Yeah, it feels very 9/11 in the US right now, which is extremely bad.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is encouraging Israel to level Gaza and leave no survivors.
Biden's approach seems to be, "Gosh, genocide sounds bad but you do you, boo. I don't want this to affect my poll numbers."
Hardly anybody is defending Palestinian civilians.
Simultaneously, antisemitism is getting even worse.
What a nightmare world we live in.
Agreed. For those of us on this side of the pond, MSF is known as "Doctors Without Borders". Great organization, very worthy of donations.
Steve Scalise won his party’s nomination for Speaker. Yet the flamethrowers on the right shot down his chances. Now Jim Jordan is running against no one, and yet he’ll never win over his party. The GOP is the party of dysfunction and chaos. They can’t govern themselves, and they should never govern the rest of us.
@freemo I've got a weird bug here that I haven't noticed in any other website. When I try to type in my reply box anywhere other than the end of the message, it moves my typing cursor to the end of the text as soon as I press any key. So, editing text is a nightmare; I have to put the cursor back after each individual letter unless I'm typing at the end. I'm on Firefox if it helps.
So, I live under the approach path for an international airport. Planes are flying over my house on final descent all day long.
After I moved into my house, I noticed an occasional weird sound, like pipes groaning under pressure. Eventually, I realized I could hear it outside too, and that I only heard it when there was a plane in the sky.
Turns out, the sound is poorly-oiled landing gear being lowered. The metal-on-metal grind is so intense that I can hear it on the ground from more than half a kilometer away.
So... I decided to start keeping track. So far, two thirds of the planes that exhibit this are flying for Spirit Airlines.
So, I guess the lesson here is: don't fly Spirit.
A game that just does not get enough praise is #Deathloop. It's Arkane studios at its finest.
I still play the multiplayer. It's a tense game of cat and mouse where both players are both the cat and the mouse.
A match with a skilled player is like chess: If you don't adjust your strategy as you go, you'll get destroyed.
📱 C# developers have a big reason to move to Godot 4.2, as it offers (experimental) support for Android (.NET 7) and iOS (.NET 8) platforms. We hope to bring web exports in 4.3 next year. There are also a whole bunch of other changes to bindings and language interop!
⭐ And that's just the highlights of highlights! Go read the full article now 😊
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-2-beta-1/
I really don't like this trend that modern #developer support is moving away from #forums and into #chat servers like #Discord.
Supporting each other on forums is *so much more valuable* because it leaves a record for future developers to see (and search). Chat servers are ephemeral. The same question will be asked over and over because it leaves no record. It wastes everyone's (the askers and the answerers) time.
This conspiracy theory has become really prevalent since it was repeated by POTUS.
Even heard it last night from a friend that watches a lot of left-leaning news.
#MoralPanic spreads from red states to blue. Political cynicism is universal. This is not backed by research and evidence. It will harm young people...
New York Seeks to Limit Social Media’s Grip on Children’s Attention https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/nyregion/tiktok-instagram-algorithm-children.html?smid=tw-share
#NPR just proved that it's okay to leave #Xitter. Leaving #Twitter produced almost no loss of traffic.
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, the 11th Circuit DENIES Florida’s request that it be allowed to enforce its anti-drag law against everyone in the state except the plaintiffs during the appeal.
tl;dr: The law remains wholly blocked.
Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/florida-anti-drag-law-likely-unconstitutional
Given the horrific nature of Hamas’s attacks, destroying its military arm is a legit act of defense. Targeting its civil administration and starving the population of #Gaza—40% of which are children under 14–are war crimes.
Seems straightforward to me but a lot of people can’t or won’t grasp that.
#israel
"Defends itself and protects its people" is an interesting way to say "bombs civilian hospitals and schools."
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.