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This is a bit like the "Islam is a religion of peace" discourse. I'm sure it is, but:

OOP as actually implemented and found in the wild isn't about Smalltalk or message passing. It's about transforming functions into methods by unnecessarily wrapping behaviour in classes, as an example of cargo-cult programming.

OOP the idea is great. How do you actually find it in the world?

Is this article using Violet to refer to Indigo?

So there are no gay flight attendants? There isn't an overrepresentation of gay people within flight service?

I didn't say all flight attendants are gay – this is obviously not the case. But some are, and I've met quite a few of them. And if I try to average out their voice and mannerisms in my mind, it leads me to a sonic place that's close to this voice.

But it isn't "just a voice", isn't it?

It's part of a socio-cultural Zeitgeist which actively combats values which I think are worth defending.

> Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language.

Who made it official? On what authority? The name in English is the name people use in English. Maybe Bengaluru is now the name in Indian Official English?

Until today, if I read something about Bangaluru, I wouldn't even know it's Bangalore.

Or maybe because it kinda does sound like a gay flight attendant.

Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.

I rather a female assistant voice, because mothers in human societies are women, and we're hard-wired to find motherly voices more soothing.

This is getting out of hand, it's unnatural, fits strictly in the uncanny valley, and is borderline disgusting; both in terms of sound and in terms of politico-cultural values and intentions.

> There's no reason to jump down a new user's throat. If you are annoyed by a question, move on, let others deal with it if they so want. Or improve it.

But then you're keeping them ignorant. Letting them know they're expected to do their part is a net positive in the long run, for everyone involved.

As far as I know it has to do with documentation, easier scheduling of the interviews for people who live far away from the consulate, as well as some queueing thing.

Clearly I know very little.

> It would also be completely unrealistic as millions of Brazilians would just go to the US and stay there.

Millions? I don't think so. Maybe a few thousands? I think you overestimate the amount of people in Brazil who fancy a life in the US. Furthermore, I also think you overestimate the amount of people who, fancying a life in the US, are actually able to secure financial and social resources to move there.

Brazilians have visa-free access to Europe[0] and you don't see "millions of Brazilians" just going there and staying. Why would it be different?

[0] Technically there's a visa which is granted on arrival

> whereas the U.S. consulates abroad don't allow this option.

I wouldn't know whether this is allowed or not, as I never had use for such a service, but I know a few people myself who used an expediter in Brazil ("despachante") to ease the process of getting a U.S. visa.

Brazil doesn't belong to Bolsonaro.

Also, presuming you're also not a fan of Trump, would you then advocate for all tourism to the USA to cease?

I don't think that's a rational position.

Exactly like the reverse case. What would be better for Brazil is to waive requirements both ways. This just puts Brazil in a clear position of inferiority.

> I visited Brazil with an American passport a few years ago and ended up spending a bunch of time gathering documents and visiting the embassy back and forth. It was pretty discouraging and draining and I thought about not going.

That is the same as when a Brazilian would like to visit the US. This general waiving of requirements simply guarantees that Brazil's the only one getting the short end of the stick. A negotiated reciprocal agreement would be much better.

> money-sink international projects with African dictatorships.

You mean like those projects that China funds to successfully increase their international relevance and financial prosperity? Like all the ports and plants and railways?

That's because it only requires a 50% remapping of finger muscle-memory ;-D

Yeah, I'm actually a closet self-hating racist who built a family with someone I despise. Plus took the time to learn their culture, values, and language; and live my life accordingly.

What a bunch of nonsense...

Disclaimer: I'm married to a Chinese person, I speak (some) Chinese, I've been to China. I love Chinese food.

There's no racism in claiming that quite a lot of the "Chinese" food one finds available in Europe is indeed quite dodgy.

I guess

I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it.

I'm quite sure it's an urban myth :-)

"throwaway-burnout" was taken IIRC

I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions

Peeps, downvoting is easy. Anyone has counter-arguments?

There's no such thing as piracy. If your business model doesn't work in a post-physical-scarcity world, you need to change your business model.

Please congratulate that person on my behalf. Even though it may be the result of an epiphany, self-restraint is still hard to achieve and a noble goal in itself :-)

> Now regressive left activists are okay when other gender identify as the opposite sex.

FTFY. Coming from a progressive socialist who doesn't like to stick his head in the sand

True! China has never directly impacted my life or the life of those I love.

The US on the other hand has replaced a bunch of democratically-elected governments in South America with dictatorships, taught torture classes to the people who tortured my grandfather in Brazil, and has taken the economical blockade of Venezuela over the course of decades to the current level of a humanitarian crisis and a disintegrated state, to which (surprise!) they'll have to "bring democracy".

> I don't like the false equivalence of what the US-lead western intelligence does and what the Chinese state does.

I agree, it's a false equivalence. The effects of US-lead western intelligence actions are objectively more perverse.

> 'Je sais' may look very different to 'yo sé', but (in some spanish-speaking regions at least) they're pronounced almost identically.

I speak French natively and Spanish fluently. I also listen to a fair amount of Reggeaton, which is quite often in Spanish spoken with a Puerto Rico accent.

I always find it interesting how the Puerto Rican pronunciation of "Yo soy" sounds so very close to the southern French pronunciation of "Je suis".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGLsyTQwW4

"Si tu eres un caballo, je suis el dueño del hipódromo"

You're right. I was stressed yesterday. There are filthy people of all backgrounds. I just happen to live in an area where people are both dirtier than average and not German. If I lived somewhere more German, I'd probably have more examples of German people doing dirty things.

Locals or "locals"?

My experience in Berlin from approaching people littering is that they're mostly not German. And what's fascinating, they're actually proud of their littering.

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