Georgelemental

Remember, even if you hate everyone on the ballot, you can still write in or spoil it! Make your discontent known

Sane parliaments have quorums

"Illegal alien" is a term used throughout federal immigration law, e.g. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1366

Unicode is complex because human language is complex. If you want someone to blame, blame God:

> Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Perhaps attempting to build one character set for all languages is just another Babel-like act of hubris, and the security vulnerabilities are God's judgment upon us for not sticking with the mess of incompatible local encodings that preceded it.

> Definition: a Trait is a compile-time struct which contains related functions over a given type.

There is actually a proposal to make Rust traits desugar behind the scenes to basically this: https://goals.rust-lang.org/2026/dictionary-passing-style-ex...

Rust's creator originally wanted an OCaml-style module system instead of traits (https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html), and interest persists today (https://www.boxyuwu.blog/posts/an-incoherent-rust/).

Because the Play Store has none of those?

Forget Iran, we need to bring Freedom™ to Myanmar

Who said anything about soul or conscience? Getting hacked doesn't deliver value for shareholders

The video was posted hours early, quickly deleted (but not before being reshared), and then posted again at the proper time. The link in your comment is not the first release of the video

There is no such thing as a "friendly phone call" at the middle of the night from a police officer you don't know.

Namecheap supports genocide https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/03/namecheap-gaza...

Have been happy with Porkbun so far.

I think it is someone else who bought the domain?

Yes, that would make no sense, that's why it's not what I said.

It takes time for responders to arrive on scene. Even if police end up not usually not being needed, there can be value in calling for them ahead of time so that they are available in case they do end up being needed. On the other hand, their presence alone can cause issues even if they don't do anything. That's why it's a tough call

> It would be someone who's actually trained to interact with the mentally ill and de-escalate situations.

This is great when it works. But sometimes, people having mental health crises just don't want to be de-escalated, you try all the techniques and it doesn't work. (Just like with other medical calls—sometimes you do all the appropriate interventions, but the patient keeps getting sicker anyway.) Physical force should be the last resort, but sometimes there is unfortunately no other choice. (Source: I am an EMT)

There is a difficult balance to strike in these types of calls (e.g. mental health crisis). On the one hand, the presence of police can escalate tensions and cause a situation to spiral out of control when it might not have otherwise. On the other hand, when a situation does get out of control, police are by far the best equipped to keep responders and bystanders safe. It can be a tough judgment call for responders to make

Whoever is initially dispatched to the call by 911 also have a say. E.g. if 911 dispatches police, but the police feel they want an ambulance on scene as well, they can request that. And vice-versa.

There is a difficult balance to strike, in that police presence can escalate tension and make a situation worse, but police are also best equipped to protect other responders if a situation does escalate. It can be a tough judgment call

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

That essay demonstrates that Putin believes that Ukraine is closely linked to Russian civilization. That doesn't mean he believes Ukraine should be part of the Russian Federation, just that it should have close ties to it. The essay very explicitly advocates for the latter, and blames the West/NATO/"Nazis" for driving a wedge between the two countries.

(Of course, Putin's invasion has driven that wedge much further, and destroyed the relationship much more thoroughly, than the "Nazis" ever could. That's why I called him delusional)

Yes, I am lucky enough to not have experienced mass violence, and also I don't wish it on anyone else. I empathize (though I do not agree) with people who have experienced it, have had their souls worn down by the evil done to them, and who adopt these sorts of attitudes because of that. But there are also people who have had lives just as easy as mine, and yet, from their place of safety and comfort, they egg on war, and cheer when others get killed. I have nothing but contempt for this last group

Lots of AI writing in this article

I have read that essay. It does not contradict anything I wrote above

> and it seems the Ukrainians themselves still believe it is worth risking life and limb to keep them out.

Increasingly many do not feel that way!

You base this assessment on what evidence?

If Russia truly wanted to conquer all of Ukraine, they would have made their move in 2014, when the Ukrainian army was far weaker and the front far less fortified. Instead, they stopped at Crimea, and provided only limited support to the breakaway provinces in the Donbas. (To this day, many hardline Russian nationalists resent Putin for this! They think he was "too soft")

Putin invaded in 2022 because he believed his hand had been forced. It wasn't, he was (and is) delusional and wrong, but there is every reason to think that he really believed it.

> We do not reward wars of conquest by granting territorial gains to aggressors

> Switzerland and Hobart, TAS based

Easy for you to say! You aren't the one dying.

Via a negotiated settlement, which would very likely include Ukraine giving up some amount of territory to Russia and making some guarantees about neutrality, and the West lifting sanctions, hopefully in exchange for Russia paying for Ukraine's reconstruction.

Agree that it will be very hard to do though. Best time to try was years ago, but unfortunately Boris Johnson vetoed that, and now the Russians don't want to negotiate.

But even if we don't know the underlying reason, they are still valuable by dint of having survived for so long

Because they have autism

I would much rather the suffering of Ukrainians end, rather than that it continue for years and years, until the few Ukrainians still alive get to celebrate "victory" and "meaning" in a country reduced to ash

> Perhaps not even for themselves or their country, but just to witness the enemy collapse when it all ends.

I hope more than anything that Ukraine (and Russia, and Israel, and Palestine, and all the war-torn regions of the world) can one day be free of this ghoulish mindset, that world leaders will choose life instead of worshipping death