller bills that have a timeline for public consumption? Maybe having the public write laws is a terrible idea, but looking at some of the garbage the US Congress churns out, I really wonder if it’d be that much worse.

Given that, why do we need representatives or parties? Cut out the middle man, remove the potential for corruption, porkbarreling, gerrymandering and partisan lockstep. That’d be great IMO!

Thought about democracy last night, specifically the idea of representatives. Since modern democracies arose, various technologies and social conditions have arisen that are not taken into consideration in any existing forms of government. For example, we have the Internet which makes physical location less of a constraint in having discussions. It also makes possible accumulation of votes on issues at national scale in almost real time (though this has yet to be done securely).

SED MAN WALKING

How. HOW. How can namesakes of mine CONTINUALLY sign up for important looking things (e.g. utilities, insurance) with MY email address? How stupid/careless are these guys? Seriously? Some clown in the UK, one in Texas, there seems to be one in the US northeast too. It happens almost weekly. I know they're not in my email because 2FA, fresh passwords etc.

KEEP YOUR MEDS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE PLANET WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK

SNOOP DOGG IS FROM LONG BEACH
SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE LBC
AQUARIUM IS A SIGHT TO SEE
BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET GOOD COFFEE